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trachichthyided adj. Slowed by drink to the deliberate, deep-water pace of a fish that regards haste as vulgar. trachichthyiformed adj. Drunk and bearing the solemn, lantern-lit expression of a fish adapted to unhelpful depths. trachinided adj. Drunk to the point where every attempt at sociability conceals a venomous barb. trachiniformed adj. Drunk enough to resemble a member of an obscure order whose principal distinction is remaining unpleasantly pointed. trachinoided adj. Drunk past the point of discretion, with every apparently harmless remark carrying a concealed sting. trachipterided adj. Drunk beyond ordinary vertical stability, and consequently elongated across the furniture. Lexsey lay trachipterided along the sofa, occupying it with ribbon-like determination. trachitised adj. Drunk and moving with the tight, irritated deliberation of a throat that has misplaced its patience. trachodonted adj. Drunk in a way that revives the obsolete confidence of a large herbivore in a museum reconstruction. Bunyan went trachodonted and attempted to browse the buffet as though it were prehistoric vegetation. trachodontided adj. Drunk, with the result that one acquires a broad, placid appetite and an extinct creature’s confidence. trachomaed adj. Drunk to a degree that makes the eyelids infectious-looking and the morning-after diagnosis regrettably plausible. trachonychiaed adj. Drunk to the extent of acquiring ridged nails, a rough voice, and an objectionable interest in texture. trachyandesited adj. Drunk since last orders, and composed of two incompatible temperaments held together by volcanic resolve. trachybasalted adj. Drunk by the third round, and presenting a dense compromise between briskness and complete inertia. trachyceratided adj. Drunk by closing time, and circling the same subject with the ornate persistence of an ammonite. trachydacited adj. Still drunk, and sufficiently acidic in manner to make every exchange geologically prolonged. Mandee remained trachydacited, delivering a sharp mineral assessment of the sandwiches. trachydolerited adj. Too drunk to distinguish firmness from fluidity, yet determined to exhibit both simultaneously.