| English | Japanese |
| n descriptive composition | 記事文 |
| n descriptive geography | 人文地理 |
| n descriptive geometry | 画法幾何学 (gahō-kikagaku) |
| n descriptive linguistics | 記述言語学 |
| descriptive model | 記述モデル |
| n descriptive narrative part | 地の文 |
| n descriptive poetry | 叙事詩 news2 nf31 spec2 |
| n descriptive powers | 描写力 (byōsharyoku) |
| n descriptive science | 記述的科学 |
| descriptive statistic | 説明的統計量 |
| n descriptive statistics | 記述統計学 |
| n oft-repeated descriptive epithets in poetry | 歌枕 |