Pain, in Words

• Aching (those in both sources unlabeled)
• Agonizing (b)
• Angry (a)
• Annoyed
• Beating (b)
• Blinding (b)
• Boring (b)
• Burning
• Cold
• Cool
• Cramping (b)
• Cruel (b)
• Crushing
• Cutting
• Drawing (b)
• Dreadful (b)
• Drilling (b)
• Dull
• Exhausting (b)
• Extreme (a)
• Fearful
• Flashing (b)
• Flickering (b)
• Freezing
• Frightful (b)
• Furious (a)
• Gloomy (a)
• Gnawing (b)
• Grueling (b)
• Heavy (b)
• Hot (a, b)
• Hurting (b)
• Intense (b)
• Itchy
• Jerking (a)
• Jumping (b)
• Killing (b)
• Lacerating
• Lancinating (b)
• Miserable
• Moderate (a)
• Nagging (b)
• Nauseating (b)
• Numb (b)
• Penetrating (b)
• Piercing
• Pinching (b)
• Pounding (b)
• Pressing (b)
• Pricking (a, b)
• Pulling
• Pulsing (b)
• Punishing (b)
• Quivering (b)
• Radiating (b)
• Rasping (b)
• Sad (a)
• Scalding
• Searing (b)
• Sharp (b)
• Shooting (b)
• Sickening (b)
• Slashing (a)
• Slight (a)
• Smarting
• Sore
• Splitting (b)
• Spreading (b)
• Squeezing
• Stabbing
• Stinging
• Suffocating (b)
• Taut (b)
• Tearing (b)
• Tender (b)
• Terrified (a)
• Terrifying (b)
• Throbbing (b)
• Tight
• Tingly (b)
• Tiring (b)
• Torturing (b)
• Troublesome (b)
• Tugging
• Unbearable (b)
• Vicious (b)
• Worried (a)
• Wrenching (b)
• Wretched (b)

And also from the McGill Pain Questionnaire, B:

• Brief
• Momentary
• Transient
• Rhythmic
• Periodic
• Intermittent
• Continuous
• Steady
• Constant

A: Fernandez, Ephrem, John Claude Krusz, and Stephanie Hall. “Parsimonious Collection of Pain Descriptors: Classification and Calibration by Pain Patients.” The Journal of Pain: Official Journal of the American Pain Society 12.4 (2011): 446. Web. 23 Jan 2013.

B: Melzack, Ronald. “The McGill Pain Questionnaire.” Ed. Melzack. Pain Measurement and Assessment. New York: Raven, 1983. Web/PDF. 23 Jan 2013.