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15-letter words containing aph

  • human megaphone — the technique of using a crowd of people to repeat a speaker's words in unison
  • hyetometrograph — an instrument used to record rainfall
  • ideographically — an ideogram.
  • lexicographical — the writing, editing, or compiling of dictionaries.
  • macrophotograph — a photograph taken at very close range
  • metaphase plate — a plane in the equatorial region of the spindle in dividing cells, along which the chromosomes become arranged during the metaphase.
  • microphotograph — microfilm (def 1).
  • microradiograph — an enlarged version of an image obtained by a form of radiography that reveals minute details
  • microtopography — microrelief.
  • nominal aphasia — aphasia in which the primary symptom is an inability to recall or recognize the names of objects
  • nonbiographical — not biographical, not relating to biography or events in a person's life
  • nonmetaphorical — not metaphorical; literal
  • nonphotographic — not involving photographic equipment or techniques
  • palaeogeography — the study of geographical features of the geological past
  • palaeontography — the branch of palaeontology concerned with the description of fossils
  • paphian goddess — Aphrodite, worshiped in Cyprus as the goddess of sexual love.
  • paroemiographer — a person who writes or collects proverbs
  • phonautographic — relating to a phonautograph or a piece of equipment that records sound visually by detecting the sound waves and indicating them on a graph
  • photoheliograph — an instrument for photographing the sun, consisting of a camera and a specially adapted telescope.
  • photolithograph — Also, photolithoprint [foh-tuh-lith-uh-print] /ˌfoʊ təˈlɪθ əˌprɪnt/ (Show IPA). a lithograph printed from a stone or the like upon which a picture or design has been formed by photography.
  • photomacrograph — a photograph showing a subject at actual size or somewhat larger.
  • photomicrograph — a photograph taken through a microscope.
  • phototelegraphy — facsimile (def 2a).
  • phototopography — topographical surveying employing photogrammetric methods.
  • phototypography — (formerly) the art or technique of making printing surfaces by light or photography, by any of a large number of processes.
  • photoxylography — the process of using photography in order to produce an image on wood, for the use of a wood engraver
  • pine leaf aphid — any of various homopterous insects of the family Adelgidae, as Adelges abietis (spruce gall aphid) and Pineus pinifoliae (pine leaf aphid) that feed and form galls on conifers.
  • plethysmography — the tracking of changes measured in bodily volume
  • polysomnography — a record of a person's sleep pattern, breathing, heart activity, and limb movements during sleep. Abbreviation: PSG.
  • pseudepigraphon — any book of the Pseudepigrapha
  • psychobiography — a biographical study focusing on psychological factors, as childhood traumas and unconscious motives.
  • psychographical — relating to psychographics
  • pyrophotography — the production of pyrophotographs
  • radioautography — autoradiography.
  • radiophotograph — a photograph or other image transmitted by radio.
  • radiotelegraphy — the constructing or operating of radiotelegraphs.
  • raster graphics — (graphics)   Computer graphics in which an image is composed of an array of pixels arranged in rows and columns. Opposite: vector graphics.
  • roentgenography — roentgenogram.
  • scaphocephalous — of or relating to scaphocephalus
  • semipornography — partial pornography; material that is almost pornographic
  • staphylorrhaphy — repair of a cleft palate by means of staphyloplasty and suturing
  • telegraph plant — a tick trefoil, Desmodium motorium, of the legume family, native to tropical Asia, noted for the spontaneous, jerking, signallike motions of its leaflets.
  • telegraphically — of or relating to the telegraph.
  • telephotography — photography of distant objects, using a telephoto lens.
  • thalassographer — a person who studies the sea; an oceanographer
  • thalassographic — relating to thalassography
  • thermobarograph — a device that simultaneously records the temperature and pressure of the atmosphere
  • thermogeography — the study of the geographical variation and distribution of temperature.
  • topographic map — a map showing topographic features, usually by means of contour lines.
  • typographically — of or relating to typography.
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