7-letter words containing ph
- phrased — Grammar. a sequence of two or more words arranged in a grammatical construction and acting as a unit in a sentence. (in English) a sequence of two or more words that does not contain a finite verb and its subject or that does not consist of clause elements such as subject, verb, object, or complement, as a preposition and a noun or pronoun, an adjective and noun, or an adverb and verb.
- phrases — Grammar. a sequence of two or more words arranged in a grammatical construction and acting as a unit in a sentence. (in English) a sequence of two or more words that does not contain a finite verb and its subject or that does not consist of clause elements such as subject, verb, object, or complement, as a preposition and a noun or pronoun, an adjective and noun, or an adverb and verb.
- phratry — a grouping of clans or other social units within a tribe.
- phrenic — Anatomy. of or relating to the diaphragm.
- phreno- — mind or brain
- phrensy — frenzy
- phrixus — a child who escaped on the back of a ram with his sister Helle from a plot against them. The fleece of the ram, which he sacrificed, was the Golden Fleece.
- phrygia — an ancient country in central and NW Asia Minor.
- phugoid — of or relating to long-period oscillation in the longitudinal motion of an aircraft, rocket, or missile.
- phyllid — the leaf of a liverwort or moss
- phyllis — a name used in pastoral literature, as the Eclogues of Vergil, for a country girl or sweetheart.
- phyllo- — leaf
- phys ed — physical education.
- physics — a medicine that purges; cathartic; laxative.
- physio- — of or relating to nature or natural functions
- phytane — a hydrocarbon found in some fossilized plant remains
- phytate — a salt or ester of phytic acid, occurring in plants, especially cereal grains, capable of forming insoluble complexes with calcium, zinc, iron, and other nutrients and interfering with their absorption by the body.
- phytoid — having the appearance of a plant; like a plant
- prophet — a person who speaks for God or a deity, or by divine inspiration.
- ralph's — a male given name: from Old Norse words meaning “counsel” and “wolf.”.
- ramphal — Sir Shridath Surendranath, known as Sunni. born 1928, Guyanese diplomat and Commonwealth Secretary-General (1975–90)
- raphael — (Raffaello Santi or Sanzio) 1483–1520, Italian painter.
- raphide — any of numerous needle-shaped crystals, usually of calcium oxalate, that occur in many plant cells as a metabolic product
- regraph — a diagram representing a system of connections or interrelations among two or more things by a number of distinctive dots, lines, bars, etc.
- rephase — any of the major appearances or aspects in which a thing of varying modes or conditions manifests itself to the eye or mind.
- rudolph — 1218–91, king of Germany and emperor of the Holy Roman Empire 1273–91: founder of the Hapsburg dynasty.
- s phase — the period of the cell cycle prior to mitosis, during which the chromosomes are replicated.
- saphead — a simpleton; fool.
- saphena — saphenous vein.
- sapphic — pertaining to Sappho or to certain meters or a form of strophe or stanza used by or named after her.
- scyphus — a cup-shaped part, as of a flower.
- sephora — Zipporah.
- shophar — shofar.
- siphnos — a Greek island in the SW Aegean Sea, in the Cyclades group: gold and silver mines. 28 sq. mi. (75 sq. km).
- skyphos — a cup characterized by a deep bowl, two handles projecting horizontally near the rim, and either a flat base or a foot.
- sophies — a female given name.
- sophism — a specious argument for displaying ingenuity in reasoning or for deceiving someone.
- sophist — (often initial capital letter) Greek History. any of a class of professional teachers in ancient Greece who gave instruction in various fields, as in general culture, rhetoric, politics, or disputation. a person belonging to this class at a later period who, while professing to teach skill in reasoning, concerned himself with ingenuity and specious effectiveness rather than soundness of argument.
- sphecid — belonging or pertaining to the Sphecidae, a family of solitary wasps, including the mud daubers, sand wasps, etc.
- sphenic — being in the shape of a wedge; wedge-shaped.
- spheno- — having the shape of a wedge
- spheral — of or relating to a sphere.
- spheric — having the form of a sphere; globular.
- stephen — died 1058, pope 1057–58.
- strophe — the part of an ancient Greek choral ode sung by the chorus when moving from right to left.
- sulphur — a city in SW Louisiana.
- sylphic — a slender, graceful woman or girl.
- sylphid — a little or young sylph.
- syrphid — syrphid fly.
- taphiae — (in ancient geography) a group of islands in the Ionian Sea.