11-letter words containing ph
- antiphonies — Plural form of antiphony.
- antiphrasis — the use of a word in a sense opposite to its normal one, esp for ironic effect
- antistrophe — the second of two movements made by a chorus during the performance of a choral ode
- antityphoid — preventing or acting against typhoid
- aortography — an X-ray examination of the aorta
- aphasiology — The study of linguistic problems resulting from brain damage.
- aphelandras — Plural form of aphelandra.
- aphetically — (linguistics) In an aphetic way: through aphesis.
- aphidicolin — A tetracyclic diterpene antibiotic with antiviral and antimitotical properties.
- aphlogistic — (archaic) flameless.
- aphrodisiac — An aphrodisiac is a food, drink, or drug which is said to make people want to have sex.
- apomorphine — a white crystalline alkaloid, derived from morphine, that is used medicinally as an emetic, as an expectorant, and in Parkinson's disease. Formula: C17H17NO2
- apophthegms — Plural form of apophthegm.
- apophyllite — a white, colourless, pink, or green mineral consisting of a hydrated silicate of calcium, potassium, and fluorine in tetragonal crystalline form. It occurs in cracks in volcanic rocks. Formula: KCa4(Si4O10)2(OH1F).8H2O
- apophysitis — (pathology) Inflammation of an apophysis, a bony tubercle.
- apostrophes — Plural form of apostrophe.
- apostrophic — a digression in the form of an address to someone not present, or to a personified object or idea, as “O Death, where is thy sting?”.
- apostrophus — a symbol resembling a reversed letter C used in Roman numerals to denote large numbers
- araneomorph — (zoology) Any of the Araneomorphae, a suborder of spiders whose fangs cross with a pinching action.
- arctophilia — the practice of collecting teddy bears
- areographic — relating to areography
- arkadelphia — a city in central Arkansas.
- arsonphobia — Pyrophobia.
- artophorion — pyx (def 1a).
- aspheterise — to deny the right of private property
- aspheterism — the teaching that all property should be in common ownership and no individual should benefit from personal possession
- aspheterize — to observe or engage in aspheterism
- asphyxiants — Plural form of asphyxiant.
- asphyxiated — Simple past tense and past participle of asphyxiate.
- asphyxiates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of asphyxiate.
- asphyxiator — to produce asphyxia in.
- astraphobia — a fear of thunder and lightning
- astrography — The art of describing or delineating the stars; a description or mapping of the heavens.
- astrophobia — A fear of stars and celestial space.
- astrophyton — The giant basket star, an early Mesozoic invertebrate.
- astrosphere — the part of the aster excluding the centrosome
- atelophobia — The fear of imperfection or not being good enough.
- atheophobia — Fear or hatred of atheism or atheists.
- atmosphered — having an intellectual or psychological climate or feeling
- atmospheres — Plural form of atmosphere.
- atmospheric — Atmospheric is used to describe something which relates to the Earth's atmosphere.
- attophysics — the physics of structures and artefacts with dimensions in the attometre range or of devices, such as lasers, capable of producing pulses with a duration measured in attoseconds
- audiophiles — Plural form of audiophile.
- autocephaly — the state of being autocephalous.
- autographed — Simple past tense and past participle of autograph.
- autographic — of, for, or like an autograph or autographs
- automorphic — shaped and designed after oneself
- autophagous — self-consuming or devouring of itself
- autophanous — illuminated by a self-contained power source
- autotrophic — (of organisms such as green plants) capable of manufacturing complex organic nutritive compounds from simple inorganic sources such as carbon dioxide, water, and nitrates, using energy from the sun