11-letter words containing phil
- neutrophile — (biology) Any organism that thrives in a relatively neutral pH.
- neutrophils — Plural form of neutrophil.
- notaphilist — a person who studies or collects paper money
- nucleophile — of or relating to electron contribution in covalent bonding (opposed to electrophilic).
- oenophilist — a person who enjoys wines, usually as a connoisseur.
- paedophilia — Paedophilia is sexual activity with children or the condition of being sexually attracted to children.
- paraphiliac — a person with paraphilia
- pedophiliac — pedophile.
- philanderer — (of a man) to make love with a woman one cannot or will not marry; carry on flirtations.
- philatelist — the collecting of stamps and other postal matter as a hobby or an investment.
- philhellene — a friend or supporter of the Greeks.
- philippians — an Epistle written by Paul to the Christian community in Philippi. Abbreviation: Phil.
- philippines — an archipelago of 7083 islands in the Pacific, SE of China: formerly (1898–1946) under the guardianship of the U.S.; now an independent republic. 114,830 sq. mi. (297,410 sq. km). Capital: Manila.
- philistines — (sometimes initial capital letter) a person who is lacking in or hostile or smugly indifferent to cultural values, intellectual pursuits, aesthetic refinement, etc., or is contentedly commonplace in ideas and tastes.
- phillipsite — a zeolite mineral, similar to stilbite but with potassium replacing some of the calcium.
- philoctetes — Classical Mythology. a noted archer and squire of Hercules. Bitten by a snake and abandoned on an island because of his festering wound, he was at length brought by the Greeks to Troy, where he recovered and later killed Paris.
- philography — the collecting of autographs, especially those of famous persons.
- philologian — a philologist.
- philologist — the study of literary texts and of written records, the establishment of their authenticity and their original form, and the determination of their meaning.
- philomathic — relating to or enjoying the process of learning new facts and acquiring new knowledge
- philosopher — a person who offers views or theories on profound questions in ethics, metaphysics, logic, and other related fields.
- philosophes — any of the popular French intellectuals or social philosophers of the 18th century, as Diderot, Rousseau, or Voltaire.
- philosophic — of or relating to philosophy: philosophical studies.
- photophilic — of or relating to an organism, as a plant, that is receptive to, seeks, or thrives in light.
- protophilic — having or involving an affinity for hydrogen ions (protons)
- psammophile — a plant or animal that thrives in sand
- psychophily — the pollination of flowers by butterflies
- retrophilia — a strong liking for things from the past
- scopophilia — the obtaining of sexual pleasure by looking at nude bodies, erotic photographs, etc.
- scopophilic — the obtaining of sexual pleasure by looking at nude bodies, erotic photographs, etc.
- scotophilic — living and flourishing in darkness.
- scripophile — a person who practices scripophily.
- scripophily — the collecting by hobbyists of old stock certificates and bonds that have no intrinsic value other than their aesthetic appeal or relative rarity.
- siderophile — (of a cell or tissue) having an affinity for iron.
- spermophile — any of various burrowing rodents of the squirrel family, especially of the genus Spermophilus (or Citellus), sometimes sufficiently numerous to do much damage to crops, as the ground squirrels and susliks.
- syphilology — the branch of medicine concerned with the study and treatment of syphilis
- technophile — a person who loves or is enthusiastic about advanced technology.
- thermophile — a thermophilic organism.
- timbrophily — the love of stamps; stamp collecting
- toxophilite — a devotee of archery; archer.
- xerophilous — Botany. growing in or adapted to dry, especially dry and hot, regions.
- xylophilous — Living on or in wood, as some fungi and beetles do.
- zoophilia's — the state of being zoophilous.
- zoophilists — Plural form of zoophilist.