7-letter words starting with ph
- phoning — telephone (def 1).
- phorate — a systemic insecticide, C 7 H 1 7 O 2 PS 3 , used especially as a soil treatment for the control of numerous crop-damaging insects.
- phorbol — the parent alcohol, C 2 0 H 2 8 O 6 , of certain carcinogenic compounds in croton oil.
- phorcys — a sea god who fathered the Gorgons.
- phoresy — (among insects and arachnids) a nonparasitic relationship in which one species is carried about by another.
- phosph- — phospho-
- photics — the science of light.
- photism — a form of synesthesia in which a visual sensation, as of color or form, is produced by the sense of touch, hearing, etc.
- photius — a.d. c820–891, patriarch of Constantinople 858–867, 877–882.
- photog. — photograph
- phrasal — of, consisting of, or of the nature of a phrase or phrases: phrasal construction.
- 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