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9-letter words starting with pho

  • phoenicia — an ancient kingdom on the Mediterranean, in the region of modern Syria, Lebanon, and Israel.
  • pholidota — the order comprising the pangolins.
  • phonathon — a campaign to solicit funds or support in which volunteers make phone calls to prospective donors or supporters.
  • phonation — rapid, periodic opening and closing of the glottis through separation and apposition of the vocal cords that, accompanied by breath under lung pressure, constitutes a source of vocal sound.
  • phonatory — rapid, periodic opening and closing of the glottis through separation and apposition of the vocal cords that, accompanied by breath under lung pressure, constitutes a source of vocal sound.
  • phone box — A phone box is a small shelter in the street in which there is a public telephone.
  • phone sex — sexually explicit conversations engaged in on a telephone, usually for a fee.
  • phone tag — telephone tag.
  • phone tap — an instance of listening secretly, usually illegally, to someone's phone conversations using special electronic equipment
  • phonecard — calling card (def 3).
  • phonemics — the study of phonemes and phonemic systems.
  • phonetics — (in Chinese writing) a written element that represents a sound and is used in combination with a radical to form a character.
  • phonetism — the science of speech sounds and of writing phonetically
  • phonetist — a person who uses or advocates phonetic spelling.
  • phoniness — not real or genuine; fake; counterfeit: a phony diamond.
  • phonogram — a unit symbol of a phonetic writing system, standing for a speech sound, syllable, or other sequence of speech sounds without reference to meaning.
  • phonolite — a fine-grained volcanic rock composed chiefly of alkali feldspar and nepheline, some varieties of which split into pieces that ring on being struck.
  • phonology — the study of the distribution and patterning of speech sounds in a language and of the tacit rules governing pronunciation.
  • phonopore — a device that conveys sound using electrical impulses along telegraph lines
  • phonotype — a piece of type bearing a phonetic character or symbol.
  • phonotypy — phonography (def 2).
  • phony war — (in wartime) a period of apparent calm and inactivity, esp the period at the beginning of World War II
  • phosphate — Chemistry. (loosely) a salt or ester of phosphoric acid. a tertiary salt of orthophosphoric acid, as sodium phosphate.
  • phosphene — a luminous image produced by mechanical stimulation of the retina, as by pressure applied to the eyeball by the finger when the lid is closed.
  • phosphide — a binary compound of phosphorus with a basic element or group.
  • phosphine — a colorless, poisonous, ill-smelling, flammable gas, PH 3 .
  • phosphite — (loosely) a salt of phosphorous acid.
  • phosphore — the morning star, especially Venus.
  • phosphori — plural of phosphorus
  • photalgia — pain, as in an eye, that is caused by intensity of light.
  • photobomb — to ruin (a photograph) by appearing in the image without the photographer’s knowledge, often in some dramatic or comical way: My brother photobombed what would have been a nice photo of my grandma and me.
  • photocall — a time arranged for photographers, esp press photographers, to take pictures of a celebrity, the cast of a play, etc, usually for publicity purposes
  • photocard — A photocard is a card with a person's photograph on it, which they can use to prove who they are.
  • photocell — a solid-state device that converts light into electrical energy by producing a voltage, as in a photovoltaic cell, or uses light to regulate the flow of current, as in a photoconductive cell: used in automatic control systems for doors, lighting, etc.
  • photocopy — a photographic reproduction of a document, print, or the like.
  • photodisk — a disk for use in a computer that contains photographs or can have photographs stored on it in a digitally coded manner
  • photogene — an afterimage on the retina.
  • photogram — a silhouette photograph made by placing an object directly on sensitized paper and exposing it to light.
  • photolyse — to cause to undergo or to undergo photolysis
  • photolyze — to break down molecules with light.
  • photomask — an opaque image on a transparent plate that is used to filter light so the image can be transferred, used in photolithography applications
  • photonics — the study and technology of the use of light for the transmission of information.
  • photophil — an organism, such as a plant, that seeks, thrives on and requires strong light
  • photoplay — a motion-picture scenario; screenplay.
  • photopsia — a rare disease of the eye's retina that results in the perception of flashes of light
  • photoscan — to study the distribution of a radioactive isotope or radiopaque dye in (a body organ or part) through the use of x-rays.
  • photoshop — (often lowercase) to digitally alter (a photograph or other graphic) using image-editing software such as Photoshop: Her face is nicely Photoshopped in the ad. They’ve photoshopped the car onto an image of a beautiful beach.
  • photostat — a camera for making facsimile copies of documents, drawings, etc., in the form of paper negatives on which the positions of lines, objects, etc., in the originals are maintained.
  • phototube — an electron tube with a photosensitive cathode, used like a photocell.
  • phototype — a plate with a relief printing surface produced by photography.

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