| acidophilic | (adjective) especially of some bacteria; growing well in an acid medium | Synonyms: acidophilous, aciduric |
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| acidophilous | (adjective) especially of some bacteria; growing well in an acid medium | Synonyms: acidophilic, aciduric |
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| aerophilatelic | (adjective) of or relating to airmail stamps | - |
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| aerophilic | (adjective) depending on free oxygen or air | Synonyms: aerobic, aerophilous |
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| aerophilous | (adjective) depending on free oxygen or air | Synonyms: aerobic, aerophilic |
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| anemophilous | (adjective) of flowering plants (especially grasses etc) that are pollinated by the wind | - |
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| anthophilous | (adjective) feeding on flowers | Synonyms: anthophagous |
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| basophilic | (adjective) staining readily with basic dyes | - |
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| bibliophilic | (adjective) of or relating to bibliophiles | - |
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| entomophilous | (adjective) of flowering plants (especially orchids etc) that are pollinated by insects | - |
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| eosinophilic | (adjective) of or relating to eosinophil | - |
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| haemophilic | (adjective) relating to or having hemophilia | Synonyms: hemophilic |
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| hemophilic | (adjective) relating to or having hemophilia | Synonyms: haemophilic |
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| homophile | (adjective) homosexual or arousing homosexual desires | Synonyms: gay, queer |
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| hydrophilic | (adjective) having a strong affinity for water; tending to dissolve in, mix with, or be wetted by water | - |
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| lipophilic | (adjective) having an affinity for lipids | Synonyms: lipotropic |
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| lyophilised | (adjective) used of tissue or blood or serum or other biological substances; dried by freezing in a high vacuum | Synonyms: freeze-dried, lyophilized |
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| lyophilized | (adjective) used of tissue or blood or serum or other biological substances; dried by freezing in a high vacuum | Synonyms: freeze-dried, lyophilised |
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| myrmecophilous | (adjective) living symbiotically with ants | - |
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| oleophilic | (adjective) having a strong affinity for oils rather than water | - |
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| philanthropic | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by philanthropy | - |
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| (adjective) generous in assistance to the poor | Synonyms: beneficent, benevolent, eleemosynary |
| philatelic | (adjective) of or relating to philately or of interest to philatelists | Synonyms: philatelical |
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| philatelical | (adjective) of or relating to philately or of interest to philatelists | Synonyms: philatelic |
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| philharmonic | (adjective) composing or characteristic of an orchestral group | - |
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| (adjective) devoted to or appreciative of music | - |
| philhellene | (adjective) characterized by a love of Greece and Grecian things | Synonyms: Graecophile, Graecophilic, philhellenic |
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| philhellenic | (adjective) characterized by a love of Greece and Grecian things | Synonyms: Graecophile, Graecophilic, philhellene |
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| philistine | (adjective) smug and ignorant and indifferent or hostile to artistic and cultural values | Synonyms: anti-intellectual |
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| philological | (adjective) of or relating to or dealing with philology | - |
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| philosophic | (adjective) of or relating to philosophy or philosophers | Synonyms: philosophical |
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| (adjective) characterized by the attitude of a philosopher; meeting trouble with level-headed detachment | Synonyms: philosophical |
| philosophical | (adjective) of or relating to philosophy or philosophers | Synonyms: philosophic |
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| (adjective) characterized by the attitude of a philosopher; meeting trouble with level-headed detachment | Synonyms: philosophic |
| phytophilous | (adjective) (of animals) feeding on plants | Synonyms: phytophagic, phytophagous, plant-eating |
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| syphilitic | (adjective) of or relating to or infected with syphilis | - |
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| technophilic | (adjective) of or relating to or showing technophilia | - |
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| uphill | (adjective) sloping upward | Synonyms: acclivitous, rising |
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