| acidophilic | (adjective) especially of some bacteria; growing well in an acid medium | Synonyms: acidophilous, aciduric |
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| aerophilic | (adjective) depending on free oxygen or air | Synonyms: aerobic, aerophilous |
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| algophilia | (noun) sexual pleasure derived from inflicting or experiencing pain | Synonyms: algolagnia |
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| angiohemophilia | (noun) a form of hemophilia discovered by Erik von Willebrand; a genetic disorder that is inherited as an autosomal recessive trait; characterized by a deficiency of the coagulation factor and by mucosal bleeding | Synonyms: vascular hemophilia, von Willebrand's disease |
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| antisyphilitic | (noun) a drug (or other chemical agent) that is effective against syphilis | - |
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| basophilia | (noun) the tendency of cells to stain with basic dyes | - |
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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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| chili | (noun) very hot and finely tapering pepper of special pungency | Synonyms: chile, chili pepper, chilli, chilly |
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| (noun) ground beef and chili peppers or chili powder often with tomatoes and kidney beans | Synonyms: chili con carne |
| chiliad | (noun) the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100 | Synonyms: 1000, G, grand, K, M, one thousand, thou, thousand, yard |
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| chiliasm | (noun) belief in the Christian doctrine of the millennium mentioned in the Book of Revelations | Synonyms: millenarianism, millenarism, millenniumism |
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| chiliast | (noun) a person who believes in the coming of the millennium (a time of great peace and prosperity) | Synonyms: millenarian, millenarist |
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| chiliastic | (adjective) relating to or believing in the millennium of peace and happiness | Synonyms: millenarian |
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| eosinophilia | (noun) a symptom of allergic states; increased eosinophils in the blood | - |
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| eosinophilic | (adjective) of or relating to eosinophil | - |
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| europhilia | (noun) admiration for Europe, Europeans, or the European Union. | - |
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| haemophilia | (noun) congenital tendency to uncontrolled bleeding; usually affects males and is transmitted from mother to son | Synonyms: bleeder's disease, hemophilia |
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| haemophiliac | (noun) someone who has hemophilia and is subject to uncontrollable bleeding | Synonyms: bleeder, haemophile, hemophile, hemophiliac |
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| haemophilic | (adjective) relating to or having hemophilia | Synonyms: hemophilic |
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| hemophilia | (noun) congenital tendency to uncontrolled bleeding; usually affects males and is transmitted from mother to son | Synonyms: bleeder's disease, haemophilia |
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| hemophiliac | (noun) someone who has hemophilia and is subject to uncontrollable bleeding | Synonyms: bleeder, haemophile, haemophiliac, hemophile |
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| hemophilic | (adjective) relating to or having hemophilia | Synonyms: haemophilic |
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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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| lyophilisation | (noun) a method of drying food or blood plasma or pharmaceuticals or tissue without destroying their physical structure; material is frozen and then warmed in a vacuum so that the ice sublimes | Synonyms: freeze-drying, lyophilization |
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| lyophilise | (verb) to dry (blood, serum, or tissue) by freezing in a high vacuum | Synonyms: lyophilize |
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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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| lyophilization | (noun) a method of drying food or blood plasma or pharmaceuticals or tissue without destroying their physical structure; material is frozen and then warmed in a vacuum so that the ice sublimes | Synonyms: freeze-drying, lyophilisation |
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| lyophilize | (verb) to dry (blood, serum, or tissue) by freezing in a high vacuum | Synonyms: lyophilise |
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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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| machilid | (noun) wingless insect living in dark moist places as under dead tree trunks; they make erratic leaps when disturbed | Synonyms: jumping bristletail |
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| mysophilia | (noun) abnormal attraction to filth | - |
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| necrophilia | (noun) an irresistible sexual attraction to dead bodies | Synonyms: necromania, necrophilism |
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| necrophilism | (noun) an irresistible sexual attraction to dead bodies | Synonyms: necromania, necrophilia |
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| neurosyphilis | (noun) syphilis of the central nervous system | - |
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| nihilism | (noun) a revolutionary doctrine that advocates destruction of the social system for its own sake | - |
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| (noun) complete denial of all established authority and institutions | - |
| (noun) the delusion that things (or everything, including the self) do not exist; a sense that everything is unreal | Synonyms: nihilistic delusion |
| nihilist | (noun) an advocate of anarchism | Synonyms: anarchist, syndicalist |
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| (noun) someone who rejects all theories of morality or religious belief | - |
| nihilistic | (adjective) of or relating to nihilism | - |
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| nihility | (noun) the state of nonexistence | Synonyms: nothingness, nullity, void |
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| oleophilic | (adjective) having a strong affinity for oils rather than water | - |
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| paedophilia | (noun) a sexual attraction to children | Synonyms: pedophilia |
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| paraphilia | (noun) abnormal sexual activity | - |
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| pedophilia | (noun) a sexual attraction to children | Synonyms: paedophilia |
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| philia | (noun) a positive feeling of liking | Synonyms: affection, affectionateness, fondness, heart, tenderness, warmheartedness, warmness |
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| philippic | (noun) a speech of violent denunciation | Synonyms: broadside, tirade |
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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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| (noun) a person who is uninterested in intellectual pursuits | Synonyms: anti-intellectual, lowbrow |
| philistinism | (noun) a desire for wealth and material possessions with little interest in ethical or spiritual matters | Synonyms: materialism |
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| siderophilin | (noun) a globulin in blood plasma that carries iron | Synonyms: beta globulin, transferrin |
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| symphilid | (noun) minute arthropod often infesting the underground parts of truck-garden and greenhouse crops | Synonyms: garden centipede, garden symphilid, Scutigerella immaculata |
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| syphilis | (noun) a common venereal disease caused by the treponema pallidum spirochete; symptoms change through progressive stages; can be congenital (transmitted through the placenta) | Synonyms: lues, lues venerea, pox, syph |
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| syphilitic | (adjective) of or relating to or infected with syphilis | - |
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| (noun) a person suffering from syphilis | - |
| technophilia | (noun) enthusiasm for new technology | - |
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| technophilic | (adjective) of or relating to or showing technophilia | - |
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| zoophilia | (noun) a sexual attraction to animals | Synonyms: zoophilism |
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| zoophilism | (noun) a sexual attraction to animals | Synonyms: zoophilia |
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