| acidophil | (noun) an organism that thrives in a relatively acid environment | Synonyms: acidophile |
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| acidophile | (noun) an organism that thrives in a relatively acid environment | Synonyms: acidophil |
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| 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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| acidophilus | (noun) a bacterium that is used to make yogurt and to supplement probiotics | Synonyms: Lactobacillus acidophilus |
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| aerophilatelic | (adjective) of or relating to airmail stamps | - |
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| aerophilately | (noun) the collection and study of airmail stamps | - |
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| aerophile | (noun) a lover of aviation | - |
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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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| algophilia | (noun) sexual pleasure derived from inflicting or experiencing pain | Synonyms: algolagnia |
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| anemophilous | (adjective) of flowering plants (especially grasses etc) that are pollinated by the wind | - |
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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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| anglophil | (noun) an admirer of England and things English | Synonyms: anglophile |
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| anglophile | (noun) an admirer of England and things English | Synonyms: anglophil |
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| anthophilous | (adjective) feeding on flowers | Synonyms: anthophagous |
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| antisyphilitic | (noun) a drug (or other chemical agent) that is effective against syphilis | - |
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| basophil | (noun) a leukocyte with basophilic granules easily stained by basic stains | Synonyms: basophile |
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| basophile | (noun) a leukocyte with basophilic granules easily stained by basic stains | Synonyms: basophil |
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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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| bibliophile | (noun) someone who loves (and usually collects) books | Synonyms: book lover, booklover |
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| bibliophilic | (adjective) of or relating to bibliophiles | - |
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| drosophila | (noun) small fruit fly used by Thomas Hunt Morgan in studying basic mechanisms of inheritance | Synonyms: Drosophila melanogaster |
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| enophile | (noun) someone who appreciates wine | Synonyms: oenophile |
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| entomophilous | (adjective) of flowering plants (especially orchids etc) that are pollinated by insects | - |
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| eosinophil | (noun) a leukocyte readily stained with eosin | Synonyms: eosinophile |
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| eosinophile | (noun) a leukocyte readily stained with eosin | Synonyms: eosinophil |
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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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| haemophile | (noun) someone who has hemophilia and is subject to uncontrollable bleeding | Synonyms: bleeder, haemophiliac, hemophile, hemophiliac |
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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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| halophil | (noun) archaebacteria requiring a salt-rich environment for growth and survival | Synonyms: halophile |
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| halophile | (noun) archaebacteria requiring a salt-rich environment for growth and survival | Synonyms: halophil |
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| heliophila | (noun) any of various South African herbs and subshrubs cultivated for long showy racemes of bright blue flowers with white eyes | - |
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| hemophile | (noun) someone who has hemophilia and is subject to uncontrollable bleeding | Synonyms: bleeder, haemophile, haemophiliac, hemophiliac |
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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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| homophile | (adjective) homosexual or arousing homosexual desires | Synonyms: gay, queer |
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| (noun) someone who is sexually attracted to persons of the same sex | Synonyms: gay, homo, homosexual |
| 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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| malacophily | (noun) (botany) pollination of plants by snails. | - |
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| myrmecophile | (noun) an organism such as an insect that habitually shares the nest of a species of ant | - |
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| myrmecophilous | (adjective) living symbiotically with ants | - |
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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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| nemophila | (noun) any plant of the genus Nemophila | - |
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| neurosyphilis | (noun) syphilis of the central nervous system | - |
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| neutrophil | (noun) the chief phagocytic leukocyte; stains with either basic or acid dyes | Synonyms: neutrophile |
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| neutrophile | (noun) the chief phagocytic leukocyte; stains with either basic or acid dyes | Synonyms: neutrophil |
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| oenophile | (noun) someone who appreciates wine | Synonyms: enophile |
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| oleophilic | (adjective) having a strong affinity for oils rather than water | - |
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| paedophile | (noun) an adult who is sexually attracted to children | Synonyms: pedophile |
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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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| pedophile | (noun) an adult who is sexually attracted to children | Synonyms: paedophile |
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| pedophilia | (noun) a sexual attraction to children | Synonyms: paedophilia |
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| philadelphus | (noun) any of various chiefly deciduous ornamental shrubs of the genus Philadelphus having white sweet-scented flowers, single or in clusters; widely grown in temperate regions | - |
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| philander | (verb) talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions | Synonyms: butterfly, chat up, coquet, coquette, dally, flirt, mash, romance |
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| (verb) have amorous affairs; of men | Synonyms: womanise, womanize |
| philanderer | (noun) a man who likes many women and has short sexual relationships with them | Synonyms: womaniser, womanizer |
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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 |
| philanthropically | (adverb) in a philanthropic manner | - |
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| philanthropist | (noun) someone who makes charitable donations intended to increase human well-being | Synonyms: altruist |
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| philanthropy | (noun) voluntary promotion of human welfare | Synonyms: philanthropic gift |
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| 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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| philatelically | (adverb) in a philatelic manner | - |
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| philatelist | (noun) a collector and student of postage stamps | Synonyms: stamp collector |
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| philately | (noun) the collection and study of postage stamps | Synonyms: stamp collecting, stamp collection |
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| philharmonic | (adjective) composing or characteristic of an orchestral group | - |
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| (adjective) devoted to or appreciative of music | - |
| (noun) a large orchestra; can perform symphonies | Synonyms: symphony, symphony orchestra |
| philhellene | (adjective) characterized by a love of Greece and Grecian things | Synonyms: Graecophile, Graecophilic, philhellenic |
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| (noun) an admirer of Greece and everything Greek | Synonyms: Graecophile, philhellenist |
| philhellenic | (adjective) characterized by a love of Greece and Grecian things | Synonyms: Graecophile, Graecophilic, philhellene |
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| philhellenism | (noun) admiration for Greece and the Greeks and Greek customs | - |
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| philhellenist | (noun) an admirer of Greece and everything Greek | Synonyms: Graecophile, philhellene |
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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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| phillipsite | (noun) a group of white or reddish crystalline minerals of the zeolite family consisting of a hydrous silicate of calcium and potassium and aluminum | - |
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| philodendron | (noun) often grown as a houseplant | - |
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| philogyny | (noun) admiration for women | - |
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| philological | (adjective) of or relating to or dealing with philology | - |
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| philologist | (noun) a humanist specializing in classical scholarship | Synonyms: philologue |
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| philologue | (noun) a humanist specializing in classical scholarship | Synonyms: philologist |
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| philology | (noun) the humanistic study of language and literature | Synonyms: linguistics |
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| philomath | (noun) a lover of learning | - |
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| philosopher | (noun) a specialist in philosophy | - |
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| (noun) a wise person who is calm and rational; someone who lives a life of reason with equanimity | - |
| 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 |