| anthroposophy | (noun) a system of beliefs and practices based on the philosophy of Rudolf Steiner; it claims to integrate the practical and psychological in child-centered education | - |
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| automysophobia | (noun) a morbid fear of being dirty | - |
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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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| deipnosophist | (noun) someone skilled at informal chitchat | - |
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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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| esophageal | (adjective) relating to the esophagus | - |
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| esophagitis | (noun) inflammation of the esophagus; often caused by gastroesophageal reflux | Synonyms: oesophagitis |
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| esophagoscope | (noun) an optical instrument for examining the inside of the esophagus | Synonyms: oesophagoscope |
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| esophagus | (noun) the passage between the pharynx and the stomach | Synonyms: gorge, gullet, oesophagus |
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| gastroesophageal | (adjective) of or relating to or involving the stomach and esophagus | - |
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| glossopharyngeal | (adjective) pertaining to the tongue and throat | - |
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| gymnosophical | (adjective) of or relating to gymnosophy | - |
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| gymnosophist | (noun) member of a Hindu sect practicing gymnosophy (especially nudism) | - |
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| gymnosophy | (noun) the doctrine of a sect of Hindu philosophers who practiced nudity and asceticism and meditation | - |
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| isophene | (noun) a line indicating biological events occurring with coincidence such as plants flowering. | - |
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| isophone | (noun) linguistics, an isogloss marking off an area in which a particular feature of pronunciation is found. | - |
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| mesophyron | (noun) a smooth prominence of the frontal bone between and above the eyebrows; the most forward projecting point of the forehead in the midline at the level of the supraorbital ridges | Synonyms: glabella |
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| mesophyte | (noun) land plant growing in surroundings having an average supply of water; compare xerophyte and hydrophyte | Synonyms: mesophytic plant |
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| mesophytic | (adjective) being or growing in or adapted to a moderately moist environment | - |
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| morosoph | (noun) a learned fool | - |
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| musophobia | (noun) a morbid fear of mice | - |
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| mysophilia | (noun) abnormal attraction to filth | - |
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| mysophobia | (noun) a morbid fear of dirt or contamination | - |
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| mysophobic | (adjective) suffering from mysophobia; abnormally afraid of dirt or contamination | - |
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| nasopharyngeal | (adjective) of or relating to or located near the nasopharynx | - |
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| nasopharynx | (noun) cavity forming the upper part of the pharynx | - |
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| oesophagitis | (noun) inflammation of the esophagus; often caused by gastroesophageal reflux | Synonyms: esophagitis |
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| oesophagoscope | (noun) an optical instrument for examining the inside of the esophagus | Synonyms: esophagoscope |
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| oesophagus | (noun) the passage between the pharynx and the stomach | Synonyms: esophagus, gorge, gullet |
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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 |
| philosophically | (adverb) in a philosophic manner | - |
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| (adverb) with respect to philosophy | - |
| philosophicalness | (noun) The state or quality of having the attitude of a philosopher; specifically, of being calm or unflinching in the face of trouble, defeat, or loss. | - |
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| philosophise | (verb) reason philosophically | Synonyms: philosophize |
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| philosophiser | (noun) someone who considers situations from a philosophical point of view | Synonyms: philosophizer |
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| philosophize | (verb) reason philosophically | Synonyms: philosophise |
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| philosophizer | (noun) someone who considers situations from a philosophical point of view | Synonyms: philosophiser |
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| philosophizing | (noun) the exposition (often superficially) of a particular philosophy | - |
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| philosophy | (noun) the rational investigation of questions about existence and knowledge and ethics | - |
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| (noun) a belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school | Synonyms: doctrine, ism, philosophical system, school of thought |
| (noun) any personal belief about how to live or how to deal with a situation | - |
| soph | (noun) a second-year undergraduate | Synonyms: sophomore |
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| sophism | (noun) a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone | Synonyms: sophistication, sophistry |
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| sophist | (noun) someone whose reasoning is subtle and often specious | Synonyms: casuist |
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| sophistic | (adjective) of or pertaining to sophists | - |
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| (adjective) plausible but misleading | Synonyms: sophistical |
| sophistical | (adjective) plausible but misleading | Synonyms: sophistic |
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| sophisticate | (noun) a worldly-wise person | Synonyms: man of the world |
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| (verb) make more complex or refined | - |
| (verb) alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive | Synonyms: doctor, doctor up |
| (verb) practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive | Synonyms: convolute, pervert, twist, twist around |
| (verb) make less natural or innocent | - |
| sophisticated | (adjective) having or appealing to those having worldly knowledge and refinement and savoir-faire | - |
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| (adjective) ahead in development; complex or intricate | Synonyms: advanced |
| (adjective) intellectually appealing | - |
| sophistication | (noun) falsification by the use of sophistry; misleading by means of specious fallacies | - |
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| (noun) the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment | Synonyms: mundaneness, mundanity, worldliness |
| (noun) uplifting enlightenment | Synonyms: edification |
| (noun) being expert or having knowledge of some technical subject | - |
| (noun) a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone | Synonyms: sophism, sophistry |
| sophistry | (noun) a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone | Synonyms: sophism, sophistication |
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| sophomore | (adjective) used of the second year in United States high school or college | Synonyms: second-year |
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| (noun) a second-year undergraduate | Synonyms: soph |
| theosophical | (adjective) of or relating to theosophy | - |
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| theosophism | (noun) belief in theosophy | - |
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| theosophist | (noun) a believer in theosophy | - |
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| theosophy | (noun) a system of belief based on mystical insight into the nature of God and the soul | - |
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| unsophisticated | (adjective) not wise in the ways of the world | Synonyms: unworldly |
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| (adjective) awkwardly simple and provincial | Synonyms: bumpkinly, hick, rustic |
| (adjective) lacking complexity | Synonyms: uncomplicated |