| acidophile | (noun) an organism that thrives in a relatively acid environment | Synonyms: acidophil |
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| aerophile | (noun) a lover of aviation | - |
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| anglophile | (noun) an admirer of England and things English | Synonyms: anglophil |
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| awhile | (adverb) for a brief period | Synonyms: for a while |
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| basophile | (noun) a leukocyte with basophilic granules easily stained by basic stains | Synonyms: basophil |
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| bibliophile | (noun) someone who loves (and usually collects) books | Synonyms: book lover, booklover |
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| camachile | (noun) common thorny tropical American tree having terminal racemes of yellow flowers followed by sickle-shaped or circinate edible pods and yielding good timber and a yellow dye and mucilaginous gum | Synonyms: huamachil, manila tamarind, Pithecellobium dulce, wild tamarind |
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| chile | (noun) very hot and finely tapering pepper of special pungency | Synonyms: chili, chili pepper, chilli, chilly |
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| enophile | (noun) someone who appreciates wine | Synonyms: oenophile |
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| eosinophile | (noun) a leukocyte readily stained with eosin | Synonyms: eosinophil |
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| erstwhile | (adjective) belonging to some prior time | Synonyms: former, old, one-time, onetime, quondam, sometime |
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| (adverb) at a previous time | Synonyms: at one time, erst, formerly, once |
| haemophile | (noun) someone who has hemophilia and is subject to uncontrollable bleeding | Synonyms: bleeder, haemophiliac, hemophile, hemophiliac |
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| halophile | (noun) archaebacteria requiring a salt-rich environment for growth and survival | Synonyms: halophil |
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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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| 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 |
| meanwhile | (noun) the time between one event, process, or period and another | Synonyms: interim, lag, meantime |
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| (adverb) during the intervening time | Synonyms: in the meantime, meantime |
| (adverb) at the same time but in another place | - |
| myrmecophile | (noun) an organism such as an insect that habitually shares the nest of a species of ant | - |
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| narghile | (noun) an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water | Synonyms: calean, chicha, hookah, hubble-bubble, hubbly-bubbly, kalian, nargileh, sheesha, shisha, water pipe |
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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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| paedophile | (noun) an adult who is sexually attracted to children | Synonyms: pedophile |
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| pedophile | (noun) an adult who is sexually attracted to children | Synonyms: paedophile |
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| spermophile | (noun) any of various terrestrial burrowing rodents of Old and New Worlds; often destroy crops | Synonyms: gopher, ground squirrel |
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| technophile | (noun) a person who is enthusiastic about new technology | - |
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| thermoacidophile | (noun) archaebacteria that thrive in strongly acidic environments at high temperatures | - |
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| while | (noun) a period of indeterminate length (usually short) marked by some action or condition | Synonyms: patch, piece, spell |
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| worthwhile | (adjective) sufficiently valuable to justify the investment of time or interest | - |
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| xerophile | (noun) plant adapted for life with a limited supply of water; compare hydrophyte and mesophyte | Synonyms: desert plant, xerophilous plant, xerophyte, xerophytic plant |
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