| 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 |
| 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 | - |
| philter | (noun) a drink credited with magical power; can make the one who takes it love the one who gave it | Synonyms: love-philter, love-philtre, love-potion, philtre |
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| philtre | (noun) a drink credited with magical power; can make the one who takes it love the one who gave it | Synonyms: love-philter, love-philtre, love-potion, philter |
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| phimosis | (noun) an abnormal tightness of the foreskin preventing retraction over the glans | - |
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| phiz | (noun) the human face (`kisser' and `smiler' and `mug' are informal terms for `face' and `phiz' is British) | Synonyms: countenance, kisser, mug, physiognomy, smiler, visage |
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| phlebectomy | (noun) surgical removal or all or part of a vein; sometimes done in cases of severe varicose veins | - |
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| phlebitis | (noun) inflammation of a vein (usually in the legs) | - |
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| phlebogram | (noun) an X ray of a vein injected with a radiopaque contrast medium | Synonyms: venogram |
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| phlebothrombosis | (noun) thrombosis of a vein without prior inflammation of the vein; associated with sluggish blood flow (as in prolonged bedrest or pregnancy or surgery) or with rapid coagulation of the blood | Synonyms: venous thrombosis |
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| phlebotomise | (verb) draw blood | Synonyms: bleed, leech, phlebotomize |
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| phlebotomist | (noun) someone who practices phlebotomy | - |
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| phlebotomize | (verb) draw blood | Synonyms: bleed, leech, phlebotomise |
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| phlebotomus | (noun) a mild viral disease transmitted by the bite of the sand fly Phlebotomus papatasii | Synonyms: pappataci fever, sandfly fever |
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| phlebotomy | (noun) surgical incision into a vein; used to treat hemochromatosis | Synonyms: venesection |
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| phlegm | (noun) inactivity; showing an unusual lack of energy | Synonyms: flatness, languor, lethargy, sluggishness |
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| (noun) expectorated matter; saliva mixed with discharges from the respiratory passages; in ancient and medieval physiology it was believed to cause sluggishness | Synonyms: sputum |
| (noun) apathy demonstrated by an absence of emotional reactions | Synonyms: emotionlessness, impassiveness, impassivity, indifference, stolidity, unemotionality |
| phlegmatic | (adjective) showing little emotion | Synonyms: phlegmatical |
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| phlegmatical | (adjective) showing little emotion | Synonyms: phlegmatic |
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| phlegmatically | (adverb) in a phlegmatic manner | - |
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| phlegmatizer | (noun) a material added to an explosive to make it less susceptible to detonation and thus more stable and safer to handle and transport. | - |
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| phlegmy | (adjective) characterized by phlegm | - |
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| phloem | (noun) (botany) tissue that conducts synthesized food substances (e.g., from leaves) to parts where needed; consists primarily of sieve tubes | Synonyms: bast |
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| phlogiston | (noun) a hypothetical substance once believed to be present in all combustible materials and to be released during burning | - |
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| phlogopite | (noun) a brown form of mica consisting of hydrous silicate of potassium and magnesium and aluminum | - |
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| phlomis | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Phlomis; grown primarily for their dense whorls of lipped flowers and attractive foliage | - |
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| phlox | (noun) any polemoniaceous plant of the genus Phlox; chiefly North American; cultivated for their clusters of flowers | - |
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| phobia | (noun) an anxiety disorder characterized by extreme and irrational fear of simple things or social situations | Synonyms: phobic disorder, phobic neurosis |
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| phobic | (adjective) suffering from irrational fears | - |
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| phobophobia | (noun) a morbid fear of developing a phobia | - |
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| phocine | (adjective) of or relating to seals | - |
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| phocomelia | (noun) an abnormality of development in which the upper part of an arm or leg is missing so the hands or feet are attached to the body like stumps; rare condition that results from taking thalidomide during pregnancy | Synonyms: seal limbs |
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| phoebe | (noun) small dun-colored North American flycatcher | Synonyms: phoebe bird, Sayornis phoebe |
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| phoenicophorium | (noun) latanier palm | Synonyms: genus Phoenicophorium |
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| phoenix | (noun) a legendary Arabian bird said to periodically burn itself to death and emerge from the ashes as a new phoenix; according to most versions only one phoenix lived at a time and it renewed itself every 500 years | - |
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| (noun) a large monocotyledonous genus of pinnate-leaved palms found in Asia and Africa | Synonyms: genus Phoenix |
| phon | (noun) a unit of subjective loudness | - |
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| phonate | (verb) utter speech sounds | Synonyms: vocalise, vocalize |
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| phonation | (noun) the sound made by the vibration of vocal folds modified by the resonance of the vocal tract | Synonyms: vocalisation, vocalism, vocalization, voice, vox |
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| phone | (noun) electronic equipment that converts sound into electrical signals that can be transmitted over distances and then converts received signals back into sounds | Synonyms: telephone, telephone set |
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| (noun) electro-acoustic transducer for converting electric signals into sounds; it is held over or inserted into the ear | Synonyms: earphone, earpiece, headphone |
| (noun) (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language | Synonyms: sound, speech sound |
| (verb) get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone | Synonyms: call, call up, ring, telephone |
| phonebook | (noun) a directory containing an alphabetical list of telephone subscribers and their telephone numbers | Synonyms: phone book, telephone book, telephone directory |
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| phoneme | (noun) (linguistics) one of a small set of speech sounds that are distinguished by the speakers of a particular language | - |
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| phonemic | (adjective) of or relating to phonemes of a particular language | - |
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| (adverb) by phonemics | Synonyms: phonemically |
| phonemically | (adverb) by phonemics | Synonyms: phonemic |
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| phonemics | (noun) the study of the sound system of a given language and the analysis and classification of its phonemes | Synonyms: phonology |
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| phoner | (noun) the person initiating a telephone call | Synonyms: caller-up, caller, telephoner |
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| phonetic | (adjective) of or relating to the scientific study of speech sounds | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to speech sounds | Synonyms: phonic |
| phonetically | (adverb) by phonetics | - |
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| phonetician | (noun) a specialist in phonetics | - |
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| phonetics | (noun) the branch of acoustics concerned with speech processes including its production and perception and acoustic analysis | - |
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| phoney | (adjective) fraudulent; having a misleading appearance | Synonyms: bastard, bogus, fake, phony |
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| (noun) a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives | Synonyms: dissembler, dissimulator, hypocrite, phony, pretender |
| phonic | (adjective) of or relating to speech sounds | Synonyms: phonetic |
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| (adjective) relating to speech | - |
| (adjective) pertaining to the phonic method of teaching reading | - |
| phonics | (noun) teaching reading by training beginners to associate letters with their sound values | - |
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| phonogram | (noun) any written symbol standing for a sound or syllable or morpheme or word | - |
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| phonogramic | (adjective) of or relating to a phonogram | - |
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| phonograph | (noun) machine in which rotating records cause a stylus to vibrate and the vibrations are amplified acoustically or electronically | Synonyms: record player |
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| phonologic | (adjective) of or relating to phonology | Synonyms: phonological |
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| phonological | (adjective) of or relating to phonology | Synonyms: phonologic |
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| phonologist | (noun) a specialist in phonology | - |
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| phonology | (noun) the study of the sound system of a given language and the analysis and classification of its phonemes | Synonyms: phonemics |
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| phonophobia | (noun) a morbid fear of sounds including your own voice | Synonyms: acousticophobia |
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| phony | (adjective) fraudulent; having a misleading appearance | Synonyms: bastard, bogus, fake, phoney |
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| (noun) a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives | Synonyms: dissembler, dissimulator, hypocrite, phoney, pretender |
| phoronid | (noun) hermaphrodite wormlike animal living in mud of the sea bottom | - |
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| phosgene | (noun) a colorless poisonous gas that smells like new-mown hay; used in chemical warfare | - |
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| phosphatase | (noun) any of a group of enzymes that act as a catalyst in the hydrolysis of organic phosphates | - |
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| phosphate | (noun) carbonated drink with fruit syrup and a little phosphoric acid | - |
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| (noun) a salt of phosphoric acid | Synonyms: inorganic phosphate, orthophosphate |
| phosphine | (noun) a colorless gas with a strong fishy smell; used as a pesticide | - |
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| phosphocreatine | (noun) an organic compound of creatine and phosphoric acid; found in the muscles of vertebrates where its hydrolysis releases energy for muscular contraction | Synonyms: creatine phosphate, creatine phosphoric acid |
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