| -philia |
love of; tendency toward; attraction to, esp. of an abnormal nature or degree. |
| Philippians |
a book of the New Testament, consisting of a letter written by the apostle Paul to the Christians of Philippi. |
| Philippic |
any of the orations delivered by the Athenian statesman Demosthenes against Philip II of Macedon in the fourth century B.C. [2 definitions] |
| Philippine |
of or pertaining to the Philippines, their people, culture, languages, or the like. |
| Philippine mahogany |
any of various Philippine and southeast Asian trees that yield a reddish wood resembling mahogany. [2 definitions] |
| Philippines |
a Pacific island country across the South China Sea from Vietnam; Philippine Islands; Republic of the Philippines. |
| Philistia |
an ancient country that flourished in southwestern Palestine in biblical times. |
| Philistine |
a member of a non-Semitic people of Philistia who repeatedly warred with the ancient Hebrews. [4 definitions] |
| philo- |
loving; liking. |
| philodendron |
any of a variety of tropical American climbing plants, often grown as decorative houseplants. |
| philogyny |
love of or fondness for women. |
| philology |
the study of the historical development of the sounds, words, and other grammatical structures of a language or language group. |
| philomath |
a person who loves to acquire knowledge. |
| philoprogenitive |
characterized by or relating to love of one's offspring. [2 definitions] |
| philoprogenitiveness |
love of one's offspring. |
| philosophe |
any of the leading philosophical, political, and social writers of the eighteenth-century French Enlightenment. |
| philosopher |
one who studies the nature and principles of knowledge, truth, existence, and moral and aesthetic values. [3 definitions] |
| philosophers' stone |
an imaginary substance for which alchemists searched, believing it was capable of conferring wisdom, prolonging life, and transmuting any base metal, such as lead, into gold or silver. |
| philosophic |
calm and rational in difficult or distressing situations; stoic. |
| philosophical |
of, based on, or pertaining to philosophy or philosophers. [2 definitions] |
| philosophize |
to reason in the way of a philosopher. [2 definitions] |