The official language of the Philippines, based on Tagalog; it draws its lexicon from other Philippine languages.

An East Asian country occupying the Phillipine Islands.

A rare and doubtful metallic element said to have been discovered in the mineral samarskite.

To support or advocate the cause of Philip of Macedon.

A Philistine; -- a cant name given to townsmen by students in German universities.

Of or pertaining to the Philistines.

The condition, character, aims, and habits of the class called Philistines. See Philistine, 3.

A hydrous silicate of aluminia, lime, and soda, a zeolitic mineral commonly occurring in complex twin crystals, often cruciform in shape; -- called also christianite.

A pearly crystalline substance obtained by the decomposition of phillyrin.

A genus of evergreen plants growing along the shores of the Mediterranean, and bearing a fruit resembling that of the olive.

A glucoside extracted from Phillyrea as a bitter white crystalline substance. It is sometimes used as a febrifuge.

A lover or friend of women; one who esteems woman as the higher type of humanity; -- opposed to misogynist.

Fondness for women; uxoriousness; -- opposed to misogyny.

A philhellenist.

A philologist.

A philologist.

Of or pertaining to philology.

One versed in philology.

To study, or make critical comments on, language.

A philologist.

Criticism; grammatical learning.

A philomath.

Of or pertaining to philomathy.

The love of learning or letters.

Same as Philomela, the nightingale.

The nightingale; philomel.

The nightingale.

Of the color of a dead leaf.

Loving music. [R.]Busby.

A present or gift which is made as a forfeit in a social game that is played in various ways; also, the game itself.

Fond of polemics or controversy.

Having the love of offspring; fond of children.

The love of offspring; fondness for children.

A pretender to philosophy.

To play the philosopher; to moralize.

Philosophical speculation and discussion.

A philosophaster; a philosopher.

A philosophical proposition, doctrine, or principle of reasoning.

One who philosophizes; one versed in, or devoted to, philosophy.

Of or pertaining to philosophy; versed in, or imbued with, the principles of philosophy; hence, characterizing a philosopher; rational; wise; temperate; calm; cool.

Spurious philosophy; the love or practice of sophistry.

A pretender in philosophy.

Of or pertaining to the love or practice of sophistry.

To reason like a philosopher; to search into the reason and nature of things; to investigate phenomena, and assign rational causes for their existence.

One who philosophizes.

Literally, the love of, inducing the search after, wisdom; in actual usage, the knowledge of phenomena as explained by, and resolved into, causes and reasons, powers and laws.

Natural affection, as of parents for their children.

Fond of the arts.

To impregnate or mix with a love potion; as, to philter a draught.

A condition of the penis in which the prepuce can not be drawn back so as to uncover the glans penis.

Pythoness; witch.

The face or visage.

Inflammation of a vein.

A tracing (with the sphygmograph) of the movements of a vein, or of the venous pulse.

A small calcareous concretion formed in a vein; a vein stone.

A branch of anatomy which treats of the veins.

One who practiced phlebotomy.

To let blood from by opening a vein; to bleed.

A mild viral disease transmitted by the bite of the sand fly Phlebotomus papatasii.

The act or practice of opening a vein for letting blood, in the treatment of disease; venesection; bloodletting.

One of the four humors of which the ancients supposed the blood to be composed. See Humor.

A medicine supposed to expel phlegm.

An inflammation; more particularly, an inflammation of the internal organs.

Watery.

Phlegmatic.

In a phlegmatic manner.

Phlegmatically.

Purulent inflammation of the cellular or areolar tissue.

Having the nature or properties of phlegmon; as, phlegmonous pneumonia.

See Fleam.

A genus of grasses, including the timothy (Phleum pratense), which is highly valued for hay; cat's-tail grass.

That portion of fibrovascular bundles which corresponds to the inner bark; the liber tissue; -- distinguished from xylem.

A believer in the existence of phlogiston.

Of or pertaining to phlogiston, or to belief in its existence.

Phlogistic.

To combine phlogiston with; -- usually in the form and sense of the p. p. or the adj.; as, highly phlogisticated substances.

The act or process of combining with phlogiston.

The former hypothetical principle of fire, or inflammability, regarded by Stahl as a chemical element; it is now known to be nonexistent.

Causing inflammation.

A kind of mica having generally a peculiar bronze-red or copperlike color and a pearly luster. It is a silicate of aluminia, with magnesia, potash, and some fluorine. It is characteristic of crystalline limestone or dolomite and serpentine. See Mica.

Inflammation of external parts of the body; erysipelatous inflammation.

Of or pertaining to phlogosis.

A basic amido derivative of phloroglucin, having an astringent taste.

Pertaining to, or derived from, or designating, an organic acid obtained by the decomposition of phloretin.

A bitter white crystalline substance obtained by the decomposition of phlorizin, and formerly used to some extent as a substitute for quinine.

A bitter white crystalline glucoside extracted from the root bark of the apple, pear, cherry, plum, etc.

A sweet white crystalline substance, metameric with pyrogallol, and obtained by the decomposition of phloretin, and from certain gums, as catechu, kino, etc. It belongs to the class of phenols. [Called also phloroglucinol.]

A liquid metameric with xylenol, belonging to the class of phenols, and obtained by distilling certain salts of phloretic acid.

A yellow crystalline substance having a peculiar unpleasant odor, resembling the quinones, and obtained from beechwood tar and coal tar, as also by the oxidation of xylidine; -- called also xyloquinone.

A genus of American herbs, having showy red, white, or purple flowers.

Characterized by the presence of small pustules, or whitish elevations resembling pustules; as, phlyctenular ophthalmia.

Any irrational and persistent fear, whether of a situation, activity, or object; a phobia typically leads to a strong desire to avoid the object of the phobia.

A person suffering from a phobia.

A morbid fear of developing a phobia.

A genus of seals. It includes the common harbor seal and allied species. See Seal.

Any species of Phoca; a seal.

Pertaining to seals.

Of or pertaining to dolphin oil or porpoise oil; -- said of an acid (called also delphinic acid) subsequently found to be identical with valeric acid.

See Delphin.

Of or pertaining to the seal tribe; phocal.

One of the Phocodontia.

A group of extinct carnivorous whales. Their teeth had compressed and serrated crowns. It includes Squalodon and allied genera.

The pewee, or pewit.

Apollo; the sun god.

Of or pertaining to Ph/nica. A native or inhabitant of Ph/nica.

See Phenicious.

A genus of birds which includes the flamingoes.

A genus of Old World thrushes.

Same as Phenix.

Any species of Pholas.

Pholad.

Any one of numerous species of marine bivalve mollusks of the genus Pholas, or family Pholadid/. They bore holes for themselves in clay, peat, and soft rocks.

A genus of straggling herbs of the southwestern U.S.

Of or relating to the voice; as, phonal structure.

Treatment for restoring or improving the voice.

The act or process by which articulate sounds are uttered; the utterance of articulate sounds; articulate speech.

An instrument by means of which a sound can be made to produce a visible trace or record of itself. It consists essentially of a resonant vessel, usually of paraboloidal form, closed at one end by a flexible membrane. A stylus attached to some point of the membrane records the movements of the latter, as it vibrates, upon a moving cylinder or plate.

An instrument that converts sound into signals that can be transmitted over distances and then converts received signals back into sounds; a telephone; as, I talked to him on the phone.

To get or try to get into communication with, using a telephone; as, I phoned him this morning.

A radio or telephone program, or part of a program, during which the audience participates by telephone.