12-letter words containing ph
- chthonophagy — (disease) Alternative form of chthonophagia.
- circle graph — pie chart.
- clamjamphrie — rubbish
- clapham sect — a group of early 19th-century Church of England evangelicals advocating personal piety, the abolition of slavery, etc
- colour phase — a seasonal change in the coloration of some animals
- colporrhaphy — (surgery) suturing of a defect in the wall of the vagina.
- cometography — the scientific description and recording of comets
- conidiophore — a simple or branched hypha that bears spores (conidia) in such fungi as Penicillium
- coprophagist — a person who eats excrement
- coprophagous — (esp of certain beetles) feeding on dung
- coprophiliac — of or relating to coprophilia
- coprophilous — growing in or on dung
- coronagraphs — Plural form of coronagraph.
- cosmographer — (astrophysics) A scientist specializing in understanding and describing the nature of the universe.
- cosmographic — Of or pertaining to cosmography.
- costophrenic — Synonym of phrenicocostal.
- coulrophobia — an abnormal fear of clowns.
- craniography — examination of the skull as depicted by craniographs, photographs, and charts.
- criosphinxes — Plural form of criosphinx.
- criptography — (spelling) It's spelled "cryptography".
- cryptography — the science or study of analysing and deciphering codes, ciphers, etc; cryptanalysis
- cyclographic — of or relating to a cyclograph
- cymbocephaly — scaphocephaly.
- daphnephoria — an ancient Greek festival in honor of Apollo.
- dasyphyllous — (of leaves) hairy or woolly
- de-emphasize — to remove emphasis from
- decipherable — to make out the meaning of (poor or partially obliterated writing, etc.): to decipher a hastily scribbled note.
- decipherment — to make out the meaning of (poor or partially obliterated writing, etc.): to decipher a hastily scribbled note.
- deemphasized — Simple past tense and past participle of deemphasize.
- deemphasizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deemphasize.
- demographers — Plural form of demographer.
- demographics — data resulting from the science of demography; population statistics
- demographies — the science of vital and social statistics, as of the births, deaths, diseases, marriages, etc., of populations.
- demonography — a treatise on demons.
- dephlegmator — an apparatus used for dephlegmation
- dermatophyte — any parasitic fungus that affects the skin
- dermographia — dermatographia.
- dermographic — dermatographia.
- desulphurize — to free or become free from sulphur
- detectaphone — a device for listening secretly to others' telephone conversations
- detectophone — a secret listening device, the predecessor of the modern 'bug'
- diaphanously — In a diaphanous manner or to a diaphanous extent.
- diastrophism — the process of movement and deformation of the earth's crust that gives rise to large-scale features such as continents, ocean basins, and mountains
- diencephalic — Of or pertaining to the diencephalon.
- diencephalon — the posterior section of the forebrain.
- diphosphates — a pyrophosphate.
- diphosphorus — (chemistry, in combination) two atoms of phosphorus in a compound.
- diphtheritic — pertaining to diphtheria.
- diphtheroids — resembling diphtheria, especially in the formation of a false membrane in the throat.
- diphthongize — to change into or pronounce as a diphthong.