English words starting with ph

Meanings of Ph:

noun

A figure expressing the acidity or alkalinity of a solution on a logarithmic scale on which 7 is neutral, lower values are more acid and higher values more alkaline. the ph is equal to −log10 c, where c is the hydrogen ion concentration in moles per litre.

Meanings of Phacelia:

noun

A herbaceous american plant with clustered blue, violet, or white flowers.

Usage examples:

On the desert floor all around us blossomed yellow desert dandelions and purple phacelias.

Meanings of Phacelite:

noun

Kaliophilite.

Meanings of Phacella:

noun

Any of the rows or clusters of filaments projecting into the central gastric cavity of a cnidarian.

Meanings of Phacellite:

noun

Kaliophilite.

Meanings of Phacellus:

noun

= phacella .

Meanings of Phacoanaphylaxis:

noun

Hypersensitivity to proteins released from the lens of the eye; inflammation of the eye (endophthalmitis or uveitis) caused by this.

Meanings of Phacochoerine:

adjective

Of, relating to, or characteristic of (extant or fossil) warthogs.

Meanings of Phacoidal:

adjective

Lens-shaped, lenticular; specifically designating lenticular inclusions of feldspar, quartz, etc., in rock.

Meanings of Phacolite:

noun

A colourless variety of the mineral chabazite occurring in crystals of lenticular form.

Meanings of Phacolith:

noun

An intrusive mass of igneous rock, typically lens-shaped, situated between consecutive strata at the top of an anticline or the bottom of a syncline.

Meanings of Phacometer:

noun

An instrument for measuring the refractive properties of ophthalmic lenses or of the lens of the eye.

Meanings of Phacopid:

adjective

Of or relating to the family phacopidae of trilobites, the members of which had large compound eyes and a rounded glabella which widened frontwards.

noun

A trilobite of the family phacopidae.

Meanings of Phaeacian:

noun

(in the odyssey ) an inhabitant of scheria (corfu), whose people were noted for their hedonism.

Meanings of Phaenogam:

noun

A phanerogam; a spermatophyte.

Meanings of Phaenogamous:

adjective

Phanerogamous.

Meanings of Phaeodaria:

adjective

Of, relating to, or designating the group phaeodaria (phylum actinopoda), comprising radiolarians whose central capsule has three groups of pores.

noun

A radiolarian of the phaeodaria.

Meanings of Phaeodarian:

adjective

Of, relating to, or designating the group phaeodaria (phylum actinopoda), comprising radiolarians whose central capsule has three groups of pores.

noun

A radiolarian of the phaeodaria.

Meanings of Phaeophyceae:

plural noun

A class of lower plants that comprises the brown algae.

Usage examples:

For marine plants, the argument would be different if we accepted the limited overnight acid accumu…

Meanings of Phaeophycean:

adjective

Of or relating to the class phaeophyceae, which comprises the brown algae.

noun

An alga of the class phaeophyceae; a brown alga.

Meanings of Phaeophytin:

noun

A brownish or grey-green compound formed by the degradation of chlorophyll (e.g. by weak acid or by enzymes), the magnesium atom being replaced by two hydrogen atoms; (more fully "phaeophytin a", "phaeophytin b") either of two forms of this, derived from chlorophyll a and chlorophyll b respectively.

Meanings of Phaeoplast:

noun

A chromoplast of a brown alga.

Meanings of Phaethon:

proper noun

The son of helios the sun god. he asked to drive his father's solar chariot for a day, but could not control the immortal horses and the chariot plunged too near to the earth until zeus killed phaethon with a thunderbolt in order to save the earth from destruction.

Meanings of Phaeton:

noun

A light, open four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage.

Usage examples:

There were bailees, the two wheeled bullock carts with bright canopies, and palkees, and there were…

Meanings of Phagedaena:

noun

Ulceration that spreads and destroys surrounding tissue; an ulcer of this nature.