| PHILOGYNOUS | • philogynous adj. Fond of women. • PHILOGYNOUS adj. loving women. |
| PHYSIOLOGUS | • PHYSIOLOGUS n. a work containing descriptions of animals; a bestiary. |
| HYGROPHILOUS | • hygrophilous adj. (Botany, of a plant) adapted for growth in a damp or wet environment. • HYGROPHILOUS adj. living in water or moist places, also HYGROPHIL. |
| PRODIGIOUSLY | • prodigiously adv. In a prodigious manner; astonishingly, enormously, impressively, or wonderfully. • PRODIGIOUS adv. resembling or befitting a prodigy. |
| PUSSYFOOTING | • pussyfooting v. Present participle of pussyfoot. • PUSSYFOOTING n. the act of approaching a topic with great caution. |
| PYROLIGNEOUS | • pyroligneous adj. Produced from wood by the action of heat, especially by destructive distillation. • PYROLIGNEOUS adj. produced by the action of heat on wood, also PYROLIGNIC, PYROXYLIC. |
| AUTOBIOGRAPHY | • autobiography n. (Countable) A self-written biography; the story of one’s own life. • autobiography n. (Uncountable) Biographies of this kind regarded as a literary genre. • AUTOBIOGRAPHY n. the biography of a person narrated by himself or herself. |
| PHYSIOLOGUSES | • PHYSIOLOGUS n. a work containing descriptions of animals; a bestiary. |
| PUSSYFOOTINGS | • PUSSYFOOTING n. the act of approaching a topic with great caution. |
| ICHTHYOPHAGOUS | • ichthyophagous adj. (Biology) feeding on fish. • ICHTHYOPHAGOUS adj. fish-eating. |
| NEURYPNOLOGIES | • NEURYPNOLOGY n. an old name for the science of hypnotism, also NEUROHYPNOLOGY. |
| AUTORADIOGRAPHY | • autoradiography n. The process of making autoradiographs. • AUTORADIOGRAPHY n. a technique used to show the distribution of radioactively labelled molecules in cells or tissues. |
| IMMUNOPATHOLOGY | • immunopathology n. (Medicine) The branch of immunology that studies the relation of the immune system to disease; a disease… • IMMUNOPATHOLOGY n. the study of immunity to disease. |
| NEUROPHYSIOLOGY | • neurophysiology n. (Physiology, neuroscience) The branch of physiology that deals with the nervous system. • NEUROPHYSIOLOGY n. the physiology of the nervous system. |
| RADIOAUTOGRAPHY | • radioautography n. Autoradiography. • RADIOAUTOGRAPHY n. the use of radioautographs. |