Index of English words, starting with "ph"

(1) - Philosophism (n.) Spurious philosophy; the love or practice of sophistry.

(1) - Philosophize (v. i.) To reason like a philosopher; to search into the reason and nature of things; to investigate phenomena, and assign rational causes for their existence.

(1) - Philosophizer (n.) One who philosophizes.

(1) - Philosophy (n.) A treatise on philosophy.
(2) - Philosophy (n.) The course of sciences read in the schools.
(3) - Philosophy (n.) Reasoning; argumentation.
(4) - Philosophy (n.) Practical wisdom; calmness of temper and judgment; equanimity; fortitude; stoicism; as, to meet misfortune with philosophy.
(5) - Philosophy (n.) A particular philosophical system or theory; the hypothesis by which particular phenomena are explained.
(6) - Philosophy (n.) Literally, the love of, including the search after, wisdom; in actual usage, the knowledge of phenomena as explained by, and resolved into, causes and reasons, powers and laws.

(1) - Philter (v. t.) To charm to love; to excite to love or sexual desire by a potion.
(2) - Philter (v. t.) To impregnate or mix with a love potion; as, to philter a draught.
(3) - Philter (n.) A potion or charm intended to excite the passion of love.