List Of Words With The Suffix “philic”

Do you know what a suffix is? A suffix is a word part that is added to the end of a root word to change its meaning. The suffix philic is one of the most common suffixes and is used to describe a love or affinity for something. For example, ‘opsonophilic’ means a love of being eaten, ‘chromophilic’ means a love of color, ‘chromatophilic’ means a love of pigments, ‘cryophilic’ means a love of cold temperatures, and ‘electrophilic’ means a love of electricity.

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This article page provides a comprehensive list of words with the suffix philic. The words are arranged by common usage and there are a total of 55 words in the list. All of the words are provided without meanings, so readers can use the list as a reference for further research.

The words arranged in the lists below are in order of frequency of use, from left to right and down.





hydrophilic
eosinophilic
thermophilic
lipophilic
nucleophilic
electrophilic
mesophilic
basophilic
neutrophilic
antihemophilic
halophilic
ombrophilic
spasmophilic
nonhemophilic
stenothermophilic
timbrophilic
neurophilic
necrophilic
zoophilic
rheophilic
opsonophilic
organophilic
psychrophilic
polychromatophilic
pyroninophilic
photophilic
scopophilic
scoptophilic
symphilic
oxyphilic
pedophilic
microaerophilic
lyophilic
chromophilic
chromatophilic
calciphilic
bibliophilic
achromatophilic
anglophilic
amphophilic
ailurophilic
aerophilic
cynophilic
cytophilic
coprophilic
keratinophilic
iodinophilic
heterophilic
hemophilic
hemoglobinophilic
haemophilic
eurithermophilic
epistemophilic
cryophilic
acidophilic

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