Wiktionary:Requested entries (English)/philias

Requested English entries involving the suffixes -philia: and -phile:.

Biology

 * acidophilia / acidophile: Preference of acidic conditions
 * alkaliphilia / alkaliphile: Preference of alkaline environments.
 * anthophilia / anthophile / anthophilic: Attraction to flowers.
 * anthrophile / anthrophilic: Attracted to humans (e.g., parasites).
 * anemophily: a form of pollination whereby pollen is distributed by wind.
 * cryophilia / cryophilic / cryophile: Preference for cold environments, climates, objects and low temperatures; e.g., Protea cryophila (Snow Protea).
 * dendrophilia / dendrophilic / dendrophile: Preference of trees or other plants.
 * extremophilia / extremophile: Preference of living extremal conditions for some microorganisms.
 * halophilia / halophile: Attraction/attracted to salt or salt-water.
 * heliophilia / heliophile: Attraction/attracted to sunlight.
 * hydrophilia: Attraction to water.
 * hyperthermophilia / hyperthermophile / hyperthermophilic: Describing organisms that thrive in extremely hot environments.
 * limnophilia / limnophile / limnophilic: Preference of ponds or marshes.
 * lithophilia / lithophile / litophilic: Preference/affinity to stones.
 * mesophilia / mesophile: Preference of moderate temperatures in microorganisms.
 * microaerophilia / microaerophile / Microaerophilic: of organisms that can tolerate or require environments containing low levels of oxygen.
 * myrmecophilia: in names of orchids of genus myrmecophila, "love of ants"
 * nemophilia: Love of the woods/forests, in the name of the genus Nemophilia of flowers.
 * nyctophilia: A preference for darkness or night.
 * ombrophilia / ombrophile: Affinity/affined to large amounts of rainfall.
 * petrophilia / petrophile / petrophilic: Preference of living or spending time in rocky areas.
 * photophilia / photophile / photophilic: Preference of living or spending time in lighted conditions.
 * psychrophilia / psychrophile: Preference of cold temperatures.
 * rheophilia: Preference of living in running water.
 * rhizophilia: Preference of living on roots.
 * thermophilia: Love of high temperatures; thriving in high temperatures (e.g. microbes).
 * tropophilia / tropophile / tropophilous: Preference of seasonal extremes of climate.
 * xerophilia: Love of living or spending time in very dry conditions.
 * xylophilia: Love of wood.

Chemistry / physics

 * chromophilous: Staining easily
 * litophilic: In microfluidics, the fact that some substances enrich on channel walls instead of in the middle of the channels. (eg. air bubbles)

Hobbies

 * audiophilia: Love of high-fidelity sound reproduction
 * hippophilia/hippophile: Attraction/attracted to horses
 * icthyophilia: Love of fish
 * metrophilia: Love of the metro rail or subway systems
 * ornithophilia: Love of birds
 * turophilia/turophile: Love of cheese / connoisseur of cheese

National

 * Anglophile: a non-English person who is extremely fond of all things English
 * Europhile: a person who wants to increase cooperation between governments within the European Union. Antonym: Eurosceptic

Other

 * biophilia hypothesis
 * retrophilia: Love of things of the past
 * theophilia: Love of a god

Prefix “phil-”

 * phillumenism
 * philhellenism, the love of Greek culture