Wiktionary:Requested entries (English)/philias

Requested English entries involving the suffixes (deprecated template usage) -philia and (deprecated template usage) -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