Words That Start With: PH

• (chiefly Britain) The face.

• the state capital and largest city located in south central Arizona; situated in a former desert that has become a prosperous agricultural area thanks to irrigation

• a large monocotyledonous genus of pinnate-leaved palms found in Asia and Africa

• a constellation in the Southern Hemisphere near Tucana and Sculptor

• a legendary Arabian bird said to periodically burn itself to death and emerge from the ashes as a new phoenix; according to most versions only one phoenix lived at a time and it renewed itself every 500 years

• any of the bones of the fingers or toes

• any closely ranked crowd of people

• a body of troops in close array

• any polemoniaceous plant of the genus Phlox; chiefly North American; cultivated for their clusters of flowers

• characterized by phlegm

• the human face (`kisser' and `smiler' and `mug' are informal terms for `face' and `phiz' is British)

• English illustrator of several of Dickens' novels (1815-1882)

• the science of matter and energy and their interactions

• the physical properties, phenomena, and laws of something