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Word Unit: -pexy, -pexia, -pexes, -pexic, -pexis, -pex (Greek: a suffix; fixing [of a specified part]; attaching to, a fastening).

Word Unit: phaco-, phac-, phako-, phak- + (Greek: lentil [bean]; lens of the eye).

Related references to "eye" or "eye part" word families: blepharo-; core-; corneo-; eye, eyes; irido-; lenti-, lens-; lenticulo-; ocelli-; oculo-; op-, -optic; ophthalmo-; pupillo-; retino-; uveo-.

Word Unit: phaeo-, pheo- (Greek: dusky; literally, having the color of the twilight sky).

Word Unit: phago-, phag-, -phage, -phagi, -phagic, -phagically, -phagia, -phagism, -phagist, -phagic, -phagous, -phagy + (Greek: eat, eating; to consume, to ingest; relationship to eating or consumption by ingestion or engulfing).

Related "eat, eating" word units: brycho-; esculent-; esophago-;glutto-; vor-.

Word Unit: phalacr-, phalacro- (Greek: baldheaded, bald; smooth).

Word Unit: phalang-, phalango- + (Greek via Latin: bone between two joints of a finger or toe; line of battle; from phalanx, heavy infantry in close order [from Greek antiquity]).

Cross references directly, or indirectly, involving the "toes" and "fingers": dactylo-; digit-; hallu-.

Word Unit: phallo-, phall-, phalli- (Greek: an image of the male organ of generation; a stick of wood cut as a symbol of the male organ and carried in Bacchic processions; the penis).

Word Unit: phanero-, phaner-, -phane, -phanic, -phanous, -phany (Greek: to show; to make visible, to manifest, to open).

Word Unit: phant-, phanta-, -phant, phas-. -phasic + (Greek: manifest; show, appear, make appear, make visible, display; visible; to show [through], to shine [through]; illustrious).

Word Unit: pharc-, phark-, pharcid-, pharcido-, pharkid-, pharkido- + (Greek: wrinkled, wrinkle).

Cross references of word families related directly, or indirectly, to: "wrinkle, wrinkled; fold": rhytid-; rugo-.

Word Unit: pharmaco-, pharmac-, -pharmic (Greek: medical drug, medicine; poison).

Word Unit: pharyngo-, pharyng- (Greek: pharynx [the alimentary canal between the palate and the esophagus]; part of the neck or throat).

Word Unit: -phasia, -phasic, -phasis, -phasy + (Greek: talk, speak, say).

Cross references of word families related directly, or indirectly, to: "talk, speak, speech; words, language; tongue, etc.": cit-; clam-; dic-; fa-; -farious; glosso-; glotto-; lalo-; linguo-; locu-; logo-; loqu-; mythico-; -ology; ora-; -phasia; -phemia; phon-; phras-; Quotes: Language,Part 1; Quotes: Language, Part 2; Quotes: Language, Part 3; serm-; voc-.

Word Unit: phello-, phell- (Greek: cork, bark; cork tree; inner bark of trees).

Word Unit: -phemia, -phemic, -phemism, -pheme, -phemy + (Greek: speak, talk; speech).

Cross references of word families related directly, or indirectly, to: "talk, speak, speech; words, language; tongue, etc.": cit-; clam-; dic-; fa-; -farious; glosso-; glotto-; lalo-; linguo-; locu-; logo-; loqu-; mythico-; -ology; ora-; -phasia; phon-; phras-; Quotes: Language,Part 1; Quotes: Language, Part 2; Quotes: Language, Part 3; serm-; voc-.

Word Unit: phengo-, pheng- + (Greek: light, splendor, luster, sunlight, daylight).

Etymologically related "light, shine, glow" word families: ethero-; fulg-; luco-; lumen-, lum-; luna, luni-; lustr-; pheno-; phospho-; photo-; scinti-, scintill-; splendo-.

Word Unit: pheno-, phaeno-, phen-, phenomeno-, -phen + (Greek: to show, to appear, or to display; making evident; literally, "to come to light" or "to bring to light").

Etymologically related "light, shine, glow" word families: ethero-; fulg-; luco-; lumen-, lum-; luna, luni-; lustr-; phengo-; phospho-; photo-; scinti-, scintill-; splendo-.

Etymologically related "look, see, view, visible, vision" word families: blep-; -orama; scopo-; spec-; vid-, visuo-.

Word Unit: pher-, phero- + (Greek: bear, support; go).

Word Unit: phi + (Greek: the twenty-first letter of the Greek alphabet).

Word Unit: philema-, philem-, philemato-, philemat- + (Greek: kiss, a kiss; kissing).

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