lyophile

lyo- +‎ -phile, c. 1900, US, perhaps from French lyophile (“lyophilic”).

lyophile (plural lyophiles)

1. (chemistry) a lyophilic substance

• lyophobe

lyophile (comparative more lyophile, superlative most lyophile)

1. (chemistry) lyophilic
   • 1900, United States Bureau of Soils, p. 148:

     As a class, the soil colloids seem to be related more nearly to the lyophobe than to the lyophile colloids, although materials isolated from some soils approach lyophile colloids in their ability to swell.

• lyophilic

• lyophobe
• lyophobic

• “lyophile” in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary.