Be afraid... ...be very afraid

List of Phobias

• Ablutophobia - Fear of washing or bathing.
• Acarophobia - Fear of itching or of the insects that cause itching.
• Acerophobia - Fear of sourness.
• Achluophobia - Fear of darkness.
• Acousticophobia - Fear of noise.
• Acrophobia - Fear of heights.
• Aerophobia - Fear of drafts, air swallowing, or airbourne noxious substances.
• Aeroacrophobia - Fear of open high places.
• Aeronausiphobia - Fear of vomiting secondary to airsickness.
• Agateophobia - Fear of insanity.
• Agliophobia - Fear of pain.
• Agoraphobia - Fear of open spaces or of being in crowded, public places like markets. Fear of leaving a safe place.
• Agraphobia - Fear of sexual abuse.
• Agrizoophobia - Fear of wild animals.
• Agyrophobia - Fear of streets or crossing the street.
• Aichmophobia - Fear of needles or pointed objects.
• Ailurophobia - Fear of cats.
• Albuminurophobia - Fear of kidney disease.
• Alektorophobia - Fear of chickens.
• Algophobia - Fear of pain.
• Alliumphobia - Fear of garlic.
• Allodoxaphobia - Fear of opinions.
• Altophobia - Fear of heights.
• Amathophobia - Fear of dust.
• Amaxophobia - Fear of riding in a car.
• Ambulophobia - Fear of walking.
• Amnesiphobia - Fear of amnesia.
• Amychophobia - Fear of scratches or being scratched.
• Anablephobia - Fear of looking up.
• Ancraophobia - Fear of wind. (Anemophobia)
• Androphobia - Fear of men.
• Anemophobia - Fear of air drafts or wind.(Ancraophobia)
• Anginophobia - Fear of angina, choking or narrowness.
• Anglophobia - Fear of England or English culture, etc.
• Angrophobia - Fear of anger or of becoming angry.
• Ankylophobia - Fear of immobility of a joint.
• Anthrophobia or Anthophobia - Fear of flowers.
• Anthropophobia - Fear of people or society.
• Antlophobia - Fear of floods.
• Anuptaphobia - Fear of staying single.
• Apeirophobia - Fear of infinity.
• Aphenphosmphobia - Fear of being touched. (Haphephobia)
• Apiphobia - Fear of bees.
• Apotemnophobia - Fear of persons with amputations.
• Arachibutyrophobia - Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth.
• Arachnephobia or Arachnophobia - Fear of spiders.
• Arithmophobia - Fear of numbers.
• Arrhenphobia - Fear of men.
• Arsonphobia - Fear of fire.
• Asthenophobia - Fear of fainting or weakness.
• Astraphobia or Astrapophobia - Fear of thunder and lightning.(Ceraunophobia, Keraunophobia)
• Astrophobia - Fear of stars or celestial space.
• Asymmetriphobia - Fear of asymmetrical things.
• Ataxiophobia - Fear of ataxia. (muscular incoordination)
• Ataxophobia - Fear of disorder or untidiness.
• Atelophobia - Fear of imperfection.
• Atephobia - Fear of ruin or ruins.
• Athazagoraphobia - Fear of being forgotton or ignored or forgetting.
• Atomosophobia - Fear of atomic explosions.
• Atychiphobia - Fear of failure.
• Aulophobia - Fear of flutes.
• Aurophobia - Fear of gold.
• Auroraphobia - Fear of Northern lights.
• Autodysomophobia - Fear of one that has a vile odor.
• Automatonophobia - Fear of ventriloquist's dummies, animatronic creatures, wax statues - anything that falsly represents a sentient being.
• Automysophobia - Fear of being dirty.
• Autophobia - Fear of being alone or of oneself.
• Aviophobia or Aviatophobia - Fear of flying.
• Bacillophobia - Fear of microbes.
• Bacteriophobia - Fear of bacteria.
• Ballistophobia - Fear of missiles or bullets.
• Bolshephobia - Fear of Bolsheviks.
• Barophobia - Fear of gravity.
• Basophobia or Basiphobia - Inability to stand. Fear of walking or falling.
• Bathmophobia - Fear of stairs or steep slopes.
• Bathophobia - Fear of depth.
• Batophobia - Fear of heights or being close to high buildings.
• Batrachophobia - Fear of amphibians, such as frogs, newts, salamanders, etc.
• Belonephobia - Fear of pins and needles. (Aichmophobia)
• Bibliophobia - Fear of books.
• Blennophobia - Fear of slime.
• Bogyphobia - Fear of bogeys or the bogeyman.
• Botanophobia - Fear of plants.
• Bromidrosiphobia or Bromidrophobia - Fear of body smells.
• Brontophobia - Fear of thunder and lightning.
• Bufonophobia - Fear of toads.
• Cacophobia - Fear of ugliness.
• Cainophobia or Cainotophobia - Fear of newness, novelty.
• Caligynephobia - Fear of beautiful women.
• Cancerophobia or Carcinophobia - Fear of cancer.
• Cardiophobia - Fear of the heart.
• Carnophobia - Fear of meat.
• Catagelophobia - Fear of being ridiculed.
• Catapedaphobia - Fear of jumping from high and low places.
• Cathisophobia - Fear of sitting.
• Catoptrophobia - Fear of mirrors.
• Cenophobia or Centophobia - Fear of new things or ideas.
• Ceraunophobia or Keraunophobia - Fear of thunder and lightning.(Astraphobia, Astrapophobia)
• Chaetophobia - Fear of hair.
• Cheimaphobia or Cheimatophobia - Fear of cold.(Frigophobia, Psychophobia)
• Chemophobia - Fear of chemicals or working with chemicals.
• Cherophobia - Fear of gaiety.
• Chionophobia - Fear of snow.
• Chiraptophobia - Fear of being touched.
• Chirophobia - Fear of hands.
• Cholerophobia - Fear of anger or the fear of cholera.
• Chorophobia - Fear of dancing.
• Chrometophobia or Chrematophobia - Fear of money.
• Chromophobia or Chromatophobia - Fear of colors.
• Chronophobia - Fear of time.
• Chronomentrophobia - Fear of clocks.
• Cibophobia - Fear of food.(Sitophobia, Sitiophobia)
• Claustrophobia - Fear of confined spaces.
• Cleithrophobia or Cleisiophobia - Fear of being locked in an enclosed place.
• Cleptophobia - Fear of stealing.
• Climacophobia - Fear of stairs, climbing, or of falling downstairs.
• Clinophobia - Fear of going to bed.
• Clithrophobia or Cleithrophobia - Fear of being enclosed.
• Cnidophobia - Fear of stings.
• Cometophobia - Fear of comets.
• Coimetrophobia - Fear of cemeteries.
• Coitophobia - Fear of coitus.
• Contreltophobia - Fear of sexual abuse.
• Coprastasophobia - Fear of constipation.
• Coprophobia - Fear of feces.
• Consecotaleophobia - Fear of chopsticks.
• Coulrophobia - Fear of clowns.
• Counterphobia - The preference by a phobic for fearful situations.
• Cremnophobia - Fear of precipices.
• Cryophobia - Fear of extreme cold, ice or frost.
• Crystallophobia - Fear of crystals or glass.
• Cyberphobia - Fear of computers or working on a computer.
• Cyclophobia - Fear of bicycles.
• Cymophobia or Kymophobia - Fear of waves or wave like motions.
• Cynophobia - Fear of dogs or rabies.
• Cypridophobia or Cypriphobia or Cyprianophobia or Cyprinophobia - Fear of prostitutes or venereal disease.
• Decidophobia - Fear of making decisions.
• Defecaloesiophobia - Fear of painful bowels movements.
• Deipnophobia - Fear of dining or dinner conversations.
• Dementophobia - Fear of insanity.
• Demonophobia or Daemonophobia - Fear of demons.
• Demophobia - Fear of crowds. (Agoraphobia)
• Dendrophobia - Fear of trees.
• Dentophobia - Fear of dentists.
• Dermatophobia - Fear of skin lesions.
• Dermatosiophobia or Dermatophobia or Dermatopathophobia - Fear of skin disease.
• Dextrophobia - Fear of objects at the right side of the body.
• Diabetophobia - Fear of diabetes.
• Didaskaleinophobia - Fear of going to school.
• Dikephobia - Fear of justice.
• Dinophobia - Fear of dizziness or whirlpools.
• Diplophobia - Fear of double vision.
• Dipsophobia - Fear of drinking.
• Dishabiliophobia - Fear of undressing in front of someone.
• Domatophobia - Fear of houses or being in a house.(Eicophobia, Oikophobia)
• Doraphobia - Fear of fur or skins of animals.
• Doxophobia - Fear of expressing opinions or of receiving praise.
• Dromophobia - Fear of crossing streets.
• Dutchphobia - Fear of the Dutch.
• Dysmorphophobia - Fear of deformity.
• Dystychiphobia - Fear of accidents.
• Ecclesiophobia - Fear of church.
• Ecophobia - Fear of home.
• Eicophobia - Fear of home surroundings.(Domatophobia, Oikophobia)
• Eisoptrophobia - Fear of mirrors or of seeing oneself in a mirror.
• Electrophobia - Fear of electricity.
• Eleutherophobia - Fear of freedom.
• Elurophobia - Fear of cats. (Ailurophobia)
• Emetophobia - Fear of vomiting.
• Enetophobia - Fear of pins.
• Enochlophobia - Fear of crowds.
• Enosiophobia or Enissophobia - Fear of having committed an unpardonable sin or of criticism.
• Entomophobia - Fear of insects.
• Eosophobia - Fear of dawn or daylight.
• Ephebiphobia - Fear of teenagers.
• Epistaxiophobia - Fear of nosebleeds.
• Epistemophobia - Fear of knowledge.
• Equinophobia - Fear of horses.
• Eremophobia - Fear of being oneself or of lonliness.
• Ereuthrophobia - Fear of blushing.
• Ergasiophobia - 1) Fear of work or functioning. 2) Surgeon's fear of operating.
• Ergophobia - Fear of work.
• Erotophobia - Fear of sexual love or sexual questions.
• Euphobia - Fear of hearing good news.
• Eurotophobia - Fear of female genitalia.
• Erythrophobia or Erytophobia or Ereuthophobia - 1) Fear of redlights. 2) Blushing. 3) Red.
• Febriphobia or Fibriphobia or Fibriophobia - Fear of fever.
• Felinophobia - Fear of cats. (Ailurophobia, Elurophobia, Galeophobia, Gatophobia)
• Francophobia - Fear of France or French culture. (Gallophobia, Galiophobia)
• Frigophobia - Fear of cold or cold things.(Cheimaphobia, Cheimatophobia, Psychrophobia)
• Galeophobia or Gatophobia - Fear of cats.
• Gallophobia or Galiophobia - Fear France or French culture. (Francophobia)
• Gamophobia - Fear of marriage.
• Geliophobia - Fear of laughter.
• Geniophobia - Fear of chins.
• Genophobia - Fear of sex.
• Genuphobia - Fear of knees.
• Gephyrophobia or Gephydrophobia or Gephysrophobia - Fear of crossing bridges.
• Germanophobia - Fear of Germany or German culture.
• Gerascophobia - Fear of growing old.
• Gerontophobia - Fear of old people or of growing old.
• Geumaphobia or Geumophobia - Fear of taste.
• Glossophobia - Fear of speaking in public or of trying to speak.
• Gnosiophobia - Fear of knowledge.
• Graphophobia - Fear of writing or handwriting.
• Gymnophobia - Fear of nudity.
• Gynephobia or Gynophobia - Fear of women.
• Hadephobia - Fear of hell.
• Hagiophobia - Fear of saints or holy things.
• Hamartophobia - Fear of sinning.
• Haphephobia or Haptephobia - Fear of being touched.
• Harpaxophobia - Fear of being robbed.
• Hedonophobia - Fear of feeling pleasure.
• Heliophobia - Fear of the sun.
• Hellenologophobia - Fear of Greek terms or complex scientific terminology.
• Helminthophobia - Fear of being infested with worms.
• Hemophobia or Hemaphobia or Hematophobia - Fear of blood.
• Heresyphobia or Hereiophobia - Fear of challenges to official doctrine or of radical deviation.
• Herpetophobia - Fear of reptiles or creepy, crawly things.
• Heterophobia - Fear of the opposite sex. (Sexophobia)
• Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia - Fear of the number 666.
• Hierophobia - Fear of priests or sacred things.
• Hippophobia - Fear of horses.
• Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia - Fear of long words.
• Hobophobia - Fear of bums or beggars.
• Hodophobia - Fear of road travel.
• Hormephobia - Fear of shock.
• Homichlophobia - Fear of fog.
• Homilophobia - Fear of sermons.
• Hominophobia - Fear of men.
• Homophobia - Fear of sameness, monotony or of homosexuality or of becoming homosexual.
• Hoplophobia - Fear of firearms.
• Hydrargyophobia - Fear of mercurial medicines.
• Hydrophobia - Fear of water or of rabies.
• Hydrophobophobia - Fear of rabies.
• Hyelophobia or Hyalophobia - Fear of glass.
• Hygrophobia - Fear of liquids, dampness, or moisture.
• Hylephobia - Fear of materialism or the fear of epilepsy.
• Hylophobia - Fear of forests.
• Hypengyophobia or Hypegiaphobia - Fear of responsibility.
• Hypnophobia - Fear of sleep or of being hypnotized.
• Hypsiphobia - Fear of height.
• Iatrophobia - Fear of going to the doctor or of doctors.
• Ichthyophobia - Fear of fish.
• Ideophobia - Fear of ideas.
• Illyngophobia - Fear of vertigo or feeling dizzy when looking down.
• Iophobia - Fear of poison.
• Insectophobia - Fear of insects.
• Isolophobia - Fear of solitude, being alone.
• Isopterophobia - Fear of termites, insects that eat wood.
• Ithyphallophobia - Fear of seeing, thinking about or having an erect penis.
• Japanophobia - Fear of Japanese.
• Judeophobia - Fear of Jews.
• Kainolophobia or Kainophobia - Fear of anything new, novelty.
• Kakorrhaphiophobia - Fear of failure or defeat.
• Katagelophobia - Fear of ridicule.
• Kathisophobia - Fear of sitting down.
• Kenophobia - Fear of voids or empty spaces.
• Keraunophobia or Ceraunophobia - Fear of thunder and lightning.(Astraphobia, Astrapophobia)
• Kinetophobia or Kinesophobia - Fear of movement or motion.
• Kleptophobia - Fear of stealing.
• Koinoniphobia - Fear of rooms.
• Kolpophobia - Fear of genitals, particularly female.
• Kopophobia - Fear of fatigue.
• Koniophobia - Fear of dust. (Amathophobia)
• Kosmikophobia - Fear of cosmic phenomenon.
• Kymophobia - Fear of waves. (Cymophobia)
• Kynophobia - Fear of rabies.
• Kyphophobia - Fear of stooping.
• Lachanophobia - Fear of vegetables.
• Laliophobia or Lalophobia - Fear of speaking.
• Leprophobia or Lepraphobia - Fear of leprosy.
• Leukophobia - Fear of the color white.
• Levophobia - Fear of things to the left side of the body.
• Ligyrophobia - Fear of loud noises.
• Lilapsophobia - Fear of tornadoes and hurricanes.
• Limnophobia - Fear of lakes.
• Linonophobia - Fear of string.
• Liticaphobia - Fear of lawsuits.
• Lockiophobia - Fear of childbirth.
• Logizomechanophobia - Fear of computers.
• Logophobia - Fear of words.
• Luiphobia - Fear of lues, syphillis.
• Lutraphobia - Fear of otters.
• Lygophobia - Fear of darkness.
• Lyssophobia - Fear of rabies or of becoming mad.
• Macrophobia - Fear of long waits.
• Mageirocophobia - Fear of cooking.
• Maieusiophobia - Fear of childbirth.
• Malaxophobia - Fear of love play. (Sarmassophobia)
• Maniaphobia - Fear of insanity.
• Mastigophobia - Fear of punishment.
• Mechanophobia - Fear of machines.
• Medomalacuphobia - Fear of losing an erection.
• Medorthophobia - Fear of an erect penis.
• Megalophobia - Fear of large things.
• Melissophobia - Fear of bees.
• Melanophobia - Fear of the color black.
• Melophobia - Fear or hatred of music.
• Meningitophobia - Fear of brain disease.
• Menophobia - Fear of menstruation.
• Merinthophobia - Fear of being bound or tied up.
• Metallophobia - Fear of metal.
• Metathesiophobia - Fear of changes.
• Meteorophobia - Fear of meteors.
• Methyphobia - Fear of alcohol.
• Metrophobia - Fear or hatred of poetry.
• Microbiophobia - Fear of microbes. (Bacillophobia)
• Microphobia - Fear of small things.
• Misophobia or Mysophobia - Fear of being contaminated with dirt or germs.
• Mnemophobia - Fear of memories.
• Molysmophobia or Molysomophobia - Fear of dirt or contamination.
• Monophobia - Fear of solitude or being alone.
• Monopathophobia - Fear of definite disease.
• Motorphobia - Fear of automobiles.
• Mottephobia - Fear of moths.
• Musophobia or Muriphobia - Fear of mice.
• Mycophobia - Fear or aversion to mushrooms.
• Mycrophobia - Fear of small things.
• Myctophobia - Fear of darkness.
• Myrmecophobia - Fear of ants.
• Mythophobia - Fear of myths or stories or false statements.
• Myxophobia - Fear of slime. (Blennophobia)
• Nebulaphobia - Fear of fog. (Homichlophobia)
• Necrophobia - Fear of death or dead things.
• Nelophobia - Fear of glass.
• Neopharmaphobia - Fear of new drugs.
• Neophobia - Fear of anything new.
• Nephophobia - Fear of clouds.
• Noctiphobia - Fear of the night.
• Nomatophobia - Fear of names.
• Nosocomephobia - Fear of hospitals.
• Nosophobia or Nosemaphobia - Fear of becoming ill.
• Nostophobia - Fear of returning home.
• Novercaphobia - Fear of your step-mother.
• Nucleomituphobia - Fear of nuclear weapons.
• Nudophobia - Fear of nudity.
• Numerophobia - Fear of numbers.
• Nyctohylophobia - Fear of dark wooded areas or of forests at night
• Nyctophobia - Fear of the dark or of night.
• Obesophobia - Fear of gaining weight.(Pocrescophobia)
• Ochlophobia - Fear of crowds or mobs.
• Ochophobia - Fear of vehicles.
• Octophobia - Fear of the figure 8.
• Odontophobia - Fear of teeth or dental surgery.
• Odynophobia or Odynephobia - Fear of pain. (Algophobia)
• Oenophobia - Fear of wines.
• Oikophobia - Fear of home surroundings, house.(Domatophobia, Eicophobia)
• Olfactophobia - Fear of smells.
• Ombrophobia - Fear of rain or of being rained on.
• Ommetaphobia or Ommatophobia - Fear of eyes.
• Oneirophobia - Fear of dreams.
• Oneirogmophobia - Fear of wet dreams.
• Onomatophobia - Fear of hearing a certain word or of names.
• Ophidiophobia - Fear of snakes. (Snakephobia)
• Ophthalmophobia - Fear of being stared at.
• Opiophobia - Fear medical doctors experience of prescribing needed pain medications for patients.
• Optophobia - Fear of opening one's eyes.
• Ornithophobia - Fear of birds.
• Orthophobia - Fear of property.
• Osmophobia or Osphresiophobia - Fear of smells or odors.
• Ostraconophobia - Fear of shellfish.
• Ouranophobia or Uranophobia - Fear of heaven.
• Pagophobia - Fear of ice or frost.
• Panthophobia - Fear of suffering and disease.
• Panophobia or Pantophobia - Fear of everything.
• Papaphobia - Fear of the Pope.
• Papyrophobia - Fear of paper.
• Paralipophobia - Fear of neglecting duty or responsibility.
• Paraphobia - Fear of sexual perversion.
• Parasitophobia - Fear of parasites.
• Paraskavedekatriaphobia - Fear of Friday the 13th.
• Parthenophobia - Fear of virgins or young girls.
• Pathophobia - Fear of disease.
• Patroiophobia - Fear of heredity.
• Parturiphobia - Fear of childbirth.
• Peccatophobia - Fear of sinning or imaginary crimes.
• Pediculophobia - Fear of lice.
• Pediophobia - Fear of dolls.
• Pedophobia - Fear of children.
• Peladophobia - Fear of bald people.
• Pellagrophobia - Fear of pellagra.
• Peniaphobia - Fear of poverty.
• Pentheraphobia - Fear of mother-in-law. (Novercaphobia)
• Phagophobia - Fear of swallowing or of eating or of being eaten.
• Phalacrophobia - Fear of becoming bald.
• Phallophobia - Fear of a penis, esp erect.
• Pharmacophobia - Fear of taking medicine.
• Phasmophobia - Fear of ghosts.
• Phengophobia - Fear of daylight or sunshine.
• Philemaphobia or Philematophobia - Fear of kissing.
• Philophobia - Fear of falling in love or being in love.
• Philosophobia - Fear of philosophy.
• Phobophobia - Fear of phobias.
• Photoaugliaphobia - Fear of glaring lights.
• Photophobia - Fear of light.
• Phonophobia - Fear of noises or voices or one's own voice; of telephones.
• Phronemophobia - Fear of thinking.
• Phthiriophobia - Fear of lice. (Pediculophobia)
• Phthisiophobia - Fear of tuberculosis.
• Placophobia - Fear of tombstones.
• Plutophobia - Fear of wealth.
• Pluviophobia - Fear of rain or of being rained on.
• Pneumatiphobia - Fear of spirits.
• Pnigophobia or Pnigerophobia - Fear of choking of being smothered.
• Pocrescophobia - Fear of gaining weight. (Obesophobia)
• Pogonophobia - Fear of beards.
• Poliosophobia - Fear of contracting poliomyelitis.
• Politicophobia - Fear or abnormal dislike of politicians.
• Polyphobia - Fear of many things.
• Poinephobia - Fear of punishment.
• Ponophobia - Fear of overworking or of pain.
• Porphyrophobia - Fear of the color purple.
• Potamophobia - Fear of rivers or running water.
• Potophobia - Fear of alcohol.
• Pharmacophobia - Fear of drugs.
• Proctophobia - Fear of rectums.
• Prosophobia - Fear of progress.
• Psellismophobia - Fear of stuttering.
• Psychophobia - Fear of mind.
• Psychrophobia - Fear of cold.
• Pteromerhanophobia - Fear of flying.
• Pteronophobia - Fear of being tickled by feathers.
• Pupaphobia - Fear of puppets.
• Pyrexiophobia - Fear of Fever.
• Pyrophobia - Fear of fire.
• Radiophobia - Fear of radiation, x-rays.
• Ranidaphobia - Fear of frogs.
• Rectophobia - Fear of rectum or rectal diseases.
• Rhabdophobia - Fear of being severely punished or beaten by a rod, or of being severely criticized. Also fear of magic.(wand)
• Rhypophobia - Fear of defecation.
• Rhytiphobia - Fear of getting wrinkles.
• Rupophobia - Fear of dirt.
• Russophobia - Fear of Russians.
• Samhainophobia: Fear of Halloween.
• Sarmassophobia - Fear of love play. (Malaxophobia)
• Satanophobia - Fear of Satan.
• Scabiophobia - Fear of scabies.
• Scatophobia - Fear of fecal matter.
• Scelerophibia - Fear of bad men, burglars.
• Sciophobia Sciaphobia - Fear of shadows.
• Scoleciphobia - Fear of worms.
• Scolionophobia - Fear of school.
• Scopophobia or Scoptophobia - Fear of being seen or stared at.
• Scotomaphobia - Fear of blindness in visual field.
• Scotophobia - Fear of darkness. (Achluophobia)
• Scriptophobia - Fear of writing in public.
• Selachophobia - Fear of sharks.
• Selaphobia - Fear of light flashes.
• Selenophobia - Fear of the moon.
• Seplophobia - Fear of decaying matter.
• Sesquipedalophobia - Fear of long words.
• Sexophobia - Fear of the opposite sex. (Heterophobia)
• Siderodromophobia - Fear of trains, railroads or train travel.
• Siderophobia - Fear of stars.
• Sinistrophobia - Fear of things to the left or left-handed.
• Sinophobia - Fear of Chinese, Chinese culture.
• Sitophobia or Sitiophobia - Fear of food or eating. (Cibophobia)
• Snakephobia - Fear of snakes. (Ophidiophobia)
• Soceraphobia - Fear of parents-in-law.
• Social Phobia - Fear of being evaluated negatively in social situations.
• Sociophobia - Fear of society or people in general.
• Somniphobia - Fear of sleep.
• Sophophobia - Fear of learning.
• Soteriophobia - Fear of dependence on others.
• Spacephobia - Fear of outer space.
• Spectrophobia - Fear of specters or ghosts.
• Spermatophobia or Spermophobia - Fear of germs.
• Spheksophobia - Fear of wasps.
• Stasibasiphobia or Stasiphobia - Fear of standing or walking. (Ambulophobia)
• Staurophobia - Fear of crosses or the crucifix.
• Stenophobia - Fear of narrow things or places.
• Stygiophobia or Stigiophobia - Fear of hell.
• Suriphobia - Fear of mice.
• Symbolophobia - Fear of symbolism.
• Symmetrophobia - Fear of symmetry.
• Syngenesophobia - Fear of relatives.
• Syphilophobia - Fear of syphilis.
• Tachophobia - Fear of speed.
• Taeniophobia or Teniophobia - Fear of tapeworms.
• Taphephobia Taphophobia - Fear of being buried alive or of cemeteries.
• Tapinophobia - Fear of being contagious.
• Taurophobia - Fear of bulls.
• Technophobia - Fear of technology.
• Teleophobia - 1) Fear of definite plans. 2) Religious ceremony.
• Telephonophobia - Fear of telephones.
• Teratophobia - Fear of bearing a deformed child or fear of monsters or deformed people.
• Testophobia - Fear of taking tests.
• Tetanophobia - Fear of lockjaw, tetanus.
• Teutophobia - Fear of German or German things.
• Textophobia - Fear of certain fabrics.
• Thaasophobia - Fear of sitting.
• Thalassophobia - Fear of the sea.
• Thanatophobia or Thantophobia - Fear of death or dying.
• Theatrophobia - Fear of theatres.
• Theologicophobia - Fear of theology.
• Theophobia - Fear of gods or religion.
• Thermophobia - Fear of heat.
• Tocophobia - Fear of pregnancy or childbirth.
• Tomophobia - Fear of surgical operations.
• Tonitrophobia - Fear of thunder.
• Topophobia - Fear of certain places or situations, such as stage fright.
• Toxiphobia or Toxophobia or Toxicophobia - Fear of poison or of being accidently poisoned.
• Traumatophobia - Fear of injury.
• Tremophobia - Fear of trembling.
• Trichinophobia - Fear of trichinosis.
• Trichopathophobia or Trichophobia - Fear of hair. (Chaetophobia, Hypertrichophobia)
• Triskaidekaphobia - Fear of the number 13.
• Tropophobia - Fear of moving or making changes.
• Trypanophobia - Fear of injections.
• Tuberculophobia - Fear of tuberculosis.
• Tyrannophobia - Fear of tyrants.
• Uranophobia or Ouranophobia - Fear of heaven.
• Urophobia - Fear of urine or urinating.
• Vaccinophobia - Fear of vaccination.
• Venustraphobia - Fear of beautiful women.
• Verbophobia - Fear of words.
• Verminophobia - Fear of germs.
• Vestiphobia - Fear of clothing.
• Virginitiphobia - Fear of rape.
• Vitricophobia - Fear of step-father.
• Walloonphobia - Fear of the Walloons.
• Wiccaphobia: Fear of witches and witchcraft.
• Xanthophobia - Fear of the color yellow or the word yellow.
• Xenoglossophobia - Fear of foreign languages.
• Xenophobia - Fear of strangers or foreigners.
• Xerophobia - Fear of dryness.
• Xylophobia - 1) Fear of wooden objects. 2) Forests.
• Xyrophobia-Fear of razors.
• Zelophobia - Fear of jealousy.
• Zeusophobia - Fear of God or gods.
• Zemmiphobia - Fear of the great mole rat.
• Zoophobia - Fear of animals.

Intelligence Test

Question 1. A hexagon has how many sides?
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6 >>> Go to Question 4
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Question 2. A quadruped has how many legs?
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Question 3. A cube has how many faces?
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Question 4. A tripod has how many legs?
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Question 5. A deck of cards has how many suits?
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Note:

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Some common surnames and their meanings

• Archer - A professional Archer
• Armstrong - A strong arm
• Bailey - bailiff
• Brown - A brown haired man
• Carter - A cart maker
• Carver - A sculptor
• Chandler - A candle maker
• Chaplin - A chaplain
• Cooper - A barrel maker
• Crippen - Curly hair
• Day - A dairy worker
• Fletcher - An arrow maker
• Frobisher - Polished armour and swords
• Gardner - A gardener
• Grant - A tall man
• Hooper - Fitted hoops on barrels
• Kellogg - A killer of hogs
• Leach - A doctor
• Machin - A stone worker
• Moore - Dark complexion like a Moor
• Naylor - A nail maker
• Proctor - A steward
• Redman - A thatcher (reed man)
• Russell - A red haired man
• Sawyer - A wood sawer
• Shakespeare - A soldier, who carried, or shook, a spear
• Trinder - A wheel maker
• Turnbull - A strong man
• Ward - A watchman

Just some of Primce Philip's Gaffes.

• "Still throwing spears?" (Question put to an Australian Aborigine during a visit in March 2002)
• "British women can't cook." (1966)
• "Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed." (during the 1981 recession)
• "We didn't have counsellors rushing around every time somebody let off a gun, asking 'Are you all right? Are you sure you don't have a ghastly problem?' You just got on with it." (commenting in 1995 on modern stress counselling for servicemen)
• "If a cricketer, for instance, suddenly decided to go into a school and batter a lot of people to death with a cricket bat, which he could do very easily, I mean, are you going to ban cricket bats?" (in 1996, amid calls to ban firearms after the Dunblane shooting)
• "Bloody silly fool!" (in 1997, referring to a Cambridge University car park attendant who failed to recognise him)
• "It looks as if it was put in by an Indian." (in 1999, referring to an old-fashioned fuse box in a factory near Edinburgh)
• "Deaf? If you are near there, no wonder you are deaf." (in 1999, to young deaf people in Cardiff, referring to a school's steel band)
• "They must be out of their minds." (in 1982, in the Solomon Islands, after being told that the annual population growth was only 5%)
• "You are a woman, aren't you?" (in 1984, in Kenya, to a native woman who had presented him with a small gift)
• "Your country is one of the most notorious centres of trading in endangered species in the world." (in 1991, in Thailand, after accepting a conservation award)
• "Oh no, I might catch some ghastly disease." (in 1992 in Australia, when asked to stroke a Koala bear)
• "You can't have been here that long - you haven't got a pot belly." (in 1993, to a Briton in Budapest, Hungary)
• "Aren't most of you descended from pirates?" (in 1994, to an islander in the Cayman Islands)
• "You managed not to get eaten, then?" (in 1998, to a student who had been trekking in Papua New Guinea)
• "If it has got four legs and it is not a chair, if it has got two wings and it flies but is not an aeroplane, and if it swims and it is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it." (at a 1986 World Wildlife Fund meeting)

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