Saturday 28 June 2008

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.

Saturday 21 June 2008

Intelligence Test

Question 1. A hexagon has how many sides?
3 >>> Go to Statement A
6 >>> Go to Question 4
10 >>> Go to Statement A

Question 2. A quadruped has how many legs?
4 >>> Go to Question 5
6 >>> Go to Statement A
8 >>> Go to Statement A

Question 3. A cube has how many faces?
4 >>> Go to Statement A
5 >>> Go to Statement A
6 >>> Go to Question 1

Question 4. A tripod has how many legs?
3 >>> Go to question 2
9 >>> Go to Statement A
12 >>> Go to Statement A

Question 5. A deck of cards has how many suits?
3 >>> Go to Statement A
4 >>> Go to question 3
6 >>> Go to Statement A
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Statement A - Congratulations! You are the salt of the earth! It is a fact of life that
in order for someone to win a race someone has to lose, and this is your function in life.
This may seem harsh and cruel, but these words of wisdom may be some
consolation:

Eagles may soar, but weasels don’t get sucked into aircraft engines!

Statement B - Congratulations! The fact that you are reading this means that you have a
finely honed intellect and the ability to ’think outside the box’. You have passed
this test with flying colours and should ask your boss for a pay rise - You
deserve it!
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Note:

If one of your colleagues has been reading this for some time, you should tell him/her that
he/she has passed the test and should apply for the job of President of the United States.

Saturday 14 June 2008

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

Friday 6 June 2008

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)