Crossword Reference

Phobias

Accidents: Dystychophobia
Air (and drafts): Aerophobia, airphobia, pneumatophobia
Airplanes: Aeronausiphobia
Amnesia: Amnesiphobia
Animals: Zoophobia
Animals, wild: Agrizoophobia
Ants: Myrmecophobia
Atomic energy (or nuclear weapons): Nucleomitophobia
Automobiles: Motorphobia, ochophobia
Automobiles (riding in): Amaxophobia
Bad men: Scelerophobia
Bald, becoming: Peladophobia, phalacrophobia
Bathing: Ablutophobia
Beards: Pogonophobia
Bed, going to: Clinophobia
Bees: Apiphobia, apiophobia, melissophobia
Birds: Ornithophobia
Blood: Hematophobia, hemaphobia, hemophobia
Blushing: Erythophobia, ereuthophobia
Books: Bibliophobia
Bound, being: Merinthophobia
Body odor: Bromidrosiphobia
Bridges, crossing: Gephyrophobia, gephydrophobia
Bulls: Taurophobia
Buried alive, bing: Taphephobia, taphophobia
Cancer: Carcinophobia, carcinomatophobia, cancerphobia, cancerophobia
Cats: Ailorphobia, aelurophobia, elurophobia, gatophobia, galeophobia, felinophobia
Celts: Celtophobia
Cemeteries: Coimetrophobia
Changes: Tropophobia
Chickens: Alektorophobia
Childbirth: Maieusiophobia, tocophobia
Children: Pediophobia
China (or the Chinese): Sinophobia
Chins: Geniophobia
Choking (or smothering): Pnigophobia, pnigerophobia
Church: Ecclesiophobia
Clergymen: Hierophobia
Closed spaces: Claustrophobia, cleisiophobia, cleithrophobia, clithrophobia
Clothing: Vestiophobia
Clouds: Nephophobia
Cold: Cheimaphobia, cheimatophobia, psychrophobia, frigophobia
Colors: Chromophobia, chromatophobia
Comets: Cometophobia
Constipation: Coprostasophobia
Contamination: Misophobia, mysophobia, molysmophobia, molysomophobia
Corpses: Necrophobia
Crowds: Ochlophobia, demophobia, enochlophobia
Crucifixes: Staurophobia
Cyclones: Anemophobia
Dampness: Hygrophobia
Dancing: Chorophobia
Darkness: Achluophobia, scotophobia, lygophobia, myctophobia
Dawn: Eosophobia
Death: Thanatophobia
Decaying matter: Septophobia
Decisions, making: Decidophobia
Defecation (painful): Defecalgesiophobia
Deformity: Dysmorphophobia
Demons, spirits, goblins, etc.: Demonophobia, daemonophobia, bogyphobia
Depth: Bathophobia
Dining (or dinner conversation): Deipnophobia
Dirty, being: Automysophobia
Disease: Nosophobia, pathophobia, panthophobia, nephophobia
Disorder: Ataxiophobia, ataxophobia
Dizziness: Dinophobia
Doctors: Iatrophobia
Dogs (or rabies): Cynophobia, kynophobia
Dolls (or infants): Pedophobia, paedophobia
Double vision: Diplopiaphobia
Drink (alcoholic): Potophobia, dipsophobia, alcoholophobia, dipsomanophobia
Drugs (medicinal): Pharmacophobia
Dryness (and dry places): Xerophobia
Dust: Amathophobia, koniophobia
Eating: Phagophobia
Electricity: Electrophobia
England (or the English): Anglophobia
Everything: Pantophobia, panophobia, panphobia, pamphobia
Excrement: Coprophobia, scatophobia
Eyes: Ommatophobia, ommetaphobia
Eyes, opening one's: Optophobia
Failure: Kakorrhaphiophobia, kakorraphiaphobia, atychiphobia
Fatigue: Ponophobia, kopophobia
Fearing: Phobophobia
Feathers: Pteronophobia
Fever: Febriphobia, pyrexeophobia, pyrexiophobia
Filth: Rhypophobia, rypophobia, rupophobia
Fire: Pyrophobia, arsonophobia
Fish: Ichthyophobia
Flashes: Selaphobia
Flogging: Mastigophobia
Floods: Antlophobia
Flowers: Anthophobia
Flutes: Aulophobia, autophobia
Flying: Aviatophobia
Fog: Homichlophobia, nebulaphobia
Food: Sitophobia, sitiophobia, cibophobia
Foreigners (or strangers): Xenophobia
Forests (or wood): Hylephobia, hylophobia, ylophobia, xylophobia
France (or the French): Francophobia, Gallophobia
Freedom: Eleutherophobia
Frogs (and toads): Batrachophobia
Fur: Doraphobia
Gaiety: Cherophobia
Garlic: Alliumphobia
Genitals, female: Kolpophobia, eurotophobia
Genitals, male: Phallophobia
Germany (or Germans): Germanophobia, Teutophobia, Teutonophobia
Germs: Bacillophobia, bacteriophobia
Ghosts: Phasmophobia
Glass: Crystallophobia, hyalophobia, hyelophobia, nelophobia
Glass bottoms: Hyalinopygophobia
God: Theophobia
Gold: Aurophobia
Good news: Euphobia
Gravity: Barophobia
Greece (or the Greeks): Grecophobia
Growing old: Gerascophobia
Hair: Trichophobia, chaetophobia
Hair disease: Trichopathophobia
Heart attack: Anginophobia
Heart disease: Cardiophobia
Heat: Thermophobia
Heaven: Uranophobia, ouranophobia
Heights: Acrophobia, altophobia, hypsophobia, hypsiphobia
Hell: Hadephobia, stygiophobia
Hereditary disease: Patroiophobia
High places, looking up at: Anablepophobia
Holy things: Hagiophobia, hierophobia
Home: Ecophobia, oecophobia, oikophobia, domatophobia
Home, returning to: Nostophobia
Homosexuals: Homophobia
Horses: Hippophobia
Hospitals: Nosocomephobia
Hurricanes: Lilapsophobia
Ice: Cryophobia
Ideas: Ideophobia
Imperfection: Atelophobia
Infants: Pedophobia, paedophobia
Infinity: Apeirophobia
Injury: Traumatophobia
Insanity: Maniaphobia, lyssophobia
Insects: Entomophobia
Insect stings: Cnidophobia
Itching: Acarophobia
Jealousy: Zelophobia
Jews: Judophobia, Jaudaeophobia, Judeophobia
Jumping (from low or high places): Catapedaphobia
Justice: Dikephobia
Kidney disease: Albuminurophobia
Kissing: Philemaphobia, philematophobia
Knives (and other sharp instruments): Aichmophobia
Lakes: Limnophobia
Large objects: Megalophobia
Laughter: Gelophobia
Learning: Sophophobia
Left (things to the left): Levophobia, sinistrophobia
Lice: Pediculophobia, phthiriophobia
Light: Photophobia
Lightning: Astraphobia, astrapophobia
Love: Philophobia
Love-play: Sarmassophobia, malaxophobia
Machinery: Mechanophobia
Magic: Rhabdophobia
Many things: Polyphobia
Marriage: Gamophobia, gametophobia
Meat: Carnophobia
Men: Androphobia, arrhenophobia
Menstruation: Menophobia
Meteors (and meteorites): Meteorophobia
Mice: Musophobia, muriphobia
Mind: Psychophobia
Mirrors: Catoptrophobia, eisoptrophobia, spectrophobia
Monotony: Homophobia
Monsters (or giving birth to a monster): Teratophobia
Moon: Selenophobia
Mother-in-law: Pentheraphobia
Motion: Kinesophobia, kinetophobia
Music: Musicophobia, melophobia
Narrow places: Stenophobia
Neglect of a duty: Paralipophobia
Night: Noctiphobia, nyctophobia
Noise: Acoustiphobia, ligyrophobia
Northen Lights: Auroraphobia
Nuclear weapons (or atomic energy): Nucleomitophobia
Nudity: Gymnophobia, nudophobia, nudiphobia
Numbers: Arithmophobia
Novelty: Kainophobia, cainophobia, kaintotophobia, cainotophobia
Odors: Olfactophobia, osmophobia, osphresiophobia, ophresiophobia
Open spaces: Agoraphobia, cenophobia, kenophobia
Opinions (others'): Allodoxaphobia
Opposite sex: Sexophobia
Pain: Algophobia, odynophobia
Paper: Papyrophobia
Parasites: Parasitophobia
Parents-in-law: Soceraphobia
Peanut butter sticking to the roof of one's mouth: Arachibutyrophobia
People: Anthropophobia
Performing (stage fright): Topophobia
Pins and needles: Belonephobia, enetophobia
Plants: Botanophobia
Pleasure: Hedonophobia
Poetry: Metrophobia
Poison: Toxiphobia, toxophobia, toxicophobia, iophobia
Politicians: Politicophobia
Pope (or the Papacy): Papaphobia
Poverty: Peniaphobia
Precipices: Cremnophobia
Progress: Prosophobia
Propriety: Orthophobia
Prostitutes: Cyprianophobia
Punishment: Poinephobia
Purple: Porphyrophobia
Railroads: Siderodromophobia
Rain: Ombrophobia, pluviophobia
Rape: Virgivitiphobia
Red (or blushing): Erythrophobia, ereuthrophobia
Relatives: Syngenesophobia
Religious ceremonies: Teletophobia
Reptiles: Batrachophobia
Responsibility: Hypengyophobia, hypegiaphobia
Ridicule: Catagelophobia, katagelophobia
Right (things to the right): Dextrophobia
Rivers: Potamophobia
Rods, being beaten with: Rhabdophobia
Ruin: Atephobia
Russia (or Russians): Russophobia
Rust: Lophobia
Scratched, being: Amychophobia
Sea: Thalassophobia
Semen: Spermatophobia, spermophobia
Sermons: Homilophobia
Sexual abuse: Agraphobia, contrectophobia
Sexual intercourse: Coitophobia, genophobia, erotophobia
Shadows: Sciophobia, sciaphobia
Sharp objects: Aichmophobia
Shellfish: Ostraconophobia
Shock: Hormephobia
Shot, being: Ballistophobia
Sin (or sinning): Hamartophobia, harmatophobia, enissophobia, enosiophobia, peccatiphobia, peccatophobia
Sitting: Thaassophobia, kathisophobia, cathisophobia
Sleep: Hypnophobia
Slime: Blennophobia, myxophobia
Small objects: Microphobia, tapinophobia
Smothering (or choking): Pnigophobia, pnigerophobia
Snakes: Ophidiophobia, ophiophobia, ophiciophobia, herpetophobia
Snow: Chionophobia
Society: Sociophobia
Solitude: Autophobia, eremiophobia, eremophobia, ermitophobia, monophobia, isolophobia
Sourness: Acerophobia, acerbophobia
Speed: Tachophobia
Spiders: Arachnophobia
Stairs: Climacophobia
Standing: Stasiphobia, stasophobia
Stared at, being: Scopophobia, scoptophobia, ophthalmophobia
Stars: Astrophobia, siderophobia
Staying single: Anuptaphobia
Stepfather: Vitricophobia
Stepmother: Novercaphobia
Strangers (or foreigners): Xenophobia
Streets: Agyiophobia, agyrophobia
Streets, crossing: Dromophobia
String: Linonophobia
Stuttering: Psellismophobia
Sunlight: Heliophobia, phengophobia
Surgery: Tomophobia
Symmetry: Symmetrophobia
Talking: Glossophobia, phonophobia, laliophobia, lalophobia
Tapeworms: Taeniophobia, teniophobia
Tastes, unfamiliar: Geumophobia, geumaphobia, geumatophobia
Technology: Technophobia
Teeth: Odontophobia
Termites: Isopterophobia
Theatres: Theatrophobia
Thieves: Kleptophobia, cleptophobia, harpaxophobia
Thinking: Phronemophobia
Thirteen: Terdekaphobia, tridecaphobia, triskaidekaphobia
Thunder: Brontophobia, brontephobia, tonitrophobia, tonitruphobia
Thunder and lightning: Keraunophobia, ceraunophobia
Time: Chronophobia
Toads (and frogs): Batrachophobia
Tombstones: Placophobia
Tornadoes: Lilapsophobia
Touched, being: Haphephobia, aphephobia, haptephobia, haptophobia, hapnophobia, thixophobia
Travel: Hodophobia
Trees: Dendrophobia
Trembling: Tremophobia
Undressing in front of someone: Dishabillophobia
Urinating: Urophobia
Vegetables: Lachanophobia
Virginity, losing one's: Primeisodophobia, esodophobia
Virgins: Parthenophobia
Void: Kenophobia
Vomiting: Emetophobia
Waits, long: Macrophobia
Walking: Basiphobia, basophobia, bathmophobia, ambulophobia
Wasps: Spheksophobia
Water: Hydrophobia, aquaphobia
Waves: Cymophobia
Weakness: Asthenophobia
Wealth: Chrematophobia, chrometophobia
Weight, gaining: Obesophobia, pocrescophobia
Whirlpools: Dinophobia
Wind: Anemophobia, anemiaphobia, ancraophobia
Wine: Oenophobia, oinophobia
Women: Gynephobia, gynophobia, feminophobia
Women, beautiful: Venustaphobia
Words: Logophobia, verbophobia
Work: Ergasiophobia, ergophobia
Worms: Vermiphobia, scoleciphobia
Worms, being infested with: Helminthophobia
Wrinkles, getting: Rhytiphobia
Writing: Graphophobia
X-rays: Radiophobia
Young girls: Parthenophobia

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