Phobia Words: “bacillophobia” to “brontephobia”,
Part 4 of 13
Words that include: phobo-, phob-, -phobia, -phobias,
-phobe, -phobiac, -phobist, -phobic, -phobism, -phobous
(Greek: fear, extreme fear of; morbid, excessive, irrational fear, or terror of something or someone; however, sometimes this Greek element means a strong dislike or hatred for something or someone)
bacillophobia:
A fear of germs or bacilli.
bacteriaphobia, bacteriophobia:
An abnormal fear of being in contact with germs or bacteria and such phobics usually have compulsions about hand washing and cleanliness.
ballistophobia, ballistrophobia:
An exaggerated fear of missiles or of being shot.
barophobia:
A fear of gravity or heaviness which is related to the fear of perceivable changes in air pressure.
basiphobia, basophobia:
In plants, an inability to adapt to alkaline soils; in humans, the inability to stand or walk for fear of falling.
basistasiphobia, basostasophobia:
An exaggerated fear of standing or walking that is related to the fear of falling, collapsing, and dieing.
bathmophobia, bathomophobia:
An overly intensive fear or hatred of walking.
bathophobia:
An excessive fear of depths or of descending into depths, such as when looking down into a well. Also, said by some to be a reference to an intense dislike of bathing.
bathysiderodromophobia:
A morbid fear of subways or any kind of similar situation that exists underground (including the North Sea Chunnel?).
batophobia:
An abnormal fear of passing or walking close to high objects, such as high buildings or tall trees; dread of heights. A compound of Greek batos, “passable,” a verbal adjective of bainein, “to go”. The association of Greek batos with “height” is apparently a result of a connection of this word with the second element in acrobat because acrobats are associated with the idea that they perform their arts high over ground levels. A much better name for this condition is hyposophobia.
batrachophobia:
A dread or aversion to frogs (and of toads and newts) and possibly to what is often perceived as “slimy things”.
belonephobia, belonophobia:
An exaggerated fear of pins and needles or of anything sharp.
bibliophobia:
An excessive fear of books either because of the embarrassment of one’s illiteracy or because they think books are too influential upon others.
blennophobia:
An excessive fear of slime.
blenophobia:
An abnormal fear of pins and needles.
bogyphobia:
A fear of demons, goblins, or spirits.
borborygamiphobia:
A fear that people will hear the rumbling, gurgling, etc. in the stomach or intestines that are produced by gas in the alimentary canal and that is audible at a distance. Some people are so afraid that others will hear these sounds that they become social phobics and avoid social situations where others may hear them.
botanophobia:
An abnormal or excessive fear of plants in general or of specific plants (such as poison ivy and poison oak?).
botophobia:
An excessive fear of cellars or basements.
bradycardiaphobia:
A fear that one’s heart is beating too slowly and that they may be close to death.
bromidrosiphobia, bromidrosophobia:
An abnormal fear of one’s own personal body odors or those from others; sometimes with the belief that such an odor is present even when it is not.
brontephobia, brontophobia; tonitrophobia:
An exaggerated fear of thunder and thunderstorms.