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Phobia Words: “nebulaphobia” to “oxyphobous”,
Part 9 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)



nebulaphobia:
An abnormal fear of fog or clouds.
necrophobia:
An irrational dread of death and/or dead bodies or corpses.
nelophobia:
An excessive fear of glass.
neopharmaphobia:
An exaggerated fear of a new medicine (drugs).
neophobia:
An intense fear of novelty, new things, change, innovations, or unfamiliar things.
nephophobia:
An abnormal fear of clouds.
noctiphobia:
An irrational dread of night and its silence and darkness or of what might happen at night.
nomatophobia, onomatophobia:
An excessive fear of names.
nosemaphobia, nosophobia:
An exaggerated or excessive fear of contracting a disease or of becoming ill; such as, AIDS.
nosocomephobia:
An excessive fear of hospitals. There are those who fear that they will go into the hospital healthy and then need treatment for an infection contacted while they were there.
nostophobia:
An irrational fear of returning to one's home.
novercaphobia:
An exaggerated, irrational, or excessive fear or hatred of a stepmother.
nucleomitaphobia, nucleomitophobia:
An extreme fear of death by nuclear weapons.
nudiphobia, nudophobia:
An abnormal fear of nakedness or nudity.
numerophobia:
A fear of numbers or distress when having to use them.
nyctophobia, nyktosophobia:
An abnormal fear of darkness or night. Examples of this phobia include not going out at night and making sure that there are plenty of lights on in one’s residence.
obesophobia:
A fear of gaining weight.
ochlophobia, ochilophobia:
An abnormal fear of crowds or of being in crowded places.
ochophobia:
An irrational dread of vehicles.
ocrephobia:
A fear of being covered with gold paint (Gilt Complex?).
odontophobia:
A fear of teeth, especially those of animals.
odynephobia, odynophobia, odynesphobia:
An irrational fear of pain.
oecophobia, oikophobia:
A fear of home surroundings and certain items in the home (electrical, etc.).
oenophobia, oinophobia:
A fanatical fear of wine; hatred or extreme dislike of wine.
olfactophobia; osmophobia, osphresiophobia:
An extreme hatred or fear of having certain odors.
ombrophobia:
1. An excessive fear of rain.
2. In biology, intolerant of prolonged rain.
ommatophobia, ommetaphobia:
An exaggerated fear of eyes.
oneirogmophobia:
A fear of having wet dreams.
oneirophobia:
An intense fear of dreaming or of what they might mean.
onomatophobia, nomatophobia:
An irrational fear of a certain name or hearing a certain word or words because they may have special significance.
ophiciophobia, ophidiophobia, ophiophobia:
An excessive fear of snakes or other reptiles.
ophresiophobia:
An excessive fear of odors.
ophthalmophobia:
An abnormal fear of being stared at.
optophobia:
An exaggerated fear of opening one’s eyes.
ornithophobia:
An excessive fear of birds.
orthophobia:
An excessive dislike or fear of propriety or correct behavior.
osmophobia, ospheresiophobia; olfactophobia:
An irrational dread of certain odors.
osphresiophobia:
An extreme fear of bodily odors, either one’s own or that of others.
ostraconophobia:
An abnormal fear of shellfish.
ouranophobia:
An abnormal fear of heaven, thoughts related to heaven, or the sky.
oxyphobous, oxyphobe:
In biology, thriving in alkaline habitats; and so, intolerant of acidic conditions.