The Greek Alphabet

Greek Greek English Name Upper Case Lower Case Equivalent

Alpha A a a Beta B b b Gamma G g g Delta D d d

Epsilon E e e Zeta Z z dz Eta H h long “a” Theta Q q th

Iota I i i Kappa K k k Lambda L l l Mu M m m

Nu N n n Xi C c x Omicron O o o Pi P p p

Rho R r r Sigma S s s Tau T t t Upsilon U u u

Phi F f f Chi X x hard “ch” Psi Y y ps Omega W w long “o”

The Greek Alphabet

Name Greek Use in Mathematics Letter

Alpha A a Beta B b Gamma G g Delta D d

Epsilon E e Zeta Z z Eta H h Theta Q q

Iota I i Kappa K k Lambda L l Mu M m

Nu N n Xi C c Omicron O o Pi P p

Rho R r Sigma S s Tau T t Upsilon U u

Phi F f Chi X x Psi Y y Omega W w

English Derivations from Greek Words

Fill in English words you can think of that are derived from the Greek words. Try to think of words with letters or sounds similar to those in the Greek words that also have meanings similar to those of the Greek words. Score one point for each English word you can put in the last column, with a limit of 2 points per Greek word (total possible points = 28). A good score is 10 or higher.

Greek Word Pronunciation Meaning English Words a]kou

* The Greek upsilon (“u”) is generally transliterated into English as a “y”. English Derivations from Greek Words

Fill in English words you can think of that are derived from the Greek words. Try to think of words with letters or sounds similar to those in the Greek words that also have meanings similar to those of the Greek words. Score one point for each English word you can put in the last column, with a limit of 2 points per Greek word (total possible points = 28). A good score is 10 or higher.

Greek Word Pronunciation Meaning English Words a]kou

* The Greek upsilon (“u”) is generally transliterated into English as a “y”.

PHOBIAS

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13, number ‐ Triskadekaphobia. Body odors ‐ Osmophobia or Osphresiophobia 8, number ‐ Octophobia. Body, things to the left side of the body ‐ Levophobia Body, things to the right side of the body ‐ Dextrophobia A ‐ Bogeyman ‐ Bogyphobia. Accidents ‐ Dystychiphobia. Bolsheviks ‐ Bolshephobia. Air ‐ Anemophobia. Books ‐ Bibliophobia. Air swallowing ‐ Aerophobia. Bound or tied up ‐ Merinthophobia. Airborne noxious substances ‐ Aerophobia. Bowel movements: painful ‐ Defecaloesiophobia. Airsickness ‐ Aeronausiphobia. Brain disease ‐ Meningitophobia. Alcohol ‐ Methyphobia or Potophobia. Bridges or of crossing them ‐ Gephyrophobia. Alone, being ‐ Autophobia or Monophobia. Buildings: being close to high buildings ‐ Batophobia. Alone, being or solitude ‐ Isolophobia. Bullets ‐ Ballistophobia. Amnesia ‐ Amnesiphobia. Bulls ‐ Taurophobia. Anger ‐ Cholerophobia. Bums or beggars ‐ Hobophobia. Angina ‐ Anginophobia. Burglars, or being harmed by wicked persons ‐ Scelerophobia. Animals ‐ Zoophobia. Buried alive, being or cemeteries ‐ Taphephobia or Taphophobia. Animals, skins of or fur ‐ Doraphobia. Animals, wild ‐ Agrizoophobia. C ‐ Ants ‐ Myrmecophobia. Cancer ‐ Cancerophobia, Carcinophobia. Anything new ‐ Neophobia. Car or vehicle, riding in ‐ Amaxophobia. Asymmetrical things ‐ Asymmetriphobia Cats ‐ Aclurophobia, Ailurophobia, Elurophobia, Felinophobia, Atomic Explosions ‐ Atomosophobia. Galeophobia, or Gatophobia. Automobile, being in a moving ‐ Ochophobia. Celestial spaces ‐ Astrophobia. Automobiles ‐ Motorphobia. Cemeteries ‐ Coimetrophobia. Cemeteries or being buried alive ‐ Taphephobia or Taphophobia. B ‐ Ceremonies, religious ‐ Teleophobia. Bacteria ‐ Bacteriophobia. Changes, making; moving ‐ Tropophobia or Metathesiophobia Bald people ‐ Peladophobia. Chickens ‐ Alektorophobia. Bald, becoming ‐ Phalacrophobia. Child, bearing a deformed; deformed people ‐ Teratophobia. Bathing ‐ Ablutophobia. Childbirth ‐ Maleusiophobia, Tocophobia, Parturiphobia, or Lockiophobia Beards ‐ Pogonophobia. Children ‐ Pedophobia. Beaten by a rod or instrument of punishment, or of being severely Chinese or Chinese culture ‐ Sinophobia. criticized ‐ Rhabdophobia. Chins ‐ Geniophobia. Beautiful women ‐ Caligynephobia. Choking or being smothered ‐ Pnigophobia or Pnigerophobia Beds or going to bed ‐ Clinophobia. Choking ‐ Anginophobia. Bees ‐ Apiphobia or Melissophobia. Cholera ‐ Chorophobia. Bicycles ‐ Cyclophobia. Church ‐ Ecclesiophobia. Birds ‐ Ornithophobia. Clocks ‐ Chronomentrophobia. Black ‐ Melanophobia. Clocks or time ‐ Chronophobia. Blindness in a visual field ‐ Scotomaphobia. Clothing ‐ Vestiphobia. Blood ‐ Hemophobia, Hemaphobia or Hematophobia. Clouds ‐ Nephophobia. Blushing or the color red ‐ Erythrophobia, Erytophobia or Ereuthophobia Clowns ‐ Coulrophobia.

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Cold or cold things ‐ Frigophobia. Demons ‐ Demonophobia or Daemonophobia. Cold: extreme, ice or frost ‐ Cryophobia. Dental surgery ‐ Odontophobia. Cold ‐ Cheimaphobia, Cheimatophobia, Psychrophobia or Psychropophobia Dentists ‐ Dentophobia. Color purple ‐ Porphyrophobia. Dependence on others ‐ Soteriophobia. Color red or blushing ‐ Erythrophobia, Erytophobia or Ereuthophobia Depth ‐ Bathophobia. Color yellow ‐ Xanthophobia. Diabetes ‐ Diabetophobia. Color white ‐ Leukophobia. Dining or dinner conservations ‐ Delpnophobia. Colors ‐ Chromophobia or Chromatophobia. Dirt, contamination or infection ‐ Molysmophobia or Molysomophobia Comets ‐ Cometophobia. Dirt or germs, being contaminated with ‐ Misophobia or mysophobia Computers or working on computers ‐ Cyberphobia. Dirt or filth ‐ Rhypophobia or Rupophobia. Confined spaces ‐ Claustrophobia. Dirty, being dirty or personal filth ‐ Automysophobia. Constipation ‐ Coprastasophobia. Disease ‐ Nosophobia, Nosemaphobia or Pathophobia. Contamination, dirt or infection ‐ Molysmophobia or Molysomophobia Disease and suffering ‐ Panthophobia. Contamination with dirt or germs ‐ Misophobia or Mysophobia Disease, a definite ‐ Monopathophobia. Cooking ‐ Mageirocophobia. Disease, brain ‐ Meningitophobia. Corpses ‐ Necrophobia. Disease: kidney ‐ Albuminurophobia. Cosmic Phenomenon ‐ Kosmikophobia. Disease, rectal ‐ Rectophobia. Creepy, crawly things ‐ Herpetophobia. Dizziness or vertigo when looking down ‐ Illyngophobia. Criticized severely, or beaten by rod or instrument of punishment ‐ Rhabdophobia Dizziness or whirlpools ‐ Dinophobia. Criticism ‐ Enissophobia. Doctor, going to the ‐ Iatrophobia. Crosses or the crucifix ‐ Staurophobia. Doctrine, challeges to or radical deviation from official ‐ Heresyphobia or Crossing streets ‐ Agyrophobia or Dromophobia. Hereiophobia. Crowded public places like markets ‐ Agoraphobia. Dogs or rabies ‐ Cynophobia. Crowds or mobs ‐ Enochlophobia, Demophobia or Ochlophobia Dolls ‐ Pediophobia. Crucifix, the or crosses ‐ Staurophobia. Double vision ‐ Diplophobia. Crystals or glass ‐ Crystallophobia. Drafts ‐ Aerophobia or Anemophobia. Dreams ‐ Oneirophobia. D ‐ Drinking ‐ Dipsophobia. Dampness, moisture or liquids ‐ Hygrophobia. Drugs, new ‐ Neopharmaphobia. Dancing ‐ Chorophobia. Drugs or taking medicine ‐ Pharmacophobia. Dark or night ‐ Nyctophobia. Dryness ‐ Xerophobia. Dark place, being in ‐ Lygophobia. Dust ‐ Amathophobia or Koniophobia. Darkness ‐ Achluophobia or Myctophobia, or Scotophobia Duty or responsibility, neglecting ‐ Paralipophobia. Dawn or daylight ‐ Eosophobia. Dying or death ‐ Thanatophobia. Daylight or sunshine ‐ Phengophobia. Death or dying ‐ Thanatophobia. E ‐ Death or dead things ‐ Necrophobia. Eating or swallowing ‐ Phagophobia. Decaying matter ‐ Seplophobia. Eating or food ‐ Sitophobia or Sitiophobia. Decisions: making decisions ‐ Decidophobia. Eating or swallowing or of being eaten ‐ Phagophobia. Defeat ‐ Kakorrhaphiophobia. Eight, the number ‐ Octophobia. Deformed people or bearing a deformed child ‐ Teratophobia. Electricity ‐ Electrophobia. Deformity or unattractive body image ‐ Dysmorphophobia. Englishness ‐ Anglophobia.

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Everything ‐ Panophobia, Panphobia, Pamphobia, or Pantophobia Germs or dirt, being contaminated with ‐ Misophobia or mysophobia Eyes ‐ Ommetaphobia or Ommatophobia. Germs ‐ Verminophobia. Eyes, opening one's ‐ Optophobia.. Ghosts or specters ‐ Spectrophobia. Ghosts ‐ Phasmophobia. F ‐ Glass or crystals ‐ Crystallophobia. Fabrics, certain ‐ Textophobia. Glass ‐ Hyelophobia, Hyalophobia or Nelophobia. Failure ‐ Atychiphobia or Kakorrhaphiophobia. Gloomy place, being in ‐ Lygophobia. Fainting ‐ Asthenophobia. God or gods ‐ Zeusophobia. Fatigue ‐ Kopophobia. Gods or religion ‐ Theophobia. Fearful situations: being preferred by a phobic ‐ Counterphobia Gold ‐ Aurophobia. Feathers or being tickled by feathers ‐ Pteronophobia. Good news, hearing good news ‐ Euphobia. Fecal matter, feces ‐ Coprophobia or Scatophobia. Gravity ‐ Barophobia. Fever ‐ Febriphobia, Fibriphobia, Fidriophobia or Pyrexiophobia. Greek or Greek culture ‐ Hellophobia. Filth or dirt ‐ Rhypophobia. Greek terms ‐ Hellenologophobia. Fire ‐ Arsonphobia or Pyrophobia. Firearms ‐ Hoplophobia. H ‐ Fish ‐ Ichthyophobia. Hair ‐ Chaetophobia, Trichopathophobia, Trichophobia, or Hypertrichophobia Flogging or punishment ‐ Mastigophobia. Halloween ‐ Samhainophobia. Floods ‐ Antlophobia. Handwriting ‐ Graphophobia. Flowers ‐ Anthrophobia or Anthophobia. Harmed by wicked persons; bad men or burglars ‐ Scelerophobia. Flutes ‐ Aulophobia. Heart ‐ Cardiophobia. Flying ‐ Aviophobia or Aviatophobia or Pteromerhanophobia. Heat ‐ Thermophobia. Fog ‐ Homichlophobia or Nebulaphobia. Heaven ‐ Ouranophobia or Uranophobia. Food or eating ‐ Sitophobia or Sitiophobia. Heights ‐ Acrophobia, Altophobia, Batophobia, Hypsiphobia or Hyposophobia Food ‐ Cibophobia. Hell ‐ Hadephobia, Stygiophobia or Stigiophobia. Foreigners or strangers ‐ Xenophobia. Heredity ‐ Patroiophobia. Forests or wooden objects ‐ Xylophobia. Holy things ‐ Hagiophobia. Forests ‐ Hylophobia. Home ‐ Ecophobia. Forests, dark wooded area, of at night ‐ Nyctohylophobia Home surroundings or a house ‐ Oikophobia. Forgetting or being forgotten ‐ Athazagoraphobia. Home, returning ‐ Nostophobia. France or French culture ‐ Francophobia, Gallophobia or Galiphobia. Home surroundings ‐ Eicophobia. Freedom ‐ Eleutherophobia. Horses ‐ Equinophobia or Hippophobia. Friday the 13th ‐ Paraskavedekatriaphobia. Hospitals ‐ Nosocomephobia. Frogs ‐ Batrachophobia. House or home surroundings ‐ Oikophobia. Frost, ice or extreme cold ‐ Cryophobia. Houses or being in a house ‐ Domatophobia. Frost or ice ‐ Pagophobia. Hurricanes and tornadoes ‐ Lilapsophobia. Functioning or work: surgeon's fear of operating ‐ Ergasiophobia. Hypnotized, being or of sleep ‐ Hypnophobia. Fur or skins of animals ‐ Doraphobia. I ‐ G ‐ Ice or frost ‐ Pagophobia. Garlic ‐ Alliumphobia. Ice, frost or extreme cold ‐ Cryophobia. Germans or German culture ‐ Germanophobia or Teutophobia. Ideas ‐ Ideophobia.

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Ignored, being ‐ Athazagoraphobia. Locked in an enclosed place ‐ Cleithrophobia, Cleisiophobia, or Clithrophobia Imperfection ‐ Atelophobia. Lockjaw or tetanus ‐ Tetanophobia. Inability to stand ‐ Basiphobia or Basophobia. Loneliness or of being oneself ‐ Eremophobia or Eremiphobia. Infection, contamination or dirt ‐ Molysmophobia or Molysomophobia Looking up ‐ Anablephobia or Anablepophobia. Infinity ‐ Apeirophobia. Loud noises ‐ Ligyrophobia. Injections ‐ Trypanophobia. Love, falling or being in ‐ Philophobia. Injury ‐ Traumatophobia. Insanity, dealing with ‐ Lyssophobia. M ‐ Insanity ‐ Dementophobia or Maniaphobia. Machines ‐ Mechanophobia. Insects ‐ Acarophobia or Entomophobia or Insectophobia. Mad, becoming ‐ Lyssophobia. Insects that eat wood ‐ Isopterophobia. Many things ‐ Polyphobia. Insects that cause itching ‐ Acarophobia. Marriage ‐ Gamophobia. Itching ‐ Acarophobia. Materialism ‐ Hylephobia. Matter, decaying ‐ Seplophobia. J ‐ Meat ‐ Carnophobia. Japanese or Japanese culture ‐ Japanophobia. Medicine, taking; or drugs ‐ Pharmacophobia. Jealousy ‐ Zelophobia. Medicines, mercurial ‐ Hydrargyophobia. Jews ‐ Judeophobia. Memories ‐ Mnemophobia. Joint immobility ‐ Ankylophobia. Men, bad or burglars or being harmed by wicked persons ‐ Scelerophobia Jumping from high and low places ‐ Catapedaphobia. Men ‐ Androphobia or Arrhenphobia or Hominophobia. Justice ‐ Dikephobia. Mercurial medicines ‐ Hydrargyophobia. Metal ‐ Metallophobia. K ‐ Meteors ‐ Meteorophobia. Kidney disease ‐ Albuminurophobia. Mice ‐ Musophobia, Murophobia or Suriphobia. Kissing ‐ Philemaphobia or Philematophobia. Microbes ‐ Bacillophobia or Microbiophobia. Knees ‐ Genuphobia. Mind ‐ Psychophobia. Knowledge ‐ Gnosiophobia or Epistemophobia. Mirrors or seeing oneself in a mirror ‐ Eisoptrophobia. Mirrors ‐ Catoptrophobia. L ‐ Missles ‐ Ballistophobia. Lakes ‐ Limnophobia. Mobs or crowds ‐ Demophobia, Enochlophobia or Ochlophobia Large things ‐ Megalophobia. Moisture, dampness or liquids ‐ Hygrophobia. Laughter ‐ Geliophobia. Money ‐ Chrometophobia or Chrematophobia. Lawsuits ‐ Liticaphobia. Moon ‐ Selenophobia. Learning ‐ Sophophobia. Mother ‐in ‐law ‐ Pentheraphobia. Left ‐handed; objects at the left side of the body ‐ Sinistrophobia Moths ‐ Mottephobia. Leprosy ‐ Leprophobia or Lepraphobia. Motion or movement ‐ Kinetophobia or Kinesophobia Lice ‐ Pediculophobia or Phthiriophobia. Moving or making changes ‐ Tropophobia. Light ‐ Photophobia. Moving automobile or vehicle, being in ‐ Ochophobia. Light flashes ‐ Selaphobia. Muscular incoordination (Ataxia) ‐ Ataxiophobia. Lightning and thunder ‐ Brontophobia or Karaunophobia Mushrooms ‐ Mycophobia. Lights, glaring ‐ Photoaugliaphobia. Music ‐ Melophobia. Liquids, dampness or moisture ‐ Hygrophobia. Myths or stories or false statements ‐ Mythophobia

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N ‐ P ‐ Names or hearing a certain name ‐ Onomatophobia. Pain ‐ Algiophobia, Ponophobia, Odynophobia or Odynephobia Names ‐ Nomatophobia. Paper ‐ Papyrophobia. Narrow things or places ‐ Stenophobia. Parasites ‐ Parasitophobia. Narrowness ‐ Anginophobia. Parents ‐in ‐law ‐ Soceraphobia. Needles ‐ Aichmophobia or Belonephobia. Peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth ‐ Arachibutyrophobia New, anything or novel ‐ Kainophobia, Kainolophobia, People ‐ Anthropophobia. Cenophobia, Centophobia, or Neophobia. People in general or society ‐ Sociophobia. Newness ‐ Cainophobia, Cenophobia, Centophobia, or Cainotophobia People, deformed or bearing a deformed child ‐ Teratophobia. News: hearing good news ‐ Euphobia. Philosophy ‐ Philsosphobia. Night or dark ‐ Nyctophobia. Phobias ‐ Phobophobia. Night ‐ Noctiphobia. Phobic prefering fearful situations ‐ Counterphobia. Noise ‐ Acousticophobia. Pins and needles ‐ Belonephobia. Noises, loud ‐ Ligyrophobia. Pins ‐ Enetophobia. Noises or voices, speaking aloud, or telephones ‐ Phonophobia Place: locked in an enclosed place ‐ Cleithrophobia, Cleisiophobia, or Northern lights ‐ Auroraphobia. Clithrophobia. Nosebleeds ‐ Epistaxiophobia. Place, being in a dark or gloomy ‐ Lygophobia. Novelty or anything new ‐ Kainophobia or Kainolophobia. Places, certain ‐ Topophobia. Novelty ‐ Cainophobia or Cainotophobia. Places, crowded public ‐ Agoraphobia. Nuclear weapons ‐ Nucleomituphobia. Places, open high ‐ Aeroacrophobia. Numbers ‐ Arithmophobia or Numerophobia. Places or things, narrow ‐ Stenophobia. Plants ‐ Botonophobia. O ‐ Pleasure, feeling ‐ Hedonophobia. Objects, small ‐ Tapinophobia. Poetry ‐ Metrophobia. Ocean or sea ‐ Thalassophobia. Pointed objects ‐ Aichmophobia. Odor, personal ‐ Bromidrosiphobia, Bromidrophobia, Osmophobia or Poison ‐ Iophobia. Osphresiophobia. Poisoned, being ‐ Toxiphobia, Toxophobia, or Toxicophobia. Odor, that one has a vile odor ‐ Autodysomophobia Poliomyelitis, contracting ‐ Poliosophobia. Odors or smells ‐ Olfactophobia. Politicians ‐ Politicophobia. Official doctrine, challeges to or radical deviation from ‐ Heresyphobia or Pope ‐ Papaphobia. Hereiophobia. Poverty ‐ Peniaphobia. Old people ‐ Gerontophobia. Precipices ‐ Cremnophobia. Old, growing ‐ Gerascophobia or Gerontophobia. Priests or sacred things ‐ Hierophobia. Open spaces ‐ Agoraphobia. Progress ‐ Prosophobia. Open high places ‐ Aeroacrophobia. Property ‐ Orthophobia. Operation, surgical ‐ Tomophobia. Punishment or flogging ‐ Mastigophobia. Opinions ‐ Allodoxaphobia. Punishment by a rod or other instrument, or of being severely criticized ‐ Others, dependence on ‐ Soteriophobia. Rhabdophobia. Otters ‐ Lutraphobia. Punishment ‐ Poinephobia. Outer space ‐ Spacephobia. Puppets ‐ Pupaphobia. Purple, color ‐ Porphyrophobia.

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R ‐ Sermons ‐ Homilophobia. Rabies ‐ Cynophobia, Hydrophobophobia, Hydrophobia, Kynophobia, or Shadows ‐ Sciophobia or Sciaphobia. Lyssophobia. Shellfish ‐ Ostraconophobia. Radiation or x ‐rays ‐ Radiophobia. Shock ‐ Hormephobia. Railroads or train travel ‐ Siderodromophobia. Sin or of having committted an unpardonable sin ‐ Enosiophobia or Enissophobia Rain ‐ Ombrophobia or Pluviophobia. Sin ‐ Hamartophobia. Rat, great mole ‐ Zemmiphobia. Single: staying single ‐ Anuptaphobia. Red color or blushing ‐ Erythrophobia, Erytophobia or Ereuthophobia Sinning ‐ Peccatophobia. Relatives ‐ Syngenesophobia. Sitting down ‐ Kathisophobia. Religion or gods ‐ Theophobia. Sitting ‐ Cathisophobia or Thaasophobia. Religious ceremonies ‐ Teleophobia. Situations, certain ‐ Topophobia. Reptiles ‐ Herpetophobia. Skin disease ‐ Dermatosiophobia. Responsibility or duty, neglecting ‐ Paralipophobia. Skin lesions ‐ Dermatophobia. Responsibility ‐ Hypengyophobia or Hypegiaphobia. Skin of animals, fur ‐ Doraphobia. Ridiculed, being ‐ Catagelophobia or Katagelophobia. Sleep ‐ Somniphobia. Riding in a car ‐ Amaxophobia. Sleep or being hypnotized ‐ Hypnophobia. Right side, things on the right side of the body ‐ Dextrophobia Slime ‐ Blennophobia or Myxophobia. Rivers ‐ Potamphobia or Potamophobia. Small things ‐ Microphobia, Mycrophobia or Tapinophobia. Road travel or travel ‐ Hodophobia. Smells or odors ‐ Olfactophobia. Robbers or being robbed ‐ Harpaxophobia. Smothered, being or choking ‐ Pnigophobia or Pnigerophobia Rooms, empty ‐ Cenophobia or Centophobia Snakes ‐ Ophidiophobia or Snakephobia. Rooms ‐ Koinoniphobia. Snow ‐ Chionophobia. Ruin ‐ Atephobia. Social (fear of being evaluated negatively in social situations) ‐ Social Phobia Running water ‐ Potamophobia. Society or people in general ‐ Anthropophobia or Sociophobia Russians ‐ Russophobia. Solitude ‐ Monophobia. Sounds ‐ Acousticophobia. S ‐ Sourness ‐ Acerophobia. Sacred things or priests ‐ Hierophobia. Space, closed or locked in an enclosed space ‐ Cleithrophobia, Satan ‐ Satanophobia. Cleisiophobia, Clithrophobia. School, going to school ‐ Didaskaleinophobia. Space, outer ‐ Spacephobia. School ‐ Scolionophobia. Spaces, confined ‐ Claustrophobia. Scientific terminology, complex ‐ Hellenologophobia. Spaces, empty ‐ Cenophobia, Centophobia or Kenophobia Scratches or being scratched ‐ Amychophobia. Spaces, open ‐ Agoraphobia. Sea or ocean ‐ Thalassophobia. Speak, trying to ‐ Glossophobia. Self, seeing oneself in a mirror ‐ Eisoptrophobia. Speaking ‐ Laliophobia or Lalophobia. Self, personal odor ‐ Bromidrosiphobia or Bromidrophobia. Speaking aloud, voices or noises, or telephones ‐ Phonophobia Self, being alone ‐ Autophobia, Eremophobia, Eremiphobia or Isolophobia Speaking in public ‐ Glossophobia. Self, being dirty ‐ Automysophobia. Specters or ghosts ‐ Spectrophobia. Self, being oneself ‐ Autophobia. Speed ‐ Tachophobia. Self, being seen or looked at ‐ Scopophobia or Scoptophobia Spiders ‐ Arachnephobia or Arachnophobia. Self, being touched ‐ Aphenphosmphobia. Spirits ‐ Pneumatiphobia. Self, that one has a vile odor ‐ Autodysomophobia Stage fright ‐ Topophobia.

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Stairs or climbing stairs ‐ Climacophobia. Theaters ‐ Theatrophobia. Stand, inability to ‐ Basiphobia or Basophobia. Theology ‐ Theologicophobia. Standing upright ‐ Basistasiphobia or Basostasophobia Things, many ‐ Polyphobia. Standing up ‐ Stasiphobia. Things, large ‐ Megalophobia. Standing up and walking ‐ Stasibasiphobia. Things or places, narrow ‐ Stenophobia. Stared at, being ‐ Ophthalmophobia. Things, small ‐ Microphobia or Mycrophobia. Stars ‐ Siderophobia or Astrophobia. Thinking ‐ Phronemophobia. Statements, false or myths or stories ‐ Mythophobia Thunder ‐ Ceraunophobia. Staying single ‐ Anuptaphobia. Thunder and lightning ‐ Astraphobia, Astrapophobia, Brontophobia or Stealing ‐ Cleptophobia or Kleptophobia. Keraunophobia. Step ‐father ‐ Vitricophobia. Tickled by feathers or feathers ‐ Pteronophobia. Step ‐mother ‐ Novercaphobia. Tied or bound up ‐ Merinthophobia. Stings ‐ Cnidophobia or Linonophobia. Time or clocks ‐ Chronophobia. Stooping ‐ Kyphophobia. Toads ‐ Bufonophobia. Stories or myths or false statements ‐ Mythophobia Tombstones ‐ Placophobia. Strangers or foreigners ‐ Xenophobia. Tornadoes and hurricanes ‐ Lilapsophobia. Streets, crossing streets ‐ Dromophobia. Touched, being touched ‐ Aphenphosmphobia, Haphephobia, Streets ‐ Agyrophobia. Haptephobia or Chiraptophobia. String ‐ Linonophobia. Trains, railroads or train travel ‐ Siderodromophobia. Storm, thunder ‐ Brontophobia. Travel or road travel ‐ Hodophobia. Stuttering ‐ Psellismophobia. Trees ‐ Dendrophobia. Suffering and disease ‐ Panthophobia. Trembling ‐ Ttremophobia. Sun or sunlight ‐ Heliophobia. Tricinosis ‐ Trichinophobia. Sunshine or daylight ‐ Phengophobia. Tuberculosis ‐ Phthisiophobia or Tuberculophobia. Surgeon's fear of operating: work or functioning ‐ Ergasiophobia Tyrants ‐ Tyrannophobia. Surgical operations ‐ Tomophobia. Swallowing or eating ‐ Phagophobia. U ‐ Symbolism ‐ Symbolophobia. Ugliness ‐ Cacophobia. Symmetry ‐ Symmetrophobia. Urine or urinating ‐ Urophobia.

T ‐ V ‐ Tapeworms ‐ Taeniophobia. Vaccination ‐ Vaccinophobia. Taste ‐ Geumaphobia or Geumophobia. Vegetables ‐ Lachanophobia. Technology ‐ Technophobia. Ventriloquist's dummy ‐ Automatonophobia Teeth ‐ Odontophobia. Vertigo or dizziness when looking down ‐ Illyngophobia. Telephones, noises or voices, or speaking aloud ‐ Phonophobia Vision: double vision ‐ Diplophobia. Telephones ‐ Telephonophobia. Voices or noises, speaking aloud or telephones ‐ Phonophobia Termites ‐ Isopterophobia. Voids or empty spaces ‐ Kenophobia. Tests, taking ‐ Testophobia. Vomiting secondary to airsickness ‐ Aeronausiphobia. Tetanus or lockjaw ‐ Tetanophobia. Vomiting ‐ Emetophobia.

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W ‐ Waits, long ‐ Macrophobia. Walking, standing up and ‐ Stasibasiphobia. Walking ‐ Ambulophobia, Basistasiphobia or Basostasophobia. How Phobias are Named Washing ‐ Abultophobia. Wasps ‐ Spheksophobia. Water ‐ Hydrophobia. Waves or wave like motions ‐ Cymophobia or Kymophobia. Wax statues ‐ Automatonophobia. The word phobia is Greek, therefore any word that is connected to it Weakness ‐ Asthenophobia. Wealth ‐ Plutophobia. should be Greek. To coin a new phobia name, it is proper to follow this Weapons, nuclear ‐ Nucleomituphobia. rule. The rule has been broken many times in the past especially within Weight, gaining ‐ Obesophobia or Pocrescophobia. the medical profession which is steeped in Latin and often, when forming Wet dreams ‐ Oneirogmophobia. a name for a phobia, they have dipped into what they know and have Whirlpools or dizzyness ‐ Dinophobia. White, the color ‐ Leukophobia. used a Latin suppletion affixed to the Greek stem to form their names. The Wild animals ‐ Agrizoophobia. language pundits frown on this but it has happened time and time again Wind ‐ Ancraophobia or Anemophobia. over the years and these words have become accepted. There are a Wine ‐ Oenophobia. number of these words used daily. Television is one such word, tele from Witches and Witchcraft ‐ Wiccaphobia. Women ‐ Gynephobia or Gynophobia. Greek, meaning distant, and vision from Latin, meaning a seeing. Women, beautiful ‐ Caligynephobia or Venstraphobia. Wooden objects or forests ‐ Xylophobia. Words ‐ Logophobia or Verbophobia. Words, long ‐ Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia or Sesquipedalophobia Work or functioning; surgeon's fear of operating ‐ Ergasiophobia Work ‐ Ergophobia or Ponophobia. Worms ‐ Scoleciphobia. Worms, being infested with ‐ Helminthophobia. Wrinkles, getting ‐ Rhytiphobia. Writing ‐ Graphophobia. Writing in public ‐ Scriptophobia.

X ‐ X ‐rays or radiation ‐ Radiophobia.

Y ‐ Yellow color ‐ Xanthophobia. Young girls ‐ Parthenophobia.

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