Wednesday, 14 July 2010

interesting..

OOH! Look everyone I found some cool long words that are hard to pronounce! They are phobias and their complicated meanings!! xx
  • Arachibutyrophobia- Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth.
  • Bogyphobia- Fear of bogeys or the bogeyman.
  • Cacophobia- Fear of ugliness
  • Doxophobia- Fear of expressing opinions or of receiving praise.
  • Epistemophobia- Fear of knowledge.
  • Felinophobia- Fear of cats.
  • Genuphobia- Fear of knees.
  • Hominophobia- Fear of men
  • Ichthyophobia- Fear of fish.
  • Japanophobia- Fear of Japanese.
  • Kyphophobia- Fear of stooping.
  • Levophobia- Fear of things to the left side of the body.
  • Mycophobia- Fear or aversion to mushrooms.
  • Nomatophobia- Fear of names.
  • Omphalophobia- Fear of belly buttons.
  • Philophobia- Fear of falling in love or being in love. + Phobophobia- Fear of phobias.
  • Q = nothing :( so I will say... Queen-o-phobia! fear of queens ( not really a word, i think.)
  • Rhytiphobia- Fear of getting wrinkles.
  • Syngenesophobia- Fear of relatives.
  • Thermophobia- Fear of heat.
  • Urophobia- Fear of urine or urinating.
  • Vitricophobia- Fear of step-father.
  • Walloonphobia- Fear of the Walloons
  • Xerophobia- Fear of dryness.

So now you know lots of interesting new words to confuse your friends with! Sorry that I havent posted in a while! :)