| acarophobia | (noun) a morbid fear of small insects and mites and worms | - |
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| acousticophobia | (noun) a morbid fear of sounds including your own voice | Synonyms: phonophobia |
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| acrophobia | (noun) a morbid fear of great heights | - |
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| acrophobic | (adjective) suffering from acrophobia; abnormally afraid of high places | - |
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| agoraphobia | (noun) a morbid fear of open spaces (as fear of being caught alone in some public place) | - |
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| agoraphobic | (adjective) suffering from agoraphobia; abnormally afraid of open or public places | - |
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| ailurophobia | (noun) a morbid fear of cats | - |
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| algophobia | (noun) a morbid fear of pain | - |
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| algophobic | (adjective) suffering from algophobia; abnormally afraid of pain | - |
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| androphobia | (noun) a morbid fear of men | - |
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| anglophobe | (noun) a person who hates England and everything English | - |
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| aquaphobia | (noun) a morbid fear of drowning | - |
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| aquaphobic | (adjective) abnormally afraid of water | Synonyms: hydrophobic |
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| arachnophobia | (noun) a morbid fear of spiders | - |
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| astraphobia | (noun) a morbid fear of thunder and lightning | - |
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| automysophobia | (noun) a morbid fear of being dirty | - |
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| claustrophobe | (noun) a person suffering from claustrophobia | - |
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| claustrophobia | (noun) a morbid fear of being closed in a confined space | - |
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| claustrophobic | (adjective) suffering from claustrophobia; abnormally afraid of closed-in places | - |
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| (adjective) uncomfortably closed or hemmed in | - |
| cryophobia | (noun) a morbid fear of freezing | - |
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| cyberphobia | (noun) irrational fear of computers or technology | - |
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| cynophobia | (noun) a morbid fear of dogs | - |
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| entomophobia | (noun) a morbid fear of insects | - |
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| gynophobia | (noun) a morbid fear of women | - |
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| hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia | (noun) fear of magic properties of the number 666 | - |
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| hob | (noun) a shelf beside an open fire where something can be kept warm | - |
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| (noun) a hard steel edge tool used to cut gears | - |
| (noun) (folklore) a small grotesque supernatural creature that makes trouble for human beings | Synonyms: goblin, hobgoblin |
| (noun) (folklore) fairies that are somewhat mischievous | Synonyms: brownie, elf, gremlin, imp, pixie, pixy |
| (verb) cut with a hob | - |
| hobber | (noun) a special type of milling machine used for gear cutting, cutting splines, and cutting sprockets. | Synonyms: hobbing machine |
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| hobbit | (noun) an imaginary being similar to a person but smaller and with hairy feet; invented by J.R.R. Tolkien | - |
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| hobble | (noun) the uneven manner of walking that results from an injured leg | Synonyms: hitch, limp |
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| (noun) a shackle for the ankles or feet | Synonyms: fetter |
| (verb) strap the foreleg and hind leg together on each side (of a horse) in order to keep the legs on the same side moving in unison | Synonyms: hopple |
| (verb) walk impeded by some physical limitation or injury | Synonyms: gimp, hitch, limp |
| (verb) hamper the action or progress of | - |
| hobbledehoy | (noun) an awkward bad-mannered adolescent boy | - |
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| hobbler | (noun) someone who has a limp and walks with a hobbling gait | Synonyms: limper |
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| hobby | (noun) an auxiliary activity | Synonyms: avocation, by-line, pursuit, sideline, spare-time activity |
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| (noun) small Old World falcon formerly trained and flown at small birds | Synonyms: Falco subbuteo |
| (noun) a child's plaything consisting of an imitation horse mounted on rockers; the child straddles it and pretends to ride | Synonyms: hobbyhorse, rocking horse |
| hobbyhorse | (noun) a child's plaything consisting of an imitation horse mounted on rockers; the child straddles it and pretends to ride | Synonyms: hobby, rocking horse |
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| (noun) a topic to which one constantly reverts | - |
| hobbyism | (noun) a devotion to hobbies | - |
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| hobbyist | (noun) a person who pursues an activity in their spare time for pleasure | - |
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| hobgoblin | (noun) an object of dread or apprehension | Synonyms: bugbear |
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| (noun) (folklore) a small grotesque supernatural creature that makes trouble for human beings | Synonyms: goblin, hob |
| hobnail | (noun) a short nail with a thick head; used to protect the soles of boots | - |
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| (verb) supply with hobnails | - |
| hobnailed | (adjective) marked by the wearing of heavy boots studded with hobnails | - |
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| hobnob | (verb) rub elbows with | - |
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| hobo | (noun) a vagrant | Synonyms: bum, tramp |
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| (noun) a worker who moves around and works temporarily in different places | Synonyms: migrant worker |
| homophobe | (noun) a person who hates or fears homosexual people | - |
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| homophobia | (noun) prejudice against (fear or dislike of) homosexual people and homosexuality | - |
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| homophobic | (adjective) prejudiced against homosexual people | - |
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| hydrophobia | (noun) an acute viral disease of the nervous system of warm-blooded animals (usually transmitted by the bite of a rabid animal); rabies is fatal if the virus reaches the brain | Synonyms: lyssa, madness, rabies |
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| (noun) a morbid fear of water | - |
| (noun) a symptom of rabies in humans consisting of an aversion to swallowing liquids | - |
| hydrophobic | (adjective) lacking affinity for water; tending to repel and not absorb water; tending not to dissolve in or mix with or be wetted by water | - |
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| (adjective) abnormally afraid of water | Synonyms: aquaphobic |
| hydrophobicity | (noun) the property of being water-repellent; tending to repel and not absorb water | - |
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| hypnophobia | (noun) a morbid fear of falling asleep | - |
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| lepidophobia | (noun) a morbid fear of snakes | - |
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| lymphoblast | (noun) an immature lymphocyte | - |
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| mephobarbital | (noun) a long-acting crystalline barbiturate (trade name Mebaral) used as a sedative and as an anticonvulsant in the treatment of epilepsy | Synonyms: Mebaral |
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| musophobia | (noun) a morbid fear of mice | - |
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| mysophobia | (noun) a morbid fear of dirt or contamination | - |
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| mysophobic | (adjective) suffering from mysophobia; abnormally afraid of dirt or contamination | - |
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| neophobia | (noun) a morbid fear of novelty | - |
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| nyctophobia | (noun) a morbid fear of night or darkness | - |
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| oleophobic | (adjective) lacking affinity for oils | - |
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| phobia | (noun) an anxiety disorder characterized by extreme and irrational fear of simple things or social situations | Synonyms: phobic disorder, phobic neurosis |
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| phobic | (adjective) suffering from irrational fears | - |
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| phobophobia | (noun) a morbid fear of developing a phobia | - |
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| phonophobia | (noun) a morbid fear of sounds including your own voice | Synonyms: acousticophobia |
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| photophobia | (noun) pain in the eye resulting from exposure to bright light (often associated with albinism) | Synonyms: photalgia |
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| (noun) a morbid fear of light | - |
| psychobabble | (noun) using language loaded with psychological terminology | - |
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| pyrophobia | (noun) a morbid fear of fire | - |
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| satanophobia | (noun) an abnormal fear of Satan | - |
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| taphephobia | (noun) a morbid fear of being buried alive | - |
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| technophobe | (noun) a person who dislikes or avoids new technology | - |
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| technophobia | (noun) dislike for new technology | - |
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| technophobic | (adjective) of or relating to or showing technophobia | - |
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| thanatophobia | (noun) a morbid fear of death | - |
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| transphobic | (adjective) Prejudiced against transgender people | - |
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| traumatophobia | (noun) a morbid fear of battle or physical injury | - |
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| trichobezoar | (noun) a compact mass of hair that forms in the alimentary canal (especially in the stomach of animals as a result of licking fur) | Synonyms: hair ball, hairball |
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| triskaidekaphobia | (noun) a morbid fear of the number 13 | - |
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| triskaidekaphobic | (adjective) suffering from triskaidekaphobia (abnormal fear of the number 13) | - |
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| trophobiosis | (noun) a symbiotic relation in which one organism protects the other in return for some kind of food product | - |
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| trophoblast | (noun) the membrane that forms the wall of the blastocyst in early development; aids implantation in the uterine wall | - |
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| trophoblastic | (adjective) of or relating to the trophoblast | - |
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| xenophobia | (noun) a fear of foreigners or strangers | - |
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| xenophobic | (adjective) suffering from xenophobia; having abnormal fear or hatred of the strange or foreign | - |
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| zoophobia | (noun) a morbid fear of animals | - |
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