All English words - page 4152

Meanings of Phobia:

noun

An extreme or irrational fear of or aversion to something.

Usage examples:

She suffered from a phobia about birds

combining form

Extreme or irrational fear or dislike of a specified thing or group.

Usage examples:

Arachnophobia

Meanings of Phobiac:

noun

A person with a phobia; = "phobic".

adjective

Phobic.

Meanings of Phobias:

noun

An extreme or irrational fear of or aversion to something.

Usage examples:

She suffered from a phobia about birds

Meanings of Phobic:

adjective

Having or involving an extreme or irrational fear of or aversion to something.

Usage examples:

She's phobic about spiders

noun

A person with an extreme or irrational fear of or aversion to something.

Usage examples:

A snake phobic

combining form

Having an extreme or irrational fear or dislike of a specified thing or group.

Usage examples:

I'm arachnophobic

Meanings of Phobism:

noun

A morbid fear of or aversion to something; a phobia.

Meanings of Phobist:

noun

A person who has a fear of or morbid aversion to a particular thing.

Meanings of Phobos:

proper noun

The inner of the two small satellites of mars, discovered in 1877 (27 km long and 22 km across).

Meanings of Phoca:

noun

Originally: a seal. later: any of several seals of the genus phoca (family phocidae), which includes the common or harbour seal. now only (in form phoca): the genus itself.

Meanings of Phocaean:

noun

A native or inhabitant of the ancient city of phocaea, the northernmost of the ionian greek settlements on the western coast of asia minor, originally founded by emigrants from phocis.

adjective

Of or relating to phocaea or its inhabitants.

Meanings of Phocian:

noun

A native or inhabitant of phocis, a small state in the centre of ancient greece.

adjective

Of or relating to phocis or its inhabitants.

Meanings of Phocid:

noun

A seal of the family phocidae, which originally comprised the seals together with the walruses but is now restricted to the true or earless seals; an earless seal.

adjective

Of or relating to the family phocidae.

Meanings of Phocine:

adjective

Relating to or affecting the true (earless) seals.

Usage examples:

Phocine distemper virus

Meanings of Phocoid:

adjective

Resembling or of the nature of a seal; (specifically) belonging to the superfamily phocoidea, originally comprising both the true seals (phocids) and eared seals (otariids) but now restricted to the former.

Meanings of Phocomelia:

noun

A rare congenital deformity in which the hands or feet are attached close to the trunk, the limbs being grossly underdeveloped or absent. this condition was a side effect of the drug thalidomide taken during early pregnancy.

Meanings of Phocomelous:

adjective

= phocomelic .

Meanings of Phoebe:

noun

An american tyrant flycatcher with mainly grey-brown or blackish plumage.

Usage examples:

I can hear the songs of migrating birds: phoebes, white-throated sparrows, towhees, catbirds, chipp…

proper noun

A titaness, daughter of uranus (heaven) and gaia (earth). she became the mother of leto and thus the grandmother of apollo and artemis. in later greek writing her name was often used for selene (moon).

Meanings of Phoebean:

adjective

Of, relating to, or characteristic of phoebus (apollo), especially as the god of poetry or as the god of the sun.

Meanings of Phoebes:

noun

An american tyrant flycatcher with mainly grey-brown or blackish plumage.

Usage examples:

I can hear the songs of migrating birds: phoebes, white-throated sparrows, towhees, catbirds, chipp…

proper noun

A titaness, daughter of uranus (heaven) and gaia (earth). she became the mother of leto and thus the grandmother of apollo and artemis. in later greek writing her name was often used for selene (moon).

Meanings of Phoebus:

proper noun

An epithet of apollo, used in contexts where the god was identified with the sun.

Meanings of Phoenicia:

proper noun

An ancient country on the shores of the eastern mediterranean, corresponding to modern lebanon and the coastal plains of syria. it consisted of a number of city states, including tyre and sidon, and was a flourishing centre of mediterranean trade and colonization during the early part of the 1st millennium bc.

Meanings of Phoenician:

noun

A member of a semitic people inhabiting ancient phoenicia and its colonies. the phoenicians prospered from trade and manufacturing until the capital, tyre, was sacked by alexander the great in 332 bc.

Usage examples:

Once the trade capital of east africa, zanzibar attracted sumerians, assyrians, phoenicians, arabs,…

adjective

Relating to phoenicia, its people, or its language.

Usage examples:

The phoenician colony of carthage became an imperial centre in its own right, and greek cities such…

Meanings of Phoenicianism:

noun

Phoenician culture, ideas, etc.

Meanings of Phoenicians:

noun

A member of a semitic people inhabiting ancient phoenicia and its colonies. the phoenicians prospered from trade and manufacturing until the capital, tyre, was sacked by alexander the great in 332 bc.

Usage examples:

Once the trade capital of east africa, zanzibar attracted sumerians, assyrians, phoenicians, arabs,…

adjective

Relating to phoenicia, its people, or its language.

Usage examples:

The phoenician colony of carthage became an imperial centre in its own right, and greek cities such…

Meanings of Phoenicochroite:

noun

A mineral of the monoclinic crystal system which consists of an oxide of lead and chromium, pb₂ cro₅, and occurs as dark red masses.

Meanings of Phoenicopter:

noun

A flamingo.