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)
bathmophobia, bathomophobia
An overly intensive fear or hatred of walking.
bathophobia
A fear of depths or of descending into depths; such as, occurs occurs when looking down into a well or when going down into a body of water in a submarine.
bathysiderodromophobia
A morbid fear of subways or any kind of similar situation that exists underground (including the North Sea Chunnel?).
batophobia
An abnormal fear of passing or walking close to high objects; such as, high buildings or tall trees; dread of heights.
A compound of Greek batos, “passable”, a verbal adjective of bainein, “to go”.
The association of Greek batos with “height” is apparently a result of a connection of this word with the second element in acrobat because acrobats are associated with the idea that they perform their arts high over ground levels. Perhaps a much better name for this condition would be hyposophobia.
batrachophobia
A dread or aversion to frogs (and of toads and newts) and possibly to what is often perceived as slimy things.
belonephobia, belonophobia
An exaggerated fear of pins and needles or of anything sharp.
bibliophobia
An excessive fear, or dread, of books either because of the embarrassment of one's illiteracy or because he/she thinks books are too influential.
blennophobia
An excessive fear of slime.
blenophobia
An abnormal fear of pins and needles.
bogyphobia
A fear of demons, goblins, or spirits.
borborygamiphobia
A fear that people will hear the rumbling, gurgling, etc. in the stomach or intestines that are produced by gas in the alimentary canal and which is audible at a distance.
Some people are so afraid that others will hear these sounds that they become social phobics and avoid public gatherings or situations where others may hear them.
botanophobia
An abnormal or excessive fear of plants in general or of specific plants (such as poison ivy and poison oak?).
botophobia
An excessive fear of cellars or basements.
bradycardiaphobia
A fear that ones heart is beating too slowly and that they may be close to death.
bromidrosiphobia, bromidrosophobia
1. An abnormal fear of one’s own personal body odors or those from others; sometimes with the belief that such an odor is present even when it is not.
2. A mental disorder in which there is an abnormal fear of personal odors, accompanied by hallucinations.