Saturday, April 11, 2015

In Case You Were Wondering l

A prestidigitator is another word for magician.
A castrated rooster is called a capon.
A conchologist studies mollusks and shells.
A deltiologist collects postcards.
A fingerprint is also known as a dactylogram.
A funambulist is a tightrope walker.
A horologist measures time.
A klazomaniac is someone who feels like shouting.
A librocubicularist is someone who reads in bed.
A phrenologist feels and interprets skull features.
A sultan's wife is called a sultana.
An anthropophagite eats people.
Killing a king is called regicide.
Spat-out food is called chanking.
The ball on top of a flagpole is called the truck.
A fox's tail is called a brush.
The two ends of a magnet are called poles.
The word diastima refers to having a gap between your teeth.
The word lethologica  describes the state of not remembering the word you want to say.
The word samba means to rub navels together.
When your sink is full, the little hole that lets the water drain, instead of flowing over the side, is called a porcelator.

What Are You Afraid Of?

A phonophobe fears noise.
Carcinomaphobia is the fear of cancer.
Paedophobia is a fear of children.
Nyctohylophobia is a fear of dark wooded areas, or forests at night.
Pyrophobia is the fear f fire.
Taphephobia is the fear of being buried alive.
Telephonophobia is the fear of telephones.
Papaphobia is the fear of popes.
Nycrophobia is the fear of darkness.
Lachanophobia is the fear of vegetables.
Entomophobia is the fear of insects.
Eosophobia is the fear of dawn.
Clinophobia is the fear of beds.
A gynaephobic man fears women.
Arnold Schonberg suffered from triskaidecphobia, the fear of the number thirteen. He died thirteen minutes from midnight on Friday the thirteenth.
Arachibutyrophobia is the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth.
Zoophobia is the fear of animals.
Tonsurphobia is the fear of haircuts.
Xenophobia is the fear of strangers or foreigners.
Phobatrivaphobia is the fear of trivia about phobias.