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Acarophobia

Definition: Acarophobia

Acarophobia

Noun

1. A morbid fear of small insects and mites and worms.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Acarophobia

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
acarophobia	4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Modern Translations: Acarophobia

Language		Translations for "acarophobia"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		acarofobi. (various references)

Dutch		acarophobia, acarofobie. (various references)

French		acarophobie. (various references)

German		Akarophobie, Acarophobia. (various references)

Greek		ακαρεοφοβία. (various references)

Italian		acaromania, acarofobia. (various references)

Pig Latin		acarophobiaay.(various references)

Portuguese		acarofobia. (various references)

Spanish		acaromanía, acarofobia. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: Acarophobia

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-a-b-c-h-i-o-o-p-r"
	-1 letter: acrophobia.
	-3 letters: abrachia.
	-4 letters: abroach, arabica, brachia, carabao, charpai, copaiba, haircap, pibroch.
	-5 letters: arabic, barhop, broach, brooch, carhop, coprah, orphic, pariah, phobia, phobic, picara, picaro, raphia.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-a-b-c-h-i-o-o-p-r"
	+5 letters: autobiographical.
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Alternative Orthography: Acarophobia

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 63 61 72 6F 70 68 6F 62 69 61

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01100011 01100001 01110010 01101111 01110000 01101000 01101111 01100010 01101001 01100001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#99 &#97 &#114 &#111 &#112 &#104 &#111 &#98 &#105 &#97

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0063 0061 0072 006F 0070 0068 006F 0062 0069 0061

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3569678481827481687567

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Expressions: Internet
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams

5. Orthography
6. Bibliography

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