Friday, September 9, 2011

The Word Box: Rulers and Relationships (A-M)

This week, from the Grandiloquent Dictionary, words having to do with rulers (rule by what?) and relationships. (A-M)

angelocracy -( )

 Rulership by angels

anililagnia -( )

 An attraction to older women

chirocracy - ( )

 The state of being ruled by force (literally by a strong hand)

chrysocracy - ( )

 Rulership by the wealthy (literally a government by gold)

cyesolagnia - ( )

 Being attracted to pregnant women

cheiloproclitic - ( )

 Being attracted to a person's lips

demonocracy - ( )

  Rulership by demons

diabolarchy - ( )

  Rulership by the devil

ecclesiarchy - ( )

  Rulership by the church

ethnocracy - ( )

  Rulership by a specific race

gamophobia - ( )

  A fear of marriage

gymnophoria - ( )

  The sensation that someone is mentally undressing you
 

gynarchy - ( )

  Rulership by women

gynonudomania - ( )

  The urge to rip off a woman's clothing

gynotikolobomassophilia - ( )

  A proclivity for nibbling on women's earlobes

hagiocracy - ( )

  Rulership by saints

hirsutophilia - ( )

  An attraction to hairy men

hierocracy - ( )

  Rulership by the church or by church officials


jowfair - ( )

  An event which does not occur after much planning, such as a wedding with no groom

kakistocracy - ( )

  Rulership by the worst leader

kosmokrator - ( )

  The ruler of the world

korophilia - ( )

  Being attracted to young men or boys

karao - ( )

  The marriage of a widow to her brother-in-law

levirate - ( )

The marriage of a woman to her husbands brother

logocracy - ( )

Rulership by words

lavacultophilia - ( )

A desire to stare at someone in a bathing suit

meritocracy - ( )

  Rulership by the most skilled leader

mariticide - ( )

  The murder of a husband by his wife
 

maritodespotism - ( )

  Tyrranical rulership of a woman by her husband

meacock - ( )

  A meak man who dotes on his wife, or is henpecked

malaxophobia - ( )

  A fear of love play, especially in women

mariticide - ( )

  The murder of a husband by his wife

maritorious - ( )

  Excessively devoted to one's husband

 

misogamist - ( )

  One who hates marriage

monandry - ( )

  The practice of having a single husband at a time

myriadigamous - ( )

  Pertaining to someone who is willing to marry all kinds of people

Which word is your favorite?

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