Combining Forms

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-cracy

• Aristocracy (n)- govt. by a privileged order or nobility.
• Theocracy(n) govt. of country by religious leaders.
• Autocracy(n) a system of govt. in which one person has complete power.

-logy

This is a combining form indicating science or theoretical study of something.

Examples

• Psephology (n) - the statistical study of election results and trends.
• Pseudology (n) - the art or science of lying
• Aristology (n) - the science or art of living
• Kidology (n) - the art or practice of making people believe something which is not true.
• Theology (n) - the study of religion and beliefs 

-phobia

• haemophobia or
• haematophobia (n) - fear of blood
• gatophobia / ailurophobia (n) - fear of cats
• cynophobia (n) - fear of dogs
• pyrophobia (n) - fear of fire
• zenophobia (n) - fear of foreigners
• claustrophobia or clithrophobia (n) - fear of confined places
• bathophobia (n) - fear of deep places
• phasmophobia (n) - fear of ghosts
• astrapophobia (n) - fear of lightning
• keraunophobia (n) - fear of thunder
• musophobia (n) - fear of mice
• nyctophobia (n) - fear of night
• ophidiophobia (n) - fear of snakes
• arachnaphobia (n) - fear of spiders