The Word Box: Rulers and Relationships

Another hop into the Grandiloquent Dictionary, for words on rulers and relationships, N-Z!

nanophilia - ( )

  An attraction to short people

neanilagnia - ( )

  An attraction to teenagers

narcokleptocracy - ( )

  Rulership by drug dealers with ties to politicians and the military

neocracy - ( )

  Rulership by inexperienced people

novercaphobia - ( )

  The fear of one's stepmother

obsolagnium - ( )

  The lack of sexual desire that accompanies old age

opsipatria - ( )

  The fathering of a child by an elderly man

opsiproligery - ( )

  The ability to still have children late in life

osculaphobia - ( )

  A fear of kissing

oxter - ( )

  To walk arm in arm

oligarchy - ( )

  A government controlled by a few people

 

oikomania - ( )

  mental disorder caused by an abusive home

 

oikonisus - ( )

  The desire to start a family 

 

oculoplania - ( )

  Letting one's eyes wander while assessing someone's charm

paedarchy - ( )

Rulership by a child or several children

paedocracy - ( )

A government formed of children

paparchy - ( )

Rulership by the pope

papyrocracy - ( )

Rulership by paperwork or by the press

pedantrocracy - ( )

Rulership by pedants or pedagogs

plousiocracy - ( )

A government consisting of the wealthy and the elite

 

plutarchy - ( )

A government formed by the wealthy and elite

 

plutocracy - ( )

Rulership by the wealthy or elite

 

plutocrat - ( )

A member of the wealthy ruling class

politicaster - ( )

Second rate politician or incompetent leader

pollarchy - ( )

Rulership by the mob

polygyny - ( )

Marriage to several women

puellaphillist - ( )

One who loves girls

quadrigamist - ( )

  Someone who either has been married four times or who is married to four people

rampasture - ( )

  A room in which several unmarried men reside, usually in a boarding house or inn

satrapess - ( )

  An official who acts like a petty tyrant

shurocracy - ( )

  A government based on consensus

soceraphobia - ( )

  A fear of parents in law

sorocide - ( )

  The killing of one's own sister

 

sororate - ( )

  The marriage of a man to his wife's sister

sphallolalia - ( )

  Flirtatious talk that leads nowhere

squirearchy - ( )

  Rulership by the landed gentry

strumpetocracy - ( )

  A government formed of prostitutes

syndyasmia - ( )

  The proper term for an open marriage in which either partner may live with other people

thearchy - ( )

  Rulership by a god or gods

theocracy - ( )

  Government formed by the church or by a representative of God

theodemocracy - ( )

  A democracy which is controlled by divine powers

 

theogamy - ( )

  A marriage between gods

 

theoktony - ( )

  The death of God or of gods

threpterophilia - ( )

  An attraction to female nurses

thygatrilagnia - ( thy-GA-truh-LAG-nee-uh )

  An incestuous desire for one's daughter

timocracy - ( )

  A government of honorable people

torschlusspanik - ( )

  The fear of young women that they will not be married until they are to old to have children

uxoricide - ( )

  The murder of a wife by her husband

 

uxorious - ( )

  Excessively devoted to one's husband

 

uxorodespotic - ( )

  Tyrranical rulership by one's wife

vernalagnia - ( )

  A romantic mood brought on by Spring. Also known as Spring Fever

 

vernorexia - ( VUR-nuh-REK-see-uh )

  A romantic mood inspired by Spring

vesthibitionism - ( )

  The flirtatious display of undergarments by a woman

wittol - ( )

  A man who meakly accepts his wife's adultery

ximelolagnia - ( ZY-muh-luh-LAG-nee-uh )

The desire to look a women who cross their legs

Assignment: Choose three words between A-Z and write a short story (300 words or less) using all three!