An officer holding the rank of major or lieutenant colonel or colonel. Classified under: Nouns denoting people. Synonyms: field officer; field-grade officer; FO. Hypernyms (field-grade officer is a kind of...): commissioned military officer (a commissioned officer in the army or air force or marine corp) Domain category:
Pogonophobia is the fear of beards. The origin of the word pogono is Greek (meaning beard) and phobia is Greek (meaning fear). Pogonophobia is considered to be a specific phobia, which is discussed on the home page.
batophobia (uncountable) The fear of high objects or of high objects falling down. 1912, Edwin Ash, Nerves and the Nervous, Brentano's (1912), page 23: Batophobia, or fear that high things will fall, is not uncommon, and is matched by the perhaps still more common fear that one may fall off high places should one be perched on an altitude, or on the top of a bridge, or walking along cliffs.