Are you feeling hungry? If so, here is a list of eating words: that is, words containing the affix vora, vore or vorous, from the Latin vorare, meaning devour.
When I was a child, my mother often told me not to bolt my food; I certainly wouldn't rush some of these meals!
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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
~ A ~ | |
| algivore | Eater of algae |
| ambivore | Eater of grasses and broad-leaved plants |
| amphivore | Eater of both animal and vegetable foods; omnivore |
| aphidivore | Eater of aphids |
| apivore | Eater of bees |
| arachnivore | Eater of spiders |
| aurivore | Eater of gold |
~ B ~ | |
| baccivore | Eater of berries |
| bacterivore | Eater of bacteria |
| batrachivore | Eater of water bottoms |
| brychocarnivore | Eater of meat with a lot of noise and greed |
| brychomnivore | Eater in a noisy, barbaric way |
~ C ~ | |
| calcivore | Eater of calcium |
| cancrivore | Eater of crabs |
| carnivore | Eater of meat |
| cepivore | Eater of onions |
| concarnivore | Eater onlyof foods that contain meat |
| corallivore | Eater of coral |
~ D ~ | |
| detritivore | Eater of dead organic material, especially plant detritus |
~ E ~ | |
| equivorous | Eating horse-flesh |
| erucivore | Eater of caterpillars |
| exudativore | Eater of gum and other exudates from trees |
~ F ~ | |
| femivore | A feminist woman who devotes a serious amount of time to feeding her family |
| ferrivore | Eater of iron |
| fimivore | Eater of dung |
| florivore | Eater of flowers or plant species |
| folivore | Eater of leaves |
| forbivore | Eater of broad-leaved plants |
| formicivore | Eater of ants |
| formivore | Eater of ants |
| frondivore | Eater of leaves |
| fructivore | Eater of fruit |
| frugivore | Eater of fruit |
| fucivore | Eater of seaweed |
| fumivore | Eater of smoke |
| fungivore | Eater of fungi |
~ G ~ | |
| gallivore | Eater of galls |
| graminivore | Eater of grasses |
| granivore | Eater of grain |
| gumivore | Eater of gums secreted by plants |
~ H ~ | |
| herbivore | Eater of plants |
| hominivore | Eater of humans |
| humanovore | Eater of humans |
| humivore | Eater of humus |
~ I ~ | |
| insectivore | Eater of insects |
~ J ~ | |
(None known) | |
~ K ~ | |
(None known) | |
~ L ~ | |
| lactivore | Eater of milk |
| larvivore | eater of larvae |
| leguminivore | Eater of beans, peas and other legumes |
| lichenivore | Eater of lichens |
| lignivore | Eater of wood |
| limnivore | Eater of mud |
| lithovore | Eater of rocks and minerals |
| locavore | Eater of only locally grown food |
~ M ~ | |
| mellivore | Eater of honey |
| merdivore | Eater of excrement |
| microbivore | Eater of microorganisms |
| molluscivore | Eater of molluscs |
| mucivore | Eater of plant juices |
| mycovore | Eater of fungi |
| myrmevore | Eater of ants |
~ N ~ | |
| nectarivore | Eater of nectar |
| nucivore | Eater of nuts |
~ O ~ | |
| offivore | Eater of offal |
| omniverbivorous | Capable of swallowing all words |
| omnivoracity | Having an eagerness to consume great amounts of all kinds of food |
| omnivore | Eater of any type of available food |
| ornithivore | Eater of birds |
| oryzivore | Eater of rice |
| ossivore | Eater of bones |
| ovivore | Eater of eggs |
~ P ~ | |
| palynivore | Eater of pollen |
| panivore | Eater of bread |
| photovore | Eater of light |
| phytivore | Eater of plants or vegetable matter |
| phytosuccivore | Eater of the sap of plants |
| pigmentivorous | Eating pigments; destroying paint |
| pinivore | Eater of pine seeds |
| piscivore | Eater of fish |
| planktivore | Eater of plankton |
| plurivore | Eater of many things |
| pollenivore | Eater of pollen |
| pollinivore | Eater of pollen produced by plant stamens |
| pomivore | Eater of apples |
| pupivore | Eater of pupae |
~ Q ~ | |
| quercivore | Eater of oak leaves |
~ R ~ | |
| radicivore | Eater of tubers and roots |
| ranivore | Eater of frogs |
| reptilivore | Eater of reptiles |
~ S ~ | |
| sanguinivore | Eater of blood |
| saprovore | Eater of dead or decaying organic matter |
| seminivore | Eater of seeds |
| serpentivorous | Eater of snakes |
| spongivore | Eater of sponges |
| stercovore | Eater of excrement or dung |
~ T ~ | |
(None known) | |
~ U ~ | |
| uncarnivorous | Non-meat eater |
| univore | Eater of just one kind of food, or eating just once a day |
~ V ~ | |
| vermivore | Eater of worms |
| voracious | Eater of great quantities of food |
| vorarephilia | Sexual arousal from the idea of being eaten, eating another, or watching this |
~ W ~ | |
(None known) | |
~ X ~ | |
| xylovore | Eater of wood |
~ Y ~ | |
(None known) | |
~ Z ~ | |
| zoosuccivore | Eater of the liquid secretions of decaying animal matter |
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