Ballistophobia

I googled this word (naturally). The first item that came up was from MedFriendly.com ("Where Medical Information is Easy to Understand"). Here, ballistophobia is defined as "fear of missiles or objects that move through force exerted on it by an outside influence (e.g., bullets)."

You will note that bullets are only one example of the things that ballistophobes have "an abnormal, irrational, and/or intense" fear of. Although if anyone can tell me what's abnormal or irrational about a fear of bullets, please do.

Other definitions that Google came up with included "fear of missiles or bullets" (urbandictionary.com, and thefreedictionary.com), and "fear of missile [sic], bullets, and other projectiles" (phobia.wiki.org).

So if you have to ask a question about ballistophobia, you should accept "missiles" and "projectiles" as correct answers.

Perhaps the most telling contribution to this discussion, however, came from Wiktionary.org: "Wiktionary does not have any English dictionary entry for this term. This is most likely because this term does not meet our criteria for inclusion (yet)."

Wiktionary includes ballistophobia in its list of "unattested phobias". But I hope it doesn't need saying that you shouldn't set questions about things that are unattested.