List of types of killing

In the English language, terms for types of killing often end in the suffix -cide.

Killing of self

 * Suicide, intentionally causing one's own death.
 * Altruistic suicide, suicide for the benefit of others.
 * Autocide, suicide by automobile collision.
 * Medicide, a suicide accomplished with the aid of a physician.
 * Murder-suicide, a suicide committed immediately after one or more murders.
 * Self-immolation, suicide by fire, often as a form of protest.
 * Suicide by cop, acting in a threatening manner so as to provoke a lethal response from law enforcement.

Killing of other people
All of these are considered types of homicide.

Killing of family

 * Avunculicide – the act of killing an uncle (avunculus "(maternal) uncle").
 * Familicide – is a multiple-victim homicide where a killer's spouse and children are slain (familia "family").
 * Filicide – the act of a parent killing their child (filius "son" and filia "daughter").
 * Fratricide – the act of killing a brother (frater "brother"); also, in military context, death by friendly fire.
 * Geronticide – the abandonment of the elderly to die, die by suicide or be killed.
 * Honour killing – the act of murdering a family member perceived to have brought disgrace to the family.
 * Infanticide – the act of killing a child within the first year of their life.
 * Mariticide – the act of killing one's husband (maritus "husband").
 * Matricide – the act of killing one's mother (mater "mother").
 * Neonaticide – the act of killing an infant within the first twenty-four hours or month (varies by individual and jurisdiction) of its life.
 * Nepoticide – the act of killing one's nephew.
 * Parricide or parenticide – the killing of one's mother, father, or other close relative.
 * Patricide – the act of killing of one's father (pater "father").
 * Prolicide – the act of killing one's own children.
 * Senicide – the killing of one's elderly family members when they can no longer work or they have become a burden (senex "old man").
 * Siblicide – the killing of an infant individual by their close relatives (full or half siblings).
 * Sororicide – the act of killing one's sister (soror "sister").
 * Uxoricide – the act of killing one's wife (uxor "wife").

Killing of others

 * Amicicide – the act of killing a friend (amicus "friend").
 * Androcide – the systematic killing of men.
 * Assassination – the act of killing a prominent person for either political, religious, or monetary reasons.
 * Capital punishment – the judicial killing of a human being for crimes.
 * Casualty – death (or injury) in wartime.
 * Collateral damage – Incidental killing of persons during a military attack that were not the object of attack.
 * Democide or populicide – the murder of any person or people by a government.
 * Extrajudicial killing – killing by government forces without due process. See also Targeted killing.
 * Euthanasia or mercy killing – the killing of any being with compassionate reasoning; e.g., significant injury or disease.
 * Familiaricide in commutatione eius possessio – the act of killing a family for their property and/or possessions (from familiaris "of a household"; in commutatione eius "in exchange for"; and possessio "a possession or property").
 * Femicide, gynecide, gynaecide, or gynocide – the systematic killing of women.
 * Feticide – the killing of an embryo or fetus.
 * Fragging - the act of killing a fellow soldier.
 * Gendercide – the systematic killing of members of a specific sex or gender.
 * Genocide – the systematic extermination of an entire national, racial, religious, or ethnic group.
 * Homicide – the act of killing of a person (homo "man").
 * Justifiable homicide – a defense to culpable homicide (criminal or negligent homicide).
 * Human sacrifice – the killing of a human for sacrificial, often religious, reasons.
 * Massacre, mass murder or spree killing – the killing of many people.
 * Murder – the malicious and unlawful killing of a human by another human.
 * Manslaughter – murder, but under legally mitigating circumstances.
 * Meretricide - the act of killing a sex worker, oftentimes a female sex worker, but can apply to other genders. From latin merēre, meaning "to gain".
 * Omnicide – the act of killing all humans, to create intentional extinction of the human species (omni "all, everyone").
 * Pedicide – the act of killing children.
 * Senicide or geronticide – the act of killing an elderly person.
 * Targeted killing – a form of assassination which is carried out by governments against their perceived enemies. See also Extrajudicial killing.
 * Xenocide – the genocide of an entire alien species. Often used in science fiction, one famous example being the novel Xenocide by Orson Scott Card.


 * Mundicide – the genocide of an entire planet or similar celestial object. Various degrees of mundicide occur throughout the universe, caused by such things as supernovas, or in the realm of science-fiction; The Dark Forest theory . An idea popularized by Chinese author, Cixin Liu

Killing of superiors

 * Deicide – killing a god, divine being, or deity.
 * Papicide – killing of a pope (Ancient Greek: πάππας (páppas) "father").
 * Regicide – killing a ruler, a King/Queen (rex, gen. regis "king").
 * Tyrannicide – killing a tyrant.
 * Magnicide – killing a major political figure.

Killing of animals, disease, and pests

 * Algaecide – a chemical agent that kills algae.
 * Acaricide – a chemical agent that kills mites.
 * Avicide – a chemical agent that kills birds.
 * Bactericide – a chemical agent that kills bacteria.
 * Biocide – a chemical agent that kills a broad spectrum of living organisms.
 * Fungicide – chemical agents or biological organisms used to kill or inhibit fungi or fungal spores.
 * Germicide – an agent that kills germs, especially pathogenic microorganisms; a disinfectant.
 * Herbicide – an agent that kills unwanted plants, a weed killer.
 * Insecticide – an agent that kills unwanted insects.
 * Larvicide (also larvacide) – an insecticide targeted against the larval life stage of an insect.
 * Microbicide – an agent used to kill or reduce the infectiousness of microorganisms.
 * Miticide – a chemical to kill mites.
 * Nemacide (also nematicide, nematocide) – a chemical to eradicate or kill nematodes.
 * Parasiticide – a general term to describe an agent used to destroy parasites.
 * Pediculicide – an agent that kills head lice.
 * Pesticide – a general term to describe an agent used to destroy or repel a pest.
 * Rodenticide - an agent that kills rodents (especially rats and mice).
 * Scabicide – a chemical agent for killing scabies.
 * Spermicide – a contraceptive agent to render sperm inert and prevent fertilization.
 * Teniacide (also taeniacide, tenicide) – a chemical agent that kills tape worms.
 * Theriocide – the act of killing an animal by a human (Ancient Greek: therion "wild animal, beast").
 * Vermicide – an agent used to kill parasitic intestinal worms.
 * Virucide (also viricide) – an agent capable of destroying or inhibiting viruses.
 * Vulpicide (also vulpecide) – the killing of a fox by methods other than by hunting it with hounds.

Killing of intangibles or inanimates

 * Ecocide – the destruction of the natural environment by such activity as war, overexploitation of resources, or pollution.
 * Famacide, defamation, or slander – the killing of another's reputation.
 * Linguicide – intentionally causing the death of a language.
 * Epistemicide – the systematic extermination of an entire knowledge system or intellectual heritage of a group, society or people.
 * Mundicide – the destruction of a planet (mundus is Latin for "world").
 * Urbicide – the destruction of a city or the stifling of urbanisation (urbs is Latin for "city").