List of types of killing

Suicide

• Altruistic suicide, a suicide for the benefit of others
• Medicide, a suicide accomplished with the aid of a physician
• Murder-suicide, a suicide committed immediately after one or more murders
• Self-immolation, a 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
• Vehicular suicide, a suicide by a motor vehicle

  Killing of other people

Killing of family members

• Amiticide, the killing of an aunt
• Avunculicide, the killing of an uncle
• Familicide, the killing of a spouse and children
• Filicide or prolicide, the killing of one's own child.
• Fratricide, the killing of a brother
• Honour killing, the killing of a family member perceived to have brought disgrace to the family
• Mariticide, the killing of one's husband
• Matricide, the killing of one's mother
• Nepiticide, the killing of one's niece
• Nepoticide, the killing of one's nephew
• Parricide or parenticide, the killing of one's mother, father, or other close relative
• Patricide, the killing of one's father
• Senicide, the killing of one's elderly family members
• Siblicide, the killing of a sibling
• Sororicide, the killing of one's sister
• Uxoricide, the killing of one's wife
• Monocide, the killing of oneself

  Killing of children

• Infanticide, the killing of a child within the first year of their life
• Neonaticide, the killing of an infant within the first 24 hours or month of their life
• Pedicide, the killing of children

  Killing by governments

• Capital punishment, the judicial killing of a criminal
• Democide or populicide, the killing of people by a government
• Extrajudicial killing, the killing of people by a government without due process
• Targeted killing, a form of assassination by a government against their perceived enemy

  Killing of prominent people

• Assassination, the killing of a prominent person for political, religious, or monetary reasons
• Eliticide, the killing of the elites of a population
• Papicide, the killing of a pope.
• Regicide, the killing of a monarch or sovereign, a king/queen
• Tyrannicide, the killing of a tyrant
• Magnicide, the killing of a major political figure

  Killing in wartime

• Casualty, death in wartime
• Collateral damage or friendly fire, the unintentional killing of persons during a military attack who were not the target
• Decimation, in ancient Rome, a form of military discipline in which every tenth man in a group was executed by members of his cohort
• Fragging, the deliberate killing of a fellow soldier
• Fratricide, the accidental killing of a fellow soldier

  Killing of others

• Amicicide, the killing of a friend
• Androcide, the systematic killing of men
• Contract killing, a form of murder or assassination in which a party is hired to kill a person or people
• Euthanasia or mercy killing, killing for compassionate reasons; e.g., significant injury or disease
• Familiaricide in commutatione eius possessio, the act of killing a family for their property and/or possessions
• Femicide, gynecide, gynaecide, or gynocide, the systematic killing of women
• Gendercide, the systematic killing of members of a specific sex or gender
• Geronticide, the killing of the elderly
• Genocide, the systematic extermination of an entire national, racial, religious, or ethnic group
• Homicide, the killing of a person
• * Justifiable homicide, a defense to culpable homicide
• Human sacrifice, the killing of a human for sacrificial, often religious, reasons
• Lynching, the public killing of an individual without due process
• Massacre, the killing of many people at one time or place
• Mass murder or spree killing, the killing of many people
• Murder, the unlawful killing of a human by another human
• Manslaughter, murder, but under legally mitigating circumstances
• Omnicide, the act of killing all humans, to bring about the extinction of the human species.
• Serial killer, a person who murders three or more people, with the killings taking place over a significant period of time in separate events
• Spree killer, someone who commits a criminal act that involves two or more murders in a short time, often in multiple locations

  Killing of animals and other organisms

• 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, a chemical agent or biological organism used to kill or inhibit fungi or fungal spores
• Germicide, an agent that kills germs, especially pathogenic microorganisms
• Herbicide, an agent that kills unwanted plants
• Insecticide, an agent that kills unwanted insects
• Larvicide, 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 used to kill mites
• Nemacide, a chemical to eradicate or kill nematodes
• Parasiticide, an agent used to destroy parasites
• Pediculicide, an agent that kills head lice
• Pesticide, an agent used to destroy or repel a pest
• Rodenticide, an agent that kills rodents
• Scabicide, a chemical agent for killing scabies
• Teniacide, a chemical agent that kills tape worms
• Theriocide, the killing of an animal by a human
• Vermicide, an agent used to kill parasitic intestinal worms
• Virucide, an agent capable of destroying or inhibiting viruses
• Vulpicide, the killing of a fox by methods other than by hunting it with hounds

  Killing in fiction and mythology

• Deicide, the killing of a god or divine being
• Xenocide, the genocide of an alien species. Often used in science fiction, such as in the novel Xenocide by Orson Scott Card
• Terracide, the planetary scale destruction that occurred on planet Helghan, from the Killzone videogame series.
• Zoecide, the killing of all forms of life on a universal scale.