8-letter words containing worm
- armyworm — the caterpillar of a widely distributed noctuid moth, Leucania unipuncta, which travels in vast hordes and is a serious pest of cereal crops in North America
- bagworms — Plural form of bagworm.
- bollworm — any of various moth caterpillars, such as Pectinophora (or Platyedra) gossypiella (pink bollworm), that feed on and destroy cotton bolls
- bookworm — If you describe someone as a bookworm, you mean they are very fond of reading.
- caseworm — any of various insect larvae that build protective cases about their bodies
- clamworm — any of several burrowing polychaete worms of the genus Nereis, used as bait for fishing.
- cornworm — a cornmoth larva
- cutworms — Plural form of cutworm.
- dew-worm — any large earthworm that is found on the ground at night and is used as fishing bait
- dewormer — an agent for ridding (animals) of worms
- ear worm — a tune or part of a song that repeats in one’s mind.
- ear-worm — a tune or part of a song that repeats in one’s mind.
- earworms — Plural form of earworm.
- eelworms — Plural form of eelworm.
- fan worm — feather-duster worm.
- fireworm — the larva of any of several moths, as Rhopobota naevana (black-headed fireworm) which feeds on the leaves of cranberries and causes them to wither.
- fishworm — an earthworm.
- flatworm — any worm of the phylum Platyhelminthes, having bilateral symmetry and a soft, solid, usually flattened body, including the planarians, tapeworms, and trematodes; platyhelminth.
- gapeworm — a nematode worm, Syngamus trachea, that causes gapes.
- glowworm — the wingless female or larva of the European beetle, Lampyris noctiluca, which emits a sustained greenish light.
- grubworm — grub (def 1).
- hairworm — any small, slender worm of the family Trichostrongylidae, parasitic in the alimentary canals of various animals.
- hookworm — any of certain bloodsucking nematode worms, as Ancylostoma duodenale and Necator americanus, parasitic in the intestine of humans and other animals.
- hornworm — the larva of any of several hawk moths, having a hornlike process at the rear of the abdomen.
- inchworm — measuringworm.
- leafworm — A caterpillar that eats the leaves of plants.
- lindworm — a wingless, two-legged dragon
- lobworms — Plural form of lobworm.
- lugworms — Plural form of lugworm.
- lungworm — any nematode worm of the superfamily Metastrongylidae, parasitic in the lungs of various mammals.
- maltworm — a heavy drinker
- mealworm — the larva of any of several darkling beetles of the genus Tenebrio, which infests granaries and is used as food for birds and animals.
- muckworm — (not in technical use) the larva of any of several insects, as the dung beetle, which lives in or beneath manure.
- pillworm — a type of millipede that can roll itself up into a ball
- red worm — North Central, South Midland, and Southern U.S. an earthworm.
- ringworm — any of a number of contagious skin diseases caused by certain parasitic fungi and characterized by the formation of ring-shaped eruptive patches.
- rootworm — the larva of any of several insects, as the cucumber beetle, that feeds on the roots of plants.
- sandworm — any of several marine worms that live in sand.
- shipworm — any of various wormlike marine bivalve mollusks that burrow into the timbers of ship, wharves, etc.
- silkworm — the larva of the Chinese silkworm moth, Bombyx mori, which spins a cocoon of commercially valuable silk.
- slowworm — blindworm (def 2).
- spanworm — measuringworm.
- tapeworm — any of various flat or tapelike worms of the class Cestoidea, lacking an alimentary canal, and parasitic when adult in the alimentary canal of humans and other vertebrates: the larval and adult stages are usually in different hosts.
- tubeworm — any of various marine worms that produce and inhabit a tube, some being adapted to a hydrothermal vent environment.
- unwormed — (of animals) not rid of worms
- webworms — Plural form of webworm.
- whipworm — any of several parasitic nematodes of the genus Trichuris, having a long, slender, whiplike anterior end.
- wireworm — any of the slender, hard-bodied larvae of click beetles, many of which live underground and feed on the roots of plants.
- woodworm — a worm or larva that breeds in or bores into wood.
- wormcast — A small pile of sand or soil, the end product of the breakdown of organic matter by an earthworm.
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