8-Letter Words That End With: WORM

• parasitic bloodsucking roundworms having hooked mouth parts to fasten to the intestinal wall of human and other hosts

• infestation of the intestines by hookworms which enter the body (usually) through the skin

• a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit

• someone who spends a great deal of time reading

• terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers

• small hairless caterpillar having legs on only its front and rear segments; mostly larvae of moths of the family Geometridae

• noctuid moth larvae that travel in multitudes destroying especially grass and grain

• moth whose destructive larvae travel in multitudes

• larva of fungus gnat that feed on cereals and other grains; they march in large companies in regular order when the food is exhausted

• wormlike marine bivalve that bores into wooden piers and ships by means of drill-like shells

• a larva of a woodborer

• the commercially bred hairless white caterpillar of the domestic silkworm moth which spins a cocoon that can be processed to yield silk fiber; the principal source of commercial silk

• larva of a saturniid moth; spins a large amount of strong silk in constructing its cocoon