9-Letter Words Containing: S,W,I,M,S

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

• a carving (or engraving) on whalebone, whale ivory, walrus tusk, etc., usually by American whalers

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

• rowdy behavior

• 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

• a genetic abnormality resulting in short stature

• the time at which something is supposed to begin