9-Letter Words That End With: WORM

• small roundworm parasitic on wheat

• The larva of the fly Cochliomyia hominivorax (New World screwworm) or Chrysomya bezziana (Old World screwworm). The larvae are parasitic in humans and animals and are distinctive in eating living flesh of mammals, unlike most maggots, which eat only dead flesh.

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

• small burrowing legless European lizard with tiny eyes; popularly believed to be blind

• any of the small slender limbless burrowing wormlike amphibians of the order Gymnophiona; inhabit moist soil in tropical regions

• a segmented marine worm with bright red body; often used for bait

• A parasitic organism that afflicts dogs, the roundworm Dirofilaria immitis.

• The condition caused by this organism.

• any worm of the Chaetognatha; transparent marine worm with horizontal lateral and caudal fins and a row of movable curved spines at each side of the mouth

• larva of the caddis fly; constructs a case of silk covered with sand or plant debris

• larva of chalcid flies injurious to the straw of wheat and other grains

• infections of the skin or nails caused by fungi and appearing as itching circular patches

• unsegmented worms with elongated rounded body pointed at both ends; mostly free-living but some are parasitic