LOUSE Synonyms

• a central point or locus of an infection in an organism

• a nest in which spiders or insects deposit their eggs

• an animal or plant that lives in or on a host (another animal or plant); it obtains nourishment from the host without benefiting or killing the host

• a follower who hangs around a host (without benefit to the host) in hope of gain or advantage

• a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal

• any epidemic disease with a high death rate

• a persistently annoying person

• any unwanted and destructive insect or other animal that attacks food or crops or livestock etc.

• an irritating or obnoxious person

• any of various small animals or insects that are pests; e.g. cockroaches or rats

• any of numerous relatively small elongated soft-bodied animals especially of the phyla Annelida and Chaetognatha and Nematoda and Nemertea and Platyhelminthes; also many insect larvae

• a person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect

• a software program capable of reproducing itself that can spread from one computer to the next over a network

• screw thread on a gear with the teeth of a worm wheel or rack

• to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling)

• a parasitic louse that infests the body of human beings

• free of lice

• the larva of the housefly and blowfly commonly found in decaying organic matter

• wingless insect with mouth parts adapted for biting; mostly parasitic on birds

• wingless insect with mouth parts adapted for biting; mostly parasitic on birds

• a person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect

• any of several small insects especially aphids that feed by sucking the juices from plants

• wingless usually flattened bloodsucking insect parasitic on warm-blooded animals