Words Containing: C,E,M,O,R,S,S

• 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.

• freeing from evil spirits

• pressed tightly together

• reduced in volume by pressure

• flattened laterally along the whole length (e.g., certain leafstalks or flatfishes)

• restore to its uncompressed form

• decrease the pressure of

• become less tense, rest, or take one's ease

• garment consisting of a V-shaped panel of stiff material worn over the chest and stomach in the 16th century

• a mechanical device that compresses gasses

• an electronic device that reduces the dynamic range of an audio signal.