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WORM

4 letters

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Classic 1 pts
Big 1 pts
Super Big 1 pts

WORM is a valid 4-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 1 in Classic, 1 in Big, and 1 in Super Big Boggle.

Word family

WORMS-s 2 WORMING-ing 5 WORMED-ed 3
noun
  1. A generally tubular invertebrate of the annelid phylum; an earthworm.
  2. More loosely, any of various tubular invertebrates resembling annelids but not closely related to them, such as velvet worms, acorn worms, flatworms, or roundworms. See Appendix:English worms.
  3. archaicpoeticAny creeping or crawling animal, such as a snake (cf. “dragon”; blindworm, slowworm, “legless lizard”), snail, or caterpillar.
  4. archaicbroadlyinformalpoeticA maggot or any other insect larva with similar shape and behavior.
    • Those little wriggling worms are the larvae of flies who laid eggs here.
  5. archaicpoeticA dragon, today especially Germanic dragon, more often of the serpentine or wingless type, for example sea serpent, but also any kind of dragon.
  6. archaicpoeticEither a mythical "dragon" (especially wingless), a gigantic sea serpent, or a creature that resembles a Mongolian death worm.
  7. A contemptible or devious being.
    • Don't try to run away, you little worm!
  8. A self-replicating program that propagates through a network, differing from a virus in usually lacking any destructive effects.
    • When Trevor opened his email, a worm spread to 100 people in his address book.
  9. A graphical representation of the total runs scored across a number of overs.
  10. Anything helical, especially the thread of a screw.
  11. A spiral instrument or screw, often like a double corkscrew, used for drawing balls from firearms.
  12. The spiral wire of a corkscrew.
  13. A muscular band in the tongue of some animals, such as dogs; the lytta.
  14. The condensing tube of a still, often curved and wound to save space.
  15. A short revolving screw whose threads drive, or are driven by, a worm wheel or rack by gearing into its teeth.
  16. figurativelyAn internal tormentor; something that gnaws or afflicts one’s mind with remorse.
  17. A strip of linked tiles sharing parallel edges in a tiling.
  18. The lytta.
  19. A dance, or dance move, in which the dancer lies on the floor and undulates the body horizontally thereby moving forwards.
verb
  1. transitiveTo make (one's way) with a crawling motion.
    • We wormed our way through the underbrush.
  2. intransitiveTo move with one's body dragging the ground.
  3. figurativelyintransitiveTo work one's way by artful or devious means.
  4. figurativelytransitiveTo work (one's way or oneself) (into) gradually or slowly; to insinuate.
    • He wormed his way into the organization.
  5. oftenTo effect, remove, drive, draw, or the like, by slow and secret means.
  6. figurativelytransitiveTo drag out of, to get information that someone is reluctant or unwilling to give (through artful or devious means or by pleading or asking repeatedly).
  7. transitiveTo fill in the contlines of (a rope) before parcelling and serving.
    • Worm and parcel with the lay; turn and serve the other way.
  8. transitiveTo deworm (an animal).
  9. transitiveTo cut the worm, or lytta, from under the tongue of (a dog, etc.) for the purpose of checking a disposition to gnaw, and formerly supposed to guard against canine madness.
  10. transitiveTo clean by means of a worm; to draw a wad or cartridge from, as a firearm.