Louse
Crossword Clue and Answers

Crossword Answers

3 letters

RAT
Any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse

NIT
Egg or young of an insect parasitic on mammals especially a sucking louse; often attached to a hair or item of clothing

CAD
Software used in art and architecture and engineering and manufacturing to assist in precision drawing

4 letters

WORM
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

HEEL
The lower end of a ship's mast

FLEA
Any wingless bloodsucking parasitic insect noted for ability to leap

5 letters

OUSEL
Common black European thrush

SKUNK
American musteline mammal typically ejecting an intensely malodorous fluid when startled; in some classifications put in a separate subfamily Mephitinae

CRUMB
A very small quantity of something; "he gave only a crumb of information about his plans"; "there were few crumbs of comfort in the report"

APHID
Any of various small plant-sucking insects

6 letters

VERMIN
Any of various small animals or insects that are pests; e.g. cockroaches or rats; "cereals must be protected from mice and other vermin"; "he examined the child's head for vermin"; "boys in the village have probably been shooting vermin"

INSECT
Small air-breathing arthropod

ROTTER
A person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible; "only a rotter would do that"; "kill the rat"; "throw the bum out"; "you cowardly little pukes!"; "the British call a contemptible person a `git'"

COOTIE
A parasitic louse that infests the body of human beings

7 letters

STINKER
Anything that gives off an offensive odor (especially a cheap cigar)

8 letters

DIRTBALL
A person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect

DIRTYRAT

9 letters

NOGOODNIK

SCOUNDREL
A wicked or evil person; someone who does evil deliberately

BIRDLOUSE
Wingless insect with mouth parts adapted for biting; mostly parasitic on birds

10 letters

PLANTLOUSE
Any of several small insects especially aphids that feed by sucking the juices from plants

BLACKGUARD
Someone who is morally reprehensible; "you dirty dog"

11 letters

BITINGLOUSE
Wingless insect with mouth parts adapted for biting; mostly parasitic on birds

BLOODSUCKER
Carnivorous or bloodsucking aquatic or terrestrial worms typically having a sucker at each end

12 letters

SUCKINGLOUSE
Wingless usually flattened bloodsucking insect parasitic on warm-blooded animals