Words that rhyme with lungworm

v 1: establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts; "his story confirmed my doubts"; "The evidence supports the defendant" [syn: confirm, corroborate, sustain, substantiate, support, affirm] [ant: contradict, negate] 2: to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true; "Before God I swear I am innocent" [syn: affirm, verify, assert, avow, aver, swan, swear] 3: say yes to

n 1: terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers [syn: earthworm, angleworm, fishworm, fishing worm, wiggler, nightwalker, nightcrawler, crawler, dew worm, red worm]

n 1: small burrowing legless European lizard with tiny eyes; popularly believed to be blind [syn: blindworm, slowworm, Anguis fragilis] 2: any of the small slender limbless burrowing wormlike amphibians of the order Gymnophiona; inhabit moist soil in tropical regions [syn: caecilian, blindworm]

n 1: a segmented marine worm with bright red body; often used for bait

n 1: a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit [syn: pedant, bookworm, scholastic] 2: someone who spends a great deal of time reading

n 1: green caterpillar of a geometrid moth; pest of various fruit and shade trees

v 1: establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts; "his story confirmed my doubts"; "The evidence supports the defendant" [syn: confirm, corroborate, sustain, substantiate, support, affirm] [ant: contradict, negate] 2: strengthen or make more firm; "The witnesses confirmed the victim's account" [syn: confirm, reassert] 3: make more firm; "Confirm thy soul in self-control!" 4: support a person for a position; "The Senate confirmed the President's candidate for Secretary of Defense" 5: administer the rite of confirmation to; "the children were confirmed in their mother's faith"

n 1: North American moth whose larvae feed on young plant stems cutting them off at the ground

n 1: terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers [syn: earthworm, angleworm, fishworm, fishing worm, wiggler, nightwalker, nightcrawler, crawler, dew worm, red worm]

n 1: any of various small free-living plant-parasitic roundworms

n 1: parasitic or free-living worms having a flattened body [syn: flatworm, platyhelminth]

n 1: parasitic bloodsucking roundworms having hooked mouth parts to fasten to the intestinal wall of human and other hosts 2: infestation of the intestines by hookworms which enter the body (usually) through the skin [syn: hookworm, hookworm disease]

n 1: small hairless caterpillar having legs on only its front and rear segments; mostly larvae of moths of the family Geometridae [syn: measuring worm, inchworm, looper]

n 1: marine worms having a row of tufted gills along each side of the back; often used for fishing bait [syn: lugworm, lug, lobworm]

n 1: marine worms having a row of tufted gills along each side of the back; often used for fishing bait [syn: lugworm, lug, lobworm]

n 1: the larva of beetles of the family Tenebrionidae

n 1: small threadlike worm infesting human intestines and rectum especially in children [syn: pinworm, threadworm, Enterobius vermicularis]

n 1: infections of the skin or nails caused by fungi and appearing as itching circular patches [syn: tinea, ringworm, roundworm]

n 1: infections of the skin or nails caused by fungi and appearing as itching circular patches [syn: tinea, ringworm, roundworm] 2: unsegmented worms with elongated rounded body pointed at both ends; mostly free-living but some are parasitic [syn: nematode, nematode worm, roundworm]

n 1: wormlike marine bivalve that bores into wooden piers and ships by means of drill-like shells [syn: shipworm, teredinid]

n 1: the commercially bred hairless white caterpillar of the domestic silkworm moth which spins a cocoon that can be processed to yield silk fiber; the principal source of commercial silk 2: larva of a saturniid moth; spins a large amount of strong silk in constructing its cocoon [syn: silkworm, giant silkworm, wild wilkworm]

n 1: small burrowing legless European lizard with tiny eyes; popularly believed to be blind [syn: blindworm, slowworm, Anguis fragilis]

n 1: ribbonlike flatworms that are parasitic in the intestines of humans and other vertebrates [syn: tapeworm, cestode]

n 1: small threadlike worm infesting human intestines and rectum especially in children [syn: pinworm, threadworm, Enterobius vermicularis]

n 1: wormlike larva of various elaterid beetles; feeds on roots of many crop plants

n 1: a larva of a woodborer

n 1: a narrow ledge or shelf typically at the top or bottom of a slope 2: a narrow edge of land (usually unpaved) along the side of a road; "the car pulled off onto the shoulder" [syn: shoulder, berm]