orthoclad
Any midge of the chironomid subfamily Orthocladiinae

oumas
plural of ouma

parakari
A traditional Native American alcoholic drink made with fermented cassava.

pediculi
plural of pediculus

pediculus
A louse (of the family Pediculidae), especially Pediculus humanus.

persona
A social role.
A character played by an actor.
The mask or appearance one presents to the world.
An imaginary person representing a particular type of client or customer, considered when designing products and services that will appeal to them.

personae
plural of persona (alternative spelling of personæ).

personas
plural of persona

phagokinesis
The deposition of a phagokinetic trail

phasms
plural of phasm

praos
plural of prao

psocid
Any insect of the family Psocidae.

psocids
plural of psocid

ricinus
Ricinus communis, the castor oil plant.

ricinuses
plural of ricinus

ringlegged earwig
A flightless European earwig, Euborellia annulipes, with a dark band on each leg, introduced in North America and a number of other parts of the world.

sadirons
plural of sadiron

sallflies
plural of sallfly

sallfly
Any of various stoneflies.

salmonflies
plural of salmonfly

salmonfly
Synonym of stonefly.

sarakas
plural of saraka

sauba
Synonym of sauba ant.

saubas
plural of sauba

scorpion flies
plural of scorpion fly

scorpionflies
plural of scorpionfly

scorpionfly
Any insect of the family Panorpidae, having a curved tail rather like a scorpion.
The insect order Mecoptera or superorder Mecopterida.

sexuale
A bisexual aphid.

shadfly
mayfly

sideropenia
Synonym of iron deficiency.

sideropenias
plural of sideropenia

silverfish
Certain insects
Certain insects
Certain insects
Certain fish
Certain fish
Certain fish
Certain fish
Certain fish
Certain fish
Certain fish
Certain fish
Certain fish
Certain fish
Certain fish
Certain fish
Certain fish
Certain fish
Certain fish
Certain fish
Certain fish

silverfishes
plural of silverfish

snakeflies
plural of snakefly

snakefly
Any insect of the order Raphidioptera.

spicula
plural of spiculum

spiculae
plural of spicula

spiculas
plural of spicula

spiculum
A thrusting javelin used by Romans that replaced the pilum in the late 3rd century.
A sharp, pointed crystal, especially of ice.
A sharp, needle-like structure, especially those making up the skeleton of a sponge.
A small radial emission of gas seen in the chromosphere and corona of the sun.

stathmokinesis
An interruption to mitosis

stemma
A family tree or recorded genealogy.
In the study of stemmatics, a diagram showing the relationship of a text to its manuscripts.
One of the types of simple eyes in arthropods.

stemmas
plural of stemma

stemmata
plural of stemma

stoneflies
plural of stonefly

stonefly
Any of the freshwater aquatic insects in the order Plecoptera.

strepsipterans
plural of strepsipteran

stripetail
Having a striped tail

stylops
Any insect in the order Strepsiptera.

sucking lice
plural of sucking louse

sucking louse
Any louse of the suborder Anoplura.

sulu
An all-purpose skirt-like garment worn by men and women in Fiji.

sulus
plural of sulu

teratocyte
A unicellular form of an embryonic braconid

thorny lacewing
Any insect of the family Rhachiberothidae.

tomia
plural of tomium

trabeculi
plural of trabeculus

trabeculus
Synonym of trabecula.

tueirons
plural of tueiron

vara
A traditional Spanish unit of length, equivalent to about 83.7 cm.
A traditional Portuguese unit of length, equivalent to about 1.1 m.
A traditional Spanish unit of area, equivalent to about 0.7 m².

varas
plural of vara

webspinner
Any of the tropical or subtropical insects of the order Embioptera, which spin silk from structures on their front legs.

webspinners
plural of webspinner

willowflies
plural of willowfly

yellow sallfly
A member of the Chloroperlidae family of stoneflies

yeron
Obsolete form of iron.

yron
Archaic spelling of iron.

zorapteran
Any member of the insect order Zoraptera.

zorapterans
plural of zorapteran

absentia
absence

acephalopodia
The congenital lack of a head and feet

acolytates
plural of acolytate

acromia
plural of acromion

aha
An exclamation of understanding, realization, invention, or recognition.
An exclamation of surprise, exaltation, or contempt.

alastor
An avenging spirit or deity, variously associated with the Erinyes, Nemesis, and more.
In more recent ages, a term of rebuke for a pestilent rascal.
A genus of hunting wasp

alastors
plural of alastor

aliphatates
plural of aliphatate

alkali bee
Nomia melanderi, a bee that nests in alkaline soil.

amira
A member of a wealthy class of Armenian grandees in Constantinople which was in charge of national Armenian matters in the Ottoman Empire before the Armenian National Constitution of 1860 was adopted.

amiras
plural of amira

anacharis
Any freshwater weed of genus Elodea in the frog's-bit family (Hydrocharitaceae), native to America; the waterweed or water thyme.

anaclasis
an exchange of place between a short syllable and a preceding long one that is frequent in Ionic metres.
reflection or refraction of light or sound.
The forced bending of a joint.

andrenids
plural of andrenid

ant
Any of various insects in the family Formicidae in the order Hymenoptera, typically living in large colonies composed almost entirely of flightless females.
A Web spider.

antanaclasis
The repeated use of the same word or phrase, but with a different meaning each time; a kind of paronomasia.

ante
A price or cost, as in up the ante.
In poker and other games, the contribution made by all players to the pot, often before dealing all the cards.

antem
Alternative spelling of ant'em.

antems
plural of antem

antilithium
The antiatom form of lithium.

antoikoi
Alternative spelling of antœci.

ants
plural of ant

antses
plural of ant

apocytherion
Apoapsis around Venus.

astragalocalcanea
plural of astragalocalcaneum

astragalocalcaneum
A fused astragalus and calcaneum

astragalocalcaneums
plural of astragalocalcaneum

atta
that's the; that's a

attas
plural of atta

autonomasia
antonomasia

autonomasy
Archaic form of autonomasia.

autoparasitoid
a parasitoid that practices autoparasitism

autoparasitoids
plural of autoparasitoid

autopod
autopodium

autopodia
plural of autopodium

autopodium
The distal part of a limb; a hand or foot

autopods
plural of autopod

axopodia
plural of axopodium

axopodium
axopod

bald-faced hornet
A North American yellowjacket distinguished by its black and white coloration with white marks on the face and by its hornet-like aerial nests (Dolichovespula maculata).

bee
A flying insect, of the clade Anthophila within the hymenopteran superfamily Apoidea, known for its organised societies (though only a minority have them), for collecting pollen and (in some species) producing wax and honey.
Any stinging flying insect, especially a wasp.

bee wolf
Any of the solitary predatory wasps of the genus Philanthus.

beefarm
Alternative spelling of bee farm.

beefarming
Alternative spelling of bee farming.

beefarms
plural of beefarm

beehoon
Alternative form of bee hoon.

beemother
Alternative form of bee mother.

beemothers
plural of beemother

bees
plural of bee

beesting
Alternative form of beestings (“The first milk drawn from an animal (especially a cow) after it has given birth”).
Alternative form of bee sting.

beewolf
Alternative form of bee wolf.

beewolves
plural of beewolf

bhavacakra
symbolic representation of saṃsāra (or cyclic existence)

bhavacakras
plural of bhavacakra

black imported fire ant
The ant Solenopsis richteri.

blackjacket
A type of yellow jacket with black-and-white instead of yellow-and-black coloration, Vespula consobrina
The bald-faced hornet, Dolichovespula maculata, another species of yellow jacket with similar coloration.

blackjackets
plural of blackjacket

bohea
A black tea from Fujian, China.

boheas
plural of bohea

bolivar
Alternative spelling of bolívar.

bolivares
plural of bolivar

bolivars
plural of bolivar

bombus
A buzzing or humming.