| jointworm | (noun) larva of chalcid flies injurious to the straw of wheat and other grains | Synonyms: strawworm |
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| lentiform | (adjective) convex on both sides; shaped like a lentil | Synonyms: biconvex, convexo-convex, lenticular |
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| lobworm | (noun) marine worms having a row of tufted gills along each side of the back; often used for fishing bait | Synonyms: lug, lugworm |
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| lugworm | (noun) marine worms having a row of tufted gills along each side of the back; often used for fishing bait | Synonyms: lobworm, lug |
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| lukewarm | (adjective) feeling or showing little interest or enthusiasm | Synonyms: half-hearted, halfhearted, tepid |
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| (adjective) moderately warm | Synonyms: tepid |
| mealworm | (noun) the larva of beetles of the family Tenebrionidae | - |
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| mesoderm | (noun) the middle germ layer that develops into muscle and bone and cartilage and blood and connective tissue | Synonyms: mesoblast |
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| midterm | (noun) an examination administered in the middle of an academic term | Synonyms: midterm exam, midterm examination |
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| (noun) middle of an academic term or a political term in office | - |
| (noun) the middle of the gestation period | - |
| misinform | (verb) give false or misleading information to | Synonyms: mislead |
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| morbilliform | (adjective) of a rash that resembles that of measles | - |
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| multiform | (adjective) occurring in or having many forms or shapes or appearances | - |
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| nitrochloroform | (noun) a heavy colorless insoluble liquid compound that causes tears and vomiting; used as a pesticide and as tear gas | Synonyms: chloropicrin |
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| nonuniform | (adjective) not homogeneous | Synonyms: inhomogeneous |
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| norm | (noun) a statistic describing the location of a distribution | Synonyms: average |
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| (noun) a standard or model or pattern regarded as typical | - |
| ostracoderm | (noun) extinct fish-like jawless vertebrate having a heavily armored body; of the Paleozoic | - |
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| outperform | (verb) be or do something to a greater degree | Synonyms: exceed, outdo, outgo, outmatch, outstrip, surmount, surpass |
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| overarm | (adjective) with hand brought forward and down from above shoulder level | Synonyms: overhand, overhanded |
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| oviform | (adjective) rounded like an egg | Synonyms: egg-shaped, elliptic, elliptical, oval-shaped, oval, ovate, ovoid, prolate |
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| pachyderm | (noun) any of various nonruminant hoofed mammals having very thick skin: elephant, rhinoceros, hippopotamus | - |
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| panduriform | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) having rounded ends and a contracted center | Synonyms: fiddle-shaped, pandurate |
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| papilliform | (adjective) shaped like a papilla | - |
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| patelliform | (adjective) shaped like a dish or pan | Synonyms: dish-shaped, dished |
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| perform | (verb) carry out or perform an action | Synonyms: do, execute |
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| (verb) give a performance (of something) | - |
| (verb) get (something) done | Synonyms: do |
| (verb) perform a function | - |
| perisperm | (noun) the nutritive tissue outside the sac containing the embryo in some seeds | - |
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| perm | (noun) a series of waves in the hair made by applying heat and chemicals | Synonyms: permanent, permanent wave |
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| (verb) give a permanent wave to | - |
| phylliform | (adjective) having the shape of a leaf | - |
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| pinworm | (noun) small threadlike worm infesting human intestines and rectum especially in children | Synonyms: Enterobius vermicularis, threadworm |
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| pisiform | (noun) a small wrist bone that articulates only with the triquetral | Synonyms: os pisiforme, pisiform bone |
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| placoderm | (noun) fish-like vertebrate with bony plates on head and upper body; dominant in seas and rivers during the Devonian; considered the earliest vertebrate with jaws | - |
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| platform | (noun) a raised horizontal surface | - |
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| (noun) any military structure or vehicle bearing weapons | Synonyms: weapons platform |
| (noun) a woman's shoe with a very high thick sole | Synonyms: chopine |
| (noun) the combination of a particular computer and a particular operating system | - |
| (noun) a long, flat raised structure of a railway station, where people get on and off of trains | - |
| (noun) a document stating the aims and principles of a political party | Synonyms: political platform, political program, program |
| poikilotherm | (noun) an animal whose body temperature varies with the temperature of its surroundings; any animal except birds and mammals | Synonyms: ectotherm |
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| polearm | (noun) a close combat weapon in which the main fighting part of the weapon is fitted to the end of a long shaft, typically of wood, thereby extending the user's effective range. | Synonyms: pole weapon |
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| preform | (verb) form or shape beforehand or determine the shape of beforehand | - |
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| (verb) form into a shape resembling the final, desired one | - |
| progymnosperm | (noun) an ancestral fossil type from which modern gymnosperms are thought to have derived | - |
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| pteridosperm | (noun) an extinct seed-producing fernlike plant of the order Cycadofilicales (or group Pteridospermae) | Synonyms: seed fern |
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| rainstorm | (noun) a storm with rain | - |
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| reaffirm | (verb) affirm once again | - |
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| rearm | (verb) arm anew | Synonyms: re-arm |
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| (verb) arm again | - |
| reconfirm | (verb) confirm again | - |
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| reform | (noun) a change for the better as a result of correcting abuses | - |
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| (noun) a campaign aimed to correct abuses or malpractices | - |
| (noun) self-improvement in behavior or morals by abandoning some vice | - |
| (verb) make changes for improvement in order to remove abuse and injustices | - |
| (verb) break up the molecules of | - |
| (verb) produce by cracking | - |
| (verb) change for the better | Synonyms: see the light, straighten out |
| (verb) bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one | Synonyms: reclaim, rectify, regenerate |
| (verb) improve by alteration or correction of errors or defects and put into a better condition | - |
| reniform | (adjective) (of a leaf or bean shape) resembling the shape of kidney | Synonyms: kidney-shaped |
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| ringworm | (noun) infections of the skin or nails caused by fungi and appearing as itching circular patches | Synonyms: roundworm, tinea |
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| roundworm | (noun) unsegmented worms with elongated rounded body pointed at both ends; mostly free-living but some are parasitic | Synonyms: nematode, nematode worm |
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| (noun) infections of the skin or nails caused by fungi and appearing as itching circular patches | Synonyms: ringworm, tinea |
| sagittiform | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) like an arrow head without flaring base lobes | Synonyms: arrow-shaped, sagittate |
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| salamandriform | (adjective) shaped like a salamander | - |
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| salverform | (adjective) of or concerning a gamopetalous that has a slender tube and an abruptly expanded tip | - |
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| sandstorm | (noun) a windstorm that lifts up clouds of dust or sand | Synonyms: dust storm, duster, sirocco |
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| schoolmarm | (noun) a woman schoolteacher (especially one regarded as strict) | Synonyms: mistress, schoolma'am, schoolmistress |
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| shipworm | (noun) wormlike marine bivalve that bores into wooden piers and ships by means of drill-like shells | Synonyms: teredinid |
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| shitstorm | (noun) A considerable backlash or controversy | - |
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| sidearm | (adjective) (of pitches) made with the arm moving parallel to the ground | - |
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| (adverb) in a sidearm manner | - |
| silkworm | (noun) 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 | - |
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| (noun) larva of a saturniid moth; spins a large amount of strong silk in constructing its cocoon | Synonyms: giant silkworm, wild wilkworm |
| slowworm | (noun) small burrowing legless European lizard with tiny eyes; popularly believed to be blind | Synonyms: Anguis fragilis, blindworm |
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| smarm | (noun) excessive but superficial compliments given with affected charm | Synonyms: fulsomeness, unction |
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| snowstorm | (noun) a storm with widespread snowfall accompanied by strong winds | Synonyms: blizzard |
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| sperm | (noun) the male reproductive cell; the male gamete | Synonyms: sperm cell, spermatozoan, spermatozoon |
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| splitworm | (noun) greyish-brown moth whose larva is the potato tuberworm | Synonyms: Phthorimaea operculella, potato moth, potato tuber moth |
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| squirm | (noun) the act of wiggling | Synonyms: wiggle, wriggle |
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| (verb) to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling) | Synonyms: twist, worm, wrestle, wriggle, writhe |
| storm | (noun) a direct and violent assault on a stronghold | - |
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| (noun) a violent weather condition with winds 64-72 knots (11 on the Beaufort scale) and precipitation and thunder and lightning | Synonyms: violent storm |
| (noun) a violent commotion or disturbance | Synonyms: tempest |
| (verb) attack by storm; attack suddenly | Synonyms: surprise |
| (verb) take by force | Synonyms: force |
| (verb) behave violently, as if in state of a great anger | Synonyms: rage, ramp |
| (verb) blow hard | - |
| (verb) rain, hail, or snow hard and be very windy, often with thunder or lightning | - |
| strawworm | (noun) larva of chalcid flies injurious to the straw of wheat and other grains | Synonyms: jointworm |
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| (noun) larva of the caddis fly; constructs a case of silk covered with sand or plant debris | Synonyms: caddisworm |
| swarm | (noun) a group of many things in the air or on the ground | Synonyms: cloud |
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| (noun) a moving crowd | Synonyms: drove, horde |
| (verb) move in large numbers | Synonyms: pour, pullulate, stream, teem |
| (verb) be teeming, be abuzz | Synonyms: pullulate, teem |
| tapeworm | (noun) ribbonlike flatworms that are parasitic in the intestines of humans and other vertebrates | Synonyms: cestode |
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| term | (noun) (architecture) a statue or a human bust or an animal carved out of the top of a square pillar; originally used as a boundary marker in ancient Rome | Synonyms: terminal figure, terminus |
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| (noun) any distinct quantity contained in a polynomial | - |
| (noun) a word or expression used for some particular thing | - |
| (noun) one of the substantive phrases in a logical proposition | - |
| (noun) (usually plural) a statement of what is required as part of an agreement | Synonyms: condition, strings |
| (noun) a limited period of time | - |
| (noun) the end of gestation or point at which birth is imminent | Synonyms: full term |
| (verb) name formally or designate with a term | - |
| therm | (noun) a unit of heat equal to 100,000 British thermal units | - |
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| threadworm | (noun) small threadlike worm infesting human intestines and rectum especially in children | Synonyms: Enterobius vermicularis, pinworm |
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| thunderstorm | (noun) a storm resulting from strong rising air currents; heavy rain or hail along with thunder and lightning | Synonyms: electric storm, electrical storm |
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| transform | (verb) change or alter in form, appearance, or nature | Synonyms: transmute, transubstantiate |
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| (verb) change from one form or medium into another | Synonyms: translate |
| (verb) subject to a mathematical transformation | - |
| (verb) change in outward structure or looks | Synonyms: metamorphose, transmute |
| (verb) increase or decrease (an alternating current or voltage) | - |
| (verb) change (a bacterial cell) into a genetically distinct cell by the introduction of DNA from another cell of the same or closely related species | - |
| (verb) convert (one form of energy) to another | - |
| umbelliform | (adjective) resembling or in the form of an umbel | - |
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| unarm | (verb) take away the weapons from; render harmless | Synonyms: disarm |
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| underarm | (adjective) with hand brought forward and up from below shoulder level | Synonyms: underhand, underhanded |
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| (adverb) with the hand swung below shoulder level | Synonyms: underhand |
| underperform | (verb) perform too rarely | - |
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| (verb) perform less well or with less success than expected | Synonyms: underachieve |
| unfirm | (adjective) (of soil) unstable | Synonyms: shifting |
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| (adjective) not firmly or solidly positioned | Synonyms: unsteady |
| uniform | (adjective) always the same; showing a single form or character in all occurrences | Synonyms: unvarying |
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| (adjective) not differentiated | Synonyms: undifferentiated |
| (adjective) the same throughout in structure or composition | Synonyms: consistent |
| (adjective) evenly spaced | - |
| (noun) clothing of distinctive design worn by members of a particular group as a means of identification | - |
| (verb) provide with uniforms | - |
| varicelliform | (adjective) resembling the rash of chickenpox | - |
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| variform | (adjective) varying in form or shape | - |
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| vasiform | (adjective) constituting a tube; having hollow tubes (as for the passage of fluids) | Synonyms: cannular, tube-shaped, tubelike, tubular |
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| vermiform | (adjective) resembling a worm; long and thin and cylindrical | Synonyms: worm-shaped |
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| vetchworm | (noun) larva of a noctuid moth; highly destructive to especially corn and cotton and tomato crops | Synonyms: corn earworm, cotton bollworm, Heliothis zia, tobacco budworm, tomato fruitworm |
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| warm | (adjective) having or producing a comfortable and agreeable degree of heat or imparting or maintaining heat | - |
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| (adjective) psychologically warm; friendly and responsive | - |
| (adjective) inducing the impression of warmth; used especially of reds and oranges and yellows when referring to color | - |
| (adjective) characterized by strong enthusiasm | Synonyms: ardent |
| (adjective) easily aroused or excited | Synonyms: quick |
| (adjective) freshly made or left | Synonyms: strong |
| (adjective) characterized by liveliness or excitement or disagreement | - |
| (adjective) of a seeker; near to the object sought | - |
| (adjective) uncomfortable because of possible danger or trouble | - |
| (adverb) in a warm manner | Synonyms: warmly |
| (verb) get warm or warmer | Synonyms: warm up |
| (verb) make warm or warmer | - |
| waveform | (noun) the shape of a wave illustrated graphically by plotting the values of the period quantity against time | Synonyms: wave form, wave shape |
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| webworm | (noun) several gregarious moth larvae that spin webs over foliage on which they feed | - |
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| wheatworm | (noun) small roundworm parasitic on wheat | Synonyms: Tylenchus tritici, wheat eel, wheat eelworm |
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| windstorm | (noun) a storm consisting of violent winds | - |
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| wireworm | (noun) wormlike larva of various elaterid beetles; feeds on roots of many crop plants | - |
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| woodworm | (noun) a larva of a woodborer | - |
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| worm | (noun) 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 | - |
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| (noun) screw thread on a gear with the teeth of a worm wheel or rack | - |
| (noun) a software program capable of reproducing itself that can spread from one computer to the next over a network | - |
| (noun) a person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect | Synonyms: dirt ball, insect, louse |
| (verb) to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling) | Synonyms: squirm, twist, wrestle, wriggle, writhe |
| yardarm | (noun) either end of the yard of a square-rigged ship | - |
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