shipworm

shipworm is a 8-letter English word with 2 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Any long, slender, worm-shaped bivalve mollusk of Teredo and allied genera. The shipworms burrow in wood, and are destructive to wooden ships, piles of wharves, etc. See Teredo. Face value is 18 in Scrabble and 19 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

8 letters · Scrabble 18 · Words With Friends 19 · 2 senses

Definitions

1. noun. Any long, slender, worm-shaped bivalve mollusk of Teredo and allied genera. The shipworms burrow in wood, and are destructive to wooden ships, piles of wharves, etc. See Teredo.
2. noun. wormlike marine bivalve that bores into wooden piers and ships by means of drill-like shells

   Synonyms: teredinid

Synonyms

teredinid

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in shipworm:

wormship

Common word forms

shipworms

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