Crossword-Solution: LOUSE 5 letters, 118 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 5

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Word Word Type Definition
Louse n. Any one of numerous species of small, wingless, suctorial,
parasitic insects belonging to a tribe (Pediculina), now usually
regarded as degraded Hemiptera. To this group belong of the lice of man
and other mammals; as, the head louse of man (Pediculus capitis), the
body louse (P. vestimenti), and the crab louse (Phthirius pubis), and
many others. See Crab louse, Dog louse, Cattle louse, etc., under Crab,
Dog, etc.
Louse n. Any one of numerous small mandibulate insects, mostly
parasitic on birds, and feeding on the feathers. They are known as
Mallophaga, or bird lice, though some occur on the hair of mammals.
They are usually regarded as degraded Pseudoneuroptera. See Mallophaga.
Louse n. Any one of the numerous species of aphids, or plant lice.
See Aphid.
Louse n. Any small crustacean parasitic on fishes. See Branchiura,
and Ichthvophthira.
Louse v. t. To clean from lice.

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Word Anagrams
LOUSE anagram EOLUS, EUSOL, OULES, OUSEL, SEOUL, SOULE, ULOSE

We have 118 clues for the answer “LOUSE”

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" . . . scarce the soul of a ___": Kipling 1 answer
"To a ___", Burns poem 1 answer
A real heel 1 answer
Adult nit 1 answer
Asshole 1 answer
Big nit 1 answer
Carrier of typhus fever. 1 answer
Common parasite 1 answer
Cootie, by a less cute name 1 answer
Follower of book or wood 1 answer
Grown-up nit 1 answer
Head bug 1 answer
It could make you a nit picker 1 answer
It might make you a nit-picker 1 answer
It might turn you into a nitpicker 1 answer
It's small and sucks 1 answer
LOW contemptible person (sl.) 1 answer
Parasitic insect found in hair 1 answer
Nit layer 1 answer
No-good heel 1 answer
Parasite with no wings 1 answer
Reason to nitpick? 1 answer
Robert Burns's "To a ___" 1 answer
Scalp bug 1 answer
Scalp parasite 1 answer
Scalp pest 1 answer
Slang for spoil, with "up." 1 answer
Spoil, with "up" 1 answer
Subject of a Burns poem 1 answer
Sucker to pick out 1 answer
Target of permethrin cream 1 answer
Tiny sucker 1 answer
Two-legged rat 1 answer
Unethical character 1 answer
Unethical one 1 answer
Unethical sort 1 answer
Vile character 1 answer
Wingless, bloodsucking insect 1 answer
__ up (bungle) 1 answer
psylla 1 answer
Seoul (anag.) 1 answer
No-good one 2 answers
No-good guy 2 answers
Real heel 2 answers
Unsavory character 2 answers
Stinkeroo 2 answers
Parasitic insect 2 answers
Wingless parasite 2 answers
Ruin, with "up" 2 answers
Crumbum 2 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with LOUSE (5)

Cabbage aphis (Zo”l.), a green plantÐlouse (Aphis brassic?) which lives upon the leaves of the cabbage.
Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Noah Webster 1995
The Idealist Oh you who have daring deeds to tell! And you who have felt Ambition's spell! Have you heard of the louse who longed to dwell In the golden hair of a queen? He sighed all day and he sighed all night, And no one could understand it quite, For the head of a slut is a louse's delight, But he pined for the head of a queen.
Rhymes of a Rolling Stone Robert W. Service 1995
Blondie's shrill, guttural voice broke the silent stupor: "Thank God! At last I'm rid of that damned louse!" XIII Someone plunged a knife Deep in my side.
The Underdogs Mariano Azuela 1996
What devil prompted you to steal a horse and go to the cave? I don't blame you for overhearing us; but if you had had the sense of a louse you would have gone off to the Berg with your news.
Prester John John Buchan 1996
Horace is much a speaker, and see how popular! most of Martial is only speech, and I cannot conceive a person who does not love his Martial; most of Burns, also, such as ‘The Louse,’ ‘The Toothache,’ ‘The Haggis,’ and lots more of his best.
The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson to his Family and Friends - Volume 2 [of 2] Robert Louis Stevenson 2019

Quotes with LOUSE (3)

Everything in art depends on execution: the story of a louse can be as beautiful as the story of Alexander. You must write according to your feelings, be sure those feelings are true, and let everything else go hang. When a line is good it ceases to belong to any school. A line of prose must be as immutable as a line of poetry.
Julian Barnes Flaubert's Parrot
Swords, Lances, arrows, machine guns, and even high explosives have had far less power over the fates of nations than the typhus louse, the plague flea, and the yellow-fever mosquito. Civilizations have retreated from the plasmodium of malaria, and armies have crumbled into rabbles under the onslaught of cholera spirilla, or of dysentery and typhoid bacilli. Huge areas have bee devastated by the trypanosome that travels on the wings of the tsetse fly, and generations have bee…
Hans Zinsser Rats, Lice and History
What remains to us here, behind the Yser, is not much more than a strip of land almost impossible to defend; a few rain-soaked trenches around razed villages; roads blown to smithereens, unusable by any vehicle; a creaky old horse cart we haul around ourselves, loaded with crates of damp ammunition that are constantly on the verge of sliding into a canal, forcing us to slog like madmen for every ten yards of progress as we stifle our warning cries; the snarling officers in th…
Stefan Hertmans War and Turpentine
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.

Used 117 times in crossword archives (1947–2025).