Crossword-Solution: WASP 4 letters, 262 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Dictionary

Word Word Type Definition
Wasp n. Any one of numerous species of stinging hymenopterous
insects, esp. any of the numerous species of the genus Vespa, which
includes the true, or social, wasps, some of which are called yellow
jackets.

Anagrams

Word Anagrams
WASP anagram PAWS, SWAP

We have 262 clues for the answer “WASP”

Clue Answers
"Ant Man and the ___" 1 answer
"Ant-Man and the ___" (2018 film) 1 answer
"Inside the Electric Circus" band 1 answer
"The Last Command" band 1 answer
A kind of waist 1 answer
A real stinger 1 answer
ANGLO-SAXON protestant 1 answer
Airborne danger 1 answer
Aircraft carrier sunk in Battle of the Solomons. 1 answer
Ant-Man colleague 1 answer
Ant-Man partner 1 answer
Ant-Man's colleague 1 answer
Attic nester 1 answer
Bee's cousin 1 answer
Bee-eater's breakfast 1 answer
Bee-eater's prey 1 answer
Builder of a papery nest 1 answer
Builder of paper houses 1 answer
Builder of paper nests 1 answer
Carrier of W.W. II 1 answer
Center of a sting operation? 1 answer
Close relative of an ant 1 answer
Cockroach _____ (horrifying-sounding tropical insect) 1 answer
Country club member, stereotypically 1 answer
Dangerous stinger 1 answer
Darting stinger 1 answer
Direct descendant of the Mayflower Pilgrims, e.g. 1 answer
Eaves nest builder 1 answer
Eaves nest-builder 1 answer
Eaves nester 1 answer
Epithet for Alexander Pope 1 answer
Epithet for Pope 1 answer
Epithet for poet Pope 1 answer
Epithet of Alexander Pope. 1 answer
Ethnic acronym 1 answer
Fairyfly, for one 1 answer
Famous aircraft carrier. 1 answer
Female WWII enlistee 1 answer
Female member of the comic book Avengers 1 answer
Female with a sting 1 answer
Fig ___ (insect that enters a fruit, pollinates it, and gets dissolved by its enzymes) 1 answer
Fig ___ (winged insect) 1 answer
Flying insect with a narrow waist 1 answer
Flying kleptoparasite, at times 1 answer
Garden stinger 1 answer
High-status American, stereotypically 1 answer
Historic flattop. 1 answer
Hornet kin 1 answer
Hornet or velvet ant 1 answer
Hornet or yellowjacket, e.g. 1 answer
✏️ Suggest another clue Know another question for crossword solution "WASP"? Please add your clue to the biggest crossword databank now!
Kind of apple
?
E
?
A
?
T
?
E
?
R
Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EETRA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
17 +2

New Suggestion for "WASP"

Answer (solution)
Clue

Related word tools

Sentences with WASP (5)

The Wasp and the Snake A WASP seated himself upon the head of a Snake and, striking him unceasingly with his stings, wounded him to death.
Aesop’s Fables Aesop 2000
But this it behoveth me not to speak of, though thou art to be my brother-in-arms, since we are to tilt together presently: for lo! yonder the tilt-yard, my lad." Therewith he pointed to the broad green meadow: but Ralph said: "How canst thou, a free man, be brother-in-arms to a thrall?" "Nay, lad," quoth Otter, "let not that wasp sting thee: for even such was I, time was.
The Well at the World's End William Morris 2008
The house was as still as still, but he thought he could just catch the faintest scratch-scratch in the world--a noise as faint as that of a wasp walking on a window-pane--the dry scratch of a snake’s scales on brick-work.
The Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling 1995
Sudden along the snowy tide That swelled to meet their footstep's fall, The sylphs of heaven were seen to glide, Attired in sunset's crimson pall; Around the Fay they weave the dance, They skip before him on the plain, And one has taken his wasp-sting lance, And one upholds his bridle rein; With warblings wild they lead him on To where through clouds of amber seen, Studded with stars, resplendent shone The palace of the sylphid queen.
The Culprit Fay Joseph Rodman Drake 2007
Fanning so swiftly, the wasp's wings are but just visible as he passes; did he pause, the light would be apparent through their texture.
The Pageant of Summer Richard Jefferies 2007

Quotes with WASP (3)

I'm a girl of extremes. When I love something, I'm like a puppy dog (without all the licking). When I'm cranky, I'm a wasp (like a whole hive of 'em). And when I'm angry, I'm a Mother Bear with a predator after her cubs: Dangerous.
James Patterson Fang
Dearest creature in creation, Study English pronunciation. I will teach you in my verse Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse. I will keep you, Suzy, busy, Make your head with heat grow dizzy. Tear in eye, your dress will tear. So shall I! Oh hear my prayer. Just compare heart, beard, and heard, Dies and diet, lord and word, Sword and sward, retain and Britain.(Mind the latter, how it’s written.) Now I surely will not plague you With such words as plaque and ague. But b…
Gerard Nolst Trenite Drop your Foreign Accent
If there is a wasp in the room, I’d like to be able to see it.
C. S. Lewis
Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Daily Beast, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Rock & Roll, S&S, The Atlantic, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 429 times in crossword archives (1943–2025).