Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
| aedes | a genus of mosquito, including one that carries DENGUE and yellow fever. [Gk. aedes, distasteful]. |
| aedine | pertaining to an AEDES, a genus of mosquito. |
| alate | having wings. Also ALATED. (Noun) a winged insect > ALATES. |
| anopheles | a kind of mosquito. [Gk. anopheles hurtful, from an- (privative) + ophelos help]. |
| beetfly | a common pest of beets and mangelwurzels. |
| bloodworm | the larva of the MIDGE. |
| blowfly | a large fly. |
| blowie | a blowfly. |
| bluebottle | a large fly (genus Calliphora) with metallic blue abdomen, aka BLOWFLY. |
| bot | the maggot of a botfly. Also BOTT. (Verb) to cadge: BOTS, BOTTING, BOTTED. |
| botfly | a name for various flies that lay their eggs on horses, etc. |
| bott | the maggot of a botfly. Also BOT. |
| breese | the gadfly. |
| bristletail | another name for the SILVERFISH. |
| brommer brummer | the BLUEBOTTLE fly. |
| brulot | a biting fly. |
| brummer | see BROMMER. |
| budworm | a larva that feeds on plant buds. |
| bushfly | any of various small black dipterous flies. |
| campodeid | a primitive wingless insect of the order Diptera. |
| cheesehopper | a small fly whose larvae feed on cheese and move by jumping. |
| chironomid | a member of a large genus of common midges. |
| cleg | a HORSEFLY. |
| cornfly | the GOUTFLY. |
| cranefly | a fly with very long legs, aka daddy-long-legs. |
| culex | a genus of insects, including the mosquito > CULICES or CULEXES. |
| culicid | a member of the genus CULEX, a genus of insects, including the mosquito. |
| culiciform | like or resembling a mosquito. |
| culicine | a mosquito of a group that contains the genus Culex but not Anopheles. |
| dayfly | a neuropterous insect of the genus Ephemera and related genera, so called because it commonly lives but one day in the winged or adult state. |
| deerfly | a bloodsucking fly. |
| dipteran | an insect of the order Diptera, a large order of two-winged insects including flies, gnats, mosquitoes, etc. Also DIPTERON. |
| dipterist | a person who studies flies. |
| dipteron | an insect of the order Diptera, a large order of two-winged insects including flies, gnats, mosquitoes, etc > DIPTERA or DIPTERONS. Also DIPTERAN. |
| dobson dobsonfly | the larva of a large neuropterous insect, used as fish bait > DOBSONFLIES. |
| doodlebug | the larva of an antlion or other insect; (coll.) a flying bomb of the 1939-45 war. |
| drosophila | a kind of fruit-fly > DROSOPHILAS or DROSOPHILAE. |
| fly | any insect of the order Diptera; (adj.) surreptitious or sly > FLIER or FLYER, FLIEST or FLYEST; (verb) to travel through the air: FLIES, FLYING, FLOWN, FLEW; to hit a ball high into the air in baseball: FLIES, FLYING, FLIED. |
| frit fritfly | a small fly destructive to wheat and other crops. |
| gadfly | a kind of stinging fly. |
| gallfly | an insect of the hymenopterous family Cynipidae that causes galls by depositing its eggs in plants. |
| gallinipper | a large mosquito capable of inflicting painful bite. |
| glassworm | the larva of a GNAT. |
| glossina | an insect of the tsetse fly genus. |
| gnat | any small fly of the family Culicidae, of which the females are commonly bloodsuckers. |
| gnatlike | like a GNAT. |
| gnatling | a small gnat. |
| gnatty | infested with gnats. |
| goutfly | a fly whose larvae cause gout (a swelling of the stalk) by boring into wheat. |
| grannom | a type of caddis fly used in angling. |
| grayfly | the trumpet fly. |
| grubworm | the larva of some insects. |
| hellgramite hellgrammite | the large brown aquatic larva of the Dobson fly. |
| hemipterous | of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the Hemiptera, an order of insects including the bugs. |
| horsefly | a large biting fly. |
| housefly | the common FLY. |
| hoverfly | a kind of fly > HOVERFLIES. |
| insectile | pertaining to, or having the nature of, insects. |
| instar | the form of an insect between moult and moult; (verb) to set among the stars > INSTARS, INSTARRING, INSTARRED. |
| lovebug | a small black fly that swarms along highways. |
| maggot | any soft-bodied limbless larva, esp. of a housefly, blowfly, or other dipteran fly, typically found in decaying organic matter. |
| maggoty | infested with maggots > MAGGOTIER, MAGGOTIEST. |
| mallophagous | relating to the Mallophaga, an order of wingless parasitic insects, bird-lice or biting-lice. |
| mawk | a maggot. [ON mathkr, maggot]. |
| mawky | maggoty > MAWKIER, MAWKIEST. |
| medfly | a Mediterranean fruit fly. |
| midge | a small gnat-like fly, esp of the family Chironomidae. |
| midgie | a small biting insect such as a midge or sandfly > MIDGIES. |
| midgy | full of midges > MIDGIER, MIDGIEST. |
| mosquito | any dipterous insect of the family Culicidae: the females have a long proboscis adapted for piercing the skin of man and animals to suck their blood > MOSQUITOS or MOSQUITOES. |
| mossie mozzie | mosquito > MOSSIES. Also MOZZIE. |
| motuca mutuca | a large Brazilian biting fly > MOTUCAS. [Port. f. Tupi mutuca]. |
| mozzie | see MOSSIE. |
| musca | a genus of dipterous insects, including the common house fly, and numerous allied species: MUSCAE. |
| muscid | of the family including the housefly > MUSCIDS. |
| mutuca | see MOTUCA. |
| namu | a black New Zealand sandfly. |
| ootheca | a case containing the eggs of some insects > OOTHECAE. |
| pium | a small troublesome Brazilian biting fly > PIUMS. |
| prepupa | an insect in the stage of life before a pupa > PREPUPAE or PREPUPAS. |
| punkey punkie punky | a biting gnat. |
| sandfly | any of various small bloodsucking flies. |
| sciarid | a minute, dark-coloured, two-winged fly. |
| screwworm | the larva of a dipterous fly which develops under the skin of certain animals. |
| silverfish | any wingless primitive insect of the genus Lepisma (order Thysanura), which feeds on starch in wallpaper, bookbindings, etc. |
| simulium | a small black blood-sucking fly > SIMULIUMS. |
| skeeter | a mosquito. |
| stegomyia | a genus of mosquito, including one that carries dengue and yellow fever, aka AEDES. |
| stonefly | a insect whose larva live under stones in streams. |
| subimago | a stage in the development of certain insects, such as the May flies, intermediate between the pupa and imago > SUBIMAGINES, SUBIMAGOS or SUBIMAGOES. |
| syrphian | a SYRPHID, a wasp-like fly. |
| syrphid | a family of flies that look like wasps. [Gk. syrphos, gnat]. |
| tabanid | a kind of blood-sucking insect, the gadfly genus. [L. tabanus, gadfly]. |
| tachina | as in tachina fly, bristly fly. No —S. |
| tachinid | any dipterous bristly fly of the family Tachinidae. |
| tipula | a crane-fly > TIPULAS. [L. tippula water-spider, water-bug]. |
| treehopper | a kind of leaping insect. |
| tsetse tzetse tzetze | a small fly that transmits TRYPANOSOME parasites. |
| vermicule | a small worm or insect larva; also, a wormlike body. |
| whitefly | any of several insect pests belonging to the family Aleurodidae. |
| zebub zimb | an Ethiopian dipterous insect. [Amharic, a fly]. |