To move slowly with the abdomen close to the ground.
To slip, or to become slightly displaced.
To move or behave with servility or exaggerated humility; to fawn.
To covertly have sex (with a person other than one's primary partner); to cheat with.
To grow across a surface rather than upwards.
To move slowly and quietly in a particular direction.
To have a sensation as of insects creeping on the skin of the body; to crawl.
To make small gradual changes, usually in a particular direction.
To drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a submarine cable.
To move in a stealthy or secret manner; to move imperceptibly or clandestinely; to steal in; to insinuate itself or oneself.
The imperceptible downslope movement of surface rock.
Someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric.
A barrier with small openings used to keep large animals out while allowing smaller animals to pass through.
A relatively small gradual change, variation or deviation (from a planned value) in a measure.
A slight displacement of an object; the slight movement of something.
The gradual expansion or proliferation of something beyond its original goals or boundaries, considered negatively.
A frightening and/or disconcerting person, especially one who gives the speaker chills.
The movement of something that creeps (like worms or snails).
An increase in strain with time; the gradual flow or deformation of a material under stress.
In sewn books, the tendency of pages on the inside of a quire to stand out farther than those on the outside of it.
To move with one's body dragging the ground.
To work one's way by artful or devious means.
To fill in the contlines of (a rope) before parcelling and serving.
To drag out of, to get information that someone is reluctant or unwilling to give (through artful or devious means or by pleading or asking repeatedly).
To clean by means of a worm; to draw a wad or cartridge from, as a firearm.
To cut the worm, or lytta, from under the tongue of (a dog, etc.) for the purpose of checking a disposition to gnaw, and formerly supposed to guard against canine madness.
To make (one's way) with a crawling motion.
To effect, remove, drive, draw, or the like, by slow and secret means.
To work (one's way or oneself) (into) gradually or slowly; to insinuate.
To deworm (an animal).
Either a mythical "dragon" (especially wingless), a gigantic sea serpent, or a creature that resembles a Mongolian death worm.
A strip of linked tiles sharing parallel edges in a tiling.
The condensing tube of a still, often curved and wound to save space.
The spiral wire of a corkscrew.
Anything helical, especially the thread of a screw.
A self-replicating program that propagates through a network.
A short revolving screw whose threads drive, or are driven by, a worm wheel or rack by gearing into its teeth.
A graphical representation of the total runs scored in an innings.
More loosely, any of various tubular invertebrates resembling annelids but not closely related to them, such as velvet worms, acorn worms, flatworms, or roundworms.
A spiral instrument or screw, often like a double corkscrew, used for drawing balls from firearms.
An internal tormentor; something that gnaws or afflicts one’s mind with remorse.
The lytta.
A contemptible or devious being.
A dance, or dance move, in which the dancer lies on the floor and undulates the body horizontally thereby moving forwards.
A muscular band in the tongue of some animals, such as dogs; the lytta.
A generally tubular invertebrate of the annelid phylum; an earthworm.