Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
| ant | a small industrious insect > ANTS. ANTED exists as the pt. of ANTE; ANTING exists as a noun. |
| antlike | resembling an ANT. |
| apian | of or relating to bees. |
| apiarian | of or relating to bees; (noun) a member of the bee family. |
| appledrain | a wasp. |
| bee | an insect that makes honey. |
| beelike | like a bee. |
| bembex bembix | a kind of sand-wasp > BEMBEXES, BEMBIXES. |
| braconid | any of a family of parasitic wasps. |
| bumblebee | a large bee of the genus Bombus. |
| byke | a nest of wasps or wild bees; a swarm, throng; (verb) to swarm > BYKES, BYKING, BYKED. |
| chalcid | any small parasitic insect of the family Chalcididae, that lay their eggs inside the bodies of other insects, or, as with the chalcid wasp, within the seeds of plants > CHALCIDS. [Gr chalkos, copper, from the metallic colouring of their bodies]. |
| emmet | an ant. |
| ergataner | a worker-like wingless male ant. |
| ergate | a worker ant, an undeveloped female. |
| ergatogyne | a worker-like wingless female ant. |
| ergatoid | a wingless but sexually perfect worker ant. |
| formicate | resembling an ant; (verb) to crawl around like an ant > FORMICATES, FORMICATING, FORMICATED. |
| honeybee | any bee of the genus Apis, which lives in communities and collects honey. |
| hornet | a large kind of wasp. |
| horntail | a hymenopterous insect with a stout ovipositor, aka wood wasp. |
| humblebee | a bumble-bee. |
| hymenopteran hymenopteron | an order of insect having four membranous wings, e.g. ants, bees, wasps > HYMENOPTERONS or HYMENOPTERA; HYMENOPTERANS. |
| hymenopterous | having four membranous wings, as do ants, bees and wasps. |
| kelep | a stinging ant. |
| leafcutter | as in leafcutter ant. No —S. |
| marabunta | in the Caribbean, a social wasp; an ill-tempered woman > MARABUNTAS. |
| myrmecoid | antlike. |
| nasute | a beaked white soldier ant. |
| pismire | an ant. |
| pissant | the wood ant, a large species which lives in nests made of pine needles or small twigs that often smell unpleasantly like urine. |
| pompilid | a spider-hunting wasp. |
| sauba | a South American leaf-cutter ant. [Port. s´uva f. Tupi ys´uwa]. |
| stylops | a genus of insects including parasitic wasps > STYLOPES. |
| vespa | a genus of Hymenoptera including the common wasps and hornets. [L. vespa, wasp]. |
| vespid | a social wasp. |
| vespine | of wasps; wasp-like. |
| vespoid | wasp-like. |
| wasp | any of a large number of insects belonging to the order Hymenoptera > WASPS. |
| waspily | (adv.) WASPY, like a wasp, waspish. |
| waspiness | the state of being WASPY > WASPINESSES. |
| waspish | like a wasp; acid-tongued > WASPISHLY. |
| waspishly | (adv.) WASPISH, like a wasp. |
| wasplike | like a wasp. |
| waspy | like a wasp, waspish > WASPIER, WASPIEST; WASPILY. |