9-Letter Words Containing: SCREW_

• The larva of the fly Cochliomyia hominivorax (New World screwworm) or Chrysomya bezziana (Old World screwworm). The larvae are parasitic in humans and animals and are distinctive in eating living flesh of mammals, unlike most maggots, which eat only dead flesh.

• a whimsically eccentric person

• a pitch with reverse spin that curves toward the side of the plate from which it was thrown

• foolish; totally unsound

• shrub or small tree of southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico having spirally twisted pods

• loosen something by unscrewing it

• loosen by turning

• a propeller that rotates to push against air

• a screw that is used to adjust the tension on a spring

• a screw (often without a head) that fits into the boss or hub of a wheel or cam etc. and prevents motion of the part relative to the shaft on which it is mounted

• not behaving normally