typhus louse
noun
A louse (capable of) carrying typhus; specifically the human body louse, Pediculus humanus humanus.
Origin
Early 20th century; earliest use found in The National Magazine.
- subjugation
- subjugator
- subjunct
- subjunction
- subjunctive
- subjunctive-equivalent
- subjunctively
- subjunctive proposition
- subjunctive vowel
- subjunctivity
- subkind
- subkingdom
- sublacustrine
- sublanguage
- sublapsarian
- sublapsarianism
- sublate
- sublateral
- sublation
- sublattice
- sub-leader
- sublease
- sub-lessee
- sub-lessor
- sublet