centipede
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Since replacing windows can cost enough arms and legs to make a human centipede, it’s worth looking into adding interior insulating layers to your existing windows.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025
The mamma centipede may have a face like a David Cronenberg nightmare, but she's a devoted parent, curling around the wriggly bits of multi-legged spaghetti she calls her offspring to protect them.
From Salon • May 11, 2025
"I had never seen anything like it before. After asking my co-workers, we figured out it was a house centipede," she said.
From BBC • May 10, 2025
The museum’s website lists Prendini as the curator of its spider, scorpion, centipede and millipede collections.
From Seattle Times • May 13, 2024
Along about then, I would have shaken hands with a centipede if I had thought that it would help me catch a monkey.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
Vocabulary lists containing centipede
Florida's B.E.S.T. Roots: cent
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cent (hundred), mill (thousand)
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ped, pod (foot)
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