wasp

1. Any of numerous social or solitary insects, chiefly of the superfamilies Vespoidea and Sphecoidea, having a slender body with a constricted abdomen, two pairs of membranous wings, mouths adapted for biting or sucking, and in the females an ovipositor often modified as a sting.

2. Any of numerous social or solitary winged hymenopterous insects (especially families Sphecidae and Vespidae) that usually have a slender smooth body with the abdomen attached by a narrow stalk, well-developed wings, biting mouthparts, and in the females and workers an often formidable sting, and that are largely carnivorous and often provision their nests with insects or spiders killed or paralyzed by stinging for their larvae to feed on.

3. Any of various hymenopterous insects (as a chalcid or ichneumon wasp) other than with larvae that are parasitic on other arthropods.

4. An American of Northern European and especially British ancestry and of Protestant background.

5. A member of the dominant and the most privileged class of people in the United States.

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paws	9	Scrabble

2 Letters	Scrabble® Points
as	2
aw	5
pa	4

3 Letters	Scrabble® Points
asp	5
pas	5
paw	8
sap	5
saw	6
spa	5
wap	8
was	6

4 Letters	Scrabble® Points
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swap	9
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wasp	9