Anagrams of: ABEIKLLS

• (of characters in literature or drama) evoking empathic or sympathetic feelings

• easy to like; agreeable

• A small European river fish (Alburnus alburnus), of the family Cyprinidae.

• The direction in which Muslims face while praying, currently determined as the direction of the Kaaba in Mecca.

• offering little or no hope

• providing no shelter or sustenance

• unpleasantly cold and damp

• cook and make edible by putting in a hot oven

• prepare with dry heat in an oven

• heat by a natural force

• be very hot, due to hot weather or exposure to the sun

• the area on a billiard table behind the balkline

• something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress

• one of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof

• an illegal pitching motion while runners are on base

• refuse to comply

• beaklike mouth of animals other than birds (e.g., turtles)

• horny projecting mouth of a bird

• a beaklike, tapering tip on certain plant structures

• informal terms for the nose

• hit lightly with a picking motion

• a motor vehicle with two wheels and a strong frame

• a wheeled vehicle that has two wheels and is moved by foot pedals

• ride a bicycle