Anagrams of: ACCLAIM

• stout-bodied insect with large membranous wings; male has drum-like organs for producing a high-pitched drone

• verse in the meter used in Greek and Latin poetry consisting of strophes of 4 tetrametric lines; reputedly invented by Alcaeus

• a medieval hood of mail suspended from a basinet to protect the head and neck

• The sweet flag, Acorus calamus.

• A quill; the hard, horny, hollow, and more or less transparent part of the stem or scape of a feather.

• An abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels that normally do not connect.

• A tube, a pipe, or a hole.

• The tube through which the wine of the Eucharist was once sucked from the chalice.

• an assertion of a right (as to money or property)

• an assertion that something is true or factual

• demand for something as rightful or due

• an informal right to something

• an established or recognized right

• a demand

• assert or affirm strongly; state to be true or existing

• demand as being one's due or property; assert one's right or title to

• ask for legally or make a legal claim to, as of debts, for example

• lay claim to; as of an idea

• take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs

• (of weather) free from storm or wind

• steadiness of mind under stress

• wind moving at less than 1 knot; 0 on the Beaufort scale

• not agitated; without losing self-possession

• make calm or still

• make steady

• become quiet or calm, especially after a state of agitation

• cause to be calm or quiet as by administering a sedative to

• burrowing marine mollusk living on sand or mud; the shell closes with viselike firmness

• a piece of paper money worth one dollar

• flesh of either hard-shell or soft-shell clams

• gather clams, by digging in the sand by the ocean