Anagrams of: BIRDOFMINERVA

• a piece of wood that has been burned or is burning

• someone who deliberately foments trouble

• Any anatomical structure in the form of a fringe, but especially that around the ovarian end of the Fallopian tube.

• Hairlike appendage found on the cell surface of many bacteria; used by the bacteria to adhere to one another, to animal cells and to some inanimate objects.

• having much knowledge or education

• preferred above all others and treated with partiality

• the anterior portion of the brain; the part of the brain that develops from the anterior part of the neural tube

• the male is bright red with black wings and tail

• eastern subspecies of northern oriole

• tropical American flycatcher found as far north as southern Texas and Arizona; adult male has bright scarlet and black plumage