Anagrams of: CANCRINE_

• a bluish-white lustrous metallic element; brittle at ordinary temperatures but malleable when heated; used in a wide variety of alloys and in galvanizing iron; it occurs naturally as zinc sulphide in zinc blende

• coat or cover with zinc

• a male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917)

• a person having great power

• (of experimental animals) raised under sterile conditions

• (used of cultures of microorganisms) completely free from other organisms

• a buffoon in one of the old comedies; imitates others for ludicrous effect

• a man who is a stupid incompetent fool

• ludicrous, foolish

• like a clown

• of uncertain outcome; especially fraught with risk

• subject to accident or chance or change

• immunogen consisting of a suspension of weakened or dead pathogenic cells injected in order to stimulate the production of antibodies

• a republic in central Africa; achieved independence from Belgium in 1960

• the basic unit of money in Zaire

• a small hard painless nodule at the site of entry of a pathogen (as syphilis)