Anagrams of: CHAFING

• any of numerous small songbirds with short stout bills adapted for crushing seeds

• a lining applied to the edge of a garment for ornamentation or strengthening

• an ornamental coating to a building

• a protective covering that protects the outside of a building

• providing something with a surface of a different material

• a dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain

• causing a dull and steady pain

• the longest river of Asia; flows eastward from Tibet into the East China Sea near Shanghai

• high quality porcelain originally made only in China

• a communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia; the most populous country in the world

• dishware made of high quality porcelain

• a government on the island of Taiwan established in 1949 by Chiang Kai-shek after the conquest of mainland China by the Communists led by Mao Zedong

• a series of things depending on each other as if linked together

• British biochemist (born in Germany) who isolated and purified penicillin, which had been discovered in 1928 by Sir Alexander Fleming (1906-1979)

• (chemistry) a series of linked atoms (generally in an organic molecule)

• a series of (usually metal) rings or links fitted into one another to make a flexible ligament

• (business) a number of similar establishments (stores or restaurants or banks or hotels or theaters) under one ownership

• anything that acts as a restraint

• a unit of length

• a series of hills or mountains

• a linked or connected series of objects

• a necklace made by stringing objects together

• connect or arrange into a chain by linking

• fasten or secure with chains

• A country estate, farm or ranch in Spain or Hispanic America.

• a unit of length equal to one twelfth of a foot

• a unit of measurement for advertising space

• advance slowly, as if by inches

• a villainous Jew in a novel by Charles Dickens