Anagrams of: COCHINEAL

• not having or producing echoes; sound-absorbent

• a person of Mexican descent

• a bowl-shaped drinking vessel; especially the Eucharistic cup

• area around the altar of a church for the clergy and choir; often enclosed by a lattice or railing

• a bridge hand that is void of trumps

• a movable barrier used in motor racing; sometimes placed before a dangerous corner to reduce speed as cars pass in single file

• the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)

• defeat someone through trickery or deceit

• raise trivial objections

• A conscientious objector.

• crust or layer of hard subsoil encrusted with calcium-carbonate occurring in arid or semiarid regions

• nitrate-bearing rock or gravel of the sodium nitrate deposits of Chile and Peru

• the snail-shaped tube (in the inner ear coiled around the modiolus) where sound vibrations are converted into nerve impulses by the organ of Corti

• Any shell-shaped structure.

• The deepest indentation of the cartilage of the human ear, attaching to the mastoid bone.

• Any of the nasal conchae.

• An apse, or the plain semidome of an apse.