Anagrams of: COELACANTH

• large whale with a large cavity in the head containing spermaceti and oil; also a source of ambergris

• The biologically important diphenol ortho-dihydroxy benzene; isomeric with hydroquinone and resorcinol.

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

• A small village or hamlet, especially in the Highlands or Western Scotland.

• 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.

• a possibility due to a favorable combination of circumstances

• an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another

• a risk involving danger

• a measure of how likely it is that some event will occur; a number expressing the ratio of favorable cases to the whole number of cases possible

• the possibility of future success

• occurring or appearing or singled out by chance

• be the case by chance

• take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome

• come upon, as if by accident; meet with

• a small slip noose made with seizing

• the act of grasping

• hold in a tight grasp

• squeeze together tightly