Anagrams of: COIS__

• a person trained to compete in sports

• a support for the genitals worn by men engaging in strenuous exercise

• A padded or knit covering put on an item to keep it warm, especially a teapot or egg.

• A padded or knit covering for any item (often an electronic device such as a laptop computer).

• A work of crime fiction in which sex and violence are downplayed or treated humorously, and the crime and detection take place in a small, socially intimate community.

• before the appearance of life

• 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