Anagrams of: DAMPERBLOCK

• a war measure that isolates some area of importance to the enemy

• prevents access or progress

• hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of

• render unsuitable for passage

• obstruct access to

• impose a blockade on

• closed to traffic

• completely obstructed or closed off

• solid unweathered rock lying beneath surface deposits of soil

• principles from which other truths can be derived

• a detachable lock; has a hinged shackle that can be passed through the staple of a hasp or the links in a chain and then snapped shut

• fasten with a padlock

• treat with contempt

• fish-like vertebrate with bony plates on head and upper body; dominant in seas and rivers during the Devonian; considered the earliest vertebrate with jaws