Anagrams of: ENDOCHONDRAL

• A very toxic chlorinated polycyclic hydrocarbon once used as an insecticide.

• a retail dealer in provisions and supplies

• United States writer of detective thrillers featuring the character of Philip Marlowe (1888-1959)

• a maker (and seller) of candles and soap and oils and paints

• hard smooth-textured cheese; originally made in Cheddar in southwestern England

• a village in southwestern England where cheddar cheese was first made

• having a series of columns arranged at regular intervals

• To connect an object, especially a ship or a boat, to a fixed point.

• To cast anchor; to come to anchor.

• To stop; to fix or rest.

• To provide emotional stability for a person in distress.

• To perform as an anchorman or anchorwoman.

• To be stuck; to be unable to move away from a position.

• Having the extremities turned back, like the flukes of an anchor.

• a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 36 bushels

• To write chords for.

• To accord; to harmonize together.

• To provide with musical chords or strings; to string; to tune.

• (of a computer keyboard) Through which input is supplied by pressing a relatively small number of keys in combinations, as though playing chords.