Anagrams of: ENTOMOSTRACAN

• a formal religious ceremony conferring a specific grace on those who receive it; the two Protestant ceremonies are baptism and the Lord's Supper; in the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church there are seven traditional rites accepted as instituted by Jesus: baptism and confirmation and Holy Eucharist and penance and holy orders and matrimony and extreme unction

• chewy cookie usually containing almond paste

• An area of impaired or lost vision within a field of vision otherwise in a good (or at least healthy) state.

• on or coming from the other side of the mountains (from the speaker)

• a cold dry wind that blows south out of the mountains into Italy and the western Mediterranean

• being or coming from another country

• relating to or associated with a coma

• in a state of deep and usually prolonged unconsciousness; unable to respond to external stimuli