Anagrams of: FLAGMEN

• a priest who served a particular deity in ancient Rome

• the process of combustion of inflammable materials producing heat and light and (often) smoke

• shine with a sudden light

• be in flames or aflame

• criticize harshly, usually via an electronic medium

• the state or quality of being widely honored and acclaimed

• favorable public reputation

• clothes dryer for drying and ironing laundry by passing it between two heavy heated rollers

• press with a mangle

• injure badly by beating

• alter so as to make unrecognizable

• damage or injure severely

• (originally United States) A person hired to carry out errands or (often) menial tasks, frequently requiring travel from place to place; an errand boy or errand girl, a runner.

• (originally United States) A reporter who frequently travels to conduct research, interview witnesses, etc., and then conveys the information to a rewriteman who writes up the story.

• A freak or whim; an idle fancy.

• A falsehood; a lie; an illusory pretext

• (drumming) Two taps (a grace note followed by a full-volume tap) played very close together in order to sound like one slightly longer note.

• To deceive with a falsehood.

• (drumming) To play (notes as) a flam.

• (Yiddish) a thief or dishonest person or scoundrel (often used as a general term of abuse)

• The sugar beet, which can be refined to equal cane sugar in all manners save for botanical origin.

• A mangelwurzel, a plant of the beet family raised as cattle feed.