Anagrams of: GENUSNYCTICORAX

• An isolated crystal having a different origin than the igneous rock in which it is found; the mineralogical equivalent of a xenolith.

• Old World quail

• a journey taken for pleasure

• wandering from the main path of a journey

• having complicated nutritional requirements; especially growing only in special artificial cultures

• severe and unremitting in making demands

• requiring precise accuracy

• a defense of some offensive behavior or some failure to keep a promise etc.

• a note explaining an absence

• a poor example

• accept an excuse for

• grant exemption or release to

• serve as a reason or cause or justification of

• defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning

• ask for permission to be released from an engagement

• excuse, overlook, or make allowances for; be lenient with

• the branch of physics that studies the phenomena that occur at very low temperatures

• capable of producing cyanide