Anagrams of: MACHINERIFLE

• the first occurrence of menstruation in a woman

• the officer who presides at the meetings of an organization

• act or preside as chair, as of an academic department in a university

• To exhibit the flehmen response, i.e., to draw back the lips, allowing scent to reach the Jacobson’s organ, an auxiliary olfactory organ found in many animals.

• (especially in the compound "flehmen response") Flaring of the lip in mammals, associated with intensive smelling; flehming.

• Gradually, little by little (an inch at a time)

• of or pertaining to France or the people of France

• the Romance language spoken in France and in countries colonized by France

• the people of France

• United States sculptor who created the seated marble figure of Abraham Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. (1850-1931)

• cut (e.g, beans) lengthwise in preparation for cooking