Anagrams of: MEGALOPOLIS

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

• acknowledge faults or shortcomings or failing

• a quick look

• a brief or incomplete view

• a vague indication

• catch a glimpse of or see briefly

• an expression of regret at having caused trouble for someone

• a formal written defense of something you believe in strongly

• a poor example

• A rubber-soled lace-up canvas shoe for sports or onboard ships; a precursor of trainers.

• The plimsoll symbol ⦵ (or o) that is used as a superscript in the notation of thermodynamics to indicate an arbitrarily chosen non-zero reference point.

• an artificially made microscopic vesicle into which nucleic acids can be packaged; used in molecular biology as a transducing vector

• morning glory