Anagrams of: NITRIC

• a vitamin that maintains the resistance of cell and capillary walls to permeation

• a toxic protein extracted from castor beans; used as a chemical reagent; can be used as a bioweapon

• a bicycle race held on a short course (usually less than 5 km or 3 miles)

• a local and habitual twitching especially in the face

• the basic unit of money in Peru

• a silvery malleable metallic element that resists corrosion; used in many alloys and to coat other metals to prevent corrosion; obtained chiefly from cassiterite where it occurs as tin oxide

• a vessel (box, can, pan, etc.) made of tinplate and used mainly in baking

• metal container for storing dry foods such as tea or flour

• airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc.

• plate with tin

• preserve in a can or tin

• prepare (a metal) for soldering or brazing by applying a thin layer of solder to the surface

• a luminance unit equal to 1 candle per square meter measured perpendicular to the rays from the source

• egg or young of an insect parasitic on mammals especially a sucking louse; often attached to a hair or item of clothing

• the branch of engineering that deals with the use of computers and telecommunications to retrieve and store and transmit information