Anagrams of: NONCOMBAT

• an engagement fought between two military forces

• the act of fighting; any contest or struggle

• battle or contend against in or as if in a battle

• an alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding

• a small band of jazz musicians

• An old English measure of corn (e.g., wheat), equal to half a quarter or 4 bushels.

• A valley, often wooded and often with no river

• A cirque.

• a flat device with narrow pointed teeth on one edge; disentangles or arranges hair

• the fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds

• any of several tools for straightening fibers

• ciliated comb-like swimming plate of a ctenophore

• the act of drawing a comb through hair

• straighten with a comb

• search thoroughly

• smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb

• a military officer appointed from enlisted personnel

• back and sides of a hog salted and dried or smoked; usually sliced thin and fried

• English scientist and Franciscan monk who stressed the importance of experimentation; first showed that air is required for combustion and first used lenses to correct vision (1220-1292)

• English statesman and philosopher; precursor of British empiricism; advocated inductive reasoning (1561-1626)

• fine Burgundy wine usually white and dry

• a city in central Georgia to the southeast of Atlanta

• A bank, especially that of Venice; formerly used to indicate bank money, as distinguished from the current money when it has become depreciated.

• Being or relating to a type of court involving a bench of judges. Quite often, the Banco Court is an appeals court.