Anagrams of: OCKWORK

• activity directed toward making or doing something

• a product produced or accomplished through the effort or activity or agency of a person or thing

• the occupation for which you are paid

• applying the mind to learning and understanding a subject (especially by reading)

• (physics) a manifestation of energy; the transfer of energy from one physical system to another expressed as the product of a force and the distance through which it moves a body in the direction of that force

• a place where work is done

• the total output of a writer or artist (or a substantial part of it)

• exert oneself by doing mental or physical work for a purpose or out of necessity; work

• be employed

• have an effect or outcome; often the one desired or expected

• perform as expected when applied

• shape, form, or improve a material

• give a workout to

• proceed along a path

• operate in a certain place, area, or specialty

• proceed towards a goal or along a path or through an activity

• move in an agitated manner

• cause to happen or to occur as a consequence

• cause to work

• prepare for crops

• behave in a certain way when handled

• have and exert influence or effect

• operate in or through

• cause to operate or function

• provoke or excite

• gratify and charm, usually in order to influence

• make something, usually for a specific function

• move into or onto

• to mix into a homogeneous mass

• use or manipulate to one's advantage

• find the solution to (a problem or question) or understand the meaning of

• cause to undergo fermentation

• go sour or spoil

• arrive at a certain condition through repeated motion

• someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime

• a circular segment of a curve

• a long staff with one end being hook shaped

• bend or cause to bend

• a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter

• United States gynecologist and devout Catholic who conducted the first clinical trials of the oral contraceptive pill (1890-1984)

• material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth's crust

• (figurative) someone who is strong and stable and dependable

• hard bright-colored stick candy (typically flavored with peppermint)

• a genre of popular music originating in the 1950s; a blend of black rhythm-and-blues with white country-and-western

• pitching dangerously to one side

• move back and forth or sideways

• cause to move back and forth

• someone who cooks food

• English navigator who claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain and discovered several Pacific islands (1728-1779)

• prepare a hot meal

• prepare for eating by applying heat

• transform and make suitable for consumption by heating

• tamper, with the purpose of deception

• transform by heating

• a port city in southern Ireland

• outer bark of the cork oak; used for stoppers for bottles etc.

• (botany) outer tissue of bark; a protective layer of dead cells

• the plug in the mouth of a bottle (especially a wine bottle)

• a small float usually made of cork; attached to a fishing line

• close a bottle with a cork

• stuff with cork

• pan with a convex bottom; used for frying in Chinese cooking

• black birds having a raucous call

• a member of the Siouan people formerly living in eastern Montana

• the cry of a cock (or an imitation of it)

• a small quadrilateral constellation in the Southern Hemisphere near Virgo

• an instance of boastful talk

• a Siouan language spoken by the Crow

• dwell on with satisfaction

• express pleasure verbally

• utter shrill sounds

• female of domestic cattle:

• mature female of mammals of which the male is called `bull'

• a large unpleasant woman

• subdue, restrain, or overcome by affecting with a feeling of awe; frighten (as with threats)

• (chess) the piece that can move any number of unoccupied squares in a direction parallel to the sides of the chessboard

• common gregarious Old World bird about the size and color of the American crow

• deprive of by deceit