Anagrams of: ONGCORNS

• black tea grown in China

• a republic in central Africa; achieved independence from Belgium in 1960

• a major African river (one of the world's longest); flows through Congo into the South Atlantic

• a republic in west-central Africa; achieved independence from France in 1960

• sing softly

• Any of several perennial rhizomatous grasses of genus Imperata, especially Imperata cylindrica.

• lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike

• open disrespect for a person or thing

• look down on with disdain

• reject with contempt

• sing softly

• a subordinate who performs an important but routine function

• tooth on the rim of gear wheel

• roll steel ingots

• join pieces of wood with cogs

• To direct a ship; to superintend the steering of (a vessel); to watch the course of (a vessel) and direct the helmsman how to steer (especially through a channel, etc, rather than steer a compass direction).

• tall annual cereal grass bearing kernels on large ears: widely cultivated in America in many varieties; the principal cereal in Mexico and Central and South America since pre-Columbian times

• the dried grains or kernels or corn used as animal feed or ground for meal

• ears of corn that can be prepared and served for human food

• a hard thickening of the skin (especially on the top or sides of the toes) caused by the pressure of ill-fitting shoes

• (Great Britain) any of various cereal plants (especially the dominant crop of the region--wheat in Great Britain or oats in Scotland and Ireland)

• whiskey distilled from a mash of not less than 80 percent corn

• something sentimental or trite

• feed (cattle) with corn

• preserve with large-grained rock salt