Anagrams of: PALEONTOLOGIST

• transparent or semitransparent adhesive tape (trade names Scotch tape and Sellotape) used for sealing or attaching or mending

• fasten or attach with sellotape

• a person who studies the theory and practice of prison management

• chiefly perennial Northern Hemisphere herbs and shrubs: cinquefoil

• topographic study of a given place (especially the history of the place as indicated by its topography)

• the study of anatomy based on regions or divisions of the body and emphasizing the relations between various structures (muscles and nerves and arteries etc.) in that region

• the branch of pure mathematics that deals only with the properties of a figure X that hold for every figure into which X can be transformed with a one-to-one correspondence that is continuous in both directions

• the configuration of a communication network

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

• acknowledge faults or shortcomings or failing

• a person who argues to defend or justify some policy or institution