Anagrams of: PALLESCENT

• a star with 5 points; formed by 5 straight lines between the vertices of a pentagon and enclosing another pentagon

• a thin straight surgical knife used in dissection and surgery

• a small cape that covers the shoulders and is worn predominantly by women.

• A smooth-coated tablet (pill, as in medicine) shaped like a capsule, used as a tamper-resistant alternative to a capsule, or an easy-to-swallow alternative to regular tablets.

• A component of an interest rate cap, a derivative instrument that effectively prevents the interest payments on an otherwise variable-rate loan from exceeding an agreed level (the "cap"). Each "caplet", analysable as a call option, covers one interest accrual period (such as three months); the whole interest rate cap is made up of a series of consecutive caplets.

• small translucent lancet-shaped burrowing marine animal; primitive forerunner of the vertebrates

• To hold in (or as if in) a clasp; to embrace

• The bones in the hand between the wrist and the fingers.

• The pubic bone.

• A comb structure.

• One of the genus Pecten of scallops.