Anagrams of: PEPPERMINTGUM

• a high bid that is intended to prevent the opposing players from bidding

• acquire for oneself before others can do so

• take the place of or have precedence over

• gain possession of by prior right or opportunity, especially so as to obtain the right to buy (land)

• make a preemptive bid in the game of bridge

• climber having dark red berries (peppercorns) when fully ripe; southern India and Sri Lanka; naturalized in northern Burma and Assam

• any of various tropical plants of the genus Capsicum bearing peppers

• pungent seasoning from the berry of the common pepper plant of East India; use whole or ground

• sweet and hot varieties of fruits of plants of the genus Capsicum

• add pepper to

• attack and bombard with or as if with missiles

• preparatory school work done outside school (especially at home)

• a mechanical device that moves fluid or gas by pressure or suction

• the hollow muscular organ located behind the sternum and between the lungs; its rhythmic contractions move the blood through the body

• a low-cut shoe without fastenings

• operate like a pump; move up and down, like a handle or a pedal

• deliver forth

• draw or pour with a pump

• supply in great quantities

• flow intermittently

• move up and down

• raise (gases or fluids) with a pump

• question persistently

• hardening something by heat treatment

• moderating by making more temperate

• liveliness and energy