Anagrams of: PLUTONOMIES

• The old geological theory that the rocks forming the Earth were formed in fire by volcanic activity, with a continuing gradual process of weathering and erosion, then deposited on the sea bed, re-formed into layers of sedimentary rock by heat and pressure, and raised again.

• a radioactive metallic element that is similar to tellurium and bismuth; occurs in uranium ores but can be produced by bombarding bismuth with neutrons in a nuclear reactor

• A strap used to carry objects tied to its ends by placing the broadened or cushioned middle of the strap over the head just above the forehead.

• a radioactive metallic element that is similar to tellurium and bismuth; occurs in uranium ores but can be produced by bombarding bismuth with neutrons in a nuclear reactor

• like or containing small sticky lumps

• having lumps; not smooth and even in texture

• favoritism shown to relatives or close friends by those in power (as by giving them jobs)

• stone post at side of a road to show distances

• a writer who argues in opposition to others (especially in theology)

• an artificially made microscopic vesicle into which nucleic acids can be packaged; used in molecular biology as a transducing vector