Anagrams of: PONGIEST

• In mining, the removal of the desired ore from an underground mine, leaving behind an open space known as a stope.

• an inferior imitator of some distinguished writer, artist, or musician

• wild and domesticated birds having a heavy body and short legs

• wild and domesticated birds having a heavy body and short legs

• a porous mass of interlacing fibers that forms the internal skeleton of various marine animals and usable to absorb water or any porous rubber or cellulose product similarly used

• someone able to acquire new knowledge and skills rapidly and easily

• a follower who hangs around a host (without benefit to the host) in hope of gain or advantage

• primitive multicellular marine animal whose porous body is supported by a fibrous skeletal framework; usually occurs in sessile colonies

• wipe with a sponge, so as to clean or moisten

• ask for and get free; be a parasite

• erase with a sponge; as of words on a blackboard

• soak up with a sponge

• gather sponges, in the ocean

• (photography) the act of assuming a certain position (as for a photograph or portrait)

• a plug for a bunghole in a cask

• a regulator for controlling the flow of a liquid from a reservoir

• an inferior imitator of some distinguished writer, artist, or musician