Anagrams of: QUAKERISM

• a short high-pitched noise

• something achieved (or escaped) by a narrow margin

• make a high-pitched, screeching noise

• a noblewoman ranking below a duchess and above a countess

• permanent canopy over an entrance of a hotel etc.

• a member of the Religious Society of Friends founded by George Fox (the Friends have never called themselves Quakers)

• one who quakes and trembles with (or as with) fear

• shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane or from volcanic activity

• shake with fast, tremulous movements

• shake with seismic vibrations

• (physics) hypothetical truly fundamental particle in mesons and baryons; there are supposed to be six flavors of quarks (and their antiquarks), which come in pairs; each has an electric charge of +2/3 or -1/3

• fresh unripened cheese of a smooth texture made from pasteurized milk, a starter, and rennet

• a strange attitude or habit

• a narrow groove beside a beading

• twist or curve abruptly

• a quark with an electric charge of -1/3 and a mass 988 times that of an electron and a strangeness of -1

• nobleman (in various countries) ranking above a count

• humorist who wrote about the imaginary life of cockroaches (1878-1937)