Anagrams of: RAINCOAT

• egg-shaped terracotta wind instrument with a mouthpiece and finger holes

• a cobwebby partial veil consisting of silky fibrils

• an orange isomer of an unsaturated hydrocarbon found in many plants; is converted into vitamin A in the liver

• something done (usually as opposed to something said)

• the state of being active

• a military engagement

• a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings)

• the series of events that form a plot

• the trait of being active and energetic and forceful

• the operating part that transmits power to a mechanism

• a judicial proceeding brought by one party against another; one party prosecutes another for a wrong done or for protection of a right or for prevention of a wrong

• an act by a government body or supranational organization

• the most important or interesting work or activity in a specific area or field

• In firearms terminology, the mechanism that handles the ammunition (loads, locks, fires, and extracts the cartridges).

• institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against

• put in effect

• the musical director of a choir

• the official of a synagogue who conducts the liturgical part of the service and sings or chants the prayers intended to be performed as solos

• the quantity contained in a carton

• a box made of cardboard; opens by flaps on top

• any of various keel-shaped structures or ridges such as that on the breastbone of a bird or that formed by the fused petals of a pea blossom

• a keel-shaped constellation in the Southern Hemisphere; contains the star Canopus

• a member of the guerrilla force that opposed a left-wing government in Nicaragua