Anagrams of: RHETORIC_

• a musical stringed instrument with strings stretched over a flat sounding board; it is laid flat and played with a plectrum and with fingers

• a staff surmounted by a crook or cross carried by bishops as a symbol of pastoral office

• preceding even the first

• German physicist who was the first to produce electromagnetic waves artificially (1857-1894)

• the unit of frequency; one hertz has a periodic interval of one second (named for Heinrich Rudolph Hertz)

• German physicist who with James Franck proved the existence of the stationary energy states postulated by Bohr (1887-1975)

• a padded cloth covering to keep a teapot warm

• enjoying or affording comforting warmth and shelter especially in a small space

• having or fostering a warm or friendly and informal atmosphere

• suggesting connivance

• spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts

• force or impel in an indicated direction

• A governess; a rectoress.

• A flight feather on the tails of birds, used for directional control.

• not thin; of a specific thickness or of relatively great extent from one surface to the opposite usually in the smallest of the three solid dimensions

• relatively dense in consistency

• the location of something surrounded by other things

• with a thick consistency

• in quick succession

• having component parts closely crowded together

• spoken as if with a thick tongue

• having a short and solid form or stature

• hard to pass through because of dense growth

• (of darkness) densely dark

• (used informally) associated on close terms

• (used informally) stupid

• abounding; having a lot of