Anagrams of: SYPHILISATION

• a common venereal disease caused by the treponema pallidum spirochete; symptoms change through progressive stages; can be congenital (transmitted through the placenta)

• a state that resembles sleep but that is induced by suggestion

• characterized by water flying about haphazardly

• marked by ostentation but often tasteless

• covered with patches of bright color

• in a pithy sententious manner

• In a phony way, or to a phony extent

• a tube running from the liquid in a vessel to a lower level outside the vessel so that gravity forces the liquid through the tube

• a tubular organ in an aquatic animal (especially in mollusks) through which water can be taken in or expelled

• convey, draw off, or empty by or as if by a siphon

• an ancient region on the coast of southwestern Palestine that was strategically located on a trade route between Syria and Egypt; important in biblical times