Anagrams of: TAMPONING

• a tool for tamping (e.g., for tamping tobacco into a pipe bowl or a charge into a drill hole etc.)

• press down tightly

• In combat, the soldier who takes point; the soldier who assumes the first and most exposed position in a combat military formation; the lead soldier/unit advancing through hostile or unsecured territory.

• (by extension) A most trusted assistant or associate; the person upon whom one would most rely.

• someone who wastes time

• move around slowly and aimlessly

• be apathetic, gloomy, or dazed

• arousing affect

• keenly distressing to the mind or feelings

• A platform at the top of a square-rigged vessel's mainmast; used for observation and for the attachment of rigging.

• plug for the muzzle of a gun to keep out dust and moisture

• the basic unit of electric current adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites

• a nucleotide found in muscle cells and important in metabolism; reversibly convertible to ADP and ATP

• any of various amines (such as putrescine or cadaverine) formed by the action of putrefactive bacteria