Anagrams of: VALERIC

• a disputant who quibbles; someone who raises annoying petty objections

• A light, usually lateen-rigged sailing ship used by the Portuguese and Spanish for about 300 years from the 15th century, first for trade and later for voyages of exploration.

• The sea blubber (Cyanea capillata); A jellyfish (Medusozoa).

• talk socially without exchanging too much information

• form by carving

• engrave or cut by chipping away at a surface

• cut to pieces

• a Roman Catholic priest who acts for another higher-ranking clergyman

• (Episcopal Church) a clergyman in charge of a chapel

• (Church of England) a clergyman appointed to act as priest of a parish

• have a craving, appetite, or great desire for

• plead or ask for earnestly

• To split or sever something with, or as if with, a sharp instrument.

• To break a single crystal (such as a gemstone or semiconductor wafer) along one of its more symmetrical crystallographic planes (often by impact), forming facets on the resulting pieces.

• To make or accomplish by or as if by cutting.

• To split (a complex molecule) into simpler molecules.

• To split.

• Of a crystal, to split along a natural plane of division.

• To cling, adhere or stick fast to something; used with to or unto.

• A characteristic pattern of beats, especially the 3-2 son clave.

• Singular of claves

• an evasion of the point of an argument by raising irrelevant distinctions or objections

• raise trivial objections