Anagrams of: VANDYKED

• a short pointed beard (named after the artist Anthony Vandyke)

• Flemish painter of numerous portraits (1599-1641)

• an American who lives in the North (especially during the American Civil War)

• an American (especially to non-Americans)

• pull, or move with a sudden movement

• a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel

• one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a young prince

• an American who lives in the North (especially during the American Civil War)

• an American (especially to non-Americans)

• pull, or move with a sudden movement

• English chemist who was a pioneer in electrochemistry and who used it to isolate elements sodium and potassium and barium and boron and calcium and magnesium and chlorine (1778-1829)

• metal device shaped in such a way that when it is inserted into the appropriate lock the lock's mechanism can be rotated

• United States lawyer and poet who wrote a poem after witnessing the British attack on Baltimore during the War of 1812; the poem was later set to music and entitled `The Star-Spangled Banner' (1779-1843)

• something crucial for explaining

• pitch of the voice

• any of 24 major or minor diatonic scales that provide the tonal framework for a piece of music

• a kilogram of a narcotic drug

• a winged often one-seed indehiscent fruit as of the ash or elm or maple

• a coral reef off the southern coast of Florida

• (basketball) a space (including the foul line) in front of the basket at each end of a basketball court; usually painted a different color from the rest of the court

• a list of answers to a test

• a list of words or phrases that explain symbols or abbreviations

• a generic term for any device whose possession entitles the holder to a means of access

• mechanical device used to wind another device that is driven by a spring (as a clock)

• the central building block at the top of an arch or vault

• a lever (as in a keyboard) that actuates a mechanism when depressed

• serving as an essential component

• identify as in botany or biology, for example

• provide with a key

• vandalize a car by scratching the sides with a key

• regulate the musical pitch of

• harmonize with or adjust to

• an organization of military vessels belonging to a country and available for sea warfare

• the navy of the United States of America; the agency that maintains and trains and equips combat-ready naval forces

• a dark shade of blue

• a feeling of grudging admiration and desire to have something that is possessed by another

• spite and resentment at seeing the success of another (personified as one of the deadly sins)

• feel envious towards; admire enviously

• be envious of; set one's heart on

• Used to indicate acknowledgement or acceptance.

• Used to introduce a sentence in order to draw attention to the importance of what is being said.

• Used in turn-taking, serving as a request to the speaker to grant the turn to the interrupter.

• A small, low island largely made of sand or coral.

• The name of the Latin-script letter K.

• A kilometer.

• A thousand of some unit (from kilo-).