Anagrams of: _BDEHIRT

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

• 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 word that is composed of parts from different languages (e.g., `monolingual' has a Greek prefix and a Latin root)

• a composite of mixed origin

• (genetics) an organism that is the offspring of genetically dissimilar parents or stock; especially offspring produced by breeding plants or animals of different varieties or breeds or species

• a car which runs on two power sources, usually an internal combustion engine and an electronic motor

• produced by crossbreeding

• hard close-grained wood of any of various birch trees; used especially in furniture and interior finishes and plywood

• any betulaceous tree or shrub of the genus Betula having a thin peeling bark

• a switch consisting of a twig or a bundle of twigs from a birch tree; used to hit people as punishment

• consisting of or made of wood of the birch tree

• whip with a birch twig

• an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect

• be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics

• shift from one side of the ship to the other

• a dry cold north wind in southeastern France

• your occupation or line of work

• twisted (especially as in pain or struggle)