Anagrams of: ALCYON

• (especially in combination) a univalent functional group, -CN, consisting of a carbon and a nitrogen atom joined with a triple bond; organic compounds containing a cyano group are nitriles

• United States general who commanded United States forces in Europe from 1945 to 1949 and who oversaw the Berlin airlift (1898-1978)

• a very fine-grained soil that is plastic when moist but hard when fired

• United States politician responsible for the Missouri Compromise between free and slave states (1777-1852)

• water soaked soil; soft wet earth

• the dead body of a human being

• made of or resembling lace

• having open interstices or resembling a web

• a primary subtractive color for light; has a blue-green color

• of the blue-green color that is a primary subtractive color of light

• any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes

• small short-eared burrowing mammal of rocky uplands of Asia and western North America

• any of various burrowing animals of the family Leporidae having long ears and short tails; some domesticated and raised for pets or food

• supply or feed to surfeit

• cause surfeit through excess though initially pleasing

• Any bird of either of the genera Colius or Urocolius, endemic to sub-Saharan Africa.

• any group or radical of the form RCO- where R is an organic group

• affectedly modest or shy especially in a playful or provocative way

• showing marked and often playful or irritating evasiveness or reluctance to make a definite or committing statement

• modestly or warily rejecting approaches or overtures