Anagrams of ALTRUIST__

• colorless glass made of almost pure silica

• a hard glossy mineral consisting of silicon dioxide in crystal form; present in most rocks (especially sandstone and granite); yellow sand is quartz with iron oxide impurities

• an examination consisting of a few short questions

• examine someone's knowledge of something

• an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone

• a degree or grade of excellence or worth

• a characteristic property that defines the apparent individual nature of something

• (music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound)

• high social status

• of superior grade

• of high social status

• (physics) hypothetical truly fundamental particle in mesons and baryons; there are supposed to be six flavors of quarks (and their antiquarks), which come in pairs; each has an electric charge of +2/3 or -1/3

• fresh unripened cheese of a smooth texture made from pasteurized milk, a starter, and rennet

• a strange attitude or habit

• a narrow groove beside a beading

• twist or curve abruptly

• a Muslim or Hindu mendicant monk who is regarded as a holy man

• an algebraic equation or function of the fourth degree

• nobleman (in various countries) ranking above a count

• humorist who wrote about the imaginary life of cockroaches (1878-1937)