Anagrams of: APHICA_

• the human face (`kisser' and `smiler' and `mug' are informal terms for `face' and `phiz' is British)

• English illustrator of several of Dickens' novels (1815-1882)

• marine bivalve common in Philippine coastal waters characterized by a large thin flat translucent shell

• someone who has won first place in a competition

• chafe at the bit, like horses

• chew noisily or vigorously

• a code of letters and digits added to a postal address to aid in the sorting of mail

• a quantity of no importance; thing (object:), singular, negative pronoun; pronoun, thing, singular; quantifier: negative existential

• forceful exertion

• a fastener for locking together two toothed edges by means of a sliding tab

• close with a zipper

• move very fast

• intelligent somewhat arboreal ape of equatorial African forests

• an Arabic term of respect for someone who has made the pilgrimage to Mecca

• a sudden event that imparts energy or excitement, usually with a dramatic impact

• strike suddenly and with force

• kill with or as if with a burst of gunfire or electric current or as if by shooting

• strike at with firepower or bombs

• cook or heat in a microwave oven

• related to or affected by aphasia

• someone affected by aphasia or inability to use or understand language

• unable to speak because of a brain lesion

• flat pancake-like bread cooked on a griddle