Anagrams of: AVICENNA_

• a bluish-white lustrous metallic element; brittle at ordinary temperatures but malleable when heated; used in a wide variety of alloys and in galvanizing iron; it occurs naturally as zinc sulphide in zinc blende

• coat or cover with zinc

• (of experimental animals) raised under sterile conditions

• (used of cultures of microorganisms) completely free from other organisms

• A harem on the Indian subcontinent; a part of the house reserved for high-caste women; a system of segregating women into harems.

• An effeminate or crossdressing male in northern India or Pakistan. (Also spelled zanána.)

• immunogen consisting of a suspension of weakened or dead pathogenic cells injected in order to stimulate the production of antibodies

• someone who lives in a cave

• a style of jazz played by big bands popular in the 1930s; flowing rhythms but less complex than later styles of jazz

• dance to jive music; dance the jive

• a beverage consisting of an infusion of ground coffee beans

• an island in Indonesia to the south of Borneo; one of the world's most densely populated regions

• a platform-independent object-oriented programming language

• lively, in music

• (of tempo) very fast and lively

• a local infection induced in humans by inoculation with the virus causing cowpox in order to confer resistance to smallpox; normally lasts three weeks and leaves a pitted scar