Anagrams of: BIRTH_

• your occupation or line of work

• ostentatious display of elegance

• Swiss hotelier who created a chain of elegant hotels (1850-1918)

• an ostentatiously elegant hotel

• emitting or reflecting light readily or in large amounts

• not made dim or less bright

• with brightness

• having strong or striking color

• characterized by quickness and ease in learning

• having lots of light either natural or artificial

• made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing; reflecting a sheen or glow

• splendid

• clear and sharp and ringing

• characterized by happiness or gladness

• likely to turn out well in the future

• 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

• a small inflamed elevation of the skin; a pustule or papule; common symptom in acne

• any triangular fore-and-aft sail (set forward of the foremast)

• refuse to comply

• shift from one side of the ship to the other

• the circulating life energy that in Chinese philosophy is thought to be inherent in all things; in traditional Chinese medicine the balance of negative and positive forms in the body is believed to be essential for good health

• a long narrow estuary (especially in Scotland)

• English linguist who contributed to linguistic semantics and to prosodic phonology and who was noted for his insistence on studying both sound and meaning in context (1890-1960)

• your friends and acquaintances

• a loop in a rope

• a bend or curve (especially in a coastline)

• a broad bay formed by an indentation in the shoreline

• the middle part of a slack rope (as distinguished from its ends)

• fasten with a bight