Anagrams of: BLACKCOATED

• a war measure that isolates some area of importance to the enemy

• prevents access or progress

• hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of

• render unsuitable for passage

• obstruct access to

• impose a blockade on

• make effective from an earlier date

• A load carried on the return journey of a delivery vehicle.

• To load toward the back, or towards the end of a period.

• To load (cargo, shipment, etc.) after unloading has been completed.

• To transport further toward the rear of the theater of war.

• To fill a syringe with solution from the plunger end of the barrel.

• closed to traffic

• completely obstructed or closed off

• an ornament (such as a knot of ribbon or a rosette) usually worn on the hat

• being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness; having little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all incident light

• of or belonging to a racial group especially of sub-Saharan African origin

• the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white)

• British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat (1728-1799)

• popular child actress of the 1930's (born in 1928)

• total absence of light

• (board games) the darker pieces

• a person with African ancestry, "Negro" and "Negroid" are archaic and pejorative today

• black clothing (worn as a sign of mourning)

• marked by anger or resentment or hostility

• offering little or no hope

• stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable

• (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin

• (of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood

• extremely dark

• harshly ironic or sinister

• (of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading

• distributed or sold illicitly

• (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame

• (of coffee) without cream or sugar

• soiled with dirt or soot

• make or become black

• a sharp abrupt noise as if two objects hit together; may be repeated

• a simple valve with a hinge on one side; allows fluid to flow in only one direction

• make a rattling sound

• make a clucking sounds, characteristic of hens

• speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly

• To cause to contract into wrinkles or ridges, as some kinds of cloth after a wetting; to pucker.

• Enclosed in a shell.

• the sound made by a hen after laying an egg

• noisy talk

• a loud laugh suggestive of a hen's cackle

• talk or utter in a cackling manner

• squawk shrilly and loudly, characteristic of hens

• make a noise characteristic of a goose

• emit a loud, unpleasant kind of laughing

• a timepiece that shows the time of day

• measure the time or duration of an event or action or the person who performs an action in a certain period of time