Anagrams of CHORDA_

• a male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917)

• a person having great power

• the fifth pillar of Islam is a pilgrimage to Mecca during the month of Dhu al-Hijja; at least once in a lifetime a Muslim is expected to make a religious journey to Mecca and the Kaaba

• heavy-bodied Old World diving duck having a grey-and-black body and reddish head

• Cousin (usually as a term of address)

• Because

• something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage

• subject to a playful hoax or joke

• a unit of apothecary weight equal to an eighth of an ounce or to 60 grains

• a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 60 minims or 3.5516 cubic centimeters

• a unit of capacity or volume in the apothecary system equal to one eighth of a fluid ounce

• one who works hard at boring tasks

• a politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends

• a mediocre and disdained writer

• a tool (as a hoe or pick or mattock) used for breaking up the surface of the soil

• a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money

• an old or over-worked horse

• a horse kept for hire

• a saddle horse used for transportation rather than sport etc.

• cut with a hacking tool

• be able to manage or manage successfully

• cut away

• kick on the arms

• kick on the shins

• fix a computer program piecemeal until it works

• significantly cut up a manuscript

• cough spasmodically

• violent and needless disturbance

• garden consisting of a small cultivated wood without undergrowth