Anagrams of COERCE_

• A groove at the ends of the staves of a barrel into which the edge of the head is fitted.

• A cooper's tool for making these grooves.

• Cousin (usually as a term of address)

• Because

• a small breed with wavy silky hair; originally developed in England

• treat with excessive indulgence

• of or relating to the null set (a set with no members)

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

• a mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number

• the point on a scale from which positive or negative numerical quantities can be measured

• the sight setting that will cause a projectile to hit the center of the target with no wind blowing

• indicating the absence of any or all units under consideration

• having no measurable or otherwise determinable value

• indicating an initial point or origin

• adjust (an instrument or device) to zero value

• adjust (as by firing under test conditions) the zero of (a gun)

• a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink

• nonsense; foolish talk

• an earthen jar (made of baked clay)

• release color when rubbed, of badly dyed fabric

• soil with or as with crock

• the chief executive department of the United States government

• a hospital where foundlings (infant children of unknown parents) are taken in and cared for

• a representation of Christ's nativity in the stable at Bethlehem

• the 26th letter of the Roman alphabet

• to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means