Anagrams of: COGNOMINA

• the beginning or early stages

• moving toward one

• a raised framework around a hatchway on a ship to keep water out

• the act of drawing spatially closer to something

• arrival that has been awaited (especially of something momentous)

• the temporal property of becoming nearer in time

• the moment of most intense pleasure in sexual intercourse

• of the relatively near future

• relating to or containing gnomes

• To hit someone or something with a mace.

• To spray in defense or attack with mace (pepper spray or tear gas) using a hand-held device.

• To spray a similar noxious chemical in defense or attack using an available hand-held device such as an aerosol spray can.

• any art that invokes supernatural powers

• an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers

• possessing or using or characteristic of or appropriate to supernatural powers

• a starch made by leaching and drying the root of the cassava plant; the source of tapioca; a staple food in the tropics

• cassava root eaten as a staple food after drying and leaching; source of tapioca

• cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems; used especially to make cassiri (an intoxicating drink) and tapioca

• a large truck designed to carry heavy loads; usually without sides

• a low heavy horse cart without sides; used for haulage