Anagrams of COMPER_

• 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.

• President.

• Cousin (usually as a term of address)

• Because

• the act of gripping or chewing off with the teeth and jaws

• chew noisily or vigorously

• a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States

• someone who jeers or mocks or treats something with contempt or calls out in derision

• long-tailed grey-and-white songbird of the southern United States able to mimic songs of other birds

• 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)

• qualities that are comparable

• examine and note the similarities or differences of

• be comparable

• consider or describe as similar, equal, or analogous

• to form the comparative or superlative form on an adjective or adverb

• another word for chromium when it is used in dyes or pigments

• plate with chromium

• treat with a chromium compound