Anagrams of CORRUPTION__

• a spicy Spanish pork sausage

• A poisonous material, extracted from the seeds of the Anamirta cocculus, used as a stimulant; it is a complex of two alkaloids - picrotoxinin and picrotin

• someone who is victorious by force of arms

• a viral disease of cattle causing a mild skin disease affecting the udder; formerly used to inoculate humans against smallpox

• hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitocin); stimulates contractions of the uterus and ejection of milk

• a brightly printed and glazed cotton fabric

• common European arum with lanceolate spathe and short purple spadix; emerges in early spring; source of a starch called arum

• A game at cards played between two persons, with thirty-two cards, all the deuces, threes, fours, fives, and sixes, being set aside.

• A stake driven into the ground.

• A type of punishment by which an offender had to rest his or her entire body weight on the top of a small stake.

• A tool in mountaineering that is driven into the snow and used as an anchor or to arrest falls.

• One of the soldiers or troops placed on a line forward of a position to warn against an enemy advance; or any unit (for example, an aircraft or ship) performing a similar function.

• (sometimes figurative) A sentry.

• A protester positioned outside an office, workplace etc. during a strike (usually in plural); also the protest itself.

• The card game piquet.

• To protest, organized by a labour union, typically in front of the location of employment.

• To enclose or fortify with pickets or pointed stakes.

• To tether to, or as if to, a picket.

• To guard, as a camp or road, by an outlying picket.

• To torture by forcing to stand with one foot on a pointed stake.