Anagrams of COUNTDOWN

• counting backward from an arbitrary number to indicate the time remaining before some event (such as launching a space vehicle)

• An emergency medical procedure in which the vein is exposed and a cannula is inserted into it.

• A customized scooter with parts of the bodywork removed or cut away.

• a print made from a woodcut

• engraving consisting of a block of wood with a design cut into it; used to make prints

• an injury to living tissue (especially an injury involving a cut or break in the skin)

• a casualty to military personnel resulting from combat

• a figurative injury (to your feelings or pride)

• the act of inflicting a wound

• put in a coil

• cause injuries or bodily harm to

• hurt the feelings of

• a Chinese dumpling filled with spiced minced pork; usually served in soup

• a soup with won ton dumplings

• being or moving lower in position or less in some value

• soft fine feathers

• English physician who first described Down's syndrome (1828-1896)

• (American football) a complete play to advance the football

• (usually plural) a rolling treeless highland with little soil

• fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs)

• spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position

• away from a more central or a more northerly place

• paid in cash at time of purchase

• from an earlier time

• to a lower intensity

• in an inactive or inoperative state

• extending or moving from a higher to a lower place

• becoming progressively lower

• being put out in a game of baseball

• understood perfectly

• lower than previously

• shut

• not functioning (temporarily or permanently)

• filled with melancholy and despondency

• drink down entirely

• eat up completely, as with great appetite

• bring down or defeat (an opponent)

• shoot at and force to come down

• cause to come or go down

• improve or perfect by pruning or polishing

• female of domestic cattle:

• mature female of mammals of which the male is called `bull'

• a large unpleasant woman

• subdue, restrain, or overcome by affecting with a feeling of awe; frighten (as with threats)

• United States film actress (1938-1981)

• the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees

• the trees and other plants in a large densely wooded area

• English conductor (1869-1944)

• any wind instrument other than the brass instruments

• English writer of novels about murders and thefts and forgeries (1814-1887)

• a golf club with a long shaft used to hit long shots; originally made with a wooden head

• United States painter noted for works based on life in the Midwest (1892-1942)

• one of the dwelling units in a condominium