Anagrams of COWH_

• Cousin (usually as a term of address)

• Because

• any of several white wines from the Rhine River valley in Germany (`hock' is British usage)

• tarsal joint of the hind leg of hoofed mammals; corresponds to the human ankle

• leave as a guarantee in return for money

• disable by cutting the hock

• An endangered nocturnal burrowing bird, Pterodroma cahow, from Bermuda; the Bermuda petrel.

• informal terms for a meal

• the imperial dynasty of China from 1122 to 221 BC; notable for the rise of Confucianism and Taoism

• breed of medium-sized dogs with a thick coat and fluffy curled tails and distinctive blue-black tongues; believed to have originated in northern China

• the cause or intention underlying an action or situation, especially in the phrase `the whys and wherefores'

• (interrogative) What person or people; which person or people.

• (relative) Used to refer to a previously mentioned person or people.

• (fused relative, archaic outside set patterns) The person(s) whom; whomever.