Anagrams of ECTMEN_

• Small portions of starters typical of Turkish and Greek cuisine (equivalent to Spanish tapas or Hawaiian pu pu) often served as a light meal with pita.

• put out or expel from a place

• eliminate (a substance)

• leave an aircraft rapidly, using an ejection seat or capsule

• cause to come out in a squirt

• the chief executive department of the United States government

• any of three isotopes of a colorless aromatic liquid hydrocarbon occurring in the volatile oil of cumin and thyme and used in the manufacture of synthetic resins

• the 26th letter of the Roman alphabet

• at the time or occasion immediately following

• immediately following in time or order

• nearest in space or position; immediately adjoining without intervening space

• (of elected officers) elected but not yet serving

• (of a day of the week) nearest (or nearest but one) after the present moment

• (of weather or climate) physically mild

• (used of persons or behavior) inclined to show mercy

• from that place or from there

• from that circumstance or source

• (used to introduce a logical conclusion) from that fact or reason or as a result

• A leap from one foot to the other in which one leg appears to be "thrown" in the direction of the movement.

• more or less flat-topped cluster of flowers in which the central or terminal flower opens first