Anagrams of: ERCOME_

• 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.

• 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.

• Cousin (usually as a term of address)

• Because

• 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

• Quill

• The flight feather of a bird.

• 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)

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

• plate with chromium

• treat with a chromium compound

• the chief executive department of the United States government

• British term for someone who introduces television acts or cabarets etc

• act as a master of ceremonies

• a person who is of equal standing with another in a group