Anagrams of ERTIP__

• a fastener for locking together two toothed edges by means of a sliding tab

• close with a zipper

• a coming to an end of a contract period

• the event of dying or departure from life

• an affix that is added in front of the word

• attach a prefix to

• a musical stringed instrument with strings stretched over a flat sounding board; it is laid flat and played with a plectrum and with fingers

• the human face (`kisser' and `smiler' and `mug' are informal terms for `face' and `phiz' is British)

• English illustrator of several of Dickens' novels (1815-1882)

• something given for victory or superiority in a contest or competition or for winning a lottery

• goods or money obtained illegally

• something given as a token of victory

• of superior grade

• hold dear

• to move or force, especially in an effort to get something open

• regard highly; think much of

• The state of being defective.

• (chiefly South Australia) A type of processed meat sausage; devon

• To go wrong or become defective.

• German physicist who was the first to produce electromagnetic waves artificially (1857-1894)

• the unit of frequency; one hertz has a periodic interval of one second (named for Heinrich Rudolph Hertz)

• German physicist who with James Franck proved the existence of the stationary energy states postulated by Bohr (1887-1975)

• a quick squirt of some liquid (usually carbonated water)

• eject (a liquid) quickly

• cover (a location) wholly or partially by squirting a liquid onto it