Anagrams of: FRANCHISETAX

• (psychoanalysis) the libidinal energy invested in some idea or person or object

• In the Byzantine Empire, a governor of a distant province.

• In the Eastern Christian Churches, the deputy of a patriarch, or a bishop who holds authority over other bishops without being a patriarch.

• In these same churches, a bishop appointed over a group of the faithful not yet large enough or organized enough to constitute an eparchy or diocese.

• Of a yellowish colour.

• to render motionless, as with a fixed stare or by arousing terror or awe

• pierce with a sharp stake or point

• a bishop in one of several Eastern Orthodox Churches in North America

• a bishop in eastern Christendom who holds a place below a patriarch but above a metropolitan

• a viceroy who governed a large province in the Roman Empire

• an authorization to sell a company's goods or services in a particular place

• a business established or operated under an authorization to sell or distribute a company's goods or services in a particular area

• a statutory right or privilege granted to a person or group by a government (especially the rights of citizenship and the right to vote)

• grant a franchise to

• a highly infectious animal disease (especially cattle and sheep); it can be transmitted to people

• a disease of humans that is not communicable; caused by infection with Bacillus anthracis followed by septicemia

• carved ornament at the eaves of a tile roof concealing the joints between tiles

• portico at the west end of an early Christian basilica or church

• a vestibule leading to the nave of a church