Anagrams of: GROVELLINGS_

• To extenuate, explain away, gloss over.

• To use flattering language.

• To smooth over; to palliate by specious explanation.

• To give a shine to (something or someone).

• The act of one who glozes; flattery; deceit.

• a piece of armor plate (with eye slits) fixed or hinged to a medieval helmet to protect the face

• a brim that projects to the front to shade the eyes

• extremely annoying or displeasing

• causing irritation or annoyance

• a hand tool for lifting loose material; consists of a curved container or scoop and a handle

• the quantity a shovel can hold

• a fire iron consisting of a small shovel used to scoop coals or ashes in a fireplace

• a machine for excavating

• dig with or as if with a shovel

• 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)

• a piece of armor plate (with eye slits) fixed or hinged to a medieval helmet to protect the face

• a brim that projects to the front to shade the eyes

• (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Italian descent

• a striking or amusing or caustic remark