Anagrams of: ICIANA_

• a bluish-white lustrous metallic element; brittle at ordinary temperatures but malleable when heated; used in a wide variety of alloys and in galvanizing iron; it occurs naturally as zinc sulphide in zinc blende

• coat or cover with zinc

• The call to prayer, which originally consisted of simply four takbirs followed by the statement لَا إِلٰهَ إِلَّا ٱلله (أَشْهَدُ أَنْ).

• A staining technique involving azocarmine and aniline dyes.

• the circulating life energy that in Chinese philosophy is thought to be inherent in all things; in traditional Chinese medicine the balance of negative and positive forms in the body is believed to be essential for good health

• a monocotyledonous genus of the family Iridaceae, comprising a number of cormous plants native to South Africa (Ixia)

• (1970s, 1980s) Pizza.

• an impression in a surface (as made by a blow)

• (British slang) a prison

• a small cut

• cut slightly, with a razor

• cut a nick into

• divide or reset the tail muscles of

• mate successfully; of livestock

• high quality porcelain originally made only in China

• a communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia; the most populous country in the world

• dishware made of high quality porcelain

• a government on the island of Taiwan established in 1949 by Chiang Kai-shek after the conquest of mainland China by the Communists led by Mao Zedong

• a series of things depending on each other as if linked together

• British biochemist (born in Germany) who isolated and purified penicillin, which had been discovered in 1928 by Sir Alexander Fleming (1906-1979)

• (chemistry) a series of linked atoms (generally in an organic molecule)

• a series of (usually metal) rings or links fitted into one another to make a flexible ligament

• (business) a number of similar establishments (stores or restaurants or banks or hotels or theaters) under one ownership

• anything that acts as a restraint

• a unit of length

• a series of hills or mountains

• a linked or connected series of objects

• a necklace made by stringing objects together

• connect or arrange into a chain by linking

• fasten or secure with chains