Anagrams of: JAPANNING_

• lacquerware decorated and varnished in the Japanese manner with a glossy durable black lacquer

• a string of more than 3,000 islands to the east of Asia extending 1,300 miles between the Sea of Japan and the western Pacific Ocean

• lacquer with a durable glossy black finish, originally from the orient

• a constitutional monarchy occupying the Japanese Archipelago; a world leader in electronics and automobile manufacture and ship building

• coat with a lacquer, as done in Japan

• a person believed to bring bad luck to those around him

• an evil spell

• cast a spell over someone or something; put a hex on someone or something

• foredoom to failure

• the part of the skull of a vertebrate that frames the mouth and holds the teeth

• the bones of the skull that frame the mouth and serve to open it; the bones that hold the teeth

• holding device consisting of one or both of the opposing parts of a tool that close to hold an object

• talk socially without exchanging too much information

• talk incessantly and tiresomely

• chew (food); to bite and grind with the teeth

• censure severely or angrily

• The system of writing Japanese using Chinese characters.

• Any individual Chinese character as used in the Japanese language.

• To jest; play tricks.

• To mock; deride.

• To have sexual intercourse with.

• Japery; joking

• A quick evasive turn.

• To make a quick evasive turn.

• To cause a vehicle to make a quick evasive turn.

• In the games of spoilfive and forty-five, to win the game by taking all five tricks; also, to attempt to win all five tricks, losing what has been already won if unsuccessful.

• To elude; to cheat.