Anagrams of LICA_

• The outermost whorl of flower parts, comprising the sepals, which covers and protects the petals as they develop.

• Any of various cup-like structures.

• a white crystalline oxide used in the production of calcium hydroxide

• a correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence)

• lock up or confine, in or as in a jail

• 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

• the upper angle between an axis and an offshoot such as a branch or leafstalk

• (1970s, 1980s) Pizza.

• the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable

• be without

• To be insufficiently prepared

• a salt deposit that animals regularly lick

• touching with the tongue

• (boxing) a blow with the fist

• beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight

• pass the tongue over

• find the solution to (a problem or question) or understand the meaning of

• take up with the tongue

• pronounced with muscles of the tongue and jaw relatively relaxed (e.g., the vowel sound in `bet')

• lacking in firmness or tension; not taut

• lacking in rigor or strictness

• emptying easily or excessively

• an evasion of the point of an argument by raising irrelevant distinctions or objections

• raise trivial objections