Anagrams of: LICHEN

• any of several eruptive skin diseases characterized by hard thick lesions grouped together and resembling lichens growing on rocks

• any thallophytic plant of the division Lichenes; occur as crusty patches or bushy growths on tree trunks or rocks or bare ground etc.

• very hot and finely tapering pepper of special pungency

• a republic in southern South America on the western slopes of the Andes on the south Pacific coast

• a position particularly well suited to the person who or organization which occupies it

• a small concavity

• an enclosure that is set back or indented

• (ecology) the status of an organism within its environment and community (affecting its survival as a species)

• cut of meat or fish including at least part of the backbone

• backbone of an animal

• cut through the backbone of an animal

• a unit of length equal to one twelfth of a foot

• a unit of measurement for advertising space

• advance slowly, as if by inches

• the 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet

• 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

• An approximation to the sound of a hiccup, used e.g. to indicate drunkenness.