Anagrams of: NIGHTBIRD_

• hard close-grained wood of any of various birch trees; used especially in furniture and interior finishes and plywood

• any betulaceous tree or shrub of the genus Betula having a thin peeling bark

• a switch consisting of a twig or a bundle of twigs from a birch tree; used to hit people as punishment

• consisting of or made of wood of the birch tree

• whip with a birch twig

• large American flycatcher

• an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect

• be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics

• shift from one side of the ship to the other

• 12 o'clock at night; the middle of the night

• a word that is composed of parts from different languages (e.g., `monolingual' has a Greek prefix and a Latin root)

• a composite of mixed origin

• (genetics) an organism that is the offspring of genetically dissimilar parents or stock; especially offspring produced by breeding plants or animals of different varieties or breeds or species

• a car which runs on two power sources, usually an internal combustion engine and an electronic motor

• produced by crossbreeding

• very lively and profitable

• moving in a twisting or snake-like or wormlike fashion

• eastern subspecies of northern oriole

• a loop in a rope

• a bend or curve (especially in a coastline)

• a broad bay formed by an indentation in the shoreline

• the middle part of a slack rope (as distinguished from its ends)

• fasten with a bight

• the process of giving birth