Anagrams of: OCCIES_

• A padded or knit covering put on an item to keep it warm, especially a teapot or egg.

• A padded or knit covering for any item (often an electronic device such as a laptop computer).

• A work of crime fiction in which sex and violence are downplayed or treated humorously, and the crime and detection take place in a small, socially intimate community.

• pertaining to animals or animal life or action

• Cousin (usually as a term of address)

• Because

• the person or thing chosen or selected

• the act of choosing or selecting

• one of a number of things from which only one can be chosen

• of superior grade

• appealing to refined taste

• the helmsman of a ship's boat or a racing crew

• either of two related enzymes that control the production of prostaglandins and are blocked by aspirin

• act as the coxswain, in a boat race

• the person or thing chosen or selected

• the act of choosing or selecting

• one of a number of things from which only one can be chosen

• of superior grade

• appealing to refined taste

• the physical magnitude of something (how big it is)

• the property resulting from being one of a series of graduated measurements (as of clothing)

• any glutinous material used to fill pores in surfaces or to stiffen fabrics

• the actual state of affairs

• a large magnitude

• (used in combination) sized

• cover or stiffen or glaze a porous material with size or sizing (a glutinous substance)

• sort according to size

• make to a size; bring to a suitable size

• (of words) formed in imitation of a natural sound

• like or characteristic of an echo