Anagrams of: OGREISM

• (ethics) the theory that the pursuit of your own welfare is the basis of morality

• concern for your own interests and welfare

• A conical chamber at the breech of the bore in heavy ordnance, especially in mortars.

• A stupid, awkward, or oafish person.

• An inept trainee or serviceperson.

• An opponent in combat or in training.

• An undesirable hospital patient, or a patient who does not need medical care.

• A dirty, senile, or otherwise unpleasant patient.

• A patient who does not respond to medical treatment.

• A former small Hebrew unit of dry volume equal to about 2.3 L or 2.1 quarts.

• A vessel of one omer.

• The sheaf of barley offered on the second day of Passover.

• The counting of the omer, that is, the period of 49 days between Passover and Shavuot.

• anything regarded as making something unclean

• make soiled, filthy, or dirty

• something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known

• a device or control that is very useful for a particular job

• anything regarded as making something unclean

• make soiled, filthy, or dirty

• a compound that exists in forms having different arrangements of atoms but the same molecular weight

• anything that provides inspiration for later work

• a small apparently simple structure (as a fertilized egg) from which new tissue can develop into a complete organism

• a minute life form (especially a disease-causing bacterium); the term is not in technical use

• having a surface covered with a network of cracks and small crevices