Anagrams of: ONTICA

• something done (usually as opposed to something said)

• the state of being active

• a military engagement

• a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings)

• the series of events that form a plot

• the trait of being active and energetic and forceful

• the operating part that transmits power to a mechanism

• a judicial proceeding brought by one party against another; one party prosecutes another for a wrong done or for protection of a right or for prevention of a wrong

• an act by a government body or supranational organization

• the most important or interesting work or activity in a specific area or field

• In firearms terminology, the mechanism that handles the ammunition (loads, locks, fires, and extracts the cartridges).

• institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against

• put in effect

• a positively charged ion

• characterized by a lack of tonus

• (used of syllables) carrying no stress

• of or relating to or producing normal tone or tonus in muscles or tissue

• employing variations in pitch to distinguish meanings of otherwise similar words

• (used of syllables) bearing the principle stress, usually accompanied by a change in pitch

• lime- or lemon-flavored carbonated water containing quinine

• a sweet drink containing carbonated water and flavoring

• (music) the first note of a diatonic scale

• a medicine that strengthens and invigorates

• relating to or being the keynote of a major or minor scale

• imparting vitality and energy

• one of the proteins into which actomyosin can be split; can exist in either a globular or a fibrous form

• the highest part (usually the melody) in a piece of choral music

• a major division of a long poem

• a ludicrous or grotesque act done for fun and amusement

• ludicrously odd

• act as or like a clown

• omnivorous mammal of Central America and South America

• ratio of the adjacent to the opposite side of a right-angled triangle