Anagrams of: OPHITIC_

• the human face (`kisser' and `smiler' and `mug' are informal terms for `face' and `phiz' is British)

• English illustrator of several of Dickens' novels (1815-1882)

• the 19th letter of the Hebrew alphabet

• a microchip that uses tiny strands of DNA to latch onto and quickly recognize thousands of genes at a time; intended for use in a biological environment

• of the blackest black; similar to the color of jet or coal

• having the characteristics of pitch or tar

• suffering from irrational fears

• pertaining to animals or animal life or action

• not thin; of a specific thickness or of relatively great extent from one surface to the opposite usually in the smallest of the three solid dimensions

• relatively dense in consistency

• the location of something surrounded by other things

• with a thick consistency

• in quick succession

• having component parts closely crowded together

• spoken as if with a thick tongue

• having a short and solid form or stature

• hard to pass through because of dense growth

• (of darkness) densely dark

• (used informally) associated on close terms

• (used informally) stupid

• abounding; having a lot of

• a code of letters and digits added to a postal address to aid in the sorting of mail

• a quantity of no importance; thing (object:), singular, negative pronoun; pronoun, thing, singular; quantifier: negative existential

• forceful exertion

• a fastener for locking together two toothed edges by means of a sliding tab

• close with a zipper

• move very fast