Anagrams of: OPHIURA_

• 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 witty saying

• witty remark

• make jokes or quips

• A eunuch in South Asia, especially one who dresses as a woman.

• A (typically biologically male or intersex, but sometimes biologically female) member of a somewhat feminine third gender found in India and Pakistan.

• The flight of Muhammad and his followers from Mecca to Yathrib (later Medina) in 622 ce, which forms the first year of the Islamic era (ah 1)

• AH: the Islamic era, dated from the Hijra.

• The Islamic calendar, dated from the Hijra

• Any similar flight or emigration to a better place.

• 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

• something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage

• subject to a playful hoax or joke

• an Arabic term of respect for someone who has made the pilgrimage to Mecca

• a sudden event that imparts energy or excitement, usually with a dramatic impact

• strike suddenly and with force

• kill with or as if with a burst of gunfire or electric current or as if by shooting

• strike at with firepower or bombs

• cook or heat in a microwave oven

• an alkaloid narcotic drug extracted from opium; a powerful, habit-forming narcotic used to relieve pain