Anagrams of: OTCHING_

• a brightly printed and glazed cotton fabric

• a condition caused by blocking the airways to the lungs (as with food or swelling of the larynx)

• the act of suffocating (someone) by constricting the windpipe

• causing difficulty in breathing especially through lack of fresh air and presence of heat

• any of several white wines from the Rhine River valley in Germany (`hock' is British usage)

• tarsal joint of the hind leg of hoofed mammals; corresponds to the human ankle

• leave as a guarantee in return for money

• disable by cutting the hock

• To move irregularly up and down.

• To swarm (with).

• an embarrassing mistake

• make a mess of, destroy or ruin

• To eat.

• To call a discarded tile to produce a chow.

• 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

• a bluish-white lustrous metallic element; brittle at ordinary temperatures but malleable when heated; used in a wide variety of alloys and in galvanizing iron; it occurs naturally as zinc sulphide in zinc blende

• coat or cover with zinc

• (Italian) a small dumpling made of potato or flour or semolina that is boiled or baked and is usually served with a sauce or with grated cheese

• (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Italian descent