Anagrams of OUABAINS

• A poisonous cardiac glycoside, g-strophanthin, found in the seeds of certain lianas.

• a dwarfed ornamental tree or shrub grown in a tray or shallow pot

• an ancient region of northeastern Africa (southern Egypt and northern Sudan) on the Nile; much of Nubia is now under Lake Nasser

• anything that tends to arouse

• an additional payment (or other remuneration) to employees as a means of increasing output

• a bowl-shaped vessel; usually used for holding food or liquids

• the quantity that a basin will hold

• a natural depression in the surface of the land often with a lake at the bottom of it

• the entire geographical area drained by a river and its tributaries; an area characterized by all runoff being conveyed to the same outlet

• a bathroom sink that is permanently installed and connected to a water supply and drainpipe; where you can wash your hands and face

• any of several large humped bovids having shaggy manes and large heads and short horns

• United States microbiologist (born in Poland) who developed the Sabin vaccine that is taken orally against poliomyelitis (born 1906)

• a unit of acoustic absorption equivalent to the absorption by a square foot of a surface that absorbs all incident sound

• a petty officer on a merchant ship who controls the work of other seamen