Anagrams of: OUSIANS

• the act of persuading (or attempting to persuade); communication intended to induce belief or action

• of or resembling or characterized by ichor or sanies

• a fertile tract in a desert (where the water table approaches the surface)

• a shelter serving as a place of safety or sanctuary

• an abnormal passage leading from a suppurating cavity to the body surface

• any of various air-filled cavities especially in the bones of the skull

• a wide channel containing blood; does not have the coating of an ordinary blood vessel

• an effortful attempt to attain a goal

• Indian antelope; blackbuck

• a sloth of Central America that has two long claws on each forefoot and three long claws on each hindfoot

• relatively small fast-moving sloth with two long claws on each front foot

• estrangement from god

• (Akkadian) god of the Moon; counterpart of Sumerian Nanna

• an act that is regarded by theologians as a transgression of God's will

• ratio of the length of the side opposite the given angle to the length of the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle

• the 21st letter of the Hebrew alphabet

• commit a sin; violate a law of God or a moral law

• commit a faux pas or a fault or make a serious mistake