Anagrams of: PIONIES

• a range horse of the western United States

• an informal term for a racehorse

• a literal translation used in studying a foreign language (often used illicitly)

• a small glass adequate to hold a single swallow of whiskey

• any of various breeds of small gentle horses usually less than five feet high at the shoulder

• express one's opinion openly and without fear or hesitation

• expect, believe, or suppose

• the series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord

• any sharply pointed projection

• a small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf

• the part of a book's cover that encloses the inner side of the book's pages and that faces outward when the book is shelved

• a sharp rigid animal process or appendage; as a porcupine quill or a ridge on a bone or a ray of a fish fin

• a coniferous tree

• straight-grained durable and often resinous white to yellowish timber of any of numerous trees of the genus Pinus

• have a desire for something or someone who is not present

• a cgs unit of dynamic viscosity equal to one dyne-second per square centimeter; the viscosity of a fluid in which a force of one dyne per square centimeter maintains a velocity of 1 centimeter per second

• a state of being balanced in a stable equilibrium

• great coolness and composure under strain

• be motionless, in suspension

• prepare (oneself), often but not necessarily for something unpleasant or difficult

• cause to be balanced or suspended

• hold or carry in equilibrium

• Old or New World straight-billed game bird of the sandpiper family; of marshy areas; similar to the woodcocks

• a gunshot from a concealed location

• hunt or shoot snipe

• aim and shoot with great precision

• attack in speech or writing

• express one's opinion openly and without fear or hesitation

• expect, believe, or suppose

• a meson involved in holding the nucleus together; produced as the result of high-energy particle collision

• retinal protein formed by the action of light on rhodopsin