Anagrams of: PUNCHIEST_

• A painted or stained calico fabric, originally produced in India, and known for its brightly colored designs.

• a small arch built across the interior angle of two walls (usually to support a spire)

• crouch down

• draw back, as with fear or pain

• cross one's eyes as if in strabismus

• A stake driven into the ground.

• A type of punishment by which an offender had to rest his or her entire body weight on the top of a small stake.

• A tool in mountaineering that is driven into the snow and used as an anchor or to arrest falls.

• One of the soldiers or troops placed on a line forward of a position to warn against an enemy advance; or any unit (for example, an aircraft or ship) performing a similar function.

• (sometimes figurative) A sentry.

• A protester positioned outside an office, workplace etc. during a strike (usually in plural); also the protest itself.

• The card game piquet.

• a tart filled with rich unsweetened custard; often contains other ingredients (as cheese or ham or seafood or vegetables)

• a member of the Mayan people of south central Guatemala

• the Mayan language spoken by the Quiche

• satisfy (thirst)

• put out, as of fires, flames, or lights

• suppress (sparking) when the current is cut off in an inductive circuit, or suppress (an oscillation or discharge) in a component or device

• suppress or crush completely

• reduce the degree of (luminescence or phosphorescence) in (excited molecules or a material) by adding a suitable substance

• cool (hot metal) by plunging into cold water or other liquid

• a tart filled with rich unsweetened custard; often contains other ingredients (as cheese or ham or seafood or vegetables)

• a member of the Mayan people of south central Guatemala

• the Mayan language spoken by the Quiche

• a brightly printed and glazed cotton fabric

• (chiefly Britain) The face.