Anagrams of: QUILLS_

• an examination consisting of a few short questions

• examine someone's knowledge of something

• firework consisting of a tube filled with powder (as a broken firecracker) that burns with a fizzing noise

• a witty saying

• witty remark

• make jokes or quips

• a kind of mantis shrimp

• bulb of the sea squill, which is sliced, dried, and used as an expectorant

• having dense spikes of small white flowers and yielding a bulb with medicinal properties

• an Old World plant of the genus Scilla having narrow basal leaves and pink or blue or white racemose flowers

• (Italian cuisine) squid prepared as food

• widely distributed fast-moving ten-armed cephalopod mollusk having a long tapered body with triangular tail fins

• sudden violent winds; often accompanied by precipitation

• make high-pitched, whiney noises

• utter a sudden loud cry

• blow in a squall

• a witty saying

• witty remark

• make jokes or quips

• suppress or crush completely

• overcome or allay

• the basic unit of money in Great Britain and Northern Ireland; equal to 100 pence

• something for something; that which a party receives (or is promised) in return for something he does or gives or promises

• a wad of something chewable as tobacco