Anagrams of: REGOLITH_

• a musical stringed instrument with strings stretched over a flat sounding board; it is laid flat and played with a plectrum and with fingers

• preceding even the first

• German physicist who was the first to produce electromagnetic waves artificially (1857-1894)

• the unit of frequency; one hertz has a periodic interval of one second (named for Heinrich Rudolph Hertz)

• German physicist who with James Franck proved the existence of the stationary energy states postulated by Bohr (1887-1975)

• spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts

• force or impel in an indicated direction

• type genus of the family Helicidae

• a curve that lies on the surface of a cylinder or cone and cuts the element at a constant angle

• a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops

• tasteless showiness

• A comment in the margin; explanatory note; gloss; commentary.

• Flattery.

• (False) appearance.

• A specious show, a deceit.

• To extenuate, explain away, gloss over.

• To use flattering language.

• To smooth over; to palliate by specious explanation.

• To give a shine to (something or someone).

• someone who fights (or is fighting)

• a high-speed military or naval airplane designed to destroy enemy aircraft in the air

• someone who fights for a cause