Anagrams of: SAOTIAGOISLAND

• identifying the nature or cause of some phenomenon

• a rapid series of ascending or descending notes on the musical scale

• (musical direction) in the manner of a glissando (with a rapidly executed series of notes)

• The goldenrod, or any of various similar plants in the genus Solidago.

• a student of Chinese history and language and culture

• someone who looks for analogies or who reasons by analogy

• (geometry) a straight line connecting any two vertices of a polygon that are not adjacent

• a line or cut across a fabric that is not at right angles to a side of the fabric

• an oblique line of squares of the same color on a checkerboard

• (mathematics) a set of entries in a square matrix running diagonally either from the upper left to lower right entry or running from the upper right to lower left entry

• a punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of information

• connecting two nonadjacent corners of a plane figure or any two corners of a solid that are not in the same face

• having an oblique or slanted direction

• The coexistence in a given population of two closely related native languages or dialects, one of which is regarded as more prestigious than the other; the similar coexistence of two unrelated languages.

• The presence of a cleft or doubled tongue.

• Either a continuous sliding from one pitch to another ("true" glissando), or an incidental scale played while moving from one melodic note to another ("effective" glissando).

• A method of playing an electric guitar in which a metal bar is held at right angles across the strings and rapidly moved up and down, creating a smooth, lush sound.