Anagrams of SUBTROPICS_

• A quick and sketchy drawing, often of a live model. Croquis drawings are usually made in a few minutes, after which the model changes pose and another croquis is drawn.

• a quick squirt of some liquid (usually carbonated water)

• eject (a liquid) quickly

• cover (a location) wholly or partially by squirting a liquid onto it

• a man's courting of a woman; seeking the affections of a woman (usually with the hope of marriage)

• martial music with variations; to be played by bagpipes

• A quantum bit; the basic unit of quantum information described by a superposition of two states; a quantum bit in a quantum computer capable of being in a state of superposition.

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

• a man's courting of a woman; seeking the affections of a woman (usually with the hope of marriage)

• the quality of being unclear or abstruse and hard to understand

• an obscure and unimportant standing; not well known

• the state of being indistinct or indefinite for lack of adequate illumination

• any of various stocky heavy-coated breeds of dogs native to northern regions having pointed muzzles and erect ears with a curled furry tail

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