Anagrams of TEPHRITE_

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

• the human face (`kisser' and `smiler' and `mug' are informal terms for `face' and `phiz' is British)

• English illustrator of several of Dickens' novels (1815-1882)

• 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)

• something given for victory or superiority in a contest or competition or for winning a lottery

• goods or money obtained illegally

• something given as a token of victory

• of superior grade

• hold dear

• to move or force, especially in an effort to get something open

• regard highly; think much of

• something serving to conceal plans; a fictitious reason that is concocted in order to conceal the real reason

• an artful or simulated semblance

• a person with special knowledge or ability who performs skillfully

• having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude

• of or relating to or requiring special knowledge to be understood

• lose validity

• pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life

• expel air

• Of or pertaining to herpes, or to any herpesvirus or herpesvirus-caused disease.