Anagrams of: UMBAT

• a sudden very loud noise

• an ancient city in southeastern Iran; destroyed by an earthquake in 2003

• the lowest brass wind instrument

• lie adjacent to another or share a boundary

• a prejudice (especially in Polynesia and other South Pacific islands) that prohibits the use or mention of something because of its sacred nature

• an inhibition or ban resulting from social custom or emotional aversion

• forbidden to profane use especially in South Pacific islands

• excluded from use or mention

• and nothing more

• nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate

• (baseball) a turn trying to get a hit

• a small racket with a long handle used for playing squash

• the club used in playing cricket

• a club used for hitting a ball in various games

• strike with, or as if with a baseball bat

• wink briefly

• have a turn at bat

• use a bat

• beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight

• a relatively large open container that you fill with water and use to wash the body

• a large open vessel for holding or storing liquids

• the amount that a tub will hold

• the bill in a restaurant

• sensationalist journalism

• the key on a typewriter or a word processor that causes a tabulation

• a short strip of material attached to or projecting from something in order to facilitate opening or identifying or handling it

• a dose of medicine in the form of a small pellet

• a thick flat pad used as a floor covering

• a master's degree in teaching

• mounting consisting of a border or background for a picture

• sports equipment consisting of a piece of thick padding on the floor for gymnastic sports

• a mass that is densely tangled or interwoven

• the property of having little or no contrast; lacking highlights or gloss

• a foundation (usually on soft ground) consisting of an extended layer of reinforced concrete

• a small pad of material that is used to protect surface from an object placed on it

• not reflecting light; not glossy

• twist together or entwine into a confusing mass

• change texture so as to become matted and felt-like