Anagrams of: UPCOILS__

• An unpleasant or disgusting (scuzzy) person

• an examination consisting of a few short questions

• examine someone's knowledge of something

• Raw or sensitive flesh, especially that underneath finger and toe nails.

• Plants used in making a quickset hedge

• The life; the mortal point; a vital part; a part susceptible to serious injury or keen feeling.

• Quitchgrass.

• A fast bowler.

• To amalgamate surfaces prior to gilding or silvering by dipping them into a solution of mercury in nitric acid.

• To quicken.

• any area of the body that is highly sensitive to pain (as the flesh underneath the skin or a fingernail or toenail)

• with little or no delay

• accomplished rapidly and without delay

• hurried and brief

• moving quickly and lightly

• apprehending and responding with speed and sensitivity

• performed with little or no delay

• easily aroused or excited

• in a cozy manner

• the 19th letter of the Hebrew alphabet

• a padded cloth covering to keep a teapot warm

• enjoying or affording comforting warmth and shelter especially in a small space

• having or fostering a warm or friendly and informal atmosphere

• suggesting connivance

• 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)