Anagrams of: URCEOLI

• the backward jerk of a gun when it is fired

• a movement back from an impact

• draw back, as with fear or pain

• come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect

• spring back; spring away from an impact

• spring back, as from a forceful thrust

• Either of two great circles (meridians) that intersect at the poles and either the equinoxes or solstices.

• (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering

• a circumscribed inflammatory and often suppurating lesion on the skin or an internal mucous surface resulting in necrosis of tissue

• an antiquity that has survived from the distant past

• something of sentimental value

• French physicist; husband of Marie Curie (1859-1906)

• a unit of radioactivity equal to the amount of a radioactive isotope that decays at the rate of 37,000,000,000 disintegrations per second

• French chemist (born in Poland) who won two Nobel prizes; one (with her husband and Henri Becquerel) for research on radioactivity and another for her discovery of radium and polonium (1867-1934)

• something unusual -- perhaps worthy of collecting

• informal terms for money

• the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses)