Anagrams of: URNSPIT__

• an examination consisting of a few short questions

• examine someone's knowledge of something

• characterized by squinting

• (used especially of glances) directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion or envy

• A person who makes quips; a joker

• a strange attitude or habit

• a narrow groove beside a beading

• twist or curve abruptly

• Waste time.

• (Pennsylvania Dutch) To go around viewing the putzes in the neighborhood.

• a person believed to bring bad luck to those around him

• an evil spell

• cast a spell over someone or something; put a hex on someone or something

• foredoom to failure

• (Greek mythology) a riddling winged monster with a woman's head and breast on a lion's body; daughter of Typhon

• an inscrutable person who keeps his thoughts and intentions secret

• one of a number of large stone statues with the body of a lion and the head of a man that were built by the ancient Egyptians

• a strange attitude or habit

• a narrow groove beside a beading

• twist or curve abruptly

• having an agreeably pungent taste

• engagingly stimulating or provocative

• attracting or delighting

• 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)