Anagrams of: USCRIPT__

• 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.

• A stake driven into the ground.

• A type of punishment by which an offender had to rest his or her entire body weight on the top of a small stake.

• A tool in mountaineering that is driven into the snow and used as an anchor or to arrest falls.

• One of the soldiers or troops placed on a line forward of a position to warn against an enemy advance; or any unit (for example, an aircraft or ship) performing a similar function.

• (sometimes figurative) A sentry.

• A protester positioned outside an office, workplace etc. during a strike (usually in plural); also the protest itself.

• The card game piquet.

• 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

• A game at cards played between two persons, with thirty-two cards, all the deuces, threes, fours, fives, and sixes, being set aside.

• A stake driven into the ground.

• A type of punishment by which an offender had to rest his or her entire body weight on the top of a small stake.

• A tool in mountaineering that is driven into the snow and used as an anchor or to arrest falls.

• One of the soldiers or troops placed on a line forward of a position to warn against an enemy advance; or any unit (for example, an aircraft or ship) performing a similar function.

• (sometimes figurative) A sentry.

• A protester positioned outside an office, workplace etc. during a strike (usually in plural); also the protest itself.

• The card game piquet.

• To protest, organized by a labour union, typically in front of the location of employment.

• To enclose or fortify with pickets or pointed stakes.

• To tether to, or as if to, a picket.

• To guard, as a camp or road, by an outlying picket.

• To torture by forcing to stand with one foot on a pointed stake.

• To shake (something); to stir, move.

• To stir; to move.

• To flinch; shrink.

• Elymus repens, couch grass (a species of grass, often considered a weed)

• A person who makes quips; a joker

• a strange attitude or habit

• a narrow groove beside a beading

• twist or curve abruptly