Anagrams of USHIPS__

• an examination consisting of a few short questions

• examine someone's knowledge of something

• easily squashed; resembling a sponge in having soft porous texture and compressibility

• (chiefly Britain) The face.

• the 19th letter of the Hebrew alphabet

• any of numerous annual trailing plants of the genus Cucurbita grown for their fleshy edible fruits

• edible fruit of a squash plant; eaten as a vegetable

• a game played in an enclosed court by two or four players who strike the ball with long-handled rackets

• to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition

• (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

• the noise of soft mud being walked on

• walk through mud or mire

• put (a liquid) into a container or another place by means of a squirting action

• 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)

• naughtily or annoyingly playful