Anagrams of: XANS

• a single-reed woodwind with a conical bore

• a Belgian maker of musical instruments who invented the saxophone (1814-1894)

• an edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle

• chop or split with an ax

• terminate

• a United States territory on the eastern part of the island of Samoa

• a very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms; arsenic and arsenic compounds are used as herbicides and insecticides and in various alloys; found in arsenopyrite and orpiment and realgar

• to the same degree (often followed by `as')

• an associate degree in nursing

• a silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group; occurs abundantly in natural compounds (especially in salt water); burns with a yellow flame and reacts violently in water; occurs in sea water and in the mineral halite (rock salt)