Anagrams of XIPHIAS_

• A tool, similar to a hatchet, used to prepare slate for roofing.

• (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 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)

• a constellation in the Southern Hemisphere near Puppis and Antlia

• fruit of such plants as the plantain; a capsule whose upper part falls off when the seeds are released

• a small box used by ancient Greeks to hold medicines

• creeping evergreen shrub having narrow overlapping leaves and early white star-shaped flowers; of the pine barrens of New Jersey and the Carolinas

• (folklore) fairies that are somewhat mischievous

• the fleshy axis of a spike often surrounded by a spathe

• position six in a countable series of things

• one part in six equal parts

• the musical interval between one note and another six notes away from it

• coming next after the fifth and just before the seventh in position

• (folklore) fairies that are somewhat mischievous

• creeping evergreen shrub having narrow overlapping leaves and early white star-shaped flowers; of the pine barrens of New Jersey and the Carolinas