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The fortnightly test your anagram power #12, By David Sutton

Here is a quiz comprising twenty single-solution alphagrams of seven or eight letters. The first ten are words which a reasonably well-read person has a fair chance of knowing. The second ten are words likely to be known only to specialists or, of course, to good Scrabble players! Most of the words fall in the mid-probability range.

Hover over the relevant black box to reveal the answer. Good luck!

AEEGLLNR	ALLERGEN A substance causing an allergic reaction. Also ALLERGIN.
ABEEGIRV	VERBIAGE A profusion of words usually of little or obscure content.
EFLOORTU	FOOTRULE A one-foot ruler.
AAEGHNRU	HARANGUE To address (a person or crowd) in an angry, vehement, or forcefully persuasive way.
AAABDEST	DATABASE A collection of data in a computer; (verb) to put data into a database.
ABDILRY	RABIDLY (Adv.) RABID, afflicted with rabies.
DEENNRUV	UNNERVED (Pt.) UNNERVE, to deprive of courage.
AABDHINR	HAIRBAND A band for the hair.
AAFHIRST	AIRSHAFT A passage into a mine etc.
AILMPRU	PRIMULA Any of numerous usu. low perennial plants constituting the genus Primula.
ACEILMPT	PELMATIC Of or like a PELMA, an impression showing the shape of the sole.
ACGIILRS	GRACILIS (Lat.) a thigh muscle > GRACILES.
ACIOPRTY	POTICARY An apothecary. Also POTHECARY.
AEGLLNOV	LONGEVAL Long-lived. Also LONGAEVAL.
AEIMMNOS	SEMINOMA A malignant tumour of the testicle > SEMINOMAS or SEMINOMATA.
AHIIMNRU	MANUHIRI (Maori) a visitor to a MARAE > MANUHIRIS.
AIMNPSTU	SUMPITAN (Malay) a Malay blow-pipe made from a hollow cane. Also SUMPIT.
EGIKLNRS	ERLKINGS (Pl.) ERLKING, a spirit that does mischief or evil, esp. to children.
AEEFLRZ	ALFEREZ (Arabic) a standard-bearer > ALFERECES.
ACDNOORR	RONCADOR (Spanish) any one of several species of California sciaenoid food fishes.

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