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The fortnightly test your anagram power #24, 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!

AABCEIRT	BACTERIA (Pl.) BACTERIUM, a class of unicellular or filamentous micro-organisms.
EEEIMRST	EREMITES (Pl.) EREMITE, a hermit, a religious recluse.
EEIMNNT	EMINENT Of high station or rank > EMINENTLY.
ACDEGIRS	DISGRACE To bring shame or discredit upon.
ACGILNOT	LOCATING (Pp.) LOCATE, to determine the position of.
ACFINORT	FRACTION A fragment or small piece; (verb) to reduce to a fraction.
ACIMNORT	ROMANTIC Related to romance > ROMANTICALLY; (noun) a fanciful person > ROMANTICS.
AEFIMNST	MANIFEST Clear, obvious > MANIFESTLY; (verb) to show clearly.
AACDERV	CADAVER A corpse.
AACEFRS	CARAFES (Pl.) CARAFE, a glass bottle for water or wine at a table, in a bedroom, etc.
AIILMNPT	PALMITIN A glyceride of palmitic acid.
BEGIINTW	BITEWING A dental X-ray film.
BEINRSSU	SUBERINS (Pl.) SUBERIN, a compound found in cork.
CEIINRSS	SERICINS (Pl.) SERICIN, a gelatinous nitrogenous material extracted from crude silk.
INNOOPS	OPSONIN A substance of blood serum making bacteria vulnerable to phagocytic action.
AAGIRRY	ARGYRIA Skin pigmentation caused by long exposure to silver.
EGIIMNPR	IMPINGER One that impinges.
AEILMMTU	MALEMIUT (Inuit) an Alaskan sled dog.
AEILMPSS	PESSIMAL Least favourable.
AENPSSTY	SYNAPTES (Pl.) SYNAPTE, in the Greek church, a litany.

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