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The fortnightly test your anagram power #26, 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!

EIOOPST	ISOTOPE One of two more atoms with the same atomic number that contain different numbers of neutrons.
ABEFILOT	LIFEBOAT A boat used in rescues at sea.
ABEIMNT	AMBIENT Surrounding; (noun) something which encompasses, the earth and sky.
DEGIILNT	DILIGENT Persevering.
DEIINPRT	INTREPID Fearless.
ADEEENRR	REEARNED (Pt.) REEARN, to earn again.
EIMNORTY	ENORMITY Something enormous; a grave offense against decency.
AEGNOSY	NOSEGAY A bouquet of fragrant flowers.
CEIMNOR	INCOMER One that comes in.
CEIMORT	MORTICE A hole or recess made in wood to receive a tenon; (verb) to cut a mortise in.
AEMNPTU	PUTAMEN (Lat.) a fruit stone; a membrane lining an eggshell.
ACEIMRTT	TREMATIC Of the gill-slits.
CDENOSY	ECDYSON An insect hormone.
EEIMORSZ	SIEROZEM (Russian) a type of soil, grayish at the top and brownish below, based on a carbonate or hardpan layer.
ACDIMOO	CAMOODI (Caribbean) an anaconda.
AAAHINRS	HARIANAS (Pl.) HARIANA, a breed of cattle.
ACEEPRTT	ETTERCAP (Scots) a spider.
EHNORRY	HERONRY A place for herons.
BCEIORRS	CRIBROSE Perforated like a sieve.
ABCHIMT	BATHMIC Relating to bathmism, directive evolutionary force.

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