Any good anagrams for carbohydrate conformation?

Carbohydrate conformation refers to the overall three-dimensional structure adopted by a carbohydrate molecule as a result of the through-bond and through-space physical forces it experiences arising from its molecular structure. The physical forces that dictate the three-dimensional shapes of all molecules—here, of all monosaccharide, oligosaccharide, and polysaccharide molecules—are sometimes summarily captured by such terms as "steric interactions" and "stereoelectronic effects". Saccharide and other chemical conformations can be reasonably shown using two-dimensional structure representations that follow set conventions; these capture for a trained viewer an understanding of the three-dimensional structure via structure drawings; they are also represented by stereograms on the two dimensional page, and increasingly using 3D display technologies on computer monitors. Formally and quantitatively, conformation is captured by description of a molecule's angles—e.g., sets of three sequential atoms and four sequential atoms, where the locations and angular directions of nonbonding electrons must sometimes also be taken into account.

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