Anagrams of: AADMNRU

• a dramatic work intended for performance by actors on a stage

• an episode that is turbulent or highly emotional

• the literary genre of works intended for the theater

• the quality of being arresting or highly emotional

• ritual hand movement in religion or religious dancing, particularly in Hinduism or Buddhism

• someone whose business is advertising

• any of various hard resins from trees of the family Dipterocarpaceae and of the genus Agathis; especially the amboyna pine

• a unit of weight used in Asia; has different values in different countries

• An Ottoman Turkish unit of surface area nominally equal to 1,600 square (Turkish) paces but actually varied at a provincial and local level according to land quality to accommodate its colloquial sense of the amount of land able to be plowed in a day, roughly equivalent to the Byzantine stremma or English acre.

• A modern Turkish unit of surface area equal to a decare (1000 m2), equivalent to the modern Greek stremma.

• Various other units in other areas of the former Ottoman Empire, usually equated to the decare but sometimes varying (as in Iraq, where it is 2500 m2).

• a musical percussion instrument; usually consists of a hollow cylinder with a membrane stretched across each end

• the sound of a drum

• a bulging cylindrical shape; hollow with flat ends

• a cylindrical metal container, commonly used for shipping or storage of liquids

• a hollow cast iron cylinder attached to the wheel that forms part of the brakes

• small to medium-sized bottom-dwelling food and game fishes of shallow coastal and fresh waters that make a drumming noise

• make a rhythmic sound

• play a percussion instrument

• study intensively, as before an exam

• a legislative body in the ruling assembly of Russia and of some other republics in the former USSR