Anagrams of: APOLOGETICS

• offering or expressing apology

• of or relating to or deriving from the Apostles or their teachings

• proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles

• Any organism that lives in the open sea rather than in coastal or inland waters.

• defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning

• acknowledge faults or shortcomings or failing

• a biologist who studies the relation between organisms and their environment

• of or relating to poetry

• characteristic of or befitting poetry

• a person who argues to defend or justify some policy or institution

• relating to or occurring or living in or frequenting the open ocean