Anagrams of: AUDITRESS

• (of animals having several estrous cycles in one breeding season) a state or interval of sexual inactivity or quiescence between periods of activity

• To lower a rate or rating

• To demote a sailor to a lower rank

• The long bone in the forearm, on the side of the thumb.

• The lighter bone (or fused portion of bone) in the forelimb of an animal.

• One of the major veins of the insect wing, between the subcosta and the media; the vein running along the costal edge of the discal cell.

• A line segment between any point of a circle or sphere and its center.

• The length of this line segment.

• Anything resembling a radius, such as the spoke of a wheel, the movable arm of a sextant, or one of the radiating lines of a spider's web.

• a detailed critical inspection

• applying the mind to learning and understanding a subject (especially by reading)

• a written document describing the findings of some individual or group

• a state of deep mental absorption

• a room used for reading and writing and studying

• a branch of knowledge

• preliminary drawing for later elaboration

• attentive consideration and meditation

• someone who memorizes quickly and easily (as the lines for a part in a play)

• a composition intended to develop one aspect of the performer's technique

• consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning

• be a student; follow a course of study; be enrolled at an institute of learning

• give careful consideration to

• be a student of a certain subject

• learn by reading books

• think intently and at length, as for spiritual purposes

• marked by assurance; exhibiting confidence

• characterized by certainty or security