Anagrams of: BARBITONES

• having power or capacity or tendency to absorb or soak up something (liquids or energy etc.)

• a material having capacity or tendency to absorb another substance

• a barbiturate used as a hypnotic

• A widely cultivated Italian grape variety of high acidity, used in the production of white wine and brandy.

• A variety of dry white wine made from this grape.

• of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense)

• illegitimate

• befitting or characteristic of those who incline to social exclusiveness and who rebuff the advances of people considered inferior

• United States choreographer who brought human emotion to classical ballet and spirited reality to Broadway musicals (1918-1998)