Anagrams of: BARKENING

• tough protective covering of the woody stems and roots of trees and other woody plants

• a noise resembling the bark of a dog

• a sailing ship with 3 (or more) masts

• the sound made by a dog

• speak in an unfriendly tone

• cover with bark

• remove the bark of a tree

• make barking sounds

• tan (a skin) with bark tannins

• engaging in the business of keeping money for savings and checking accounts or for exchange or for issuing loans and credit etc.

• transacting business with a bank; depositing or withdrawing funds or requesting a loan etc.

• a restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle

• any of various ferns of the genus Pteris having pinnately compound leaves and including several popular houseplants

• large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan

• an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant

• anything that slows or hinders a process

• stop travelling by applying a brake

• cause to stop by applying the brakes

• an edge between a sidewalk and a roadway consisting of a line of curbstones (usually forming part of a gutter)

• making bread or cake or pastry etc.

• cooking by dry heat in an oven

• as hot as if in an oven

• a financier who owns or is an executive in a bank

• the person in charge of the bank in a gambling game

• position on a scale in relation to others in status or rank or achievement

• having a higher rank