Anagrams of: CATHARTICS

• a purging medicine; stimulates evacuation of the bowels

• emotionally purging

• emotionally purging (of e.g. art)

• strongly laxative

• an abraded area where the skin is torn or worn off

• a depression scratched or carved into a surface

• informal terms for money

• a competitor who has withdrawn from competition

• a line indicating the location of the start of a race or a game

• dry mash for poultry

• a harsh noise made by scraping

• poor handwriting

• (golf) a handicap of zero strokes

• an indication of damage

• cause friction

• cut the surface of; wear away the surface of

• scrape or rub as if to relieve itching

• postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled

• remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line

• gather (money or other resources) together over time

• carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface

• so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period

• little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type

• To scratch.

• A grated crib or manger.

• The vertical planks at the forward end of the hold of a traditional English narrowboat which constrain the cargo and support the top plank or walkway.

• A swelling on a horse's pastern, under the fetlock.

• a person who archaizes

• an expert or collector of antiquities

• A Latin-American girl; a Latina.

• a stock market analyst who tries to predict market trends from graphs of recent prices of securities

• a 19th century English reformer who advocated better social and economic conditions for working people

• An ancient Greek stringed instrument, which could be considered a forerunner of the guitar.