Anagrams of: CCDEHLTU

• the act of grasping

• a tense critical situation

• a number of birds hatched at the same time

• a collection of things or persons to be handled together

• a woman's strapless purse that is carried in the hand

• a pedal or lever that engages or disengages a rotating shaft and a driving mechanism

• a coupling that connects or disconnects driving and driven parts of a driving mechanism

• take hold of; grab

• hold firmly, usually with one's hands

• affect

• Empty oyster shells and other substances laid down on oyster grounds to furnish points for the attachment of the spawn of the oyster.

• Young or seed oysters together with the shells and other objects to which they are usually attached.

• Rubbish; debris; refuse.

• rescue equipment consisting of a device that fills with air and retards your fall

• sloping channel through which things can descend

• jump from an airplane and descend with a parachute

• tannin extract derived from any of several mangrove barks of Pacific areas

• The rocks, crushed shells, and other sea detritus that create an oyster bed, where oyster spawn can attach themselves.

• To prepare an oyster bed with such (culch) attachments.

• To accumulate small household items of little value.

• of or relating to the Netherlands or its people or culture

• the people of the Netherlands

• the West Germanic language of the Netherlands

• rescue equipment consisting of a device that fills with air and retards your fall

• sloping channel through which things can descend

• jump from an airplane and descend with a parachute

• man with strong sexual desires