Anagrams of: CONTORTING

• soft silky fibers from cotton plants in their raw state

• fabric woven from cotton fibers

• erect bushy mallow plant or small tree bearing bolls containing seeds with many long hairy fibers

• thread made of cotton fibers

• take a liking to

• singing in a soft low tone

• the act of singing popular songs in a sentimental manner

• tall annual cereal grass bearing kernels on large ears: widely cultivated in America in many varieties; the principal cereal in Mexico and Central and South America since pre-Columbian times

• the dried grains or kernels or corn used as animal feed or ground for meal

• ears of corn that can be prepared and served for human food

• a hard thickening of the skin (especially on the top or sides of the toes) caused by the pressure of ill-fitting shoes

• (Great Britain) any of various cereal plants (especially the dominant crop of the region--wheat in Great Britain or oats in Scotland and Ireland)

• whiskey distilled from a mash of not less than 80 percent corn

• something sentimental or trite

• feed (cattle) with corn

• preserve with large-grained rock salt

• the sound made by a pigeon

• speak softly or lovingly

• cry softly, as of pigeons

• twist and press out of shape

• a small group of indispensable persons or things

• an organization founded by James Leonard Farmer in 1942 to work for racial equality

• the center of an object

• the central part of the Earth

• the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience

• a cylindrical sample of soil or rock obtained with a hollow drill

• the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work

• (computer science) a tiny ferrite toroid formerly used in a random access memory to store one bit of data; now superseded by semiconductor memories

• the chamber of a nuclear reactor containing the fissile material where the reaction takes place

• a bar of magnetic material (as soft iron) that passes through a coil and serves to increase the inductance of the coil

• remove the core or center from

• any cone-shaped artifact

• a shape whose base is a circle and whose sides taper up to a point

• cone-shaped mass of ovule- or spore-bearing scales or bracts

• a visual receptor cell in the retina that is sensitive to bright light and to color

• make cone-shaped

• (often preceded by the, sometimes capitalized) The argument "cogito, ergo sum" ("I think therefore I am") from the philosophy of René Descartes; the mental act of thinking this thought; a conscious being which performs this mental act.