Anagrams of: CORDECTOMY

• leniency and compassion shown toward offenders by a person or agency charged with administering justice

• a disposition to be kind and forgiving

• the feeling that motivates compassion

• something for which to be thankful

• alleviation of distress; showing great kindness toward the distressed

• small wolf native to western North America

• someone who smuggles illegal immigrants into the United States (usually across the Mexican border)

• a forest fire fighter who is sent to battle remote and severe forest fires (often for days at a time)

• United States tennis player who dominated women's tennis in the 1920s and 1930s (1905-1998)

• United States evangelist (1837-1899)

• showing a brooding ill humor

• subject to sharply varying moods

• a beguiler who leads someone into danger (usually as part of a plot)

• something used to lure fish or other animals into danger so they can be trapped or killed

• lure or entrap with or as if with a decoy

• more or less flat-topped cluster of flowers in which the central or terminal flower opens first

• a black-tipped plug clogging a pore of the skin

• extract the essence of something by boiling it

• be cooked until very little liquid is left

• steep in hot water