Anagrams of: COVARIATES

• A variable that is possibly predictive of the outcome under study.

• the state of the sky when it is covered by clouds

• gloomy semidarkness caused by cloud cover

• a long whipstitch or overhand stitch overlying an edge to prevent raveling

• a cast that falls beyond the intended spot

• filled or abounding with clouds

• make overcast or cloudy

• sew over the edge of with long slanting wide stitches

• sew with an overcast stitch from one section to the next

• abnormally swollen or knotty

• A whirlwind, whirlpool, or similarly moving matter in the form of a spiral or column.

• Anything that involves constant violent or chaotic activity around some centre.

• Anything that inevitably draws surrounding things into its current.

• A supposed collection of particles of very subtle matter, endowed with a rapid rotary motion around an axis which was also the axis of a sun or planet; part of a Cartesian theory accounting for the formation of the universe, and the movements of the bodies composing it.

• Any of numerous species of small Turbellaria belonging to Vortex and allied genera.

• reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins)

• extreme greed for material wealth

• salted roe of sturgeon or other large fish; usually served as an hors d'oeuvre