Anagrams of: DERMAPTERA

• a constant in the equation of a curve that can be varied to yield a family of similar curves

• any factor that defines a system and determines (or limits) its performance

• (computer science) a reference or value that is passed to a function, procedure, subroutine, command, or program

• a quantity (such as the mean or variance) that characterizes a statistical population and that can be estimated by calculations from sample data

• a tool for tamping (e.g., for tamping tobacco into a pipe bowl or a charge into a drill hole etc.)

• play around with or alter or falsify, usually secretively or dishonestly

• intrude in other people's affairs or business; interfere unwantedly

• Made in advance

• To make in advance

• a vagrant

• a person who engages freely in promiscuous sex

• a foot traveler; someone who goes on an extended walk (for pleasure)

• a heavy footfall

• a commercial steamer for hire; one having no regular schedule

• a long walk usually for exercise or pleasure

• travel on foot, especially on a walking expedition

• walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud

• cross on foot

• move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment

• an embankment built around a space for defensive purposes

• a movable iron plate that regulates the draft in a stove or chimney or furnace

• a device that decreases the amplitude of electronic, mechanical, acoustical, or aerodynamic oscillations

• a depressing restraint

• An undergraduate college academic program, typically in biochemistry or related sciences, that prepares a student to pursue graduate or post-graduate studies in medicine.

• A premedication.