Anagrams of: DITTANDERS

• a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance

• a sailing vessel with two masts; a small mizzen is aft of the rudderpost

• excellent

• a step in walking or running

• the distance covered by a step

• significant progress (especially in the phrase `make strides')

• walk with long steps

• To lower a rate or rating

• To demote a sailor to a lower rank

• small fatty fish usually canned

• any of various small edible herring or related food fishes frequently canned

• a deep orange-red variety of chalcedony

• small fishes found in great schools along coasts of Europe; smaller and rounder than herring

• a surveying instrument for measuring horizontal and vertical angles, consisting of a small telescope mounted on a tripod

• a facility consisting of the means and equipment necessary for the movement of passengers or goods

• a journey usually by ship

• make a passage or journey from one place to another

• pass across (a sign or house of the zodiac) or pass across (the disk of a celestial body or the meridian of a place)

• revolve (the telescope of a surveying transit) about its horizontal transverse axis in order to reverse its direction

• cause or enable to pass through

• emptied or exhausted of (as by drawing off e.g. water or other liquid)

• extremely exhausted

• drained of electric charge; discharged

• lacking natural ease

• showing signs of mental and emotional tension

• lacking spontaneity; not natural

• struggling for effect

• conspicuously and offensively loud; given to vehement outcry

• of speech sounds produced by forcing air through a constricted passage (as `f', `s', `z', or `th' in both `thin' and `then')

• being sharply insistent on being heard

• unpleasantly loud and harsh