Anagrams of: EIOPST

• feeling a need to see others suffer

• malevolence by virtue of being malicious or spiteful or nasty

• hurt the feelings of

• a cgs unit of dynamic viscosity equal to one dyne-second per square centimeter; the viscosity of a fluid in which a force of one dyne per square centimeter maintains a velocity of 1 centimeter per second

• a state of being balanced in a stable equilibrium

• great coolness and composure under strain

• be motionless, in suspension

• prepare (oneself), often but not necessarily for something unpleasant or difficult

• cause to be balanced or suspended

• hold or carry in equilibrium

• a sauce typically served with pasta; contains crushed basil leaves and garlic and pine nuts and Parmesan cheese in olive oil

• a flat rectangular area for fencing bouts

• a ski run densely packed with snow

• (logic) a proposition that is accepted as true in order to provide a basis for logical reasoning

• put (something somewhere) firmly

• put before

• take as a given; assume as a postulate or axiom

• supporting stalk or stem-like structure especially of a pistil or fern frond or supporting a mushroom cap

• a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry)