Anagrams of: ENNIGHTS

• (superlative of `near' or `close') within the shortest distance

• any movable possession (especially articles of clothing)

• Roman goddess of night; daughter of Erebus; counterpart of Greek Nyx

• the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside

• a period of ignorance or backwardness or gloom

• the period spent sleeping

• the dark part of the diurnal cycle considered a time unit

• darkness

• a shortening of nightfall

• the time between sunset and midnight

• a joint that holds two parts together so that one can swing relative to the other

• a circumstance upon which subsequent events depend

• attach with a hinge

• the characteristic sounds made by a horse

• make a characteristic sound, of a horse

• a group of United States painters founded in 1907 and noted for their realistic depictions of sordid aspects of city life

• the cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one

• one of four playing cards in a deck with eight pips on the face

• being one more than seven

• A rank of nobility in pre-Norman England, roughly equivalent to baron.

• a special situation

• an action

• a special abstraction

• an artifact

• an event

• a vaguely specified concern

• a statement regarded as an object

• an entity that is not named specifically

• any attribute or quality considered as having its own existence

• a special objective

• a persistent illogical feeling of desire or aversion

• a separate and self-contained entity