Anagrams of: ERPTS

• a self-governing commonwealth associated with the United States occupying the island of Puerto Rico

• a soft yellowish-white trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group; can be recovered from bastnasite or monazite by an ion-exchange process

• a promotion intended to create goodwill for a person or institution

• any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal

• the distance covered by a step

• the act of changing location by raising the foot and setting it down

• support consisting of a place to rest the foot while ascending or descending a stairway

• relative position in a graded series

• a short distance

• the sound of a step of someone walking

• a musical interval of two semitones

• a mark of a foot or shoe on a surface

• a solid block joined to the beams in which the heel of a ship's mast or capstan is fixed

• a sequence of foot movements that make up a particular dance

• shift or move by taking a step

• put down or press the foot, place the foot

• cause (a computer) to execute a single command

• treat badly

• furnish with steps

• move with one's feet in a specific manner

• walk a short distance to a specified place or in a specified manner

• place (a ship's mast) in its step

• measure (distances) by pacing

• move or proceed as if by steps into a new situation

• a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal

• any epidemic disease with a high death rate

• a persistently annoying person

• any unwanted and destructive insect or other animal that attacks food or crops or livestock etc.

• people descended from a common ancestor

• the month following August and preceding October

• characterized by a lightly pert and exuberant quality

• using a computerized radiographic technique to examine the metabolic activity in various tissues (especially in the brain)

• a domesticated animal kept for companionship or amusement

• a special loved one

• a fit of petulance or sulkiness (especially at what is felt to be a slight)

• preferred above all others and treated with partiality

• stroke or caress gently

• stroke or caress in an erotic manner, as during lovemaking

• informal abbreviation of `representative'

• a fabric with prominent rounded crosswise ribs

• For each.

• To each, in each (used in expressing ratios of units).

• By the, by means of the, via the, through the.

• In accordance with.

• Belonging to per, their (singular). Gender-neutral third-person singular possessive adjective, coordinate with gendered his and her.

• They (singular). Gender-neutral neologistic third-person singular subject pronoun, coordinate with gendered pronouns he and she.

• Them (singular) Neologistic gender-neutral third-person singular object pronoun, suggested for use in place of him and her.

• using a computerized radiographic technique to examine the metabolic activity in various tissues (especially in the brain)

• a domesticated animal kept for companionship or amusement

• a special loved one

• a fit of petulance or sulkiness (especially at what is felt to be a slight)

• preferred above all others and treated with partiality

• stroke or caress gently

• stroke or caress in an erotic manner, as during lovemaking