Anagrams of: EXTENUATIONS

• a partial excuse to mitigate censure; an attempt to represent an offense as less serious than it appears by showing mitigating circumstances

• to act in such a way as to cause an offense to seem less serious

• a mutually agreed delay in the date set for the completion of a job or payment of a debt

• act of expanding in scope; making more widely available

• the spreading of something (a belief or practice) into new regions

• an educational opportunity provided by colleges and universities to people who are not enrolled as regular students

• act of stretching or straightening out a flexed limb

• a string of characters beginning with a period and followed by one or more letters; the optional second part of a PC computer filename

• the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression; the class of objects that an expression refers to

• the ability to raise the working leg high in the air

• amount or degree or range to which something extends

• an additional telephone set that is connected to the same telephone line

• an addition to the length of something

• an addition that extends a main building

• having existence or being or actuality

• being or occurring in fact or actuality; having verified existence; not illusory

• presently existing in fact and not merely potential or possible

• eagerly desirous

• causing or fraught with or showing anxiety

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

• being one more than fifteen

• a unit of angular distance equal to 60 degrees

• a measuring instrument for measuring the angular distance between celestial objects; resembles an octant