Anagrams of: FEATHERBEDDED

• a mattress stuffed with feathers

• treat with excessive indulgence

• hire more workers than are necessary

• having or covered with feathers

• adorned with feathers or plumes

• having had the head cut off

• the last few hours before death

• the bed on which a person dies

• having red hair and usually fair skin

• a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)

• `Father' is a term of address for priests in some churches (especially the Roman Catholic Church or the Orthodox Catholic Church); `Padre' is frequently used in the military

• the founder of a family

• (Christianity) any of about 70 theologians in the period from the 2nd to the 7th century whose writing established and confirmed official church doctrine; in the Roman Catholic Church some were later declared saints and became Doctor of the Church; the best known Latin Church Fathers are Ambrose, Augustine, Gregory the Great, and Jerome; those who wrote in Greek include Athanasius, Basil, Gregory Nazianzen, and John Chrysostom

• God when considered as the first person in the Trinity

• a person who holds an important or distinguished position in some organization

• a person who founds or establishes some institution

• the head of an organized crime family

• make (offspring) by reproduction

• uttered without voice

• officer in the (ceremonial) bodyguard of the British monarch