Anagrams of: FRONDESCENCE

• a prearranged meeting for consultation or exchange of information or discussion (especially one with a formal agenda)

• an association of sports teams that organizes matches for its members

• a discussion among participants who have an agreed (serious) topic

• feeling or showing worry or solicitude

• involved in or affected by or having a claim to or share in

• culpably involved

• forced or compelled or put in force

• (music) a gradual increase in loudness

• (music) gradually increasing in volume

• grow louder

• fix firmly

• a person on whom something is bestowed

• a member of a conference

• (psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires

• (sports) the team that is trying to prevent the other team from scoring

• the defendant and his legal advisors collectively

• an organization of defenders that provides resistance against attack

• the speech act of answering an attack on your assertions

• the justification for some act or belief

• a structure used to defend against attack

• a defendant's answer or plea denying the truth of the charges against him

• (military) military action or resources protecting a country against potential enemies

• protection from harm

• the act of defending someone or something against attack or injury

• the mental attitude that something is believable and should be accepted as true

• a kind of sideboard or buffet