Anagrams of: GOSTERING

• a natural father or mother

• armor plate that protects the neck

• (of soil) soft and watery

• having the consistency of dough because of insufficient leavening or improper cooking

• slow and apathetic

• perennial plants having thick branching aromatic rhizomes and leafy reedlike stems

• dried ground gingerroot

• pungent rhizome of the common ginger plant; used fresh as a seasoning especially in Asian cookery

• liveliness and energy

• (used especially of hair or fur) having a bright orange-brown color

• add ginger to in order to add flavor

• a Latin American (disparaging) term for foreigners (especially Americans and Englishmen)

• something left after other parts have been taken away

• freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility)

• a pause for relaxation

• a state of inaction

• euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb)

• a support on which things can be put

• a musical notation indicating a silence of a specified duration

• not move; be in a resting position

• take a short break from one's activities in order to relax

• give a rest to

• have a place in relation to something else

• be at rest

• stay the same; remain in a certain state

• be inherent or innate in

• put something in a resting position, as for support or steadying

• sit, as on a branch

• rest on or as if on a pillow

• be inactive, refrain from acting

• an operation that segregates items into groups according to a specified criterion

• the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories

• grouping by class or kind or size

• a mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services

• a supply of something available for future use

• an electronic memory device

• a depository for goods

• keep or lay aside for future use

• find a place for and put away for storage