Anagrams of: HYDROMECHANICS

• divination by water (as by patterns seen in the ebb and flow of the tides)

• telling fortunes by lines on the palm of the hand

• embarrassingly stingy

• small tropical American tree bearing round or oblong fruit

• large tropical fruit with leathery skin and soft pulp; related to custard apples

• the political orientation of those who favor government by the people or by their elected representatives

• a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them

• the doctrine that the numerical majority of an organized group can make decisions binding on the whole group

• machines or machine systems collectively

• a system of means and activities whereby a social institution functions

• a lack of harmony

• the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)