Anagrams of: KNAVES

• a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel

• one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a young prince

• limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous

• a tributary of the Columbia River that rises in Wyoming and flows westward; discovered in 1805 by the Lewis and Clark Expedition

• a long faint constellation in the Southern Hemisphere near the equator stretching between Virgo and Cancer

• a deceitful or treacherous person

• something long, thin, and flexible that resembles a snake

• a long flexible steel coil for dislodging stoppages in curved pipes

• move smoothly and sinuously, like a snake

• form a snake-like pattern

• move along a winding path

• a person who is regarded as underhanded and furtive and contemptible

• someone who prowls or sneaks about; usually with unlawful intentions

• someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police

• marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed

• to go stealthily or furtively

• put, bring, or take in a secretive or furtive manner

• make off with belongings of others

• pass on stealthily

• A quantity of yarn, thread, or the like, put up together, after it is taken from the reel. A skein of cotton yarn is formed by eighty turns of the thread around a fifty-four inch reel.

• A web, a weave, a tangle.

• The membrane of a fish ovary.

• (wagonmaking) A metallic strengthening band or thimble on the wooden arm of an axle.

• (provincial England) A group of wild fowl, (e.g. geese, goslings) when they are in flight.

• A winning streak.

• A double-edged, leaf-shaped, typically bronze dagger formerly used in Ireland and Scotland.

• a reason for wanting something done

• Japanese alcoholic beverage made from fermented rice; usually served hot

• the purpose of achieving or obtaining

• plumbing fixture consisting of a water basin fixed to a wall or floor and having a drainpipe

• (technology) a process that acts to absorb or remove energy or a substance from a system

• a depression in the ground communicating with a subterranean passage (especially in limestone) and formed by solution or by collapse of a cavern roof

• a covered cistern; waste water and sewage flow into it

• fall or descend to a lower place or level

• cause to sink

• pass into a specified state or condition; sink into

• go under

• descend into or as if into some soft substance or place

• appear to move downward

• fall heavily or suddenly; decline markedly

• fall or sink heavily

• embed deeply