Anagrams of: NEEDLECRAFTS

• (especially of incident sound or light) bent or sent back

• have a bowel movement

• working for yourself

• a writer or artist who sells services to different employers without a long-term contract with any of them

• serving for wages in a foreign army

• work independently and on temporary contracts rather than for a long-term employer

• working for yourself

• a writer or artist who sells services to different employers without a long-term contract with any of them

• serving for wages in a foreign army

• work independently and on temporary contracts rather than for a long-term employer

• have a bowel movement

• (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

• prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; to protect from or to keep away anything undesirable; to ward off

• turn from a straight course, fixed direction, or line of interest

• turn aside and away from an initial or intended course

• draw someone's attention away from something

• impede the movement of (an opponent or a ball)