Anagrams of: PEDANTOCRATS

• a card for sending messages by post without an envelope

• a close observer; someone who looks at something (such as an exhibition of some kind)

• a woman's pump with medium heel; usually in contrasting colors for toe and heel

• Someone who shares in the parenting of a child or children, such as:

• To act as a co-parent, to share custody of a child or children, to share in the responsibility of parenting a child or children

• Usually in the plural form Pandects: a compendium or digest of writings on Roman law divided in 50 books, compiled in the 6th century C.E. by order of the Eastern Roman emperor Justinian I (c. 482–565).

• (by extension) Also in the plural form pandects: a comprehensive collection of laws; specifically, the whole body of law of a country; a legal code.

• (by extension) A treatise or similar work that is comprehensive as to a particular topic; specifically a manuscript of the entire Bible.

• the hard inner (usually woody) layer of the pericarp of some fruits (as peaches or plums or cherries or olives) that contains the seed

• the opposition or dissimilarity of things that are compared

• the act of distinguishing by comparing differences

• a conceptual separation or distinction

• the perceptual effect of the juxtaposition of very different colors

• the range of optical density and tone on a photographic negative or print (or the extent to which adjacent areas on a television screen differ in brightness)

• put in opposition to show or emphasize differences

• to show differences when compared; be different