Anagrams of: PERFORCE

• like better; value more highly

• select as an alternative over another

• promote over another

• give preference to one creditor over another

• a powerful effect or influence

• (physics) the influence that produces a change in a physical quantity

• physical energy or intensity

• group of people willing to obey orders

• a unit that is part of some military service

• an act of aggression (as one against a person who resists)

• one possessing or exercising power or influence or authority

• a group of people having the power of effective action

• (of a law) having legal validity

• a putout of a base runner who is required to run; the putout is accomplished by holding the ball while touching the base to which the runner must advance before the runner reaches that base

• to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means

• urge or force (a person) to an action; constrain or motivate

• move with force

• impose urgently, importunately, or inexorably

• squeeze like a wedge into a tight space

• force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically

• do forcibly; exert force

• take by force

• someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric

• a slow longitudinal movement or deformation

• a pen that is fenced so that young animals can enter but adults cannot

• a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body

• move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground

• to go stealthily or furtively

• grow or spread, often in such a way as to cover (a surface)

• show submission or fear

• someone who is a member of the faculty at a college or university

• paper with a crinkled texture; usually colored and used for decorations

• small very thin pancake

• a soft thin light fabric with a crinkled surface

• cover or drape with crape

• One who copes.

• A floating grog shop supplying the North Sea fishing industry.

• A large basket, especially as used for coal.

• A container (basket, wooden box with holes etc.) used to store live fish underwater.

• A wooden frame, sled, or low-wheeled wagon, to convey coal or ore in the mines.

• brick that is laid sideways at the top of a wall

• a long cloak; worn by a priest or bishop on ceremonial occasions

• succeed in doing, achieving, or producing (something) with the limited or inadequate means available