Anagrams of: PUTREFACIENT

• a bet that you can pick the first and second finishers in the right order

• being complete of its kind and without defect or blemish

• a tense of verbs used in describing action that has been completed (sometimes regarded as perfective aspect)

• without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers

• precisely accurate or exact

• make perfect or complete

• a chief officer or chief magistrate

• (chemistry) a surface forming a common boundary between two things (two objects or liquids or chemical phases)

• (computer science) a program that controls a display for the user (usually on a computer monitor) and that allows the user to interact with the system

• the overlap where two theories or phenomena affect each other or have links with each other

• (computer science) computer circuit consisting of the hardware and associated circuitry that links one device with another (especially a computer and a hard disk drive or other peripherals)

• a short introductory essay preceding the text of a book

• furnish with a preface or introduction

• the point at which a line intersects a coordinate axis

• seize on its way

• tap a telephone or telegraph wire to get information

• A bet in which the bettor must select the first three placegetters of a race in the order in which they finish.

• The attainment of three important achievements, qualities, etc.

• (by extension) A set of three related things, often things that cause problems.

• (US politics) The complete legislative and executive control of state government by one party: governorship, the upper house, and the lower house of state legislatures. The party that holds all three positions of power is said to have a trifecta.

• (US politics) Control by one party of the federal government: the presidency and both houses of Congress.