Anagrams of: REACTIONARYISM

• the branch of physical anthropology dealing with the study and measurement of dry skulls after removal of its soft parts

• an extreme conservative; an opponent of progress or liberalism

• opposed to political or social liberalism or reform

• a mortuary where corpses are cremated

• a furnace where a corpse can be burned and reduced to ashes

• close or warm friendship

• a usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship

• a feeling of being intimate and belonging together

• variably colored and sometimes variegated hard tough elastic wood of a sycamore tree

• any of several trees of the genus Platanus having thin pale bark that scales off in small plates and lobed leaves and ball-shaped heads of fruits

• Eurasian maple tree with pale grey bark that peels in flakes like that of a sycamore tree; leaves with five ovate lobes yellow in autumn

• thick-branched wide-spreading tree of Africa and adjacent southwestern Asia often buttressed with branches rising from near the ground; produces cluster of edible but inferior figs on short leafless twigs; the biblical sycamore

• be unsuccessful

• suffer a miscarriage

• the literal belief in the account of Creation given in the Book of Genesis

• a rough and bitter manner