Anagrams of: SOPHISTERS

• The prepending of phonemes at the beginning of a word without changing its morphological structure, as in Spanish esfera from Latin sphaera (expected form would be *sfera).

• A type of preparatory ceremony, part of the Divine Liturgy of the Eastern Orthodox Church

• a youth subculture (mostly from the middle class) originating in San Francisco in the 1960s; advocated universal love and peace and communes and long hair and soft drugs; favored acid rock and progressive rock music

• one section of a lyric poem or choral ode in classical Greek drama

• an award for success in war or hunting

• something given as a token of victory

• To apply both heat and mechanical pressure to something, especially as part of a laundry process

• the fruit of a rose plant

• someone whose reasoning is subtle and often specious

• any of a group of Greek philosophers and teachers in the 5th century BC who speculated on a wide range of subjects