Anagrams of: STADTHOLDERATE

• The chief magistrate, then later, hereditary chief of state of the Dutch Republic.

• An office formerly held by Danish and Swedish officials, best translated as governor-general.

• ruined or disrupted

• proclaimed

• a sheath (usually leather) for carrying a handgun

• a belt with loops or slots for carrying small hand tools

• (of bolts or screws) having screw threads

• someone who has red hair

• North American diving duck with a grey-and-black body and reddish-brown head

• black-and-white North American woodpecker having a red head and neck

• spread thickly

• a valve that regulates the supply of fuel to the engine

• a pedal that controls the throttle valve

• place limits on (extent or amount or access)

• kill by squeezing the throat of so as to cut off the air

• reduce the air supply

• To dissuade.