Anagrams of: STRAWEN

• a statement (either spoken or written) that is made to reply to a question or request or criticism or accusation

• a statement that solves a problem or explains how to solve the problem

• the speech act of replying to a question

• the principal pleading by the defendant in response to plaintiff's complaint; in criminal law it consists of the defendant's plea of `guilty' or `not guilty' (or nolo contendere); in civil law it must contain denials of all allegations in the plaintiff's complaint that the defendant hopes to controvert and it can contain affirmative defenses or counterclaims

• a nonverbal reaction

• react verbally

• respond to a signal

• give the correct answer or solution to

• understand the meaning of

• give a defence or refutation of (a charge) or in (an argument)

• be liable or accountable

• be sufficient; be adequate, either in quality or quantity

• match or correspond

• be satisfactory for; meet the requirements of or serve the purpose of

• react to a stimulus or command

• the serous fluid in which the embryo is suspended inside the amnion

• United States actress and singer (1896-1977)

• spread by scattering ("straw" is archaic)

• cover; be dispersed over

• someone who dissipates resources self-indulgently

• a person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to

• a person who wants or needs something

• not treated with heat to prepare it for eating

• informal terms for nakedness

• (used especially of commodities) being unprocessed or manufactured using only simple or minimal processes

• having the surface exposed and painful

• not processed or refined

• devoid of elaboration or diminution or concealment; bare and pure

• brutally unfair or harsh

• not processed or subjected to analysis

• untempered and unrefined

• hurting

• unpleasantly cold and damp

• used of wood and furniture

• lacking training or experience

• (used informally) completely unclothed

• binary compound that occurs at room temperature as a clear colorless odorless tasteless liquid; freezes into ice below 0 degrees centigrade and boils above 100 degrees centigrade; widely used as a solvent

• the part of the earth's surface covered with water (such as a river or lake or ocean)

• once thought to be one of four elements composing the universe (Empedocles), associated with the humour phlegm

• a facility that provides a source of water

• liquid excretory product

• a liquid necessary for the life of most animals and plants

• supply with water, as with channels or ditches or streams

• provide with water

• secrete or form water, as tears or saliva

• fill with tears