Anagrams of: STRIPALERT

• Trashy, trivial, of little value.

• Of little monetary worth.

• (law) a conference held before the trial begins to bring the parties together to outline discovery proceedings and to define the issues to be tried; more useful in civil than in criminal cases

• the noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively

• a small quantity of something moist or liquid

• cause or allow (a liquid substance) to run or flow from a container

• dash a liquid upon or against

• a retaliatory action against an enemy in wartime

• (law) a conference held before the trial begins to bring the parties together to outline discovery proceedings and to define the issues to be tried; more useful in civil than in criminal cases

• a worker who splits fish and removes the backbone

• a taxonomist who classifies organisms into many groups on the basis of relatively minor characteristics

• a laborer who splits logs to build split-rail fences

• someone who speaks in a childish way

• a rectangular column that usually projects about a third of its width from the wall to which it is attached