Anagrams of: TENDERLOINS

• a city district known for its vice and high crime rate

• the tender meat of the loin muscle on each side of the vertebral column

• a segment of a stem between two nodes

• withdrawing support or help despite allegiance or responsibility

• the act of giving something up

• a segment of a stem between two nodes

• any process whereby sounds or words are left out of spoken words or phrases

• (genetics) the loss or absence of one or more nucleotides from a chromosome

• the omission that is made when an editorial change shortens a written passage

• the act of deleting something written or printed

• (psychology) a state of mental or emotional strain or suspense

• the physical condition of being stretched or strained

• a balance between and interplay of opposing elements or tendencies (especially in art or literature)

• (physics) a stress that produces an elongation of an elastic physical body

• feelings of hostility that are not manifest

• the action of stretching something tight