Anagrams of: UARDSMAN

• a hip roof having two slopes on each side

• (of a roof) having two slopes on all sides with the lower slope steeper than the upper

• a light patterned cotton cloth

• a state in southeastern India on the Bay of Bengal (south of Andhra Pradesh); formerly Madras

• a city in Tamil Nadu on the Bay of Bengal; formerly Madras

• a sudden short attack

• raid and rove in search of booty

• ritual hand movement in religion or religious dancing, particularly in Hinduism or Buddhism

• any of various hard resins from trees of the family Dipterocarpaceae and of the genus Agathis; especially the amboyna pine

• a dramatic work intended for performance by actors on a stage

• an episode that is turbulent or highly emotional

• the literary genre of works intended for the theater

• the quality of being arresting or highly emotional

• An Ottoman Turkish unit of surface area nominally equal to 1,600 square (Turkish) paces but actually varied at a provincial and local level according to land quality to accommodate its colloquial sense of the amount of land able to be plowed in a day, roughly equivalent to the Byzantine stremma or English acre.

• A modern Turkish unit of surface area equal to a decare (1000 m2), equivalent to the modern Greek stremma.

• Various other units in other areas of the former Ottoman Empire, usually equated to the decare but sometimes varying (as in Iraq, where it is 2500 m2).

• a unit of weight used in Asia; has different values in different countries