Anagrams of: UMSHAWS

• a medieval oboe

• strike hard

• strike hard

• someone who can be employed as a detective to collect information and assist in criminal investigations

• the movement or sound of water

• make violent, noisy movements

• dash a liquid upon or against

• show off

• act in an arrogant, overly self-assured, or conceited manner

• United States clarinetist and leader of a swing band (1910-2004)

• United States humorist who wrote about rural life (1818-1885)

• United States physician and suffragist (1847-1919)

• British playwright (born in Ireland); founder of the Fabian Society (1856-1950)

• a neutral middle vowel; occurs in unstressed syllables

• a thin coat of water-base paint

• the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water)

• the dry bed of an intermittent stream (as at the bottom of a canyon)

• the erosive process of washing away soil or gravel by water (as from a roadway)

• the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller

• a watercolor made by applying a series of monochrome washes one over the other

• garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering

• any enterprise in which losses and gains cancel out

• clean with some chemical process

• cleanse (one's body) with soap and water

• cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water

• move by or as if by water

• be capable of being washed

• admit to testing or proof

• separate dirt or gravel from (precious minerals)

• apply a thin coating of paint, metal, etc., to

• remove by the application of water or other liquid and soap or some other cleaning agent

• form by erosion

• make moist

• wash or flow against

• wash by removing particles

• to cleanse (itself or another animal) by licking