Anagrams of: WILDCATTING

• an exploratory oil well drilled in land not known to be an oil field

• a cruelly rapacious person

• any small or medium-sized cat resembling the domestic cat and living in the wild

• outside the bounds of legitimate or ethical business practices

• without official authorization

• (of a mine or oil well) drilled speculatively in an area not known to be productive

• sharp curved horny process on the toe of a bird or some mammals or reptiles

• a mechanical device that is curved or bent to suspend or hold or pull something

• a grasping structure on the limb of a crustacean or other arthropods

• a bird's foot

• move as if by clawing, seizing, or digging

• clutch as if in panic

• scratch, scrape, pull, or dig with claws or nails

• attack as if with claws

• an authoritative rule

• a guiding principle

• issue commands or orders for

• say out loud for the purpose of recording

• rule as a dictator

• a wild uncultivated plant (especially a wild apple or crabapple tree)

• an outrageous rampage usually involving sexual attacks by men on women

• wind blowing in the same direction as the path of a ship or aircraft

• the sound made by corvine birds

• utter a cry, characteristic of crows, rooks, or ravens

• a fleshy wrinkled and often brightly colored fold of skin hanging from the neck or throat of certain birds (chickens and turkeys) or lizards

• framework consisting of stakes interwoven with branches to form a fence

• any of various Australasian trees yielding slender poles suitable for wattle

• build of or with wattle

• interlace to form wattle