Anagrams of: YAWNS

• structure consisting of a sloping way down to the water from the place where ships are built or repaired

• controlling influence

• pitching dangerously to one side

• move back and forth or sideways

• move or walk in a swinging or swaying manner

• win approval or support for

• cause to move back and forth

• an involuntary intake of breath through a wide open mouth; usually triggered by fatigue or boredom

• utter a yawn, as from lack of oxygen or when one is tired

• be wide open

• an infectious tropical disease resembling syphilis in its early stages; marked by red skin eruptions and ulcerating lesions

• having awns i.e. bristlelike or hairlike appendages on the flowering parts of some cereals and grasses

• A letter of the Old English alphabet, borrowed from the futhark and used to represent the sound of w; replaced in Middle English times by the digraph uu, which later developed into the letter w.

• A kind of timber truck, or carriage.

• how something is done or how it happens

• to have the ability to produce a particular effect or achieve an end

• a line leading to a place or point

• the condition of things generally

• a course of conduct

• any artifact consisting of a road or path affording passage from one place to another

• a journey or passage

• space for movement

• the property of distance in general

• doing as one pleases or chooses

• a general category of things; used in the expression `in the way of'

• a portion of something divided into shares

• to a great degree or by a great distance; very much (`right smart' is regional in the United States)

• an erratic deflection from an intended course

• be wide open

• deviate erratically from a set course

• swerve off course momentarily