Anagrams of: YEARNINGS

• prolonged unfulfilled desire or need

• a medical instrument used to inject or withdraw fluids

• spray or irrigate (a body part) with a syringe

• genus of Old World shrubs or low trees having fragrant flowers in showy panicles: lilacs

• large hardy shrub with showy and strongly fragrant creamy-white flowers in short terminal racemes

• (of goats or sheep) To give birth to.

• To tell a story or stories.

• a word or phrase that particular people use in particular situations

• the mother of your father or mother

• an old woman

• a reef knot crossed the wrong way and therefore insecure