Anagrams of AOORRTY

• addressing an audience formally (usually a long and rhetorical address and often pompous)

• relating to or characterized by rotation

• a road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island

• electrical converter consisting of a synchronous machine that converts alternating to direct current or vice versa

• describing a circle; moving in a circle

• a stream or brook

• having the characteristics of pitch or tar

• be about a place without any apparent purpose

• leave slowly and hesitantly

• an ancient city in Asia Minor that was the site of the Trojan War

• a system of weights used for precious metals and gemstones; based on a 12-ounce pound and an ounce of 480 grains

• an open receptacle for holding or displaying or serving articles or food

• an American who favored the British side during the American Revolution

• a member of political party in Great Britain that has been known as the Conservative Party since 1832; was the opposition party to the Whigs

• a supporter of traditional political and social institutions against the forces of reform; a political conservative

• showily imitative of art or artists

• someone new to a field or activity