Anagrams of: ASCENDANT

• position or state of being dominant or in control

• someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)

• tending or directed upward

• most powerful or important or influential

• used especially of plants; having a tendency to climb

• a decorative musical accompaniment (often improvised) added above a basic melody

• sing in descant

• sing by changing register; sing by yodeling

• talk at great length about something of one's interest

• pour out gradually, so as to separate out sediment

• the act of scanning; systematic examination of a prescribed region

• an image produced by scanning

• examine minutely or intensely

• examine hastily

• make a wide, sweeping search of

• conform to a metrical pattern

• move a light beam over; in electronics, to reproduce an image

• read metrically

• obtain data from magnetic tapes or other digital sources

• less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so

• work hastily or carelessly; deal with inadequately and superficially

• limit in quality or quantity

• supply sparingly and with restricted quantities

• emitting light as a result of being heated

• recorded for broadcast

• sealed in a can or jar

• travel up

• go back in order of genealogical succession

• become king or queen

• appear to be moving upward, as by means of tendrils

• go along towards (a river's) source

• slope upwards

• come up, of celestial bodies

• move to a better position in life or to a better job

• pour out gradually, so as to separate out sediment