Anagrams of BIRTHING_

• hard close-grained wood of any of various birch trees; used especially in furniture and interior finishes and plywood

• any betulaceous tree or shrub of the genus Betula having a thin peeling bark

• a switch consisting of a twig or a bundle of twigs from a birch tree; used to hit people as punishment

• consisting of or made of wood of the birch tree

• whip with a birch twig

• an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect

• be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics

• shift from one side of the ship to the other

• very lively and profitable

• moving in a twisting or snake-like or wormlike fashion

• a loop in a rope

• a bend or curve (especially in a coastline)

• a broad bay formed by an indentation in the shoreline

• the middle part of a slack rope (as distinguished from its ends)

• fasten with a bight

• the process of giving birth

• originally a person of noble birth trained to arms and chivalry; today in Great Britain a person honored by the sovereign for personal merit

• a chessman shaped to resemble the head of a horse; can move two squares horizontally and one vertically (or vice versa)

• raise (someone) to knighthood

• a long walk usually for exercise or pleasure

• your occupation or line of work