Anagrams of: CHRISTTHORN

• a period of time spent in military service

• the state of inactivity following an interruption

• an unforeseen obstacle

• a connection between a vehicle and the load that it pulls

• a knot that can be undone by pulling against the strain that holds it; a temporary knot

• any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome

• the uneven manner of walking that results from an injured leg

• to hook or entangle

• walk impeded by some physical limitation or injury

• jump vertically, with legs stiff and back arched

• travel by getting free rides from motorists

• connect to a vehicle:

• To move irregularly up and down.

• To swarm (with).

• somewhat hot

• a person who refuses to face reality or recognize the truth (a reference to the popular notion that the ostrich hides from danger by burying its head in the sand)

• fast-running African flightless bird with two-toed feet; largest living bird

• a woolen tunic worn by men and women in ancient Greece

• primitive elongated bilaterally symmetrical marine mollusk having a mantle covered with eight calcareous plates

• a link or loop or knot made by an implement in knitting, crocheting, embroidery, or sewing

• a sharp spasm of pain in the side resulting from running

• fasten by sewing; do needlework

• someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police

• take by theft

• give away information about somebody

• any of various deciduous terrestrial orchids having fleshy tubers and flowers in erect terminal racemes

• one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens