Anagrams of: DESCARTES

• a gentle affectionate stroking (or something resembling it)

• touch or stroke lightly in a loving or endearing manner

• make or cause to be or to become

• bring into existence

• pursue a creative activity; be engaged in a creative activity

• invest with a new title, office, or rank

• create by artistic means

• create or manufacture a man-made product

• bearing an heraldic device

• (of a bird or animal) having a usually ornamental tuft or process on the head; often used in combination

• (of a knight's helmet) having a decorative plume

• give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance

• supply food ready to eat; for parties and banquets

• an angular or rounded shape made by folding

• a slight depression or fold in the smoothness of a surface

• a Malayan dagger with a wavy blade

• make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; `crisp' is archaic

• make wrinkled or creased

• scrape gently

• become wrinkled or crumpled or creased

• show a response or a reaction to something

• act against or in opposition to

• undergo a chemical reaction; react with another substance under certain conditions

• highly venomous viper of northern Africa and southwestern Asia having a horny spine above each eye