Anagrams of DESTRUCTING_

• a defense of some offensive behavior or some failure to keep a promise etc.

• a note explaining an absence

• a poor example

• accept an excuse for

• grant exemption or release to

• serve as a reason or cause or justification of

• defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning

• ask for permission to be released from an engagement

• excuse, overlook, or make allowances for; be lenient with

• progressing melodically by intervals larger than a major second

• having deep constrictions separating head, thorax, and abdomen, as in insects

• marked by separation of or from usually contiguous elements

• used of distributions, as of statistical or natural populations

• form or shape by forcing through an opening

• a search for an alternative that meets cognitive criteria

• the act of searching for something

• make a search (for)

• search the trail of (game)

• bark with prolonged noises, of dogs

• seek alms, as for religious purposes

• express the need or desire for

• someone who is small and insignificant

• the occurrence of a sudden discharge (as of liquid)

• cause to come out in a squirt

• wet with a spurt of liquid

• the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one

• a steep-walled semicircular basin in a mountain; may contain a lake

• small Asian tree with pinkish flowers and pear-shaped fruit; widely cultivated

• aromatic acid-tasting pear-shaped fruit used in preserves