Anagrams of: DOGWOODFAMILY

• An engineered path to channel floodwaters away from areas to be protected

• naval battle of World War II (June 1942); American planes based on land and on carriers decisively defeated a Japanese fleet on its way to invade the Midway Islands

• the place at a fair or carnival where sideshows and similar amusements are located

• at half the distance; at the middle

• equally distant from the extremes

• make less severe or harsh or extreme

• add a modifier to a constituent

• cause to change; make different; cause a transformation

• in a dowdy unfashionable manner

• a social unit living together

• primary social group; parents and children

• a collection of things sharing a common attribute

• people descended from a common ancestor

• a person having kinship with another or others

• (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more genera

• a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities

• an association of people who share common beliefs or activities

• Requiring dexterity to operate.

• (by extension) Having many small bits or embellishments.

• Of or relating to fiddling or fidgeting.

• Pertaining to occasional under-the-table work by people who receive unemployment benefits

• a persistently annoying person

• any of various large flies that annoy livestock