Anagrams of ERFAITH

• a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)

• `Father' is a term of address for priests in some churches (especially the Roman Catholic Church or the Orthodox Catholic Church); `Padre' is frequently used in the military

• the founder of a family

• (Christianity) any of about 70 theologians in the period from the 2nd to the 7th century whose writing established and confirmed official church doctrine; in the Roman Catholic Church some were later declared saints and became Doctor of the Church; the best known Latin Church Fathers are Ambrose, Augustine, Gregory the Great, and Jerome; those who wrote in Greek include Athanasius, Basil, Gregory Nazianzen, and John Chrysostom

• God when considered as the first person in the Trinity

• a person who holds an important or distinguished position in some organization

• a person who founds or establishes some institution

• the head of an organized crime family

• make (offspring) by reproduction

• a strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny

• complete confidence in a person or plan etc

• an institution to express belief in a divine power

• loyalty or allegiance to a cause or a person

• a criminal who takes property belonging to someone else with the intention of keeping it or selling it

• a long narrow estuary (especially in Scotland)

• English linguist who contributed to linguistic semantics and to prosodic phonology and who was noted for his insistence on studying both sound and meaning in context (1890-1960)

• Peace; security.

• Sanctuary, asylum.

• A forest or wood; woodland generally.

• Land with mostly undergrowth and few trees; also, land in between forests or woods; pastureland which is not in use.

• Brushwood or undergrowth, sometimes in the form of a hedge.

• A hedge, especially one made from brushwood which has been wattled; also, a movable frame made from wattled branches, a hurdle.

• A kind of weir made from wattled branches for catching fish.

• An arm or inlet of the sea; a river estuary.

• To protect; guard.

• To enclose; fence in, as a forest or park.

• the property of being large in mass

• lift or elevate

• test the weight of something by lifting it

• the handle of a weapon or tool

• An expression of disgust or contempt.