Anagrams of: FINGERALPHABET

• An inspection of an aircraft before the start of a flight.

• To perform an inspection of an aircraft before the start of a flight.

• Taking place before the start of a flight.

• Serving to confirm that requests can be accepted, before sending an actual request.

• a hoop worn beneath a skirt to extend it horizontally; worn by European women in the 16th and 17th centuries

• A developing feather as it emerges through the skin

• turning an oar parallel to the water between pulls

• foolish gibberish

• to talk foolishly

• idle or foolish and irrelevant talk

• to talk foolishly

• 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