Anagrams of: GODFATHERING

• any man who serves as a sponsor for a child at baptism

• someone having a relation analogous to that of a male sponsor to his godchild

• a fiercely disputed contest

• disorderly fighting

• an aerial engagement between fighter planes

• a violent fight between dogs (sometimes organized illegally for entertainment and gambling)

• arrange for an illegal dogfight

• engage in an aerial battle with another fighter plane

• 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

• an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight)

• cause fear in

• mullet-like tropical marine fishes having pectoral fins with long threadlike rays

• cause fear in

• a former British bronze coin worth a quarter of a penny

• (of racket strokes) made with palm facing direction of stroke

• (sports) a return made with the palm of the hand facing the direction of the stroke (as in tennis or badminton or squash)

• producing or covered with lathery sweat or saliva from exhaustion or disease