Anagrams of GREINING

• exercising power or authority

• the sound of a bell ringing

• the giving of a ring as a token of engagement

• having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant

• To grimace; to snarl.

• To whinge, moan, complain.

• To make elaborate unnatural and distorted faces as a form of amusement or in a girning competition.

• A light-hearted competition in which people girn (make elaborate faces) through a horse collar; most popular in rural parts of England.

• one of a pair of long straps (usually connected to the bit or the headpiece) used to control a horse

• any means of control

• control and direct with or as if by reins

• stop or slow up one's horse or oneself by or as if by pulling the reins

• stop or check by or as if by a pull at the reins

• keep in check

• a period during which something or somebody is dominant or powerful

• the period during which a monarch is sovereign

• royal authority; the dominion of a monarch

• have sovereign power

• be larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance

• Someone possessing extraordinary intelligence or skill; especially somebody who has demonstrated this by a creative or original work in science, music, art etc.

• Extraordinary mental capacity.

• Inspiration, a mental leap, an extraordinary creative process.

• The tutelary deity or spirit of a place or person.

• A jinn, a being descended from the jann, normally invisible to the human eye, but who may also appear in animal or human form.

• A fictional magical being that is typically bound to obey the commands of a mortal possessing its container.

• A dwarf.

• A cricket or grasshopper.

• A small or young eel.

• Specifically, the broad-nosed eel. See glut.

• Heath or heather.

• To irritate or annoy.