Anagrams of: JEDGARHOOVER

• hear, usually without the knowledge of the speakers

• a holy struggle or striving by a Muslim for a moral or spiritual or political goal

• located or originating from above

• the expense of maintaining property (e.g., paying property taxes and utilities and insurance); it does not include depreciation or the cost of financing or income taxes

• (computer science) the processing time required by a device prior to the execution of a command

• (computer science) the disk space required for information that is not data but is used for location and timing

• a transparency for use with an overhead projector

• (nautical) the top surface of an enclosed space on a ship

• a hard return hitting the tennis ball above your head

• above your head; in the sky

• above the head; over the head

• the fifth pillar of Islam is a pilgrimage to Mecca during the month of Dhu al-Hijja; at least once in a lifetime a Muslim is expected to make a religious journey to Mecca and the Kaaba

• United States industrialist who manufactured vacuum cleaners (1849-1932)

• United States lawyer who was director of the FBI for 48 years (1895-1972)

• 31st President of the United States; in 1929 the stock market crashed and the economy collapsed and Hoover was defeated for reelection by Franklin Roosevelt (1874-1964)

• a kind of vacuum cleaner

• clean with a vacuum cleaner

• hear, usually without the knowledge of the speakers

• rapacious seabird that pursues weaker birds to make them drop their prey