Anagrams of: MARATHON

• any long and arduous undertaking

• a battle in 490 BC in which the Athenians and their allies defeated the Persians

• a footrace of 26 miles 385 yards

• one of the twelve divisions of the calendar year

• a time unit of approximately 30 days

• any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.; the condition of an injury

• the occurrence of a change for the worse

• the act of damaging something or someone

• cause or do harm to

• a science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic of quantity and shape and arrangement

• typically crepuscular or nocturnal insect having a stout body and feathery or hairlike antennae

• a woman hired to suckle a child of someone else

• a female domestic

• situated in or facing or moving toward or coming from the north

• the region of the United States lying to the north of the Mason-Dixon line

• the cardinal compass point that is at 0 or 360 degrees

• a location in the northern part of a country, region, or city

• the United States (especially the northern states during the American Civil War)

• British statesman under George III whose policies led to rebellion in the American colonies (1732-1792)

• the direction corresponding to the northward cardinal compass point

• the direction in which a compass needle points

• in a northern direction

• meat cut from the thigh of a hog (usually smoked)

• (Old Testament) the second son of Noah

• a licensed amateur radio operator

• an unskilled actor who overacts

• exaggerate one's acting

• something that causes irritation and annoyance

• a small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf

• a Germanic character of runic origin