Anagrams of: NEEDLEFISH

• elongate European surface-dwelling predacious fishes with long toothed jaws; abundant in coastal waters

• fish with long tubular snout and slim body covered with bony plates

• the soft tissue of the body of a vertebrate: mainly muscle tissue and fat

• alternative names for the body of a human being

• a soft moist part of a fruit

• remove adhering flesh from (hides) when preparing leather manufacture

• any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills

• (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Pisces

• the flesh of fish used as food

• the twelfth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about February 19 to March 20

• seek indirectly

• catch or try to catch fish or shellfish

• usually good-naturedly mischievous

• (military) military action or resources protecting a country against potential enemies

• the federal department responsible for safeguarding national security of the United States; created in 1947

• protection from harm

• (sports) the team that is trying to prevent the other team from scoring

• the justification for some act or belief

• (psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires

• the defendant and his legal advisors collectively

• the speech act of answering an attack on your assertions

• an organization of defenders that provides resistance against attack

• a structure used to defend against attack

• a defendant's answer or plea denying the truth of the charges against him

• the act of defending someone or something against attack or injury

• the soft tissue of the body of a vertebrate: mainly muscle tissue and fat

• alternative names for the body of a human being

• a soft moist part of a fruit

• remove adhering flesh from (hides) when preparing leather manufacture

• a support that consists of a horizontal surface for holding objects

• a projecting ridge on a mountain or submerged under water

• a narrow pass (especially one between mountains)

• place under suspicion or cast doubt upon

• make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used metaphorically

• spot, stain, or pollute

• strip the blubber or skin from (a whale or seal)

• determine the essential quality of

• give a definition for the meaning of a word

• determine the nature of

• show the form or outline of

• decide upon or fix definitely