Anagrams of: NROT_

• a brief (and hurriedly handwritten) note

• a slight but appreciable amount

• write briefly or hurriedly; write a short note of

• Darling, sweetheart.

• an adult castrated bull of the genus Bos; especially Bos taurus

• any of various wild bovines especially of the genera Bos or closely related Bibos

• relating to or located in the front

• the side that is forward or prominent

• the line along which opposing armies face each other

• the outward appearance of a person

• the side that is seen or that goes first

• a person used as a cover for some questionable activity

• a sphere of activity involving effort

• (meteorology) the atmospheric phenomenon created at the boundary between two different air masses

• the immediate proximity of someone or something

• the part of something that is nearest to the normal viewer

• a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals

• be oriented in a certain direction, often with respect to another reference point; be opposite to

• confront bodily

• 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

• a tight cluster of people or things

• any of various fastenings formed by looping and tying a rope (or cord) upon itself or to another rope or to another object

• a hard cross-grained round piece of wood in a board where a branch emerged

• (of ships and wind) a unit of speed equal to one nautical mile per hour or about 1.15 statute miles per hour

• something twisted and tight and swollen

• soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by design

• a sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the Southern Hemisphere

• make into knots; make knots out of

• tie or fasten into a knot

• tangle or complicate

• 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

• an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city

• United States architect who was noted for his design and construction of truss bridges (1784-1844)

• the people living in a municipality smaller than a city

• an administrative division of a county

• Stylish, high-toned, upscale.

• A simpleton.

• a noisemaker (as at parties or games) that makes a loud noise when you blow through it

• one of the bony outgrowths on the heads of certain ungulates

• a noise made by the driver of an automobile to give warning

• a high pommel of a Western saddle (usually metal covered with leather)

• a brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone; has a narrow tube and a flared bell and is played by means of valves

• any hard protuberance from the head of an organism that is similar to or suggestive of a horn

• the material (mostly keratin) that covers the horns of ungulates and forms hooves and claws and nails

• a device having the shape of a horn

• an alarm device that makes a loud warning sound

• a brass musical instrument consisting of a conical tube that is coiled into a spiral and played by means of valves

• a device on an automobile for making a warning noise

• stab or pierce with a horn or tusk