Anagrams of: OAKIES

• a reason for wanting something done

• Japanese alcoholic beverage made from fermented rice; usually served hot

• the purpose of achieving or obtaining

• the process of becoming softened and saturated as a consequence of being immersed in water (or other liquid)

• washing something by allowing it to soak

• submerge in a liquid

• rip off; ask an unreasonable price

• cover with liquid; pour liquid onto

• leave as a guarantee in return for money

• beat severely

• make drunk (with alcoholic drinks)

• become drunk or drink excessively

• fill, soak, or imbue totally

• heat a metal prior to working it

• Japanese alcoholic beverage made from fermented rice; usually served hot

• British writer of short stories (1870-1916)

• small arboreal monkey of tropical South America with long hair and bushy nonprehensile tail

• the hard durable wood of any oak; used especially for furniture and flooring

• a deciduous tree of the genus Quercus; has acorns and lobed leaves

• A gutter or ditch; a small stream that frequently dries up in the summer.

• A sigh.

• To sigh or sob.

• Indicating that one's preceding statement was false and that one has successfully fooled one's interlocutor. Also sike.

• An interjection of surprised happiness.

• Any of several medieval rights, either to hold a court, or to receive fines.

• A district under a particular jurisdiction.

• small deer of Japan with slightly forked antlers

• large brownish-green New Zealand parrot