Anagrams of: ORPHANING

• To deprive of parents (used almost exclusively in the passive)

• To make unavailable, as by removing the last remaining pointer or reference to.

• a chordophone that has a triangular frame consisting of a sounding board and a pillar and a curved neck; the strings stretched between the neck and the soundbox are plucked with the fingers

• a pair of curved vertical supports for a lampshade

• a small rectangular free-reed instrument having a row of free reeds set back in air holes and played by blowing into the desired hole

• come back to

• play the harp

• electronic equipment that converts sound into electrical signals that can be transmitted over distances and then converts received signals back into sounds

• (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language

• electro-acoustic transducer for converting electric signals into sounds; it is held over or inserted into the ear

• get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone

• a specific instance of feeling hopeful

• United States comedian (born in England) who appeared in films with Bing Crosby (1903-2003)

• the general feeling that some desire will be fulfilled

• grounds for feeling hopeful about the future

• someone (or something) on which expectations are centered

• one of the three Christian virtues

• expect and wish

• be optimistic; be full of hope; have hopes

• intend with some possibility of fulfilment

• a child who has lost both parents

• someone or something who lacks support or care or supervision

• the first line of a paragraph that is set as the last line of a page or column

• a young animal without a mother

• deprive of parents

• a visual representation of the relations between certain quantities, represented as points, plotted with reference to a set of axes

• a visual display of information

• a written symbol that is used to represent speech

• represent by means of a graph

• plot upon a graph

• (of an animal) To assault with the horns.

• To furnish with horns.

• To cuckold.

• The activity of blowing the horn of a train.

• The appearance of the Moon when increasing, or in the form of a crescent.

• A mock serenade with tin horns and other discordant instruments by way of showing public disapproval.

• The issuing of letters of horning.

• a whetstone made of fine gritstone; used for sharpening razors

• a tool consisting of a number of fine abrasive slips held in a machine head, rotated and reciprocated to impart a smooth finish to cylinder bores, etc.

• sharpen with a hone

• make perfect or complete