Anagrams of: PONDSKATER

• the top of a desk

• (computer science) the area of the screen in graphical user interfaces against which icons and windows appear

• To perform a practical joke on; to trick.

• To call someone's phone and promptly hang up

• To adorn in a showy manner; to dress or equip ostentatiously.

• To make ostentatious show.

• a slap with the flat of the hand

• give a spanking to; subject to a spanking

• a momentary flash of light

• Scottish writer of satirical novels (born in 1918)

• merriment expressed by a brightness or gleam or animation of countenance

• electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field

• a small but noticeable trace of some quality that might become stronger

• a small fragment of a burning substance thrown out by burning material or by friction

• put in motion or move to act

• emit or produce sparks

• that have been left

• a hitter who slaps (usually another person) with an open hand

• a fore-and-aft sail set on the aftermost lower mast (usually the mizzenmast) of a vessel

• An initial soak.

• A preparation used in such a soak.

• A cycle of a washing machine during which this occurs.

• To soak in advance.

• To soak laundry in cold water prior to washing, sometimes with the addition of a biological or other preparation.

• (usually of a male) To have sex with (someone).

• Extensively broken or beyond repair.

• support consisting of a radial member of a wheel joining the hub to the rim

• one of the crosspieces that form the steps of a ladder

• uttered through the medium of speech or characterized by speech; sometimes used in combination