Anagrams of: PRETENSE

• the act of giving a false appearance

• pretending with intention to deceive

• imaginative intellectual play

• a false or unsupportable quality

• an artful or simulated semblance

• a preadolescent boy or girl (usually between 9 and 12 years of age)

• of or relating to or designed for children between the ages of 9 and 12

• an unsaturated hydrocarbon obtained from plants

• temporal sense; intermediate between past and future; now existing or happening or in consideration

• being or existing in a specified place

• the period of time that is happening now; any continuous stretch of time including the moment of speech

• something presented as a gift

• a verb tense that expresses actions or states at the time of speaking

• give an exhibition of to an interested audience

• bring forward and present to the mind

• perform (a play), especially on a stage

• hand over formally

• offer for others to consider

• give, especially as an honor or reward

• give as a present; make a gift of

• deliver (a speech, oration, or idea)

• cause to come to know personally

• represent abstractly, for example in a painting, drawing, or sculpture

• present somebody with something, usually to accuse or criticize

• formally present a debutante, a representative of a country, etc.

• recognize with a gesture prescribed by a military regulation; assume a prescribed position

• limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous

• a firework that moves in serpentine manner when ignited

• an obsolete bass cornet; resembles a snake

• a vessel (usually a pot or vat) used for steeping

• a preadolescent boy or girl (usually between 9 and 12 years of age)

• of or relating to or designed for children between the ages of 9 and 12

• become steeper

• make steeper

• an unsaturated hydrocarbon obtained from plants