Anagrams of: PRETENSION

• a false or unsupportable quality

• the advancing of a claim

• the quality of being pretentious (behaving or speaking in such a manner as to create a false appearance of great importance or worth)

• the beneficiary of a pension fund

• be or come between

• to put forth by way of intervention

• to insert between other elements

• get involved, so as to alter or hinder an action, or through force or threat of force

• (communication theory) a numerical measure of the uncertainty of an outcome

• (thermodynamics) a thermodynamic quantity representing the amount of energy in a system that is no longer available for doing mechanical work

• The organ a spider uses to spin its web.

• A multipored device through which a plastic polymer melt is extruded into fibers.

• a mark to indicate a direction or relation

• an indicator as on a dial

• (computer science) indicator consisting of a movable spot of light (an icon) on a visual display; moving it allows the user to point to commands or screen positions

• a strong slender smooth-haired dog of Spanish origin having a white coat with brown or black patches; scents out and points to game

• someone who helps to open up a new line of research or technology or art

• one of the first colonists or settlers in a new territory

• open up an area or prepare a way

• take the lead or initiative in; participate in the development of

• open up and explore a new area

• a writer who composes rhymes; a maker of poor verses (usually used as terms of contempt for minor or inferior poets)

• An unsaturated hydrocarbon, C5H8, that is readily polymerized; natural rubber (caoutchouc) is cis-1,4-polyisoprene, and trans-1,4-polyisoprene is present in gutta-percha and balata; it is the structural basis for the terpenes.