Anagrams of: RATCHES

• mechanical device consisting of a toothed wheel or rack engaged with a pawl that permits it to move in only one direction

• mechanical device consisting of a toothed wheel or rack engaged with a pawl that permits it to move in only one direction

• the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone

• an investigation seeking answers

• an operation that determines whether one or more of a set of items has a specified property

• the examination of alternative hypotheses

• boarding and inspecting a ship on the high seas

• try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of

• search or seek

• inquire into

• subject to a search

• a person who is pursuing and trying to overtake or capture

• a drink to follow immediately after another drink

• morally pure (especially not having experienced sexual intercourse)

• pure and simple in design or style

• abstaining from unlawful sexual intercourse

• a curved shape in the vertical plane that spans an opening

• a curved bony structure supporting or enclosing organs (especially the inner sides of the feet)

• a passageway under a curved masonry construction

• (architecture) a masonry construction (usually curved) for spanning an opening and supporting the weight above it

• (used of behavior or attitude) characteristic of those who treat others with condescension

• naughtily or annoyingly playful

• form an arch or curve

• a complex carbohydrate found chiefly in seeds, fruits, tubers, roots and stem pith of plants, notably in corn, potatoes, wheat, and rice; an important foodstuff and used otherwise especially in adhesives and as fillers and stiffeners for paper and textiles

• a commercial preparation of starch that is used to stiffen textile fabrics in laundering

• stiffen with starch

• a small soft bag containing perfumed powder; used to perfume items in a drawer or chest

• the act of damaging something or someone