Anagrams of RATTLINS

• a surveying instrument for measuring horizontal and vertical angles, consisting of a small telescope mounted on a tripod

• a facility consisting of the means and equipment necessary for the movement of passengers or goods

• a journey usually by ship

• make a passage or journey from one place to another

• pass across (a sign or house of the zodiac) or pass across (the disk of a celestial body or the meridian of a place)

• revolve (the telescope of a surveying transit) about its horizontal transverse axis in order to reverse its direction

• cause or enable to pass through

• lighted only by stars

• (nautical) a small horizontal rope between the shrouds of a sailing ship; they form a ladder for climbing aloft

• a person whose creative work shows sensitivity and imagination

• (physics) deformation of a physical body under the action of applied forces

• difficulty that causes worry or emotional tension

• a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence

• (psychology) nervousness resulting from mental stress

• a special variety of domesticated animals within a species

• (biology) a group of organisms within a species that differ in trivial ways from similar groups

• injury to a muscle (often caused by overuse); results in swelling and pain

• the general meaning or substance of an utterance

• an effortful attempt to attain a goal

• an intense or violent exertion

• the act of singing

• to exert much effort or energy

• test the limits of

• use to the utmost; exert vigorously or to full capacity

• separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements

• cause to be tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious

• become stretched or tense or taut

• remove by passing through a filter

• rub through a strainer or process in an electric blender

• alter the shape of (something) by stress

• a narrow channel of the sea joining two larger bodies of water

• a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs

• narrow

• an insect or other arthropod between molts

• a medicine that lowers blood cholesterol levels by inhibiting HMG-CoA reductase

• the state of being contaminated

• place under suspicion or cast doubt upon

• contaminate with a disease or microorganism