Anagrams of RETRAITS

• Resembling tar.

• Covered with tar.

• an electric motor for starting an engine

• a contestant in a team sport who is in the game at the beginning

• the official who signals the beginning of a race or competition

• any new participant in some activity

• food or drink to stimulate the appetite (usually served before a meal or as the first course)

• a hand tool consisting of a rotating shaft with parallel handle

• a culture containing yeast or bacteria that is used to start the process of fermentation or souring in making butter or cheese or dough

• start an engine again, for example

• take up or begin anew

• a public performer (a dancer or singer)

• marked with stria or striations

• mark with striae or striations

• nocturnal arboreal primate of Indonesia and the Philippines having huge eyes and digits ending in pads to facilitate climbing; the only primate that spurns all plant material as food living entirely on insects and small vertebrates

• (sometimes derogatory) Inclined towards the arts; arty.

• clothing of a distinctive style or for a particular occasion

• put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive

• having the characteristics of pitch or tar

• be about a place without any apparent purpose

• leave slowly and hesitantly