Anagrams of: ROUTHIE_

• a musical stringed instrument with strings stretched over a flat sounding board; it is laid flat and played with a plectrum and with fingers

• preceding even the first

• German physicist who was the first to produce electromagnetic waves artificially (1857-1894)

• the unit of frequency; one hertz has a periodic interval of one second (named for Heinrich Rudolph Hertz)

• German physicist who with James Franck proved the existence of the stationary energy states postulated by Bohr (1887-1975)

• To say or declare.

• (defective, modal, auxiliary) to say

• spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts

• force or impel in an indicated direction

• a twisting force

• In croquet, the act of hitting another live ball with the striker's ball, from which croquet is then taken.

• In croquet, to hit another live ball with the striker's ball, from which croquet is then taken.

• a communicator (speaker or writer) who uses quotations

• to a degree (not used with a negative)

• to the greatest extent; completely

• of an unusually noticeable or exceptional or remarkable kind (not used with a negative)

• actually or truly or to an extreme

• characterized by an absence or near absence of agitation or activity

• free of noise or uproar; or making little if any sound

• (of the sun) characterized by a low level of surface phenomena, such as sunspots

• a period of calm weather

• an untroubled state; free from disturbances

• the absence of sound

• a disposition free from stress or emotion

• with little or no activity or no agitation (`quiet' is a nonstandard variant for `quietly')

• not showy or obtrusive

• in a softened tone

• (of a body of water) free from disturbance by heavy waves

• become quiet or quieter

• make calm or still