Anagrams of: STRAITEN

• bring into difficulties or distress, especially financial hardship

• squeeze together

• any compound containing the nitrate group (such as a salt or ester of nitric acid)

• treat with nitric acid, so as to change an organic compound into a nitrate

• 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

• any compound containing the nitrate group (such as a salt or ester of nitric acid)

• treat with nitric acid, so as to change an organic compound into a nitrate

• a public performer (a dancer or singer)

• offensive or even (of persons) malicious

• exasperatingly difficult to handle or circumvent

• characterized by obscenity

• disgustingly dirty; filled or smeared with offensive matter

• the innermost light-sensitive membrane covering the back wall of the eyeball; it is continuous with the optic nerve

• To install (someone) in office; to establish.