Anagrams of: SURLIER

• inclined to anger or bad feelings with overtones of menace

• a person who rules or commands

• measuring stick consisting of a strip of wood or metal or plastic with a straight edge that is used for drawing straight lines and measuring lengths

• Pitiable; miserable.

• Neat and orderly.

• a principle or condition that customarily governs behavior

• something regarded as a normative example

• prescribed guide for conduct or action

• (linguistics) a rule describing (or prescribing) a linguistic practice

• a basic generalization that is accepted as true and that can be used as a basis for reasoning or conduct

• the duration of a monarch's or government's power

• dominance or power through legal authority

• directions that define the way a game or sport is to be conducted

• any one of a systematic body of regulations defining the way of life of members of a religious order

• a rule or law concerning a natural phenomenon or the function of a complex system

• (mathematics) a standard procedure for solving a class of mathematical problems

• measuring stick consisting of a strip of wood or metal or plastic with a straight edge that is used for drawing straight lines and measuring lengths

• exercise authority over; as of nations

• decide with authority

• be larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance

• decide on and make a declaration about

• have an affinity with; of signs of the zodiac

• mark or draw with a ruler

• keep in check

• a person who rules or commands

• measuring stick consisting of a strip of wood or metal or plastic with a straight edge that is used for drawing straight lines and measuring lengths

• a person who rises (especially from bed)

• a vertical pipe in a building

• structural member consisting of the vertical part of a stair or step

• having or feeling no doubt or uncertainty; confident and assured

• certain to occur; destined or inevitable

• definitely or positively (`sure' is sometimes used informally for `surely')

• exercising or taking care great enough to bring assurance

• physically secure or dependable

• reliable in operation or effect

• (of persons) worthy of trust or confidence

• infallible or unfailing

• certain not to fail

• impossible to doubt or dispute

• blockage of the intestine (especially the ileum) that prevents the contents of the intestine from passing to the lower bowel