Anagrams of: TIGHTENING

• the act of making something tighter

• the characteristic sounds made by a horse

• make a characteristic sound, of a horse

• To attach by, or equip with a hinge.

• (with on or upon) To depend on something.

• The breaking off of the distal end of a knapped stone flake whose presumed course across the face of the stone core was truncated prematurely, leaving not a feathered distal end but instead the scar of a nearly perpendicular break.

• To bend.

• the act of contacting one thing with another

• make tight or tighter

• become tight or tighter

• severely restrict in scope or extent

• narrow or limit

• lingerie consisting of a loose dress designed to be worn in bed by women

• To give one-tenth or a tithe of something, particularly:

• To take one-tenth or a tithe of something, particularly:

• To compose the tenth part of something.

• To grant, concede.

• A tithe or tenth in its various senses, :

• Ten sheaves of wheat (originally set up as such for the tithe-proctor).

• A body of households (originally a tenth of a hundred or ten households) bound by frankpledge to collective responsibility and punishment for each other's behavior.

• A part of the hundred as a rural division of territory.

• Decimation: the killing of every tenth person or (less often) the killing of every person except each tenth.

• A reward, grant, or concession.

• an indirect suggestion

• a slight indication

• a slight but appreciable amount

• a just detectable amount

• an indication of potential opportunity

• drop a hint; intimate by a hint