Anagrams of: UNKNOTTING

• become or cause to become undone by separating the fibers or threads of

• a tight cluster of people or things

• any of various fastenings formed by looping and tying a rope (or cord) upon itself or to another rope or to another object

• a hard cross-grained round piece of wood in a board where a branch emerged

• (of ships and wind) a unit of speed equal to one nautical mile per hour or about 1.15 statute miles per hour

• something twisted and tight and swollen

• soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by design

• a sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the Southern Hemisphere

• make into knots; make knots out of

• tie or fasten into a knot

• tangle or complicate

• To flog or beat with a knout.

• A leather scourge.

• A flogging with a knout.

• the warhead of a missile designed to deliver an atom bomb

• strike at with firepower or bombs

• bomb with atomic weapons

• cook or heat in a microwave oven

• a puff of a marijuana or hashish cigarette

• To unravel.

• To undo knitted stitches by reversing the knitting motion.

• become or cause to become undone by separating the fibers or threads of

• a male sovereign; ruler of a kingdom

• United States woman tennis player (born in 1943)

• a competitor who holds a preeminent position

• United States guitar player and singer of the blues (born in 1925)

• a very wealthy or powerful businessman

• United States charismatic civil rights leader and Baptist minister who campaigned against the segregation of Blacks (1929-1968)

• preeminence in a particular category or group or field

• a checker that has been moved to the opponent's first row where it is promoted to a piece that is free to move either forward or backward

• one of the four playing cards in a deck bearing the picture of a king

• (chess) the weakest but the most important piece

• any thick, viscous matter

• a whip with a lash of leather thongs twisted with wire; used for flogging prisoners