Anagrams of: WHYDAH

• mostly black African weaverbird

• the cause or intention underlying an action or situation, especially in the phrase `the whys and wherefores'

• A valley, gully, or stream bed in northern Africa and southwest Asia that remains dry except during the rainy season.

• how something is done or how it happens

• to have the ability to produce a particular effect or achieve an end

• a line leading to a place or point

• the condition of things generally

• a course of conduct

• any artifact consisting of a road or path affording passage from one place to another

• a journey or passage

• space for movement

• the property of distance in general

• doing as one pleases or chooses

• a general category of things; used in the expression `in the way of'

• a portion of something divided into shares

• to a great degree or by a great distance; very much (`right smart' is regional in the United States)

• grass mowed and cured for use as fodder

• convert (plant material) into hay

• A representation of laughter.

• An exclamation of triumph or discovery.

• An exclamation of grief.

• A sound of hesitation: er, um.

• Said when making a vigorous attack.

• (with falling pitch) used to express amusement or subtle surprise.

• Used to express doubt or confusion.

• (with rising pitch) Used to reinforce a question.

• (with falling pitch) Used either to belittle the issuer of a statement/question, or sarcastically to indicate utter agreement, and that the statement being responded to is an extreme understatement. The intonation is changed to distinguish between the two meanings - implied dullness for belittlement, and feigned surprise for utter agreement.

• (with rising pitch) Used to indicate that one did not hear what was said.

• (with falling pitch) Used to create a tag question.

• The fifth letter of many Semitic alphabets (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).

• Yes.

• An upper-class person, especially a Sloane Ranger.

• a spring-flowering shrub or small tree of the genus Crataegus

• the nictitating membrane of a horse

• utter `haw'

• an erratic deflection from an intended course

• be wide open

• deviate erratically from a set course

• swerve off course momentarily