Anagram

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·vt To Anagrammatize.

II. Anagram ·noun Literally, the letters of a word read backwards, but in its usual wider sense, the change or one word or phrase into another by the transposition of its letters. Thus Galenus becomes angelus; William Noy (attorney-general to Charles I., and a laborious man) may be turned into I moyl in law.