SPHINXES

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NOUN
  • Definition - A creature with the head of a person and the body of an animal (commonly a lion).
  • Definition - A person who keeps his/her thoughts and intentions secret; an enigmatic person.
  • Definition - A mandrill, Mandrillus sphinx, formerly classified a baboon, and called sphinx baboon.
  • Definition - A sphinx moth.
  • Definition - A sphincter.
VERB
  • Definition - To decorate with sphinxes
  • Example - a marble sphinxed chimney-piece
  • Definition - To adopt the posture of the Sphinx.
  • Example - A hot lion with a very bloated stomach ... will adopt either a sphinxed or a squatting posture which takes some of the weight off its belly.
  • Definition - To be inscrutable, often through silence
  • Example - (1900) The sphinxèd riddle of the Universe / Nature's unsolved enigma, who may prove?
  • Definition - To make one guess at the unknowable
  • Example - (1933) Perhaps Nature is sphinxing us on purpose. Whatever her objects may be, perhaps she gets her work done better when she appeals to our gambling instincts. If you knew for certain exactly how your marriage was going to turn out ...
  • Definition - To befuddle
  • Example - (2010) She swiveled and sphinxed Giles. 'And you, I suppose you've never been here either?' Giles squirmed. 'Well, I – that is, Miss Wh—, I mean, Miss Taylor, I –' He looked to me for rescue.
  • Definition - For the feminine to co-opt, dominate, or devour the masculine, especially from a paranoid fear of this happening
  • Example - (1986) modernism's fears of being sphinxed by a feminized mass culture
Words in your word
8 Letter Words
sphinxes 20
7 Letter Words
hipness 12
6 Letter Words
phenix 18 sphinx 18 pishes 11 shines 9 snipes 8 spines 8
5 Letter Words
pixes 14 nixes 12 sixes 12 ships 10 shies 8 shine 8 shins 8 sinhs 8 peins 7 penis 7 pines 7 sipes 7 snipe 7 snips 7 spies 7 spine 7 spins 7 sines 5
4 Letter Words
nixe 11 heps 9 hips 9 pehs 9 phis 9 pish 9 ship 9 hens 7 hies 7 hins 7 hisn 7 hiss 7 sesh 7 shen 7 shes 7 shin 7 sinh 7 nips 6 pein 6 pens 6 pies 6 pine 6 pins 6 piss 6 psis 6 seps 6 sipe 6 sips 6 snip 6 spin 6 ness 4 seis 4 sine 4 sins 4
3 Letter Words
hex 13 pix 12 nix 10 sex 10 six 10 xis 10 hep 8 hip 8 peh 8 phi 8 hen 6 hes 6 hie 6 hin 6 his 6 she 6 nip 5 pen 5 pes 5 pie 5 pin 5 pis 5 psi 5 sip 5 ens 3 ess 3 ins 3 sei 3 sen 3 sin 3 sis 3
2 Letter Words
ex 9 xi 9 eh 5 he 5 hi 5 sh 5 pe 4 pi 4 en 2 es 2 in 2 is 2 ne 2 si 2
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