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SPHINX

“SPHINX” is a valid word.

18 Scrabble points
19 Words with Friends
6 letters

Definition

noun

  1. an inscrutable person who keeps his thoughts and intentions secret
  2. Greek mythology a riddling winged monster with a woman's head and breast on a lion's body; daughter of Typhon
  3. one of a number of large stone statues with the body of a lion and the head of a man that were built by the ancient Egyptians

< 6-letter words: SPHINX

34 words found

4-letter words 12

  • shipa vessel that carries passengers or freight
  • spina swift whirling motion (usually of a missile)
  • shinthe front part of the human leg between the knee and the ankle
  • hipseither side of the body below the waist and above the thigh
  • pinsa piece of jewelry that is pinned onto the wearer's garment
  • snipa small piece of anything (especially a piece that has been snipped off)
  • nipsa small drink of liquor
  • pish
  • hinsancient Hebrew unit of liquid measure = 1.5 gallons
  • sinh
  • phisthe 21st letter of the Greek alphabet
  • hisn

3-letter words 15

  • his
  • sixthe cardinal number that is the sum of five and one
  • sinestrangement from god
  • pina piece of jewelry that is pinned onto the wearer's garment
  • hipeither side of the body below the waist and above the thigh
  • sipa small drink
  • nipa small drink of liquor
  • insan agency in the Department of Justice that enforces laws and regulations for the admission of foreign-born persons to the United States
  • psia unit of pressure
  • phithe 21st letter of the Greek alphabet
  • nixa quantity of no importance
  • pixa chest in which coins from the mint are held to await assay
  • hinancient Hebrew unit of liquid measure = 1.5 gallons
  • pis
  • xis

2-letter words 7

  • ishave the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun)
  • ina unit of length equal to one twelfth of a foot
  • hian expression of greeting
  • sia tetravalent nonmetallic element; next to oxygen it is the most abundant element in the earth's crust; occurs in clay and feldspar and granite and quartz and sand; used as a semiconductor in transistors
  • sh
  • pithe ratio of the circumference to the diameter of a circle; approximately equal to 3.14159265358979323846...
  • xithe cardinal number that is the sum of ten and one