Word Finder - sphinx

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A creature with the head of a person and the body of an animal (commonly a lion).

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A person who keeps his/her thoughts and intentions secret; an enigmatic person.

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A mandrill, Mandrillus sphinx, formerly classified a baboon, and called sphinx baboon.

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A sphinx moth.

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A sphincter.

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To decorate with sphinxes

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a marble sphinxed chimney-piece

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To adopt the posture of the Sphinx.

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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.

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To be inscrutable, often through silence

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(1900) The sphinxèd riddle of the Universe / Nature's unsolved enigma, who may prove?

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To make one guess at the unknowable

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(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 ...

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To befuddle

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(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.

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For the feminine to co-opt, dominate, or devour the masculine, especially from a paranoid fear of this happening

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(1986) modernism's fears of being sphinxed by a feminized mass culture

Then the sphinx threw herself down from the mountain.

The name of the sphinx in Egyptian was Hu.

The Great Sphinx dated to within a few years of 2500 BC.

Beside the great pyramids at Giza stands a giant sphinx (a lion 's body with a man 's head).

A new voice starts to speak from various sphinx statues.

Luxurious cruise ships ply the Nile River, offering itineraries that include Cairo, the Sphinx and the Pyramids, or extensions to Abu Simbel.

This 17-acre southern California adventure park offers a range of attractions for guests to experience, all wrapped in an intricate Egyptian theme from the very moment visitors pass the detailed sphinx guarding the entrance.

This is another 12-day cruise tour, boasting rare sights of Rameses II and Nefertari, temples, pyramids, the Sphinx and more.

You get to see the world's oldest step pyramid, the Sphinx, temples, statues of Rameses and Nefertari, and more.

The sailings travel the Nile River and include voyages through the Kingdom of Pharaohs, explorations of King Tutankhamen's artifacts and views of the Sphinx.

Another cool thing about this game is that you can build giant pyramids, the Sphinx and other great monuments.

Admittedly, the architecture is fascinating; just picture the pyramids or the lonely Sphinx.

The Sphinx is a figure with the head of a man set upon the body of a human, and is perhaps the Egyptian version of the Celtic Griffon.

Amenophis reigned twenty-six years and left his throne to his son Tethmosis IV., who is best remembered by a granite tablet recording his clearance of the Great Sphinx.

The sphinx is common on Persian gems, and the representations are finely executed.

An ancient female sphinx, but wingless, stands on the sacred road near Miletus.

It is curious that, though the sphinx (as also the gryphon) were thus common in the Mycenaean period, the words σφίγξ and γρύψ do not occur in Homer.

Sphinxes were represented on the throne of Apollo at Amyclae and on the metopes at Selinus; in the best period of Greek art a sphinx was sculptured on the helmet of the statue of Athena in the Parthenon at Athens; and sphinxes carrying off children were sculptured on the front feet of the throne of Zeus at Olympia.

There is also an Athenian vase from Capua in the form of a sphinx painted white.

On the other hand, he holds that the destroying nature of the sphinx was much older, and he refers to instances in both Egyptian and Greek art where a sphinx is seen seizing and standing upon a man.

And, whereas the Theban legend is but sparingly illustrated in Greek art, the figure of the sphinx appears more commonly on tombs, sculptured either in the round or in relief.

From this Milchhöfer seems to infer that the sphinx was a symbol of death.

The gateway is flanked by two huge blocks, each carved in front into the shape of a sphinx, while on the inner face is a relief of a two-headed eagle with wings displayed.

We got the idea of having a sphinx like cat on the cover from Chris's cat.

These winged creatures, probably winged lions with human faces, resembling the sphinx, formed a chair on which Yahweh was invisibly enthroned.

The shape and size of those hills resemble what one might expect for eroded remnants of structures the shape of the Egyptian sphinx.

The great sphinx dated to within a few years of 2500 BC.

Beside the great pyramids at Giza stands a giant sphinx (a lion's body with a man's head ).

The most famous sphinx is the Great Sphinx at Giza.

A stone sphinx comes to life to wreak revenge upon a temple defiler.

Oedipus is also the subject of an anonymous medieval romance (15th century), Le Roman d'Odipus, fils de Layus, in which the sphinx is depicted as a cunning and ferocious giant.

His "Wrestlers" (1875) and "Fan and Dagger" (1882; a defiant Spanish woman) are in the Luxembourg, and other pictures of importance are "The Beheading of St John the Baptist" (1877), "The Sphinx" (1883), "Acis and Galatea" (1885), "Old Woman and Child" (1886) and "In the Bull Slaughter-House."

The above-mentioned anubis baboon, P. anubis (with the subspecies neumanni, pruinosus, heuglini and doguera), ranging from Egypt all through tropical Africa, together with P. sphinx, P. olivaceus, the Abyssinian P. lydekkeri, and the chacma, P. porcarius of the Cape, represent the subgenus Choeropithecus.

It is curious that, though the sphinx (as also the gryphon) were thus common in the Mycenaean period, the words σφίγξ and ÃŽ³ÃÃÃË† do not occur in Homer.

From this Milchhöfer seems to infer that the sphinx was a symbol of death.

This riddle of the Sphinx is, Do you believe in the gods?

First to Giza, where youâll stand in wonder at the huge Pyramids and see the enigmatic Sphinx.

We got the idea of having a sphinx like cat on the cover from Chris 's cat.

Does the Sphinx really have the body of a lion?

The shape and size of those hills resemble what one might expect for eroded remnants of structures the shape of the Egyptian Sphinx.

The most famous Sphinx is the Great Sphinx at Giza.

The Service is currently funding research examining the life history, captive rearing, and conservation biology of the sphinx moth.

It was also his rationality that allowed him to solve the Sphinx 's riddle resulting in his marriage with his mother Jocasta.

He set a curse to put the peasant with the priest, and lash the Sphinx 's face with sand.

Props such as buildings, pyramids, pagodas, palm trees, sphinx, dragons, Eiffel Tower and so much more are available to turn your room into a different place.

There are 13 featured excursions that include Cairo Museum, the Sphinx and the Pyramids.

These change constantly, leaving you to wonder why someone would be searching for things like "sphinx cats vermilion ohio."

The country was ravaged by a monster, the Sphinx; Oedipus solved the riddle which it proposed to its victims, freed the country, and married his own mother.

This building, the date of which is not yet finally settled, though its excavator believes it to be of the Old Kingdom like the temple of the Sphinx at Giza, is one of the most remarkable in Egypt, and the completion of its excavation is much to be desired.

The larvae of several nocturnal Lepidoptera feed upon the leaves of the willows, and the trunk of the sallow is often injured by the perforations of the lunar hornet sphinx (Trochilium crabroniforme).