Sphinx is valid Scrabble Word

Is sphinx a scrabble word?
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6 letters word
18 points in Scrabble
19 points in WWF

Definitions for SPHINX in dictionary:

NOUN:

an enigmatic or inscrutable person
huge statue built by the ancient Egyptians
In Egyptian art, an image of granite or porphyry, having a human head, or the head of a ram or of a hawk, upon the wingless body of a lion.
On Greek art and mythology, a she-monster, usually represented as having the winged body of a lion, and the face and breast of a young woman.
Hence: A person of enigmatical character and purposes, especially in politics and diplomacy.
Any one of numerous species of large moths of the family Sphingidae; -- called also hawk moth.
The Guinea, or sphinx, baboon (Cynocephalus sphinx).
an inscrutable person who keeps his thoughts and intentions secret
(Greek mythology) a riddling winged monster with a woman\'s head and breast on a lion\'s body; daughter of Typhon
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

a winged monster of Thebes, having a woman's head and a lion's body. It propounded a riddle about the three ages of man, killing those who failed to solve it, until Oedipus was successful, whereupon the Sphinx committed suicide.
an ancient Egyptian stone figure having a lion's body and a human or animal head, especially the huge statue near the Pyramids at Giza.

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

a monster in Egyptian mythology

Words related to SPHINX

sphinges14 sphinxes20

Words that contain SPHINX

sphinxes20 sphinxlike26 androsphinx24 androsphinxes26 hieracosphinx30 hieracosphinxes32

How to use SPHINX in a sentence

He looked up into the vast countenance of the crouching Sphinx and vainly tried to read the meaning of her calm eyes and smiling mouth.
We read it in the fearful composition of the sphinx.
She looked with blank brown eyes at the new-comer, herself inscrutable as the Sphinx.
How he extorted from her the promise to renounce her Albano for ever is a mystery watched and hidden by the Great Sphinx of the oath she swore to him.
On the face of a winged sphinx which supported it some one had drawn a mustache in lead-pencil.
I regarded him with fear mingled with interest, as, doubtless, OEdiphus regarded the Sphinx.
Rarely a French soldier or an interpreter with his sphinx badges.
Ray sat still, and smoked with the face of a Sphinx.
He looked up into the vast countenance of the crouching Sphinx and vainly tried to read the meaning of the calm eyes and smiling mouth.
The broken bluffs about Memphis, the temples, the obelisks, the Sphinx, the pyramids melted into night behind him.

She is a Sphinx, a riddle, the solution of which escapes me completely.
Now it stood silently brooding amid the desolation stretched about it, as solitary as the Sphinx itself.
The heart of simplest man or woman is a mystery, compared with which the sphinx is an open secret.
But no! For all the answer that he got he might as well have been looking upon the granite features of the Sphinx itself.
The man who faced her now possessed the features of a sphinx.
This armed Sphinx represents the law of the Mystery, which keeps watch at the door of initiation, to repulse the Profane.
Seven expresses all the elements of the Magical Mystery symbolized by the Sphinx, 728-u.
Sphinx the symbolic Key to a Knowledge of Nature, 321-l.
A grim, chilling sight enough, as solitary and impenetrable as the Sphinx.
Every day the Sphinx went with him to see the sights of this strange city.
When at last, he reached his palace, his line of former followers having apparently melted entirely away, he hurried up-stairs to the Queen, leaving the Sphinx in the court-yard.
The stony face of the Sphinx is not more true to its past, nor the massive architecture of the Pyramids more unchanged, than they are.
Nothing of this sort ever escaped the lips of our modern Sphinx.
Satan lay upon the small table beside her, in the attitude of a sphinx, his black, velvety paws stretched in front of him, his inscrutable eyes watching the restless young man.
Every age is a sphinx, which casts itself into the abyss when man has guessed its riddle.
I recognised in art the Sphinx whose enigma is never solved.
It was as the face of some colossal sculpture of his own ancestral sphinx.
It has pleased their fancy especially to picture her as a sphinx, mysterious, elusive, inscrutable.
But he and his party were to ascend the pyramid before going on to the Sphinx, and he advised his mother to do the same.
It is the American Sphinx leading in a game of hide-and-seek.

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