Androsphinx :: Androsphinx (n.) A man sphinx; a sphinx having the head of a man and the body of a lion.

Criosphinx :: Criosphinx (n.) A sphinx with the head of a ram.

Hypophosphite :: Hypophosphite (n.) A salt of hypophosphorous acid.

Phosphide :: Phosphide (n.) A binary compound of phosphorus.

Phosphine :: Phosphine (n.) A colorless gas, PH3, analogous to ammonia, and having a disagreeable odor resembling that of garlic. Called also hydrogen phosphide, and formerly, phosphureted hydrogen..

Phosphinic :: Phosphinic (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, certain acids analogous to the phosphonic acids, but containing two hydrocarbon radicals, and derived from the secondary phosphines by oxidation..

Phosphite :: Phosphite (n.) A salt of phosphorous acid.

Sphigmometer :: Sphigmometer (n.) See Sphygmometer.

Sphincter :: Sphincter (n.) A muscle which surrounds, and by its contraction tends to close, a natural opening; as, the sphincter of the bladder..

Sphincter :: Sphincter (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, a sphincter; as, a sphincter muscle..

Sphingid :: Sphingid (n.) A sphinx.

Sphingid :: Sphingid (a.) Of or pertaining to a sphinx, or the family Sphingidae..

Sphinx :: Sphinx (n.) 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..

Sphinx :: Sphinx (n.) 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..

Sphinx :: Sphinx (n.) Hence: A person of enigmatical character and purposes, especially in politics and diplomacy..

Sphinx :: Sphinx (n.) Any one of numerous species of large moths of the family Sphingidae; -- called also hawk moth.

Sphinx :: Sphinx (n.) The Guinea, or sphinx, baboon (Cynocephalus sphinx)..

Sulphophosphite :: Sulphophosphate (n.) A salt of sulphophosphoric acid.

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