EURIPUS

Definition: EURIPUS

EURIPUS

Noun

1. A strait; a narrow tract of water, where the tide, or a current, flows and reflows with violence, as the ancient fright of this name between Eubaea and Baeotia. Hence, a flux and reflux.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "EURIPUS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1790. (references)

Etymology: Euripus \Eu*ri"pus\, noun. [Latin expression, from the Greek expression well rushing motion.]. (Websters 1913)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Gulf Lake	Noun: land covered with water, gulf, gulph, bay, inlet, bight, estuary, arm of the sea, bayou, fiord, armlet; frith, firth, ostiary, mouth; lagune, lagoon; indraught; cove, creek; natural harbor; roads; strait; narrows; Euripus; sound, belt, gut, kyles; continental slope, continental shelf.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: EURIPUS

Etymologies containing "EURIPUS": Euripize. (references)

Misspellings
	"EURIPUS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: auritus, Eorrabus, eurip, Eurogug, europas, Hermippus, Leoribus. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "EURIPUS" (pronounced 'Eu*ri"pus'): Apus, Campus, Canopus, Carpus, Cippus, Corpus, Dipterocarpus, Encarpus, Eumolpus, grampus, hippocampus, Labipalpus, lupus, mesohippus, metacarpus, Miohippus, mopus, Opus, Orohippus, Palpus, Pappus, Pedipalpus, Pithecanthropus, Pliohippus, Porpus, Protohippus, rumpus, Scapus. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-i-p-r-s-u-u"
	-1 letter: pursue, uprise.
	-2 letters: peris, piers, pries, prise, puris, purse, ripes, sieur, sirup, speir, spier, spire, sprue, super, usurp.
	-3 letters: ires, peri, pier, pies, pure, puri, purs, reis, reps, ripe, rips, rise, rues, ruse, sipe, sire, spue, spur, suer, supe, sure, urus, user.
	-4 letters: ers, ire, per, pes, pie, pis, piu, psi, pur, pus, rei.
	Words containing the letters "e-i-p-r-s-u-u"
	+1 letter: guipures, purlieus.
	+2 letters: europiums, penurious.
	+3 letters: perjurious, prurituses, repursuing, sulphurise, superfluid, turpitudes.
	+4 letters: apicultures, cupriferous, epineuriums, penuriously, perspicuous, picturesque, sulphurised, sulphurises, superfluids, superfluity, superinduce, suppurative, unsurprised.
	+5 letters: jurisprudent, multipurpose, perjuriously, pisciculture, pulchritudes, spuriousness, supercilious, superinduced, superinduces, superpremium, superquality, unpersuasive, unsupervised, voluptuaries.
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