IN PETTO

Definition: IN PETTO

IN PETTO

1. In the breast; hence, in secrecy; in reserve.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Literature

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Concealment

Adjective: concealed; Verb: hidden; secret, recondite, mystic, cabalistic, occult, dark; cryptic, cryptical; private, privy, in petto, auricular, clandestine, close, inviolate; tortuous.

Idea

Adjective: thought of; uppermost in the mind; in petto.

Intellect

Adverb: in petto.

Intention

Adjective: intended; Verb: intentional, advised, express, determinate; prepense; bound for; intending; Verb: minded; bent upon; (earnest); at stake; on the anvil, on the tapis; in view, in prospect, in the breast of; in petto; teleological

Expression using "IN PETTO": ad in petto. Additional references.

Russian 

тайком (in hugger-mugger, on the sly, quiet, stealth, under the rose). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

u svojoj duši (petto: in petto). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: pointe, potent, tiptoe.

-2 letters: inept, netop, opine, petit, petti, petto, pinot, pinto, piton, point.

-3 letters: into, nett, nite, nope, note, open, pein, pent, peon, pine, pint, pion, poet, pone, tent, tine, tint, toit, tone, tope, topi, tote.

-4 letters: eon, ion, net, nip, nit, not, one, ope, opt, pen, pet, pie, pin, pit, poi, pot.

+1 letter: impotent, nepotist, petition.

+2 letters: impotents, nepotists, nilpotent, panettoni, petitions, pointiest, potential, pottering, repotting, tiptoeing.

+3 letters: antilepton, antipoetic, constipate, deputation, idempotent, impotently, interpoint, intertroop, introspect, nepotistic, omnipotent, outpainted, outpatient, outpointed, pentatonic, petitioned, petitioner, pinspotter, poinsettia, portamenti, potentials, potentiate, potentilla, protecting, protection, protesting, repetition, replotting, reputation, respotting, spottiness, stenotopic, temptation, thiopental, totipotent.

+4 letters: acceptation, antileptons, antipoverty, antistrophe, appointment, competition, constipated, constipates, crepitation, deportation, deputations, disportment, expatiation, expectation, exportation, extirpation, fetoprotein, idempotents, impetration, importunate, incompetent, interceptor, interpoints, interpolate, interruptor, introspects, kinetoplast, luteotropin, omnipotents, optokinetic, ornithopter, outpatients, outsprinted, partitioned, partitioner, pectination, penetration, peritonitis, permutation, petitionary, petitioners, petitioning, pinspotters, pirouetting, plenipotent, pluripotent, poinsettias, pontificate, postediting, posttension, potentially, potentiated, potentiates, potentiator, potentillas, potteringly, poussetting, pretentious, protections, repartition, repetitions, reputations, retinopathy, septentrion, spontaneity, stenotypies, stenotyping, stenotypist, stephanotis, telephonist, teleporting, temptations, thiopentals, tippytoeing, topocentric, totipotency, trepanation, trepidation.