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Phintias

Definition: Phintias

Phintias

Noun

1. Friend of Damon; Phintias (according to legend) was condemned to death by Dionysius the Elder and asked a respite to put his affairs in order; Damon pledged his life for the return of his friend; when Phintias returned in time the Tyrant released them both (4th century BC).

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Synonym: Phintias

Synonym: Pythias (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Phintias

English words defined with "Phintias": DamonPythias. (references)

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Anagrams: Phintias

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: antiship.

Words within the letters "a-h-i-i-n-p-s-t"

-1 letter: hatpins, pianist, tahinis.

-2 letters: hatpin, isatin, paints, patins, pintas, ptisan, shanti, tahini.

-3 letters: antis, aphis, apish, hants, hints, inapt, intis, nipas, pains, paint, pants, paths, patin, pians, pinas, pinta, pints, pitas, piths, saint, saith, satin, snath, spahi, spait, stain, staph, tains, tapis, thins, tipis.

-4 letters: ains, aits, anis, anti, ants, hant, haps, hasp, hast.

 Words containing the letters "a-h-i-i-n-p-s-t"
 

+1 letter: saintship.

 

+2 letters: saintships.

 

+3 letters: antipathies, antiphonies, antiphrasis, artisanship, captainship, dispatching, empathising, interparish, mispatching, pantheistic, pharyngitis, spaghettini, staphylinid, traineeship, xiphisterna.

 

+4 letters: antistrophic, artisanships, asphyxiating, asphyxiation, captainships, encephalitis, inhospitable, inhospitably, intrapsychic, misanthropic, partisanship, pathfindings, phoneticians, prehistorian, relationship, scintigraphy, spaghettinis, staphylinids, sympathising, sympathizing, traineeships, transhipping, vibraphonist.

 

+5 letters: amphictyonies, antiphonaries, antipsychotic, apotheosizing, asphyxiations, assistantship, azathioprines, chieftainship, containership, custodianship, diaphaneities, elephantiasis, hairsplitting, haruspication, hospitalising, hospitalizing, hypersalinity, hypostatizing, inhospitality, lymphadenitis, metaphysician, misanthropies, pantheistical, partisanships, pharyngitides, phosphatizing, prehistorians, punishability, relationships, retinopathies, rhinoplasties, scintigraphic, transshipping, trephinations, vibraphonists.

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Alternative Orthography: Phintias


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 68 69 6E 74 69 61 73

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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