PONTIFICE

Definition: PONTIFICE

PONTIFICE

Noun

1. Bridgework; structure or edifice of a bridge.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "PONTIFICE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1651. (references)

Etymology: Pontifice \Pon"ti*fice\, noun. [Latin expression pons, pontis, bridge facere to make. Compare to Pontiff.]. (Websters 1913)

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "PONTIFICE": pontifices. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "PONTIFICE" (pronounced 'Pon"ti*fice'): Artifice, Fice, Malefice, Opifice, Orifice, Overoffice, self-sacrifice, Superfice, Venefice. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-e-f-i-i-n-o-p-t"
	-1 letter: pontific.
	-2 letters: entopic, fiction, nepotic.
	-3 letters: confit, finite, incept, incite, infect, noetic, notice, pectin, pinite, pionic, poetic, pointe, tiepin.
	-4 letters: cento, conte, copen, feint, ficin, inept, ionic, netop, often, ontic, opine, optic, picot, pinot, pinto, piton, point, ponce, tonic, topic.
	-5 letters: cent, cine, cion, cite, coft, coif, coin, cone, coni, cope, cote, epic, etic, fice.
	Words containing the letters "c-e-f-i-i-n-o-p-t"
	+1 letter: pontifices, proficient.
	+2 letters: pontificate, proficients.
	+3 letters: frontispiece, imperfection, petrifaction, pontificated, pontificates, proficiently.
	+4 letters: frontispieces, imperfections, perfectionism, perfectionist, petrifactions, petrification, postinfection, specification.
	+5 letters: perfectionisms, perfectionists, petrifications, prefabrication, prettification, preunification, specifications, superinfection.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.