1. A fabulous monster, of Egyptian origin, usually represented as having the body of a lion and the face of a young woman, who sat by the wayside propounding riddles to the passers-by, whom she devoured on the spot if they could not answer her, till Oedipus found out her secret, upon which she threw herself into the sea; a representation of the sphinx, with the head of a man, a ram, or a hawk; a genus of lepidopterous insects, the hawk-moth.

Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language By Nuttall, P.Austin

• sphynx,
• phinox,
• spynx,
• syphix,
• phnx,
• spinx,
• shinx,
• sphnix,
• phinix,
• aphinx,
• zphinx,
• xphinx,
• dphinx,
• ephinx,
• wphinx,
• sohinx,
• slhinx,
• s-hinx,
• s0hinx,
• spginx

• sphingid,
• sphingine,
• spaying,
• spinus,
• sphincter,
• spinks,
• Spink,
• spinnaker,
• spying.

The adjective form of the word "sphinx" is "sphingian".