Anagrams of: HOTSPRING

• a specific instance of feeling hopeful

• United States comedian (born in England) who appeared in films with Bing Crosby (1903-2003)

• the general feeling that some desire will be fulfilled

• grounds for feeling hopeful about the future

• someone (or something) on which expectations are centered

• one of the three Christian virtues

• expect and wish

• be optimistic; be full of hope; have hopes

• intend with some possibility of fulfilment

• To cause a short circuit in (something).

• Of an electrical circuit, to short circuit.

• To shortchange.

• To provide with a smaller than agreed or labeled amount.

• To sell something, especially securities, that one does not own at the moment for delivery at a later date in hopes of profiting from a decline in the price; to sell short.

• To shorten.

• relating to or used in sports

• exhibiting or calling for sportsmanship or fair play

• involving risk or willingness to take a risk

• preoccupied with the pursuit of pleasure and especially games of chance

• a tube running from the liquid in a vessel to a lower level outside the vessel so that gravity forces the liquid through the tube

• a tubular organ in an aquatic animal (especially in mollusks) through which water can be taken in or expelled

• convey, draw off, or empty by or as if by a siphon

• move a liquid from one container into another by means of a siphon or a siphoning action

• solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times

• a padded gymnastic apparatus on legs

• troops trained to fight on horseback

• a framework for holding wood that is being sawed

• a chessman shaped to resemble the head of a horse; can move two squares horizontally and one vertically (or vice versa)

• provide with a horse or horses

• a beam or timber that is propped against a structure to provide support

• the act of propping up with shores

• a large gathering of people

• press tightly together or cram

• a technical name for the bread used in the service of Mass or Holy Communion

• a person who invites guests to a social event (such as a party in his or her own home) and who is responsible for them while they are there

• a vast multitude

• an animal or plant that nourishes and supports a parasite; it does not benefit and is often harmed by the association

• a person who acts as host at formal occasions (makes an introductory speech and introduces other speakers)

• archaic terms for army

• any organization that provides resources and facilities for a function or event

• (medicine) recipient of transplanted tissue or organ from a donor

• the owner or manager of an inn

• (computer science) a computer that provides client stations with access to files and printers as shared resources to a computer network

• be the host of or for

• (now chiefly in placenames) A group of houses standing together in the country; a hamlet; a village.