Anagrams of: OPHIES

• 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

• a mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services

• small workplace where handcrafts or manufacturing are done

• a course of instruction in a trade (as carpentry or electricity)

• do one's shopping

• do one's shopping at; do business with; be a customer or client of

• shop around; not necessarily buying

• give away information about somebody

• a vessel that carries passengers or freight

• transport commercially

• hire for work on a ship

• go on board

• travel by ship

• place on board a ship

• elegant and fashionable

• twining perennials having cordate leaves and flowers arranged in conelike spikes; the dried flowers of this plant are used in brewing to add the characteristic bitter taste to beer

• a second-year undergraduate

• A sibilant noise (e.g. "psshh") made by birders and ornithologists to attract small birds.

• To try to attract birds by making a sibilant noise (e.g. "psshh").

• To express contempt.

• Of poor quality; very bad.

• Expressing disdain.

• either side of the body below the waist and above the thigh

• the structure of the vertebrate skeleton supporting the lower limbs in humans and the hind limbs or corresponding parts in other vertebrates

• the ball-and-socket joint between the head of the femur and the acetabulum

• (architecture) the exterior angle formed by the junction of a sloping side and a sloping end of a roof

• the fruit of a rose plant

• informed about the latest trends