Anagrams of: HOTSPRINGS

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

• the act of propping up with shores

• someone whose reasoning is subtle and often specious

• any of a group of Greek philosophers and teachers in the 5th century BC who speculated on a wide range of subjects

• 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.

• 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

• 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