Crossword-Solution: BEHEST 6 letters, 33 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

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Word Word Type Definition
Behest n. That which is willed or ordered; a command; a mandate; an
injunction.
Behest n. A vow; a promise.
Behest v. t. To vow.

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BEHEST anagram THEBES

We have 33 clues for the answer “BEHEST”

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order or earnest request 1 answer
Urgent prompting 1 answer
Urgent bidding 1 answer
Earnest order 1 answer
Command with teeth 1 answer
Apt rhyme for "request" 1 answer
Anagram of Thebes 1 answer
An order. 1 answer
Insistent request 2 answers
Strong request 3 answers
An authoritative command 3 answers
Say-so 5 answers
Urgent request 6 answers
Authoritative command 6 answers
earnest request 9 answers
Insistence 9 answers
BEGIN BIDDING 10 answers
authoritative order 12 answers
Mandate 22 answers
Bidding 30 answers
injunction 32 answers
dictate 41 answers
Directive 44 answers
Request 54 answers
urging 59 answers
Demand 65 answers
Propose 69 answers
Edict 71 answers
DIRECTION ___ 74 answers
Decree 78 answers
will 87 answers
Command! 100 answers
Order 125 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with BEHEST (5)

Haste hither _Eve_, and worth thy sight behold Eastward among those Trees, what glorious shape Comes this way moving; seems another Morn Ris’n on mid-noon; som great behest from Heav’n To us perhaps he brings, and will voutsafe This day to be our Guest.
Paradise Lost John Milton 1991
But it is an error to suppose that our great forefathers—though accustomed to speak and think of human existence as a state merely of trial and warfare, and though unfeignedly prepared to sacrifice goods and life at the behest of duty—made it a matter of conscience to reject such means of comfort, or even luxury, as lay fairly within their grasp.
The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992
Bethink thee, child, there are they that love thee in Upmeads and thereabout, were it but thy gossip, my wife, dame Katherine." Said Ralph: "Master Clement, I thank thee for all that thou hast said, and thy behest, and thy deeds.
The Well at the World's End William Morris 2008
Therewithal at my behest Shall Lyctian Aegon and Damoetas sing, And Alphesiboeus emulate in dance The dancing Satyrs.
The Bucolics and Eclogues Virgil 2008
But when no trickery found a path for flight, Baffled at length, to his own shape returned, With human lips he spake, "Who bade thee, then, So reckless in youth's hardihood, affront Our portals? or what wouldst thou hence?"- But he, "Proteus, thou knowest, of thine own heart thou knowest; For thee there is no cheating, but cease thou To practise upon me: at heaven's behest I for my fainting fortunes hither come An oracle to ask thee." There he ceased.
The Georgics Virgil 2008

Quotes with BEHEST (3)

A Radical is a man with both feet firmly planted--in the air. A Conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward. A Reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards. A Liberal is a man who uses his legs and his hands at the behest--at the command--of his head.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Crying defies scientific explanation. Tears are only meant to lubricate the eyes. There is no real reason for tear glands to overproduce tears at the behest of emotion.
Veronica Roth Insurgent
In the Middle Ages there was no salvation outside the Church, and the theologians had a hard time explaining what God did with those pagans who were visibly virtuous or saintly. Similarly, in contemporary society effort is not productive unless it is done at the behest of a boss, and economists have a hard time dealing with the obvious usefulness of people when they are outside the corporate control of a corporation, volunteer agency, or labour camp.
Ivan Illich The Right to Useful Unemployment and Its Professional Enemies
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.

Used 56 times in crossword archives (1954–2025).