Phrase Hound found 15 phrases and 10 compound words that contain whist. The most common are listed below. Open whist in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 15
- bid whistA partnership trick-taking variant of the card game whist, with a bidding element.
- bridge whistA variety of whist with the additional rules that the players would take turns as dummy and that the trump suit would be deliberately chosen (including the option not to have one) on each deal rather than random
- dummy whistA variant of the card game whist, similar to bid whist but played with three players instead of four, and, instead of dealing a kitty, dealing a dummy hand on the team of the player who wins the auction.
- German whistA variation of whist for two players, probably of British origin.
- Minnesota whistA simplified version of whist in which there are no trumps and the goal is to take seven of the thirteen tricks.
- Russian whistSynonym of vint: To make wine from fruit.
- Scotch whistSynonym of catch the ten: An 18th-century point-trick ace–ten card game played with a pack of 36 cards, the fives and below being omitted. In the trump suit, the jack is the highest card.
- Scots whistSynonym of catch the ten: An 18th-century point-trick ace–ten card game played with a pack of 36 cards, the fives and below being omitted. In the trump suit, the jack is the highest card.
- solo whistA trick-taking card game for four players in which players can bid to make eight tricks in trumps with any partner, or a solo contract playing against the other three players.
- Chinese whistSynonym of German whist: A variation of whist for two players, probably of British origin.
- domino whistA card game in which the suits are played in sequence, beginning with a 5 or 9, and the first player to get rid of his or her cards is the winner.
- honeymoon whistSynonym of German whist: A variation of whist for two players, probably of British origin.
- long whistA game for four players in two partnerships, where a game is won by scoring nine or ten odd tricks.
- Norwegian whistSynonym of Minnesota whist: A simplified version of whist in which there are no trumps and the goal is to take seven of the thirteen tricks.
- short whistA variation of the game whist that uses a five-point game limit and in which two partnerships of four players compete to win the most tricks.
Compound words 10
- whistfulAlternative form of wistful: Full of longing or yearning.
- whisterA player of the card game whist.
- whistlikeResembling or characteristic of the game of whist.
- whistnessSilence.
- whistlesplural of whistle: A device designed to be placed in the mouth and blown, or driven by steam or some other mechanism, to make a whistling sound.
- whistledsimple past and past participle of whistle
- whistersplural of whister: A player of the card game whist.
- whistlableAlternative form of whistleable: Capable of being whistled.
- whistlin'Pronunciation spelling of whistling.
- Whistonsplural of Whiston: A large village in the Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley, Merseyside, England (OS grid ref SJ4791).