In ancient Egypt, the Sphinx is a male statue of a lion with the head of a human, sometimes with wings. Most sphinxes however represent a king in his appearance as the sun god.
An anacronym is an acronym or an abbreviation so old or familiar that no one remembers what its letters stand for, such as BASIC or COBOL . By the way, an acronym is not just any abbreviation. It's a word that is short for other words, usually using their initial letters.
a word or phrase spelled by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase. a word (such as a pronoun) used to avoid repetition; the referent of an anaphor is determined by its antecedent. a word that expresses a meaning opposed to the meaning of another word, in which case the two words are antonyms of each other.