NYT Spelling Bee Hints & Analysis

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• anal a stage in psychosexual development when the child's interest is concentrated on the anal region; fixation at this stage is said to result in orderliness, meanness, stubbornness, compulsiveness, etc.
• anally a stage in psychosexual development when the child's interest is concentrated on the anal region; fixation at this stage is said to result in orderliness, meanness, stubbornness, compulsiveness, etc.
• annal
• anneal bring to a desired consistency, texture, or hardness by a process of gradually heating and cooling
• baleen a horny material from the upper jaws of certain whales; used as the ribs of fans or as stays in corsets
• banal repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
• banally repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
• banana any of several tropical and subtropical treelike herbs of the genus Musa having a terminal crown of large entire leaves and usually bearing hanging clusters of elongated fruits
• bane something causing misery or death
• banyan East Indian tree that puts out aerial shoots that grow down into the soil forming additional trunks
• bean hit on the head, especially with a pitched baseball
• beanball a baseball deliberately thrown at the batter's head
• been work in a specific place, with a specific subject, or in a specific function
• elan a feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause)
• enable render capable or able for some task
• enby
• jean a coarse durable twill-weave cotton fabric
• jellybean
• jenny female donkey
• lane a narrow way or road
• lean lacking excess flesh
• leanly lacking excess flesh
• naan leavened bread baked in a clay oven in India; usually shaped like a teardrop
• nana
• nanny a woman who is the custodian of children
• nene