NYT Spelling Bee Hints & Analysis

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• acclaim praise vociferously
• amalgam an alloy of mercury with another metal (usually silver) used by dentists to fill cavities in teeth; except for iron and platinum all metals dissolve in mercury and chemists refer to the resulting mercury mixtures as amalgams
• amyl a hydrocarbon radical that occurs in many organic compounds
• calm (of weather) free from storm or wind
• calmly with self-possession (especially in times of stress)
• cami
• claim demand as being one's due or property; assert one's right or title to
• clam gather clams, by digging in the sand by the ocean
• clammy unpleasantly cool and humid
• gamma a unit of magnetic field strength equal to one-hundred-thousandth of an oersted
• gamy willing to face danger
• glam
• imam (Islam) the man who leads prayers in a mosque; for Shiites an imam is a recognized authority on Islamic theology and law and a spiritual guide
• lama a Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism
• lima
• llama wild or domesticated South American cud-chewing animal related to camels but smaller and lacking a hump
• magi
• magic possessing or using or characteristic of or appropriate to supernatural powers
• magical possessing or using or characteristic of or appropriate to supernatural powers
• magically in a magical manner
• magma molten rock in the earth's crust
• mail send via the postal service
• maim injure or wound seriously and leave permanent disfiguration or mutilation
• malic
• mall mercantile establishment consisting of a carefully landscaped complex of shops representing leading merchandisers; usually includes restaurants and a convenient parking area; a modern version of the traditional marketplace
• mama informal terms for a mother
• mamma informal terms for a mother
• mammal any warm-blooded vertebrate having the skin more or less covered with hair; young are born alive except for the small subclass of monotremes and nourished with milk
• mica any of various minerals consisting of hydrous silicates of aluminum or potassium etc. that crystallize in forms that allow perfect cleavage into very thin leaves; used as dielectrics because of their resistance to electricity
• mill move about in a confused manner
• mimic constituting an imitation
• myalgia pain in a muscle or group of muscles
• myalgic of or relating to myalgia