NYT Spelling Bee Hints & Analysis

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• hill form into a hill
• hilt the handle of a sword or dagger
• hint drop a hint; intimate by a hint
• into
• lilt articulate in a very careful and rhythmic way
• limit decide upon or fix definitely
• limn make a portrait of
• limo large luxurious car; usually driven by a chauffeur
• lint fine ravellings of cotton or linen fibers
• lion (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Leo
• litho
• loin a cut of meat taken from the side and back of an animal between the ribs and the rump
• lotion any of various cosmetic preparations that are applied to the skin
• mill move about in a confused manner
• million (in Roman numerals, M written with a macron over it) denoting a quantity consisting of 1,000,000 items or units
• millionth the ordinal number of one million in counting order
• mini used of women's clothing; very short with hemline above the knee
• minim a United States liquid unit equal to 1/60 fluidram
• minion a servile or fawning dependant
• mint as if new
• mitt the (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb
• moil work hard
• monolith a single great stone (often in the form of a column or obelisk)
• moonlit lighted by moonlight
• motion show, express or direct through movement
• ninth coming next after the eighth and just before the tenth in position
• nonillion
• notion a general inclusive concept
• olio
• omit leave undone or leave out
• onion bulbous plant having hollow leaves cultivated worldwide for its rounded edible bulb
• thin not dense
• till work land as by ploughing, harrowing, and manuring, in order to make it ready for cultivation
• tilt heel over
• tilth arable land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops
• tint color lightly
• toil work hard
• tomtit widely distributed European titmouse with bright cobalt blue wings and tail and crown of the head