NYT Spelling Bee Hints & Analysis

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• bigot a prejudiced person who is intolerant of any opinions differing from their own
• bill demand payment
• billing request for payment of a debt
• billion denoting a quantity consisting of one thousand million items or units in the United States
• biltong meat that is salted and cut into strips and dried in the sun
• binging to watch a large amount of media in a single seating
• bingo a game in which numbered balls are drawn at random and players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards
• binning store in bins
• biotin a B vitamin that aids in body growth
• biting causing a sharply painful or stinging sensation; used especially of cold
• blin
• bling flashy, ostentatious jewelry
• blini Russian pancake of buckwheat flour and yeast; usually served with caviar and sour cream
• blob make a spot or mark onto
• blobbing make a spot or mark onto
• blog read, write, or edit a shared on-line journal
• blogging read, write, or edit a shared on-line journal
• blot make a spot or mark onto
• blotting make a spot or mark onto
• blotto very drunk
• bobbin a winder around which thread or tape or film or other flexible materials can be wound
• bobbing cut hair in the style of a bob
• bobbling make a mess of, destroy or ruin
• bogging get stuck while doing something
• boggling startle with amazement or fear
• boil be agitated
• boiling passionately or agitatedly
• boing
• boll the rounded seed-bearing capsule of a cotton or flax plant
• bolo long heavy knife with a single edge; of Philippine origin
• bolt in a rigid manner
• bolting in a rigid manner
• bonbon a candy that usually has a center of fondant or fruit or nuts coated in chocolate
• bong ring loudly and deeply
• bongo a small drum; played with the hands
• boning consisting of or made up of bone
• bonito flesh of mostly Pacific food fishes of the genus Sarda of the family Scombridae; related to but smaller than tuna
• bonobo small chimpanzee of swamp forests in Zaire; a threatened species
• boob commit a faux pas or a fault or make a serious mistake
• booboo
• booing show displeasure, as after a performance or speech
• boon very close and convivial
• boot cause to load (an operating system) and start the initial processes
• booting cause to load (an operating system) and start the initial processes
• bottling store (liquids or gases) in bottles
• gibbon smallest and most perfectly anthropoid arboreal ape having long arms and no tail; of southern Asia and East Indies
• gibing be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics
• glib artfully persuasive in speech
• glob a compact mass
• gobbling eat hastily without proper chewing
• goblin (folklore) a small grotesque supernatural creature that makes trouble for human beings
• lobbing propel in a high arc
• lobo
• nibbling bite gently
• noob
• obit a notice of someone's death; usually includes a short biography
• obliging showing a cheerful willingness to do favors for others
• oblong deviating from a square or circle or sphere by being elongated in one direction