NYT Spelling Bee Hints & Analysis

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• dodo someone whose style is out of fashion
• done cooked until ready to serve
• donee the recipient of funds or other benefits
• donned put clothing on one's body
• dowdy primly out of date
• down filled with melancholy and despondency
• downed filled with melancholy and despondency
• downy covered with fine soft hairs or down
• doyen a man who is the senior member of a group
• doyenne a woman who is the senior member of a group
• endow give qualities or abilities to
• endowed provided or supplied or equipped with (especially as by inheritance or nature)
• hoed dig with a hoe
• hoedown
• hone sharpen with a hone
• honed sharpen with a hone
• honey of something having the color of honey
• honeydew the fruit of a variety of winter melon vine; a large smooth greenish-white melon with pale green flesh
• honeyed pleasing to the ear
• hood cover with a hood
• hooded cover with a hood
• hoodoo bring bad luck; be a source of misfortune
• hooey senseless talk
• howdy an expression of greeting
• neon a colorless odorless gaseous element that gives a red glow in a vacuum tube; one of the six inert gasses; occurs in the air in small amounts
• nodded be almost asleep
• node any thickened enlargement
• nohow in no manner; in no way
• none not any; entity, negative pronoun
• noon the middle of the day
• odeon
• owed be in debt
• owned having an owner; often used in combination
• wood the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees
• wooded covered with growing trees and bushes etc
• wooden lacking ease or grace
• woody made hard like wood as the result of the deposition of lignin in the cell walls
• wooed make amorous advances towards
• woohoo
• wowed impress greatly
• yond
• yoohoo