NYT Spelling Bee Hints & Analysis

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• ennui the feeling of being bored by something tedious
• equine of or belonging to the family Equidae
• equinox either of two times of the year when the sun crosses the plane of the earth's equator and day and night are of equal length
• innie
• nene
• 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
• nine being one more than eight
• none not any; entity, negative pronoun
• nonunion not belonging to or not allowing affiliation with a trade union
• noon the middle of the day
• noun the word class that can serve as the subject or object of a verb, the object of a preposition, or in apposition
• onion bulbous plant having hollow leaves cultivated worldwide for its rounded edible bulb
• oxen domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age
• queen promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess
• quinine a bitter alkaloid extracted from chinchona bark; used in malaria therapy
• union being of or having to do with the northern United States and those loyal to the Union during the American Civil War
• unique highly unusual or rare but not the single instance
• xenon a colorless odorless inert gaseous element occurring in the earth's atmosphere in trace amounts