NYT 🐝 Cluesβ€”Fri. 14 July, 2023

Clues for the New York Times Spelling Bee are generated daily by Ben Willenbring from his home in Brooklyn.

Letters: m  a  b  i  l  o  x

  • Total Answers: 41
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🀣

AB

  1. AB6 β€” as in floriferous, blossomy; blossomy; floriferous; florid; floral sounds like bloom

AM

  1. AM4 β€” sounds like arrow, mow

AX

  1. AX5 β€” an idea or statement put forth and accepted as true by many people; truism; verity; assumption; given sounds like accede, calcium, irksome, maxim

BA

  1. BA4 β€” a sweet or pleasant smell; aroma; attar; bouquet; fragrance sounds like beam, bog, bomber, boom, bop
  2. BA6 β€” sounds like amber, bimbo, shampoo, taboo

BL

  1. BL4 β€” sounds like bam, clam, lamb, slam
  2. BL5 β€” a state or time of great activity, thriving, or achievement; a rosy appearance (of the cheeks); the usually showy plant part that produces seeds; blossom; florescence sounds like boom, broom, gloom, loom, plume

BO

  1. BO4 β€” something that has failed; a very large amount of money; to attack with a rapid or overwhelming outpouring of many things at once; bummer; bust sounds like balmy, bam, bar, beam
  2. BO4 β€” a loud explosive sound; to become greater in size, extent, volume, amount, or number; to make a long loud deep noise or cry; bang; blast sounds like balm, bam, beam, bloom
  3. BO7 β€” sounds like breadbox, gearbox, icebox, mailbox, soapbox

IA

  1. IA4 β€” sounds like bam, dam, damn, ham, jam
  2. IA5 β€” sounds like abbey, amber, bamboo, mammary, shabby

IM

  1. IM4 β€” sounds like mom

LA

  1. LA4 β€” sounds like comma, mama
  2. LA4 β€” an innocent or gentle person; as in fox, rabbit; angel; dove; innocent sounds like bam, clam, dam, damn, ham

LI

  1. LI4 β€” sounds like alma, arena, aroma, asthma, beam
  2. LI4 β€” a major outgrowth from the main stem of a woody plant; bough; branch sounds like dim, gym, him, hymn, lamb
  3. LI5 β€” as in purgatory; purgatory; inferno; hades; netherworld sounds like bimbo
  4. LI4 β€” sounds like lymph

LL

  1. LL5 β€” sounds like comma, lava, mama

LO

  1. LO4 β€” a type of soil that is good for growing plants; humus; topsoil; clod; dirt sounds like comb, dome, foam, gnome, home
  2. LO4 β€” to be about to happen; brew; impend sounds like b, boom, doom, g, lamb

MA

  1. MA4 β€” communications or parcels sent or carried through the postal system; to send through the postal system; a person who delivers mail; correspondence; matter sounds like ail, ale, bail, bale, dale
  2. MA7 β€” sounds like box, gearbox, icebox, phalanx, railbike
  3. MA4 β€” to cause severe or permanent injury to; cripple; disable; incapacitate; lame sounds like aim, came, dame, fame, game
  4. MA4 β€” a public place for strolling; boardwalk; promenade; walk sounds like all, ball, bawl, call, fall
  5. MA4 β€” a female human parent; as in boy, kid; as in boys, kids; ma; mammy sounds like comma, mom
  6. MA5 β€” as in rattlesnake, cobra; adder; anaconda; asp; black racer
  7. MA5 β€” as in tango, jive; boogie; bop; fox-trot; gavotte sounds like mumbo
  8. MA5 β€” a female human parent; ma; mammy; mater; mom sounds like comma, mom
  9. MA6 β€” sounds like camel
  10. MA4 β€” sounds like boxy, mockery
  11. MA7 β€” as in mandible, maw; mandible; maw; muzzle; mouth sounds like muscle, mussel
  12. MA5 β€” an often stated observation regarding something from common experience; adage; aphorism; apothegm; byword sounds like axiom, axis, axle, buxom, handsome
  13. MA6 β€” the greatest amount, number, or part; the greatest amount, number, or part; maxes; mosts; outsides
  14. MA7 β€” being the highest possible; consummate; greatest; max; maximized

MI

  1. MI4 β€” a building or set of buildings for the manufacturing of goods; to reduce to fine particles; as in kick around, knock (about); factory; manufactory sounds like bill, chill, dill, fill, hill

MO

  1. MO4 β€” a state of noisy, confused activity; very hard or unpleasant work; to devote serious and sustained effort; ado; alarums and excursions sounds like boil, coil, foil, mail, male
  2. MO4 β€” as in mistress; mistress; gal; gill; girl sounds like doll, loll, mail, male, mall
  3. MO5 β€” a female human parent; ma; mammy; mater; mom sounds like comma, mana
  4. MO5 β€” something (as pieces of stamped metal or printed paper) customarily and legally used as a medium of exchange, a measure of value, or a means of payment; bread; bucks; cabbage; cash sounds like mullah

abloom, ammo, axiom, balm, bamboo, blam, bloom, bomb, boom, boombox, iamb, iambi, imam, lama, lamb, lima, limb, limbo, limo, llama, loam, loom, mail, mailbox, maim, mall, mama, mamba, mambo, mamma, mammal, maxi, maxilla, maxim, maxima, maximal, mill, moil, moll, momma, moola