Ben Willenbring

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NYT 🐝 Cluesβ€”Sat. 22 April, 2023

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

Letters: m  e  f  i  l  o  t

  • Total Answers: 46
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🀣

EM

  1. EM4 β€” to throw or give off; to send forth using the vocal chords; cast; discharge; emanate sounds like mitt, omit
  2. EM5 β€” to express emotion in a very dramatic or obvious way; dote (on); fawn; drool; effuse sounds like d*, moat, r*

FE

  1. FE5 β€” a woman whom men find irresistibly attractive; enchantress; seductress; siren; temptress sounds like fair, fame, fare, firm, foam

FI

  1. FI4 β€” a story told by means of a series of continuously projected pictures and a sound track; the art or business of making a movie; as in videotape; flick; flicker

IT

  1. IT4 β€” a separate part in a list, account, or series; a report of recent events or facts not previously known; as in collectible; detail; particular sounds like atom, autumn

LE

  1. LE9 β€” sounds like motif

LI

  1. LI8 β€” the period during which something exists, lasts, or is in progress; continuance; date; duration; life sounds like halftime, longtime, nighttime
  2. LI4 β€” as in limey; as in limeys; limey; powerboater; sailboater sounds like chime, climb, c**, dime, lamb
  3. LI5 β€” to set bounds or an upper limit for; to mark the limits of; a real or imaginary point beyond which a person or thing cannot go; cap; circumscribe sounds like bigot, billet, climate, comet, demote
  4. LI4 β€” sounds like lymph

LO

  1. LO4 β€” to be about to happen; brew; impend sounds like b, boom, doom, g, lamb

ME

  1. ME4 β€” to come upon face-to-face or as if face-to-face; to come together into one body or place; to come upon unexpectedly or by chance; catch; chance (upon) sounds like beat, beet, cheat, eat, feat
  2. ME5 β€” a rough and often noisy fight usually involving several people; affray; brawl; broil; donnybrook sounds like mail, mailed, male
  3. ME4 β€” to cease to be visible; to go from a solid to a liquid state; to yield to mental or emotional stress; dematerialize; disappear sounds like belt, dealt, felt, knelt, malt
  4. ME4 β€” sounds like beam, deem, mien, mom
  5. ME4 β€” a message on paper from one person or group to another; a usually brief written reminder; a written communication giving information or directions; dispatch; epistle sounds like demo, marrow
  6. ME4 β€” to give out (something) to appropriate individuals; administer; allocate; apportion; deal (out) sounds like beat, beet, cheat, eat, feat
  7. ME6 β€” strength of spirit; ability to continue despite difficulties; fully committed to achieving a goal; main; might; muscle sounds like kettle, mottle, myrtle, nettle, petal

MI

  1. MI4 β€” the feeling of being offended or resentful after a slight or indignity; as in exasperate, irritate; dudgeon; huff; offense sounds like mere, muff, myth, riff, tiff
  2. MI4 β€” a long distance; a long distance; with great speed; afar; country mile sounds like aisle, bile, file, guile, isle
  3. 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
  4. MI6 β€” sounds like billet
  5. MI4 β€” an actor in a story performed silently and entirely by body movements; a movement of the body or limbs that expresses or emphasizes an idea or feeling; to use (someone or something) as the model for one's speech, mannerisms, or behavior; mimic; mummer sounds like chime, dime, lime, mom, mum
  6. MI5 β€” sounds like bimbo, cameo, demean, jimmied, jimmy
  7. MI4 β€” a very small sum of money; a living thing much smaller than others of its kind; a very small amount; chicken feed; chump change sounds like bite, byte, cite, fight, height
  8. MI4 β€” sounds like bit, chit, emit, fit, hit

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€” a person who tries secretly to obtain information for one country in the territory of another usually unfriendly country; agent; asset; emissary; intelligencer sounds like boll, bowl, coal, dole, foal
  3. MO4 β€” as in mistress; mistress; gal; gill; girl sounds like doll, loll, mail, male, mall
  4. MO4 β€” to cast (a natural bodily covering or appendage) aside; exfoliate; shed; slip; slough sounds like bolt, colt, jolt, malt, melt
  5. MO4 β€” open to question or dispute; to present or bring forward for discussion; to talk about (an issue) usually from various points of view and for the purpose of arriving at a decision or opinion; arguable; controvertible sounds like boot, chute, hoot, jute, loot
  6. MO4 β€” a very small piece; atom; bit; crumb; dribble sounds like boat, coat, goat, mat, mate
  7. MO5 β€” as in resort, court; court; motor court; motor inn; motor lodge sounds like hotel
  8. MO5 β€” as in madrigal, aria; aria; art song; barcarole; blues sounds like abet, attest, cadet, cassette, cutout
  9. MO5 β€” a major object of interest or concern (as in a discussion or artistic composition); a unit of decoration that is repeated all over something (as a fabric); content; matter; motive sounds like goatee, meaty, meteor, mighty
  10. MO6 β€” as in moving; moving; removable; transferable; transportable sounds like metal, mettle, myrtle, total
  11. MO6 β€” a small area that is different (as in color) from the main part; to mark with small spots especially unevenly; blotch; dapple; dot sounds like bottle, metal, mettle, myrtle, wattle
  12. MO5 β€” a short sentence or phrase that expresses a rule guiding the behavior of a particular person or group; axiom; precept; truism; truth sounds like macho, mater

OM

  1. OM6 β€” sounds like aimless, argot, ballot, billet, bullet
  2. OM8 β€” sounds like inlet, let, met, outlet, roulette
  3. OM4 β€” to miss the opportunity or obligation; fail; forget; neglect sounds like emit, mitt

TE

  1. TE4 β€” to be copiously supplied; abound; brim; bristle; bulge sounds like beam, deem, ream, seam, seem

TI

  1. TI4 β€” a particular point at which an event takes place; an exciting or noteworthy event that one experiences firsthand; an extent of time associated with a particular person or thing; moment; occasion sounds like chime, dime, lime, rhyme, tam

TO

  1. TO4 β€” a set of printed sheets of paper bound together between covers and forming a work of fiction or nonfiction; book; volume sounds like comb, dome, foam, gnome, home
  2. TO6 β€” sounds like admit, armpit, atomic, bombing, calming
  3. TO5 β€” a device, design, or figure used as an identifying mark; emblem; ensign; hallmark; impresa

emit, emote, femme, film, item, leitmotif, lifetime, lime, limit, limo, loom, meet, melee, melt, meme, memo, mete, mettle, miff, mile, mill, millet, mime, mimeo, mite, mitt, moil, mole, moll, molt, moot, mote, motel, motet, motif, motile, mottle, motto, omelet, omelette, omit, teem, time, tome, tomtit, totem