Clues for the New York Times Spelling Bee are generated daily by Ben Willenbring from his home in Brooklyn.
Letters: p a i l m n t
- Total Answers: 47
- Pangrams: 1
- Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣
AP
- AP5 — sounds like—alien, paean
- AP6 — to cause an unpleasant surprise for synonyms—floor, jolt, shake up, shock
IM
- IM6 — a large brownish antelope (Aepyceros melampus) of southeastern Africa that in the male has slender curved horns with ridges
- IM7 — to set permanently in the consciousness or mind-set; to set solidly in or as if in surrounding matter synonyms—breed, enroot, inculcate, infix, inseminate sounds like—eggplant, plant, replant, supplant
IN
- IN5 — not appropriate for a particular occasion or situation; lacking qualities (as knowledge, skill, or ability) required to do a job synonyms—amiss, graceless, improper, inapposite, inappropriate sounds like—erupt
LA
- LA4 — something that provides illumination synonyms—beacon, illuminant, light sounds like—camp, champ, c, damp, limp
LI
- LI4 — not stiff in structure; depleted in strength, energy, or freshness; lacking bodily energy or motivation synonyms—droopy, flaccid, floppy, lank, yielding sounds like—chimp, lamp, lump, lymph, pimp
NA
- NA6 — to assault with ** sounds like—arm, awesome, balm, bam, bomb
PA
- PA4 — a round container that is open at the top and outfitted with a handle synonyms—bucket sounds like—ail, ale, bail, bale, dale
- PA4 — a sharp unpleasant sensation usually felt in some specific part of the body; a state of great suffering of body or mind; strict attentiveness to what one is doing synonyms—ache, pang, prick, shoot, smart sounds like—arraign, bane, cane, chain, feign
- PA5 — to give a representation or account of in words; to give color or a different color to synonyms—delineate, depict, describe, draw, image sounds like—faint, feint
- PA6 — sounds like—plaza, plop
- PA7 — formed with some part of the tongue near or touching the hard palate of the roof of the mouth posterior to the ridge of bone behind the upper teeth; front; of, relating to, forming, or affecting the palate sounds like—capital, fallible, pivotal, volatile
- PA8 — showing obvious signs of wealth and comfort synonyms—Babylonian, deluxe, lavish, Lucullan, luxe sounds like—fallacious, glacial, playful, pollution, salacious
- PA4 — a boxlike container for holding a dead body; an overspreading element that produces an atmosphere of gloom; something that covers or conceals like a piece of cloth synonyms—bier, box, casket, coffin, sarcophagus sounds like—doll, loll, peal, pearl, peel
- PA4 — an instance of defeating an enemy or opponent synonyms—triumph, victory, win sounds like—balm, bomb, calm, mom, pod
- PA4 — as in ate synonyms—ate, feel, touch, brush, graze sounds like—pulp
- PA5 — a broad area of level or rolling treeless country synonyms—campo, champaign, down(s), grassland, heath
- PA6 — as in sombrero, beret synonyms—baseball cap, beret, billycock, biretta, boater
- PA6 — Giovanni Paolo 1691—1765 Italian painter sounds like—bikini, canine, dainty, faintly, genie
- PA4 — to breathe hard, quickly, or with difficulty synonyms—blow, gasp, heave, hyperventilate, puff sounds like—ant, aunt, can't, chant
- PA4 — a male human parent synonyms—dad, daddy, father, old man, pa sounds like—pop, poppy
- PA5 — as in priestly, apostolic synonyms—apostolic, canonical, clerical, episcopal, evangelical sounds like—maple, people, purple
- PA7 — a small projecting body part similar to a nipple in form:; a vascular process of connective tissue extending into and nourishing the root of a hair, feather, or developing tooth; any of the vascular protuberances of the dermal layer of the skin extending into the epidermal layer and often containing tactile corpuscles
- PA6 — a special quality or impression associated with something synonyms—air, ambience, aroma, atmosphere, aura sounds like—petite, pettiness, putty, subpoena
PI
- PI4 — a small mass containing medicine to be taken orally; a person whose behavior is offensive to others synonyms—cap, capsule, lozenge, tablet, bastard sounds like—bill, chill, dill, fill, hill
- PI4 — a man who solicits clients for a woman who is willing to engage in sexual activities for money synonyms—cadet, fancy man, pander, procurer sounds like—chimp, limp, pomp, pump, wimp
- PI6 — a decorated vessel (such as of papier-mâché) filled with candies, fruits, and gifts and hung up to be broken with sticks by blindfolded persons as part of especially Latin American festivities (as at Christmas or for a birthday party) sounds like—sonata
- PI4 — of a size that is less than average synonyms—bantam, diminutive, dinky, dwarfish, fine sounds like—paint, pant, point, punt
- PI7 — a bird having elongated central tail feathers; especially : a slender long-necked duck (Anas acuta) of the northern hemisphere with the breeding male having a brown head, a white breast with a white line continuing up the side of the neck, chiefly gray upperparts, and a long black tail and with the female having chiefly mottled brown plumage sounds like—detail, entail, inhale, intake
- PI5 — any of various small songbirds (family Motacillidae and especially genus Anthus) resembling the lark sounds like—peanut, people, puppet
- PI6 — something very good of its kind synonyms—beaut, beauty, bee's knees, cat's meow, corker sounds like—begin, herein, kingpin, poplin, spin
- PI4 — to expand and contract in a rhythmic manner synonyms—beat, pal**te, pitter-patter, pulsate, pulse sounds like—cheetah, peter
- PI7 — to expand and contract in a rhythmic manner synonyms—beat, palpitate, pitter-patter, pulsate, pulse sounds like—puppet
PL
- PL5 — free from all additions or embellishment; free from added matter; free in expressing one's true feelings and opinions synonyms—bald, bare, naked, *-vanilla, simple sounds like—lain, lane, pain, pane
- PL6 — a crying out in grief; an expression of dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment synonyms—groan, howl, keen, lament, lamentation sounds like—paint
- PL5 — a length of something formed of three or more strands woven together synonyms—braid, lace, lacing, plat sounds like—elate, late, pate
- PL4 — a method worked out in advance for achieving some objective; something that one hopes or intends to accomplish synonyms—arrangement, blueprint, design, game, game ** sounds like—clan, pan
- PL5 — a building or set of buildings for the manufacturing of goods synonyms—factory, manufactory, mill, shop, works sounds like—pant, slant
- PL8 — any of a genus (Alisma of the family Alismataceae, the water-** family) of marsh or aquatic herbs with acrid sap and scapose 3-petaled flowers
- PL4 — a length of something formed of three or more strands woven together synonyms—braid, lace, lacing, plait sounds like—flat, pat
- PL6 — able to bend easily without breaking synonyms—bendy, flexible, limber, lissome, lithe sounds like—client
TA
- TA8 — a usually red warning light mounted at the rear of a vehicle —called also ** sounds like—clamp, lamp, tramp
- TA4 — to drive in or down by a succession of light or medium blows; to put a check on : reduce, lessen sounds like—camp, champ, damp, lamp, ramp
- TA4 — a coarse cloth made in the Pacific islands from the pounded bark especially of the paper mulberry and usually decorated with geometric patterns sounds like—top, topper, topple
TI
- TI7 — any of numerous chiefly African freshwater cichlid fishes (genera Oreochromis, ***, and Sarotherodon) often raised for food sounds like—jalopy, malaria, palladium, trachea
- TI7 — a set of two or more kettledrums played by one performer in an orchestra or band sounds like—company, sympathy, symphony, tyranny