Spelling Bee answers and hints for October 25, 2026

Today's puzzle is worth 282 points in total. These are the usual rank targets, worked out as a share of the total.

The longest answer is BIBLIOMANIA, at 11 letters.

• abloom: Blooming; covered in flowers.
• amino: (organic chemistry) An amino acid.
• ammo: Ammunition.
• ammonia: A solution of this compound in water used domestically as a cleaning fluid.
• amnio: amniocentesis
• anima: (chiefly philosophy) The soul or animating principle of a living thing, especially as contrasted ...
• animal: (sciences) Any member of the kingdom Animalia of multicellular organisms that are usually mobile,...
• balm: Any soothing oil or lotion, especially an aromatic one.
• bamboo: A fast-growing grass of the Bambusoideae subfamily, characterised by its woody, hollow, round, st...
• bibliomania: A passion for owning valuable books.
• binomial: Consisting of two terms, or parts.
• blam: A sudden, explosive sound, such as is made by a gunshot.
• bloom: (uncountable) The opening of flowers in general; the state of blossoming or of having the flowers...
• bomb: An explosive device used or intended as a weapon, especially, one dropped from an aircraft.
• boom: To make a loud, hollow, resonant sound.
• iamb: (prosody) A metrical foot in verse consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed sy...
• iambi: (prosody) Synonym of iamb.
• imam: (Islam) One who leads the salat prayers in a mosque.
• lama: A master of Tibetan Buddhism.
• lamb: A young sheep.
• lamina: A thin layer, plate, or scale of material.
• laminal: (phonetics, of a sound) Produced with the blade of the tongue
• lima: Lima bean.
• limb: A major appendage of human or animal, used for locomotion (such as an arm, leg or wing).
• limbo: (by extension) (countable, uncountable) Chiefly preceded by in: any in-between place, or conditio...
• liminal: (anthropology, literary theory) Pertaining to or in a state that is in-between or transitional be...
• limn: (transitive, also figuratively) To draw or paint; to delineate.
• limo: (informal) Clipping of limousine. [An automobile body with seats and permanent top like a coupe, ...
• llama: A South American mammal of the camel family, Lama glama, used as a domestic beast of burden and a...
• loam: (geology) A type of soil; an earthy mixture of sand, silt and clay, with organic matter to which ...
• loom: A frame or machine of wood or other material, in which a weaver forms cloth out of thread; a mach...
• mail: (now regional) A bag or wallet.
• mailman: (Canada, US) Someone who delivers mail to, and/or collects mail from, residential or commercial a...
• maim: To wound seriously; to cause permanent loss of function of a limb or part of the body.
• main: Of chief or leading importance; prime, principal.
• mall: An enclosed shopping centre.
• mama: (hypocoristic, usually childish, Canada, US) Mother, female parent.
• mamba: Any of various venomous snakes of the genus Dendroaspis, native to Africa, that live in trees.
• mambo: A Latin-American musical genre, adapted from rumba, originating from Cuba in the 1940s, or a danc...
• mamma: (anatomy, plural mammae) The milk-secreting organ of female humans and other mammals which includ...
• mammal: (zoology) Characterized by being warm-blooded, having hair or fur and producing milk with which t...
• mammalian: Of, or pertaining to, mammals.
• mammon: Often mammon: wealth, material avarice, profit.
• mania: Excessive or unreasonable desire; insane passion affecting one or many people; fanaticism.
• manila: The capital city of the Philippines; the regional capital of Metro Manila, in the island of Luzon.
• manna: (biblical) Food miraculously produced for the Israelites in the desert in the book of Exodus.
• mill: A grinding apparatus for substances such as grains, seeds, etc. (Some are small and simple, and s...
• million: (in roman numerals, m written with a macron over it) denoting a quantity consisting of 1,000,000 ...
• mini: Miniature, tiny, small.
• minim: A unit of volume, in the Imperial and U.S. customary systems, ¹⁄₆₀ fluid drachm. Approximately eq...
• minima: The smallest amount.
• minimal: The smallest possible amount, quantity, or degree.
• minion: A loyal servant of another, usually a more powerful being.
• moan: A low, mournful cry of pain, sorrow or pleasure.
• moil: To toil, to work hard.
• moll: A female companion of a gangster or other criminal, especially a former or current prostitute.
• momma: (US, colloquial) Mother.
• mono: (informal) Monaural or monophonic; having only a single audio channel.
• monobob
• monomania: Excessive interest or concentration on a singular object or subject.
• monomial: (mathematics) A single term consisting of a product of numbers and variables with positive intege...
• moola: (informal) Money, cash.
• moon: (informal, by extension of Moon) Any natural satellite of a planet.
• nimbi: A gray rain cloud.
• nominal: Of, resembling, relating to, or consisting of a name or names.
• oilman: Somebody involved in the production, refinement or delivery of oil; such as an oil field worker o...