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11-letter words containing bel

  • cunobelinus — also called Cymbeline. died ?42 ad, British ruler of the Catuvellauni tribe (?10–?42); founder of Colchester (?10)
  • currer bellAnne ("Acton Bell") 1820–49, English novelist.
  • delhi belly — illness resulting from food-borne parasites, esp as suffered by visitors to India
  • dinner bell — signal: dinnertime
  • disbelieved — Simple past tense and past participle of disbelieve.
  • disbeliever — A person who refuses to believe something or who lacks religious faith.
  • diving bell — a chamber with an open bottom in which persons can go underwater without special apparatus, water being excluded from the upper part by compressed air fed in by a hose.
  • embellished — Simple past tense and past participle of embellish.
  • embellisher — A person who embellishes.
  • embellishes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of embellish.
  • field label — a descriptive word or phrase for a field in a record, such as 'surname', 'postcode', etc
  • furbelowing — Present participle of furbelow.
  • garter belt — an undergarment of cloth or elastic, with attached garters, worn by women to hold up stockings.
  • go belly up — the front or under part of a vertebrate body from the breastbone to the pelvis, containing the abdominal viscera; the abdomen.
  • hereinbelow — afterward in this document, statement, etc.
  • ida tarbellIda Minerva, 1857–1944, U.S. author.
  • indie label — an independent recording company
  • isabella ii — 1830–1904, queen of Spain (1833–68), whose accession precipitated the first Carlist war (1833–39). She was deposed in a revolution
  • isabelle-92 — Isabelle
  • isabelle-93 — Isabelle
  • jebel druze — region in S Syria, on the N Jordanian border, inhabited by the Druses: 2,584 sq mi (6,693 sq km)
  • jingle bell — a hollow, round, metal bell with a metal ball inside, which makes a jingling sound when it moves: jingle bells on a horse and sleigh.
  • kuiper belt — a disk-shaped region on the edge of the solar system that contains masses of ice and icy rock, believed to be the source of comets with orbital periods of less than 200 years. Compare Oort cloud.
  • libellously — in a libellous manner
  • little belt — a strait in Denmark, between Jutland and Funen Island, linking the Kattegat with the Baltic. Length: about 48 km (30 miles). Width: up to 29 km (18 miles)
  • lutine bell — the salvaged bell from the wrecked British warship Lutine, hung in the insurance office of Lloyd's of London and traditionally rung before announcements of ships overdue or lost at sea.
  • makebelieve — Alternative form of make-believe.
  • marine belt — territorial waters.
  • merry-bells — bellwort.
  • misbelieved — Simple past tense and past participle of misbelieve.
  • misbeliever — Someone who holds an unauthorised belief; a heretic, an unbeliever.
  • mislabeling — Present participle of mislabel.
  • mislabelled — to label wrongly, incorrectly, or misleadingly: to mislabel a bottle of medicine.
  • montbéliard — an industrial town in E France: former capital of the duchy of Burgundy. Pop: 27 570 (1999)
  • nickel belt — the area around Sudbury in Northern Ontario, rich in nickel ore
  • nobel prize — any of various awards made annually, beginning in 1901, from funds originally established by Alfred B. Nobel for outstanding achievement in physics, chemistry, medicine or physiology, literature, and the promotion of peace; an annual award in economics was established in 1969 from private funds.
  • nonbeliever — a person who lacks belief or faith, as in God, a religion, an idea, or an undertaking.
  • post-bellum — of or during the period after a war, esp the American Civil War
  • pot-bellied — a distended or protuberant belly.
  • rabelaisian — of, relating to, or suggesting François Rabelais, whose work is characterized by broad, coarse humor and keen satire.
  • relabelling — a slip of paper, cloth, or other material, marked or inscribed, for attachment to something to indicate its manufacturer, nature, ownership, destination, etc.
  • ring a bell — a hollow instrument of cast metal, typically cup-shaped with a flaring mouth, suspended from the vertex and rung by the strokes of a clapper, hammer, or the like.
  • safety belt — seat belt.
  • saul bellowSaul, 1915–2005, U.S. novelist, born in Canada: Nobel Prize in Literature 1976.
  • self-belief — Self-belief is confidence in your own abilities or judgment.
  • shelterbelt — a row of trees providing shelter from the wind
  • silver bell — any North American shrub or small tree belonging to the genus Halesia, of the storax family, having toothed leaves and drooping white, bell-shaped flowers.
  • sleigh bell — any of several kinds of small bells, as a jingle bell, attached to a sleigh or to the harness of the animal drawing the sleigh.
  • the beltway — Washington, D.C., esp. as regarded as the center of U.S. government and politics: so called from the expressway around the District of Columbia & nearby areas
  • timing belt — an endless belt bearing teeth for engaging sprockets on two mechanisms requiring precise synchronization.
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