12-letter words containing bel
- abel-meholah — a city in ancient Palestine, east of the Jordan River: the home of Elisha. Judges 7:22; I Kings 4:12; 19:16.
- banana label — (jargon) The labels used on the sides of macrotape reels, so called because they were shaped roughly like blunt-ended bananas. This term, like macrotapes themselves, is obsolete.
- belaying pin — a cylindrical, sometimes tapered pin, usually of metal or wood, that fits into a hole in a pin or fife rail: used for belaying
- beleaguering — to surround with military forces.
- belgian hare — a large red breed of domestic rabbit
- belittlement — to regard or portray as less impressive or important than appearances indicate; depreciate; disparage.
- bell bottoms — Also, bell-bottomed. (of trousers) wide and flaring at the bottoms of the legs.
- bell captain — a person in charge of a group of bellhops
- bell gardens — a town in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- bell heather — an ericaceous shrub, Erica cinerea
- bell housing — A bell housing is a bell-shaped extension of an engine crankcase, that contains the flywheel and the clutch.
- bell the cat — to undertake a very dangerous mission
- bell's palsy — a usually temporary paralysis of the muscles of the face, normally on one side
- bell-bottoms — Bell-bottoms are trousers that are very wide at the bottom of the leg, near your feet.
- bella figura — a good impression; fine appearance
- belle epoque — the period of comfortable well-established life in Europe before World War I
- belleau wood — a forest in N France: site of a battle (1918) in which the US Marines halted a German advance on Paris
- belligerence — the act or quality of being belligerent or warlike; aggressiveness
- belligerency — the state of being at war
- belligerents — warlike; given to waging war.
- bellows fish — snipefish.
- belly button — Your belly button is the small round thing in the centre of your stomach.
- belly dancer — A belly dancer is a woman who performs a Middle Eastern dance in which she moves her hips and abdomen about.
- belly-aching — Informal. a pain in the abdomen or bowels.
- belly-buster — belly flop.
- below ground — If something is below ground or below the ground, it is in the ground.
- below stairs — People sometimes use below stairs to refer to the servants in a rich household and the things that are connected with them.
- belt highway — beltway (def 1).
- belteshazzar — the Babylonian name given to Daniel. Dan. 1:7.
- bicycle bell — a bell attached to a bicycle, used to warn others on the road
- borscht belt — (sometimes initial capital letters) the hotels of the predominantly Jewish resort area in the Catskill Mountains, many of them offering nightclub or cabaret entertainment.
- corbel table — a horizontal masonry construction, as a cornice or part of a wall, supported on corbels or on arches supported on corbels.
- corbel vault — a structure having the form of a vault but constructed on the principle of a corbel arch.
- disbelievers — Plural form of disbeliever.
- disbelieving — to have no belief in; refuse or reject belief in: to disbelieve reports of UFO sightings.
- disembellish — (transitive) To deprive of embellishment; to disadorn.
- djebel druze — Jebel ed Druz.
- driving belt — a belt that carries movement from an engine or moving part to another moving part
- dutch belted — one of a breed of black dairy cattle, raised originally in the Netherlands, having a broad white band encircling the body.
- embellishing — Present participle of embellish.
- endless belt — a continuous belt used in various applications, particularly to run over wheels
- fish-bellied — (of a beam or rail) having a convex underside.
- flabellation — the act of fanning a wound to keep it cool
- flabelliform — Shaped like a fan; flabellate.
- fort belvoir — a military reservation and U.S. Army training center in NE Virginia on the Potomac.
- hell's bells — surprise
- liberty bell — the bell of Independence Hall in Philadelphia, rung on July 8, 1776, to announce the adoption of the Declaration of Independence; since then a national symbol of liberty: moved to a special exhibition pavilion behind Independence Hall on January 1, 1976.
- lobeliaceous — belonging to the plant family Lobeliaceae.
- make believe — the style or manner in which something is made; form; build.
- make-believe — pretense, especially of an innocent or playful kind; feigning; sham: the make-believe of children playing.
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