| belt | (noun) the act of hitting vigorously | Synonyms: knock, rap, whack, whang |
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| (noun) a band to tie or buckle around the body (usually at the waist) | - |
| (noun) endless loop of flexible material between two rotating shafts or pulleys | - |
| (noun) ammunition (usually of small caliber) loaded in flexible linked strips for use in a machine gun | Synonyms: belt ammunition, belted ammunition |
| (noun) a vigorous blow | Synonyms: bang, bash, knock, smash |
| (noun) an elongated region where a specific condition or characteristic is found | - |
| (noun) a path or strip (as cut by one course of mowing) | Synonyms: swath |
| (verb) deliver a blow to | - |
| (verb) fasten with a belt | - |
| (verb) sing loudly and forcefully | Synonyms: belt out |
| belted | (adjective) having or provided with a belt | - |
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| belting | (noun) the material of which belts are made | - |
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| beltless | (adjective) lacking a belt | Synonyms: unbelted |
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| beltlike | (adjective) resembling a belt around something | Synonyms: belt-like |
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| beltway | (noun) a highway that encircles an urban area so that traffic does not have to pass through the center | Synonyms: bypass, ring road, ringway |
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| celtuce | (noun) leaves having celery-like stems eaten raw or cooked | - |
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| (noun) lettuce valued especially for its edible stems | Synonyms: Lactuca sativa asparagina, stem lettuce |
| cruelty | (noun) a cruel act; a deliberate infliction of pain and suffering | Synonyms: inhuman treatment |
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| (noun) the quality of being cruel and causing tension or annoyance | Synonyms: cruelness, harshness |
| (noun) feelings of extreme heartlessness | Synonyms: mercilessness, pitilessness, ruthlessness |
| delta | (noun) the 4th letter of the Greek alphabet | - |
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| (noun) a low triangular area of alluvial deposits where a river divides before entering a larger body of water | - |
| (noun) an object shaped like an equilateral triangle | - |
| deltoid | (adjective) triangular or suggesting a capital delta, with a point at the apex | - |
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| (noun) a large triangular muscle covering the shoulder joint and serving to abduct and flex and extend and rotate the arm | Synonyms: deltoid muscle, musculus deltoideus |
| felt | (noun) a fabric made of compressed matted animal fibers | - |
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| (verb) change texture so as to become matted and felt-like | Synonyms: felt up, mat, mat up, matt-up, matte, matte up |
| (verb) cover with felt | - |
| (verb) mat together and make felt-like | - |
| felted | (adjective) made by combining fibers with a binder using heat and pressure | - |
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| gelt | (noun) informal terms for money | Synonyms: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, kale, lettuce, lolly, loot, lucre, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum |
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| greenbelt | (noun) a belt of parks or rural land surrounding a town or city | Synonyms: greenway |
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| heartfelt | (adjective) sincerely earnest | Synonyms: dear, devout, earnest |
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| heeltip | (noun) The bottom end of a heel, usually made of plastic or metal. | Synonyms: heel tip |
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| jacksmelt | (noun) a relatively large silversides of the Pacific coast of North America (known to reach 18 inches in length) | Synonyms: Atherinopsis californiensis |
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| kelter | (noun) in working order | Synonyms: kilter |
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| melt | (noun) the process whereby heat changes something from a solid to a liquid | Synonyms: melting, thaw, thawing |
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| (verb) become or cause to become soft or liquid | Synonyms: dethaw, dissolve, thaw, unfreeze, unthaw |
| (verb) reduce or cause to be reduced from a solid to a liquid state, usually by heating | Synonyms: melt down, run |
| (verb) lose its distinct outline or shape; blend gradually | Synonyms: meld |
| (verb) become more relaxed, easygoing, or genial | Synonyms: mellow, mellow out |
| (verb) become less clearly visible or distinguishable; disappear gradually or seemingly | Synonyms: fade |
| (verb) become less intense and fade away gradually | Synonyms: disappear, evaporate |
| meltability | (noun) Capability of being reduced from a solid to a liquid state usually by heat. | - |
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| meltable | (adjective) capable of melting | Synonyms: disintegrable |
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| meltdown | (noun) a disaster comparable to a nuclear meltdown | - |
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| (noun) severe overheating of the core of a nuclear reactor resulting in the core melting and radiation escaping | Synonyms: nuclear meltdown |
| melted | (adjective) changed from a solid to a liquid state | Synonyms: liquid, liquified |
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| melter | (noun) a worker who melts substances (metal or wax etc.) | - |
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| melting | (adjective) becoming liquid | Synonyms: liquescent |
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| (noun) the process whereby heat changes something from a solid to a liquid | Synonyms: melt, thaw, thawing |
| meltwater | (noun) melted snow or ice | - |
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| novelty | (noun) cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing | Synonyms: bangle, bauble, fallal, gaud, gewgaw, trinket |
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| (noun) a small inexpensive mass-produced article | Synonyms: knickknack |
| (noun) originality by virtue of being refreshingly novel | Synonyms: freshness |
| (noun) originality by virtue of being new and surprising | Synonyms: freshness |
| pelt | (noun) body covering of a living animal | Synonyms: hide, skin |
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| (noun) the dressed hairy coat of a mammal | Synonyms: fur |
| (verb) attack and bombard with or as if with missiles | Synonyms: pepper |
| (verb) cast, hurl, or throw repeatedly with some missile | Synonyms: bombard |
| (verb) rain heavily | Synonyms: pour, rain buckets, rain cats and dogs, stream |
| peltate | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) round, with the stem attached near the center of the lower surface rather than the margin (as a nasturtium leaf for example) | Synonyms: shield-shaped |
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| pelter | (noun) a thrower of missiles | - |
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| (noun) a heavy rain | Synonyms: cloudburst, deluge, downpour, soaker, torrent, waterspout |
| pelting | (noun) anything happening rapidly or in quick successive | Synonyms: rain |
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| seatbelt | (noun) a safety belt used in a car or plane to hold you in your seat in case of an accident | Synonyms: seat belt |
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| seltzer | (noun) naturally effervescent mineral water | - |
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| (noun) effervescent beverage artificially charged with carbon dioxide | Synonyms: carbonated water, club soda, soda water, sparkling water |
| shelter | (noun) a structure that provides privacy and protection from danger | - |
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| (noun) protective covering that provides protection from the weather | - |
| (noun) temporary housing for homeless or displaced persons | - |
| (noun) a way of organizing business to reduce the taxes it must pay on current earnings | Synonyms: tax shelter |
| (noun) the condition of being protected | Synonyms: protection |
| (verb) invest (money) so that it is not taxable | - |
| (verb) provide shelter for | - |
| shelterbelt | (noun) hedge or fence of trees designed to lessen the force of the wind and reduce erosion | Synonyms: windbreak |
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| sheltered | (adjective) protected from danger or bad weather | - |
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| smelt | (noun) small trout-like silvery marine or freshwater food fishes of cold northern waters | - |
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| (noun) small cold-water silvery fish; migrate between salt and fresh water | - |
| (verb) extract (metals) by heating | - |
| smelter | (noun) an industrial plant for smelting | Synonyms: smeltery |
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| smeltery | (noun) an industrial plant for smelting | Synonyms: smelter |
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| spelt | (noun) hardy wheat grown mostly in Europe for livestock feed | Synonyms: Triticum aestivum spelta, Triticum spelta |
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| spelter | (noun) impure zinc containing about three percent lead and other impurities (especially in the form of ingots) | - |
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| svelte | (adjective) being of delicate or slender build | Synonyms: slender, slight, slim |
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| swelter | (verb) suffer from intense heat | - |
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| (verb) be uncomfortably hot | - |
| sweltering | (adjective) excessively hot and humid or marked by sweating and faintness | Synonyms: sweltry |
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| sweltry | (adjective) excessively hot and humid or marked by sweating and faintness | Synonyms: sweltering |
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| unbelt | (verb) undo the belt of | - |
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| unbelted | (adjective) lacking a belt | Synonyms: beltless |
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| underfelt | (noun) a carpet pad of thick felt | - |
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| unmelted | (adjective) not melted | - |
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| welt | (noun) a raised or strengthened seam | - |
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| (noun) a raised mark on the skin (as produced by the blow of a whip); characteristic of many allergic reactions | Synonyms: wale, weal, wheal |
| (verb) put a welt on | - |
| (verb) beat severely with a whip or rod | Synonyms: flog, lash, lather, slash, strap, trounce, whip |
| welter | (noun) a confused multitude of things | Synonyms: clutter, fuddle, jumble, mare's nest, muddle, smother |
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| (verb) be immersed in | - |
| (verb) roll around | Synonyms: wallow |
| (verb) toss, roll, or rise and fall in an uncontrolled way | - |
| welterweight | (noun) A weight class division in combat sports, for fighters heavier than those in the lightweight division and lighter than those in the middleweight division. | - |
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| (noun) a professional boxer who weighs between 141 and 147 pounds | - |
| (noun) a wrestler who weighs 154-172 pounds | - |
| (noun) an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 148 pounds | - |
| (noun) a weight of 28 pounds; sometimes imposed as a handicap in a horse race (such as a steeplechase) | - |