| 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 |
| 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 | - |
| 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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| 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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| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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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| shelterbelt | (noun) hedge or fence of trees designed to lessen the force of the wind and reduce erosion | Synonyms: windbreak |
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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 | - |
| spelt | (noun) hardy wheat grown mostly in Europe for livestock feed | Synonyms: Triticum aestivum spelta, Triticum spelta |
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| unbelt | (verb) undo the belt of | - |
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| underfelt | (noun) a carpet pad of thick felt | - |
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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 |