belly

belly is a 5-letter English word with 13 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: That part of the human body which extends downward from the breast to the thighs, and contains the bowels, or intestines; the abdomen. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 12 · 13 senses

Definitions

1. noun. That part of the human body which extends downward from the breast to the thighs, and contains the bowels, or intestines; the abdomen.
2. noun. The under part of the body of animals, corresponding to the human belly.
3. noun. The womb.
4. noun. The part of anything which resembles the human belly in protuberance or in cavity; the innermost part; as, the belly of a flask, muscle, sail, ship.
5. noun. The hollow part of a curved or bent timber, the convex part of which is the back.
6. transitive verb. To cause to swell out; to fill.
7. intransitive verb. To swell and become protuberant, like the belly; to bulge.
8. noun. the underpart of the body of certain vertebrates such as snakes or fish
9. noun. a protruding abdomen

   Synonyms: paunch

10. noun. the region of the body of a vertebrate between the thorax and the pelvis

    Synonyms: abdomen, stomach, venter

11. noun. the hollow inside of something

    "in the belly of the ship"

12. noun. a part that bulges deeply

    "the belly of a sail"

13. verb. swell out or bulge out

Synonyms

paunch, abdomen, stomach, venter

Common word forms

bellied, bellies, bellyer, bellyful, bellying, bellyless

Words from these letters

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