Anagrams of: AAABBELT

• a confusion of voices and other sounds

• (Genesis 11:1-11) a tower built by Noah's descendants (probably in Babylon) who intended it to reach up to heaven; God foiled them by confusing their language so they could no longer understand one another

• a small cake leavened with yeast

• Father; religious superior; in the Syriac, Coptic, and Ethiopic churches, a title given to the bishops, and by the bishops to the patriarch; a title given to Jewish scholars in the Talmudic period.

• A coarse, often striped, felted fabric from the Middle East, woven from goat or camel hair.

• A loose-fitting sleeveless garment, made from aba or silk, worn by Arabs.

• An outer garment made of the above, very simple in form, worn by the Arabs of the desert. The illustration shows such an aba, made of two breadths of stuff sewed together to make an oblong about four by nine feet.

• divulge confidential information or secrets

• speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly

• a French abbot

• wear away through erosion or vaporization

• remove an organ or bodily structure

• when dried yields a hard substance used e.g. in golf balls

• a tropical hardwood tree yielding balata gum and heavy red timber

• (pathology) an elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid