Anagrams of: BDEEILL

• To defame someone, especially in a manner that meets the legal definition of libel.

• To proceed against (a ship, goods, etc.) by filing a libel.

• suitable for use as food

• any substance that can be used as food

• having a beak or bill as specified

• A parish constable, a uniformed minor (lay) official, who ushers and keeps order

• (ecclesiastic) an attendant to the minister

• A warrant officer

• be in contradiction with

• represent falsely

• a hollow device made of metal that makes a ringing sound when struck

• a phonetician and father of Alexander Graham Bell (1819-1905)

• a push button at an outer door that gives a ringing or buzzing signal when pushed

• English painter; sister of Virginia Woolf; prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group (1879-1961)

• the sound of a bell being struck

• United States inventor (born in Scotland) of the telephone (1847-1922)

• (nautical) each of the eight half-hour units of nautical time signaled by strokes of a ship's bell; eight bells signals 4:00, 8:00, or 12:00 o'clock, either a.m. or p.m.

• the shape of a bell

• a percussion instrument consisting of a set of tuned bells that are struck with a hammer; used as an orchestral instrument

• the flared opening of a tubular device

• attach a bell to

• lose blood from one's body

• draw blood

• get or extort (money or other possessions) from someone

• be diffused

• drain of liquid or steam

• A thin, often flavored, Indian cigarette made of tobacco wrapped in a tendu leaf.