Anagrams of: BELITTLEMENT

• a conical calcareous fossil tapering to a point at one end and with a conical cavity at the other end containing (when unbroken) a small chambered phragmocone from the shell of any of numerous extinct cephalopods of the family Belemnitidae

• someone employed as an errand boy and luggage carrier around hotels

• cause to seem less serious; play down

• express a negative opinion of

• lessen the authority, dignity, or reputation of

• moving quickly and lightly

• mentally quick

• The imaginary line marking the upper end of the lower body of an automobile, running just below the bottoms of the windows

• A beltway: a circular expressway around a city

• an abstract part of something

• an artifact that is one of the individual parts of which a composite entity is made up; especially a part that can be separated from or attached to a system

• any of the more than 100 known substances (of which 92 occur naturally) that cannot be separated into simpler substances and that singly or in combination constitute all matter

• the most favorable environment for a plant or animal

• one of four substances thought in ancient and medieval cosmology to constitute the physical universe

• the situation in which you are happiest and most effective

• a straight line that generates a cylinder or cone

• the most direct route