10-Letter Words Starting with B

Blockade

Impede leaders viewed as idiots

Idiots obstruct leaders

Black-shoed shuffle for group of 19

Bloodbath

Mark of the killer (wordplay)

Sign of an earlier wound

Forsenic examiner's clue

Bloviate

Lethal spouses.

Naval enlisted man

Ohio pro hockey player

Sailor in the Navy

Where deals are made (wordplay)

Landladies' meeting-places (wordplay)

Carpenters' storage areas (wordplay)

Promenade platforms near beaches

Directors on a stroll, in a way.

Seaside attractions

Boarfish

In an overly self-proud manner

Covers punts, for example

They're in charge of rigging

Petty officers

Docking, as a Doberman

Bullet-proof vests for escorts (wordplay)

Minders

Boldface

Boliviano

NCO arranged raid in Lancaster, maybe

Canadian snowmobile inventor

Crowd round pub ride off with soldier

Bombard

Bombardon

Bombazine

BOMBINATE To hum; to boom.

Bombinate

Like Mother Hubbard (wordplay)

Like Mother Hubbard?

Really, really dumb

Illicit publishers (wordplay)

Las Vegas operators

Publishers are better professionals

Odds-offering operation

It shows what stage you've got to in your romance

Around end of October person at races may be one beset by leaves

Set of ex libris

Bookstall

Returning weapons (wordplay)

Reports cover new range of weapons

Brings back to Sidney, say many happy returns, perhaps

Some shiners

Fasteners on a German boat (wordplay)

Pull yourself up the ladder to load computer program

""Pl. bordereaux (-r ) A detailed memorandum, especially one that lists documents or accounts.""

Politically contested territory, maybe

Botanical

Botanise

Botanize

""Having the form of a bunch of grapes; like a cluster of grapes, as a mineral presenting an aggregation of small spherical or spheroidal prominences; as, botryoidal hematite.as, botryoidal hematite.""

Low-lying farmsite

Low-lying fields along a watercourse

Often-flooded locale

Wide roads

Zodiacal borders (wordplay)

Limits for spring star sign

Marches, tied to sign

Boxhaul

""BRACHIATE Having branches in pairs, decussated, all nearly horizontal, and each pair at right angles with the next, as in the maple and lilac.""

Brachiate

""BRACHIATE Having branches in pairs, decussated, all nearly horizontal, and each pair at right angles with the next, as in the maple and lilac.""

Marine invertebrate crab craftily hid around different pool mostly

Linking track being relaid

Bracteole

""A hypotensive tissue hormone (C50H73N15O11) which acts on smooth muscle, dilates peripheral vessels and increases capillary permeability. It is formed locally in injured tissue and is believed to play a role in the inflammatory process. It is a nonapeptide with the sequence: Arg-Pro-Pro-Gly-Phe-Ser-Pro-Phe-Arg.C50H73N15O11) which acts on smooth muscle, dilates peripheral vessels and increases capillary permeability. It is formed locally in injured tissue and is believed to play a role in the inflammatory process. It is a nonapeptide with the sequence: Arg-Pro-Pro-Gly-Phe-Ser-Pro-Phe-Arg.""

French writing experts start from bad track records

A nice brass set of skulls

Minerva's original idea (wordplay)

Birth of a notion (wordplay)

Bean product (wordplay)

""Brainier , brainiest Informal Intelligent; smart.""

Ruling (or, more modestly, intelligence)

Support presiding wisdom

'Solvers need this book' (The Sun's ruling)

A maddening sort of 2 down (wordplay)

Gather one's thoughts (wordplay)

Sudden thought, not too bright.

Least passable, as a thicket of shrubs

Most expansive, as a tree

Perhaps unable to give bird sanctuary praise, farm shut up

Branchlet

Subsidiary rail system

Subsidiary rail track

Secondary railway

Waved the mark 1 26 down

Waved sword I discarded

Flourished after cereal was served

Food helping to keep you regular is flourishing

Flourishes as bachelor, having organised lots of food

Brannigan

Shaw's Captain has money tied up

Uncompromising.

Uncompromising

Formal French eateries

Restaurants with liquor licenses

Some informal restaurants

Support group (wordplay)

""The state, conditions, or quality of being brassy.""

Brattice

""Brattier , brattiest Characteristic of or being a brat; ill-mannered.""

German sausages

Muscularity

Chutzpah

""The reddish wood of certain tropical trees or shrubs in the pea family, especially a Brazilian tree Caesalpinia echinata, whose wood is used for violin bows and as a source of a red or purplish dye.""

*Surface for slicing rye, say

Base for cutting loaf

Where bank directors make their cuts

Puzzle theme depicted by seven grid "containers"

Pacific islanders cash crop (wordplay)

Two-fer menu item (wordplay)

Plant brought on board the HMS Bounty

Local money rows in foodie queues

Depression scenes.

""Grain, flour, or meal of which bread is made.""

Glassware, etc., for instance

Fragile articles ... or a hint to the things named by the circled letters

Fragile articles... or a hint to the things named by the circled letters

Starts of races

Stoppages slow down vehicles, we hear, on hills

Breakeven

Post-Communion get-togethers

Diner meals

Morning meals

Cabinet or bookcase

Dining-room piece

Large cabinet.

Mole takes holiday by lake perhaps

Mole's holiday by river (wordplay)

Protection from shore erosion

Familiar name for the stern - um!

Wicked stabber may land on one

Sternum

*Fortification about four feet high

Fortification

What a cosmetic surgeon may do to offer a sort of defence

Like good air

British herbal tea brewed is fit for inhaling

Breathy

Breathing

Dead tired (wordplay)

Still excited (wordplay)

Dead excited (wordplay)

Consisting of angular fragments cemented together; resembling breccia in appearance.

Brecciate

Some house-to-garage links

Roofed passageways

Cleric in Siberia distributed church books

Construction worker's course (wordplay)

Wall builder, maybe

Building trades worker

Blocks and blocks of blocks, possibly (wordplay)

Bricolage

Girl holding up train (wordplay)

Female supporter at the match

Wedding party attendant

Capable of being connected by a bridge or as if by a bridge.

Secured position from which to advance

Encourages former strange sort of story

Part of a combat zone

Simple litigations (wordplay)

Simple litigations?

Patient wearing undies must get bags

GI is barred for abusing officers

Officers ordering a ride aboard sailing ships

A dire manoeuvre accepted by ship's officers

Freebootery.

""A coast of armor for the body, consisting of scales or plates, sometimes overlapping each other, generally of metal, and sewed to linen or other material. It was worn in the Middle Ages.""

Two-masted sailing vessel

Craft work of giant encased in salt

Giant waves in the sea for boat

Talent that outshines all others

Sparkling aptitude

Genius; brightness

Stroke of genius; superb chess game

Cut diamonds

Between the fish and the insects one may have diamonds on hand

Groups of actors supporting wide screens

Shows wide pitches

Fat groups of actors in TV shows (wordplay)

Fine woolen fabric

'The narrow way': the clergy's material

Densely woven fabric

What travel is so

What travel is so.

Expanding port in boring operation

Broadloom

English word

Newspaper on a double bed (wordplay)

The Times is terribly bad, so there!

Paper covering double bed (wordplay)

*Hit at an intersection, maybe

Volleys of denunciation

Volleys of a kind.

Collides with

Weapon widely used (wordplay)

Dungeons & Dragons weapon

You'd never get a fence of this

Broadtail

Upholstery fabric

N.Y.S.E. members

Trading places

The charges that had one even more bankrupt for times

""A genus (Bromus) of grasses, one species of which is the chess or cheat.(Bromus) of grasses, one species of which is the chess or cheat.""

Bromelain

Stretch your dollars with these flowers

""BROMINATE See Bromate, v. t. Bromate, v. t.""

Brominate

Jurassic giant

Early vegetarian sausage primarily out - or bran flakes (wordplay)

Important stud farm visitors

They need stud finders to do their jobs

Broomball

Broomrape

Too intimidated to object

Frightened into submission

Bullied Br Owen to uncover rhythm

Brummagem

Brushback

Brushland

BRUTALISE to treat brutally.

Brutalise

BRUTALIZE To make brutal; beasty; unfeeling; or inhuman.

Is attacker L Suarez bit to be replaced (wordplay)

A foolish or empty-headed person: "He presents antiwar protesters . . . as bubbleheads who didn't even know where Southeast Asia was" (Frank Rich).

Tampa Bay team

National League nine

Kidd's men

A muscle of the cheek; so called from its use in blowing wind instruments.

Financial committees (wordplay)

Open horse-drawn carriages

Rustic carriages

Buckram

Buckwheat

Buckyball

Bird, one moving round capital

Popular cage-bird

Bird commonly kept as a pet

Buffalo

Stupid bird (wordplay)

Stupid bird?

The bovine took off!

Stubborn fish with bleeding heart

As obstinate as the monster of Knossos

Bulwark

""A grass growing in bunches and affording pasture. In California, Atropis tenuifolia, Festuca scabrella, and several kinds of Stipa are favorite bunch grasses. In Utah, Eriocoma cuspidata is a good bunch grass.Atropis tenuifolia, Festuca scabrella, and several kinds of Stipa are favorite bunch grasses. In Utah, Eriocoma cuspidata is a good bunch grass.""

Buoyancy

Detail man (wordplay)

A brute, a cur - horrible official!

Office credit gets at bean counter

Second-story jobs

Blair's urge for transportation for such offences

G. Gordon Liddy's peepers (wordplay)

Burladero

Pit viper; sham brutes (anagram)

Top horticulturist (wordplay)

Venomous pit viper

Backwoodsman in awful rush in clapped-out car

So two heads of state spoke across the Atlantic? That's criminal!

Former US president meeting forest officer, backwoodsman

Attacks from concealment

Fights guerrilla-style

Attacks from hiding

Butadiene

A real turkey!

Turkey type

Chubby one

Butterfat

See Buttonwood. Buttonwood.

Butylate

BUTYLATE to add a butyl to

They're usually innocent

They're there

Often-unidentified people in photos