10-Letter Words Starting with B

Wild drunken revels

Revels in honor of the wine god.

Wild parties

Bacchante

""A polypeptide antibacterial antibiotic of known chemical structure effective against several types of Gram-positive organisms, and usually used topically for superficial local infection.""

*Ones who criticize others in their absence

Fleas

Nasty office gossip

Malicious talk

Saying mean things, at the wrestling match (wordplay)

Backbite

Backblock

Structures on basketball court.

Rebounding spots

Backcloth

Backcourt

Backdate

Football groups.

It's Dell, if one got rid of the hole (wordplay)

Second dismissal not going as intended

Returning soldiers will be having an undesired effect

Backfit

Support Bacon (wordplay)

Game belonging to the past? Nonsense!

Rump, ham or game (wordplay)

Second-floor family (wordplay)

Person's experience

One never comes to the fore

Like a tennis player's compliment?

Ambiguously flattering remark

Insincere, as a compliment.

A gift for dishonesty (wordplay)

Red Nah for a bribe at court (wordplay)

Bribe (in court?)

Backhaul

Backhouse

Backlash

BACKLASH to cause a reaction

Backlash

Backlight

Backlist

Backlog

Backpack

Traveller with a rucksack

One who likes to hike

One travelling with a rucksack

Football player goes biking (wordplay)

Starts to waffle

Does a volte-face.

Backrush

Recidivist supporter gains second cap

One who reverts

Relapser into sin

Becomes less virtuous.

Loses progress, in a way

Liberal entering behind rear seat perhaps slips

BACKSPACE

Hits the Delete key

SPLASH to scatter liquid about

Servants' secret flight (wordplay)

Type of intrigue

Scandalous

""A stitch made by setting the needle back of the end of the last stitch, and bringing it out in front of the end.""

Road in reverse (wordplay)

*Road less traveled

Best seller by Fannie Hurst

Oyakawa holds this Olympic record.

One way to swim

Swimming specialty

Backswing

Backsword

Searches for an error, maybe

Climbs down path guarded by defenders

Reluctantly; slowly; aversely.

Backwash

Backwash

Isolated, peaceful rural places

Isolated places

BACKWOODS the forest beyond cleared country

The presence of bacteria in the blood.

Of or pertaining to bacteremia.

BACTERIZE to subject to the action of bacteria.

Bacterize

Bacteroid

Fields of competence

Areas of knowledge

Areas of expertise

*Warm mask/cap amalgams

Pl. baldachins also baldachinos A rich fabric of silk and gold brocade.

Baldachin

Science of flight dynamics

Science of motion of projectiles.

Police-lab concerns

Balmacaan

Australian animals

Desperate declaration (seven letters)

Red state (wordplay)

State of insolvency

BARBASCO a variety of S American plants

Barbecuer

Behind tavern, be giving the signal by grilling

Bear cub's broken home - Goldilocks started by cooking outdoors

Venetian boat songs

Saloon girl's Venetian water music (wordplay)

Run about behind pub to hear sounds from bullfight sung on canal

Gondolier's song

Venetian boat song

Floating melody in tavern song left echo

Bareback

Burns celebrated this John

Malt liquor base

Subject of Burns poem.

Agent noun (-or)

Type of pressure

It's measured by the glass

Like some pressure

Barracker

Carmen in East London area, leading to boos and hisses (wordplay)

Barracoon

""Any of several voracious pikelike marine fishes allied to the gray mullets, constituting the genus Sphyr\'91na and family Sphyr\'91nid\'91. The great barracuda (Sphyr\'91na barracuda) of the West Indies, Florida, etc., is often six feet or more long, and as dangerous as a shark. In Cuba its flesh is reputed to be poisonous. Sphyr\'91na Argentea of the Pacific coast and Sphyr\'91na sphyr\'91na of Europe are smaller species, and are used as food.Sphyr\'91na and family Sphyr\'91nid\'91. The great barracuda (Sphyr\'91na barracuda) of the West Indies, Florida, etc., is often six feet or more long, and as dangerous as a shark. In Cuba its flesh is reputed to be poisonous. Sphyr\'91na Argentea of the Pacific coast and Sphyr\'91na sphyr\'91na of Europe are smaller species, and are used as food.""

Ferocious swimmers

""BARRICADE A fortification, made in haste, of trees, earth, palisades, wagons, or anything that will obstruct the progress or attack of an enemy. It is usually an obstruction formed in streets to block an enemy's access.""

You can't pass them on highways

Roadblocks

Obstacles in the way of a rotter protected by rails

Basicity

BASOPHILE

Deep-sea submersible

Pertaining to the Batrachia.

Beachcomb

Coastal strip of land, and a hint to the starts of the starred answers

Beachgoer

D-Day landing locales

Hair-cutting job

Candidate for "What's My Line?"

One who has to take a makeup test (wordplay)

Becarpet

Bechalk

Bechance

Becharm

Beclamor

Beclasp

Becloak

Beclog

Beclothe

Becloud

Beclown

In a becoming manner.

Becoward

Becrawl

Becrowd

Becrust

Becudgel

Where there may be a four-poster

Room for sleeping

Sleeping quarters

Nightcaps, for example (wordplay)

Pajamas, e.g

Sheets, blankets, etc.

Bedrench

Bedrench

Plural noun or verb form

Befleck

Complained

When in trouble, he called by and went on complaining

Beefed

Ring sailor? No time, he complains

Faultfinding type

Persistent complaints left by Chelsea wags

Complains

In the hold.

In a ship's hull... and where it's at

In the hull of a ship

Benchland

Sit McGwire and Teixeira (wordplay)

Criteria for judging judges (wordplay)

Points of reference, for surveyors.

One who raised the foundation

Eleemosynar, for example

Supporter's complaint about new player

Kind of meat without name at small price

Doing good.

Doing good

Changed Inca belief? It's useful!

Like health food

Helpful belief I can spread around

Benefice

Benignant quality; kindliness.

Of or pertaining to bentonite.

Anesthetic in some cough drops

Berascal

Bescorch

Bescorch

Bescour

Bescreen

Supplicant's activity

Asking to observe man in church? On the contrary!

Gathering herbs, medic may get dirty

Sullied

Makes dirty, soils

Magnetic personal charm

Capturing interest as if by spell

Like some sirens

Charmingly appealing

According to the Bible.

Biblicism

Certain religious scholars

Bibliotic

""A salt containing two parts of chromic acid to one of the other ingredients; as, potassium bichromate; called also dichromate. as, potassium bichromate; called also dichromate.""

CULTURAL relating to culture

Entertainers at old Madison Square Garden

FACIALLY pertaining to the face

Two-pronged; forked.

Forks

Bijection

Billycock

Double location; the state or power of being in two places at the same instant; a miraculous power attributed to some of the saints.

Lithium injected into lamb etc I cooked with steel and tin, perhaps (wordplay)

In job, I met all I could, including Al with Mo, for example

Opera glasses, for example

Bird-watcher's need

Gear for a bird watcher

""Having two nuclei; as, binucleate cells.as, binucleate cells.""

Biocenose

Biocenosie

Asimov, per his doctorate

Person knee-deep in formulas

A studier of living organisms

See biological control .

""Of or relating to the study of the effects of dynamic processes, such as motion or acceleration, on living organisms.""

BIOETHIC relating to ethical questions in biology

Like Ernst Haeckel's law

BIOGRAPH to write a biography of

Kind of warfare.

Relating to living organisms

Type of clock

Pertaining to the biological and physiological aspects of medicine.

Identity verification system

BIOMORPH a decorative image of a living thing

Cissy with phobia, mostly about science

""An apparatus in which a suspension of microorganisms in a liquid are used to perform chemical reactions, as in synthesis of pharmaceutical agents or the conversion of harmful waste to less harmful substances. The reactor consists of a vessel to contain the suspension of microorganisms, plus a variety of attached devices used to control the reaction.""

Discipline dealing with living organisms

Bioscopy

BIOSPHERE

Town one's arrived in (wordplay)

Natal region (wordplay)

Where one enters the race (wordplay)

Angle operations

Bishopric

Bitchery

""Bitchier , bitchiest Slang Malicious, spiteful, or overbearing.""

Encamped, as an army

Othello

Bold miss dances in bars

Vetoes deliveries by jet

Mournful Chuck (wordplay)

Smart-phone brand

Fruit from a bush

Nursery-rhyme pie filler

Storied pie ingredient

Long Island U. team

Hunter's jungle

Traditional teacher's aid

Teacher's aid

Blackcock

Blackener

Blacken

Blackface

Blackfly

Protector for actress Karen (wordplay)

Dog left in support with sentry

Rogue bishop to go without protection

Blackhead

Joan Jett's own record label

Some soot-covered people (wordplay)

US clubs ban sailors

Billies' relatives.

Regions of heavy, sticky soil covering large areas in Texas

Blacklead

Weapons of demagogues

Coerces, in a way

Extorts money from

Blackpoll

Professional forger (wordplay)

Iron man (wordplay)

Longfellow's famed artisan.

Ashy fireworks item

Blacktail

Sloe-bearing bush

Tree producing sloes

Tree bearing sloes

1975 #1 hit for the Doobie Brothers

1975 hit for the Doobie Brothers

Blackwood

Milky gelatine dessert

French molded dessert.

Jelly-like pudding made with milk

""The fluid-filled, central cavity of a blastula. Also called segmentation cavity .""

The germinal vesicle.

A disc-shaped layer of cells on the surface of the yolk mass of an egg (such as that of a bird) which develops to form the embryo.