10-Letter Words Starting with B

*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

Fields of competence

Areas of knowledge

Areas of expertise

Bakshish

Bakshish

Three-stringed instruments

Russian guitars

Russian instruments mentioned in "Back in the U.S.S.R."

""BALKANIZE to divide a territory into small, hostile states.""

Divides into small, hostile units

Provided funds for

Headline about an attack on Wells Fargo

BANKROLL to {finance=v}

Desperate declaration (seven letters)

Red state (wordplay)

State of insolvency

Bankrupt

Bareback

Barkeeper

Certain ship

Barracker

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

White Men Can't Jump sport

What our play groups are playing

Kobe Bryant's game

Picnic loads

Adjective meaning resembling

Basketry

BASKETS basket

Sit back lazily and in France toil on interlaced articles

Bechalk

Becloak

Bedarken

Live bats seek fast food

Tournedos, e.g

Tournedos, for example

Apiary workers

They profit from their workers' operations

THEME ANSWER 2

A honey of a job (wordplay)

Apiarist's job

Honey producer's task

Befleck

Beknight

Beknot

In the hold.

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

In the hull of a ship

Sit McGwire and Teixeira (wordplay)

Criteria for judging judges (wordplay)

Points of reference, for surveyors.

Berkelium

Berserker

Bespeak

To sprinkle over; to scatter over.

Bethank

Bethink

Being a sign of (something)

Billycock

First impressions that stay with you (wordplay)

Deliveries around old capital - the types that leave impressions on you for life

Encamped, as an army

They're published every 14 days

ESPN The Magazine, etc.

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

Heavy snowstorrm

Hampering the peripheral vision of, as a racehorse

Swift military offensive

Sudden overwhelming attack

Sudden overpowering military attack

Blockader

Blockade

Impede leaders viewed as idiots

Idiots obstruct leaders

Black-shoed shuffle for group of 19

Stronghold reinforced against enemy fire

Military fortification

Pioneer fort

Horses in back-to-back races

Thoroughbreds stood around in bar

Naval enlisted man

Ohio pro hockey player

Sailor in the Navy

Promenade platforms near beaches

Directors on a stroll, in a way.

Seaside attractions

Bodycheck

He wraps leaves up (wordplay)

Printing-shop employe

Library menace (wordplay)

Librarian's bane?

Librarian's bane (wordplay)

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

Library on wheels

Kind of library.

Set of ex libris

Shopkeeper hires Fitzgerald expressly

Vendor of volumes

Borders of old, for example

Bookstall

Where bibliophiles browse.

Some shiners

Bootlick

One fond of dining on tongue (wordplay)

Subservient one

Suck-up

Used for a slide in a bar (wordplay)

Construction effect, often

Cousin of a log jam.

Linking track being relaid

""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.""

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

*Fortification about four feet high

Fortification

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

5A's source of building materials

Construction worker's course (wordplay)

Wall builder, maybe

Building trades worker

Brickwork

Blocks and blocks of blocks, possibly (wordplay)

That tooth will have to come out!

Metal parts or fixtures made bright by polishing.

The state or quality of being broken; unevenness.

N.Y.S.E. members

Trading places

The charges that had one even more bankrupt for times

Brokering

Vehicle for Endora (wordplay)

Vehicle for Endora?

Halloween carrier (wordplay)

Brushback

Brushwork

Financial committees (wordplay)

Open horse-drawn carriages

Rustic carriages

Bucketful

BUCKETS bucket

Buckler

Buckram

Buckthorn

Buckwheat

Buckyball

What did Taurus do in the balcony?

In need of an outsized collar

What did Taurus do in the balcony (wordplay)

Bulwark

BUMPKIN a clumsy rustic

They hold hands

Attacks from concealment

Fights guerrilla-style

Attacks from hiding

Pancake ingredient, perhaps

Dale Evans's horse

Bar label on type of dairy product

Turnaround pass play, or two phone parts

Football play

Buttstock