10-Letter Words Starting with B

""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

Structures on basketball court.

Rebounding spots

Backcourt

Second dismissal not going as intended

Returning soldiers will be having an undesired effect

Second-floor family (wordplay)

Person's experience

One never comes to the fore

A gift for dishonesty (wordplay)

Red Nah for a bribe at court (wordplay)

Bribe (in court?)

BACKLASH to cause a reaction

Traveller with a rucksack

One who likes to hike

One travelling with a rucksack

Backrush

Recidivist supporter gains second cap

One who reverts

Relapser into sin

Servants' secret flight (wordplay)

Type of intrigue

Scandalous

Road in reverse (wordplay)

*Road less traveled

Best seller by Fannie Hurst

Oyakawa holds this Olympic record.

One way to swim

Swimming specialty

Backsword

Searches for an error, maybe

Climbs down path guarded by defenders

Reluctantly; slowly; aversely.

Isolated, peaceful rural places

Isolated places

The presence of bacteria in the blood.

Of or pertaining to bacteremia.

BACTERIZE to subject to the action of bacteria.

Bacterize

Bacteroid

Bairnly

A knitted fabric

Track event for those less hirsute?

Race that's less hairy (wordplay)

Rhubarb a smidgen less hairy (wordplay)

Singers need pieces of 15 to cover live Adele hit (wordplay)

Crooners

Balladry

Ones keeping on their toes (wordplay)

Jete set (wordplay)

Nureyev's partners

He's debased (wordplay)

Fieldstone ring wearer (wordplay)

Musician at a dance (wordplay)

Balcony railing (by Toni Morrison)

A bad result perhaps, but coping

Part of a balcony.

A dart aimed at the bull

Dart thrust into el toro

Banderole

Banditry

One who must face the music (wordplay)

Arm or rubber (wordplay)

Glenn or Mitch Miller

Samba trend (anagram)

Sousa or Alexander, for example

Conductor decorated stand with amber

Group of evil looks (wordplay)

Group of evil looks?

Belts with ammunition stop soldier moving

BANISTER a stair hand-rail

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

Variant of banneret 1 .

Staircase supports

NB: Southeast Trains may be used for rail-flight connections

Banqueter

Pool house (wordplay)

Brat's piety seems phony in sacred area

Arab playing with Brian's rugby team

Pub repeatedly is disrupted by an uncivilised lot

Philistines.

But for joke miss out television for instance and 'to boldly go'

Made Hunnish

Barbarize

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

Barbeque

Barberry

Sportscaster Red's short leap (wordplay)

Dance for tonsorial artists?

Where to find a short cut (wordplay)

Barbitone

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

Shakespearean fan

Worship of Shakespeare

Bareback

Discalced, as certain monks

Kicked around a match official having forgotten trainers (wordplay)

Pub second team paid the cost for not wearing boots

With scalp exposed

Uncapped (wordplay)

How Nixon usually goes.

Bareness

Bargainer

Type of chip

and 6: Source of leverage secure, acquiring Shard (wordplay)

Haggling

A vergeboard.

Lush travel plan (wordplay)

Doing the town

Tavern-tour activity

Barkeeper

Certain ship

Burns celebrated this John

Malt liquor base

Subject of Burns poem.

Makes one-night stands.

Goes on tour

Stunt flies, as at a fair

Agent noun (-or)

Barograph

Forecasting aids in Italy (wordplay)

Forecasting aids in Italy?

Indicators of change

Type of pressure

It's measured by the glass

Like some pressure

A soberness not usually found in ladies

Women entitled to give piece of music zero points

Except individual, content to assess peers

Rank higher than knightdom

Barquette

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

""Pl. barramunda or barramundas also barramundi or barramundis Any of several Australian food fishes, such as the lungfish. Also called ceratodus .""

Fish in Scottish island spattered in mud

Edible Australian fish

Australian fish

Barratry

Barrelage

Barrelful

The flat top of a barrel.

Barrel

BARRELS barrel

Lack of vegetation

Inability to produce offspring

Said what Thatcher finally became - no issue with it

Barretry

""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

Old Bailey figures

Lawyers at Old Bailey

Followers of Blackstone.

Ones making the rounds (wordplay)

Prison wardens (wordplay)

They serve when right dart's been thrown

Last stop on the San Francisco subway (wordplay)

Baseboard

They eschew the net

They don't play the net in tennis

Basketry

Sit back lazily and in France toil on interlaced articles

Bastardy

Same as bastardize.bastardize.

To make or prove to be a bastard; to stigmatize as a bastard; to declare or decide legally to be illegitimate.

Bathwater

""The art or science of sounding, or measuring depths in the sea.""

Pertaining to the Batrachia.

Baudrons

Bayberry

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

Beachgoer

""One who, or that which, beautifies or makes beautiful.""

Becarpet

Becharm

Beclamor

Becoward

Becrawl

Becrowd

Becrust

Bedarken

Where there may be a four-poster

Room for sleeping

Sleeping quarters

Bediaper

Bedirty

The worse for wear

In bad shape

Wet and dirty

Makes wet and dirty, as from rain

Makes limp and soiled

Bedrench

Bedrench

Bedrivel

Bedrug

They may be laid on for midnight feasts

Throws a banquet in the garden

Nighttime covers

JUMPING AIDS

Bedwarf

Plural noun or verb form

Red guards (wordplay)

Yeomen of the guard.

Tower of London guards

Apiary workers

They profit from their workers' operations

THEME ANSWER 2

Befinger

Beflower

WHERE'S THE SECOND (wordplay)

Deck or second (wordplay)

When to ante up (wordplay)

Early example of an oxymoron (wordplay)

Early, while the pub is still open

Not - - means none too soon

Befret

Became mates with (someone)

Got close to

Treated as ally in brief realignment, then stopped

Befringe

BEGGAR to impoverish

Begirdle

Beglamor

Beglamour

Begrim

Begroan

Giving reluctantly

Like a certain category of sciences

Like some sciences

Type of psychology

Behaviour

Negative review of Dracula (wordplay)

Overworking Bartok without much excitement

Verbally assaulted a bored blue in trouble

Surrounds

Besets.

Beliquor

Hecklers, to Rich (wordplay)

A writer of literature

Little Serb turns out to be writer of aesthetic essays

Showy blossom

Flared plant

Campanula.

V.I.P. among sheep

Leader of the flock

Leading sheep; trendsetter

Ring sailor? No time, he complains

Faultfinding type

Cigars.

Bemurmur

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

Benefiter

""A colorless liquid, C 8 H 6 O, found in coal tar and used to make thermoplastic resins for paints and varnishes. Also called coumarone .""

Berascal

Berberine

Berberis

Like Hello Kitty

Berkelium

Berserker

Beryllium

Bescorch

Bescorch

Bescour

Bescreen

Beshiver

Beshrew

Beshroud

Besmear

Gathering herbs, medic may get dirty

Sullied

Makes dirty, soils

Splashes with mud

To sprinkle over; to scatter over.

Hebrew name meaning 'lion'

Medieval books featuring fables

Hebrew name meaning "lion"

Rousing

Bestrew

Spanned, it's clear, in first study

Finest travelled by horse and dominated

First past the post would surely have been this!

Dominating prime equestrian activity (wordplay)

Walking over the nicest part of Yorkshire once

Bestrow

Beswarm

Betatter

Bethorn

Betrothal

Betrothed