10-Letter Words Starting with B

Betroth

Progress in standard of living

Live with Hilary, perhaps, in a tent for gain

How more good men come to tea for improvement

Beweary

At a loss!

Unruly before entering bunk at sea

Completely confused

Magnetic personal charm

Beworry

Bewrap

""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

Two-pronged; forked.

Forks

Kind and considerate

Generous description of unambiguous (wordplay)

Generous sack filled with rubbish I gather

From Beirut Joe and I removed jewellery

Jewellery especially trinkets

Trinkets from Beirut Joe and I distributed

Bilberry

Seepage aboard ship

Ship's seepage

Nonsense

BILHARZIA

Bilharzia

Bilirubin

""A green pigment present in the bile, formed from bilirubin by oxidation.""

N.F.L. carrier (wordplay)

Ads for Cosby (wordplay)

Ads that get lots of traffic (wordplay)

In both ears

Opera glasses, for example

Bird-watcher's need

Gear for a bird watcher

See biological control .

Rot, in a good way

Break down

The subject of a biography.

Creator of life in a bookshop (wordplay)

A life's work for him

One who can tell your story

BIOGRAPH to write a biography of

Biohazard

Identity verification system

Biometry

BIOMORPH a decorative image of a living thing

""A macromolecule in a living organism that is formed by linking together several smaller molecules, as a protein from amino acids or DNA from nucleotides.""

""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.""

Biorhythm

Biosensor

Is posh beer brewed in living quarters (wordplay)

BIOSPHERE

PARENTAL pertaining to a parent

What foreign policy often is.

With two-party support

Involving the agreement of two parties

State of two extremes

""POLARIZE to give polarity to, also POLARISE""

Bipyramid

Dumb clucks

Nitwits

Cheep joints (wordplay)

Targets for some squirrels

Shelters in some backyards

Birdlime

First impressions that stay with you (wordplay)

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

Town one's arrived in (wordplay)

Natal region (wordplay)

Where one enters the race (wordplay)

Population growth factors

Demographic data

Demographers' concerns

Civil liberty in the U. S.

Labour facing Tory inheritance

Inheritance of the firstborn

Birthroot

Opal, for example

Peridot, for example

Gem for particular occasion.

Birthwort

Bishopric

Bistoury

""A salt of tartaric acid in which the base replaces but half the acid hydrogen; an acid tartrate, as cream of tartar.""

Bitchery

Resentment of booming female (wordplay)

Wading birds' acrimony?

Wading birds' acrimony (wordplay)

State flower of Montana

Montana's state flower

Montana-Idaho range.

A species of Ambrosia (A. artemisi\'91folia); Roman worm wood. (A. artemisi\'91folia); Roman worm wood.

Strange and unusual thing

Prattle

Othello

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

Blackener

Protector for actress Karen (wordplay)

Dog left in support with sentry

Rogue bishop to go without protection

Joan Jett's own record label

Sloe-bearing bush

Tree producing sloes

Tree bearing sloes

1975 #1 hit for the Doobie Brothers

1975 hit for the Doobie Brothers

""Any of various deciduous shrubs or small trees of the genus Staphylea, native to north temperate regions and having opposite compound leaves and terminal panicles of white flowers and bladderlike fruits.""

One who uses blandishments.

Blarney

Rebel MP has reformed, so he swears!

One who reviles

Impious one

""The germinal membrane in an ovum, from which the embryo is developed.""

Cell formed by cleavage of a fertilised ovum

""The pore or opening leading into the cavity of invagination, or archenteron.""

Blatherer

Turner entertained by escort's prattle

Windbag's activity

Blatter

Blazonry

The French staying in Italian city on lake in drowsy state

Blether

Blindworm

Hampering the peripheral vision of, as a racehorse

Gruelingly intense

Very hot American crooner embracing surgeon

Very hot, so tires out wearing some large items of jewellery

Cheerful band, though stupid (wordplay)

Prattling away in happy band

Carefree group talking nonsense

Swift military offensive

Sudden overwhelming attack

Sudden overpowering military attack

BLIZZARD a heavy snowstorm

Blockader

Red puccoons

Expectorant source

Bloodworm

Bloomery

Weeping noisily.

Famous crooner keeps awkward person in tears

Lethal spouses.

Many have designs on them

They're drawn for lots

Architect's plans

Blunderer

Stumbling below, wearing tacky jewellery

Beneath appearing in flash jewellery - it's crass

A smear or blot; a smudge.

BLURRING blur

Troublemaking bigmouths

Foolish man from Balkans all over fractured north with those blowing hot air

Swaggering.

Swaggering crooner, one with passionate desires hidden

Stormy.

Swaggering

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

Winter Olympian who may go 90 m.p.h

Winter Olympics competitor

Winter Olympian who may go 90 m.p.h.

Bullet-proof vests for escorts (wordplay)

Minders

Bodysurf

Wave catcher

Overall troubles I doubly reviewed

Overall, last set of clothes is for a tough old bird locally

Bruises too appalling, as unruly

Issue robot order to be rowdy

Noisy and lacking in restraint

Bolometer

Of or pertaining to a bolometer.

Bolsterer

Propping up pillow in middle of night

Giving a boost

Supporting

NCO arranged raid in Lancaster, maybe

Canadian snowmobile inventor

Crowd round pub ride off with soldier

Bombard

Bombardon

Promise to take case, as tends to be fireproof in this country!

Union offers support to one that never gets burned in this place (wordplay)

Investor

Could he make broken nose better (wordplay)

Cured one's inside, though no doctor (wordplay)

Unqualified treater of fractures in times past

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

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

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

Shopkeeper hires Fitzgerald expressly

Vendor of volumes

Borders of old, for example

Where bibliophiles browse.

Returning weapons (wordplay)

Reports cover new range of weapons

Brings back to Sidney, say many happy returns, perhaps

BOOSTER that which boosts

Salesman of sorts.

One running for work (wordplay)

Speak-easy supplier

One fond of dining on tongue (wordplay)

Subservient one

Suck-up

Fasteners on a German boat (wordplay)

Pull yourself up the ladder to load computer program

Borborygmus

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

Politically contested territory, maybe

Division is problematic

Indecisive boundary row

Only just acceptable

Borescope

BORING an inner cavity

Borrowing

Botchery

Annoying to disturb a few

Mob there so unruly, causing trouble

Annoying mob's here to riot

""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.""

Botrytis

Bottomry

Wide roads

Zodiacal borders (wordplay)

Limits for spring star sign

Marches, tied to sign

BOUNDER one that {bounds=v}

The principles of those adhering to the house of Bourbon; obstinate conservatism.

BOURGEOIS A size of type between long primer and brevier. See Type. Type.

Bourgeon

Expurgate the indelicate unnecessarily

Bimbo extremely lewd, perhaps come up and use a figleaf

Censor wicked and loathsome extremists heading for Richmond in US state capital

Cut, in a way

Desex the text

Expurgate.

Bowerbird

Archer's supplies

They launch Cupid's darts and play violins etc.

Boxberry

Boycotter

Heartthrobs, perhaps

Ring in by Friday with results and dates

Beaus

""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