10-Letter Words Starting with B

Babbitt

Meaningless talk

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

Backcloth

Backcourt

Backdate

Backfit

Backlight

Backlist

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

Searches for an error, maybe

Climbs down path guarded by defenders

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

Claret drinks.

Disparaged

Smeared foundation around part of face, on commercial

Slandered

Utter perplexity

Total bewilderment

Chaps chasing fox for time in utter bewilderment

Trifling things

Trifles with femmes fatales, holding a gun

Trifles.

Bairnly

Balladist

Heavy material for stabilizing a ship

Science of flight dynamics

Science of motion of projectiles.

Police-lab concerns

Phileas Fogg, for one

One seen in a hanging basket (wordplay)

Party item to sit out, being in the air

Today's most popular writers (wordplay)

Pens from pin endings

Some pens

Balcony railing (by Toni Morrison)

A bad result perhaps, but coping

Part of a balcony.

Banality

Australian animals

Banditry

Samba trend (anagram)

Sousa or Alexander, for example

Conductor decorated stand with amber

Sousa's places (wordplay)

Platforms in many parks

Outdoor concert sites

Bandwidth

Pig out, say, in Dickensian constituency

The exclusion of someone from a country

Exclusive treatment for a political offence

BANISTER a stair hand-rail

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

Banquet

Banquette

Pool house (wordplay)

Brat's piety seems phony in sacred area

Barbitone

Shakespearean fan

Worship of Shakespeare

Discalced, as certain monks

Kicked around a match official having forgotten trainers (wordplay)

Pub second team paid the cost for not wearing boots

Certain ship

Makes one-night stands.

Goes on tour

Stunt flies, as at a fair

Agent noun (-or)

Forecasting aids in Italy (wordplay)

Forecasting aids in Italy?

Indicators of change

Type of pressure

It's measured by the glass

Like some pressure

Rank higher than knightdom

Barquette

""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.""

Barratry

Barretry

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)

Basicity

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

Bassett

Orchestra member

Certain instrumentalist

Woodwind player

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.

Bastinade

Catching birds at night using lights to confuse them

Features of beaches.

Batholith

Bathwater

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

Deep-sea submersible

Pertaining to the Batrachia.

Arrayed for battle; fit or eager for battle; warlike.

Large military groups

Military units

Military groups

Battement

Archer's post

Ghostly hangout in "Hamlet"

Fortified area of a castle

Formidable, perhaps, as Hood

The USS Maine, for one

15 - or should it be Queen? - maybe 19

Sticking to one's ribs (wordplay)

Taking a stab at (wordplay)

Bayonet

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

Most abominable

Beatify

Skip ill-used religious sayings

Get the better of it with blessed dues

Biblical blessings

Hair-cutting job

Candidate for "What's My Line?"

One who has to take a makeup test (wordplay)

Made to look gorgeous

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

Makes prettier

Becarpet

Beclothe

Becrust

Nightcaps, for example (wordplay)

Pajamas, e.g

Sheets, blankets, etc.

Bedight

Bedirty

Bedlamite

Red guards (wordplay)

Yeomen of the guard.

Tower of London guards

Live bats seek fast food

Tournedos, e.g

Tournedos, for example

Early example of an oxymoron (wordplay)

Early, while the pub is still open

Not - - means none too soon

Befret

Beknight

Beknot

Belemnite

Hecklers, to Rich (wordplay)

Putting someone down

Is the DI's pa raging, to say the least (wordplay)

Pooh-poohing

A writer of literature

Little Serb turns out to be writer of aesthetic essays

V.I.P. among sheep

Leader of the flock

Leading sheep; trendsetter

Absent-mindedness

Confusion, bewilderment

Puzzled thoughts

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

Benefiter

Been fit to have gin with it? You'll be the better for that

Received an advantage

Well meaning, kindly

Like an Elk, supposedly

Well-meaning, kindly

Bentonite

Of or pertaining to bentonite.

Bepaint

The act of bequeathing; bequeathment; bequest.

Bequeath

Besetment

Beshout

Besmooth

Besmut

Besoothe

Splashes with mud

Bestead

The state or quality of being bestial.

""To make bestial, or like a beast; to degrade; to brutalize.""

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

Bestud

Betatter

Bethank

Bethink

Bethorn

Bethump

Being a sign of (something)

Betrothal

Betrothed

Betroth

Progress in standard of living

Live with Hilary, perhaps, in a tent for gain

How more good men come to tea for improvement

Bevomit

Magnetic personal charm

Capturing interest as if by spell

Like some sirens

Charmingly appealing

Biathlete

Certain religious scholars

Bibliotic

Person associated with (-ist)

""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

Bifidity

Two-pronged; forked.

Forks

Kind and considerate

Generous description of unambiguous (wordplay)

Generous sack filled with rubbish I gather

Very talkative

Bijection

From Beirut Joe and I removed jewellery

Jewellery especially trinkets

Trinkets from Beirut Joe and I distributed

Seepage aboard ship

Ship's seepage

Nonsense

Billionth

Most wavy.

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

MODALITY the state of being modal

NATIONAL a citizen of a nation

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

Asimov, per his doctorate

Person knee-deep in formulas

A studier of living organisms

See biological control .

BIOETHIC relating to ethical questions in biology

Like Ernst Haeckel's law

Watson and Crick, for two

Julian Huxley and James Watson

Identity verification system

Biometry

""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

PARENTAL pertaining to a parent

What foreign policy often is.

With two-party support

Involving the agreement of two parties

BIPEDAL having two feet

State of two extremes

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