9-Letter Words Starting with B

Baccarat

Cold tea consumed by trite reveller

Wild and drunken celebration

Drunken party

Female priest can chat and be funny

When she's drunk, might she get the cab back to sing a single note (wordplay)

Bacchant

Single-minded people (wordplay)

Male roles for the composer (wordplay)

Ones not tied down

Of or pertaining to little rods; rodshaped.

Backache

Rock sounds

Like most MPs, needing support with seat

(Of MP) not holding office

Bet against the replacements not in the cabinet

Some acrobatic feats

Calisthenics

Perhaps a molar re tib

Molar (wordplay)

One attacks the reputation of another

Attacks absent friends, say

Disparages player defending snacks

Slanders

BLOCK to {obstruct=v}

It's behind a hoop

Where Wilt Chamberlain shines.

Support company leaders in panel

Main supports.

Certain columns.

Spines

Backcast

Backchat

Support ministers creating a scene

Maintain ministers should set the scene

Painted fabric scenery

COURT to {woo=v}

CROSS to intersect

Made retrospectively valid

Made retroactive, as a contract

Pretended to have written earlier, as a letter

Makes retroactive... or what the eight other longest Across answers have

Makes retroactive ... or what the eight other longest Across answers have

*Prepares to pass the football

They go behind the scenes

Stage scenery.

Backdrop

Group of football players

Players behind the line of scrimmage

Part of a football team

Restores a dig site

Rebounded noisily, perhaps on the grid

Went wrong

Had a bad effect on the instigator of the action

Has the reverse effect

Flops create serif, apparently

Boomerangs

Backflow

Reverse shots on court (wordplay)

Not hush-hush tennis shots!

Support workers making plays in court

Backhaul

A building behind the main building. Specifically: A privy; a necessary.

Backland

*Source of a halo effect

Where to find modern classics, say, in publishers' catalogues

Hikers' burdens

Knapsacks, rucksacks

Students' carriers

Reverse attitude - on bicycle (wordplay)

Modify one's opinion

Retreat in the ring

Many stools' lacks

Places for some drivers, so to speak

Passenger places

Car parts

Rears to support crews

They may get spanked

Rumps, informally

Strikes among co-workers (wordplay)

Congratulates effusively

Congratulatory gestures

Fall away in faith or morals

Revert to old habits

Left in rear, go astray

Return a letter, say

Certain typewriter key

Move a cursor left

Backspin

Betrays, in a way

Behind the scenes (theatrically)

Near, but not in, the limelight

In the green-room

Backstay

Tennis and baseball necessities

Screens in sports arenas.

Gives support to summit's contingency plans

Defenders cried moving away from front

Slanting away

Golfer's reverse mode

Start of a golf stroke

Movement of sportsperson helps side

Fencing stick with a basket-hilt

Beat a retreat (wordplay)

Retrace one's steps

Return to support course

How to look for nostalgia (wordplay)

Support hospital facilities in recession

What Mica Paris claimed you are

Re taw, perhaps, in no current way

O2H (wordplay)

Tew, perhaps, is an isolated spot

Support drivers (wordplay)

Help drivers to find remote places

Support golfer from remote country area

Backwrap

Play areas, perhaps

S dray not on the road

City playgrounds

Of unicellular micro-organisms

Like ptomaine poisoning

6 (anagram)

Bacteria

Bacterin

Salmonella, for example

Micro-organism that can cause disease

Micro-organism

To subject to the action of bacteria.

Resembling bacteria in appearance or action.

Area of authority

Jurisdiction of a bailiff

Area of expertise

Battle overhead (wordplay)

Battle dress (wordplay)

Knitted hat (for bank robbers?)

Accountants, at times

Some circus performers

Acting on the beam (wordplay)

Olga Korbut's act (wordplay)

*Checking, as books

With raised platform unlocked, rook that is occupying it

Theater features

Auditorium sections

Canopy for a shaven jaw (wordplay)

Unadorned feature beneath a cloth canopy

'Lacking a beard, this will give some cover over the head (9)'

Baldrick

Wild description of missile (wordplay)

What's round is jerky for a missile

Irrational way to go

Loose, boxy overcoat

Coat with raglan sleeves.

Man's knee-length loose flaring overcoat with raglan sleeves

Marsupial, one breaking ring on bird

Small insectivorous marsupial

Marsupial in group with one bird

They might get "swiped out"

Guarantors lean toward eccentrics

Barbasco

Cooked Texas-style

Had a cookout

They say doll waited in line and got roasted

""BARBECUE to grill over an open fire, also BARBEQUE""

Events with steak-holders (wordplay)

Meals outside cooked on an open fire

Uses an outdoor grill

Barbican

Barbicel

One perhaps dressed up a part for song

Number in Venice (wordplay)

Exclude Lombard (wordplay)

Not ashamed to be 31 across (wordplay)

Yogi unmasked (wordplay)

Kind of lie

Barleduc

Having crustaceans, as a ship's hull

Geese that hang around ships (wordplay)

Shells found on boats' hulls

Building scale model for hangers-on

Title that might be played by a cornet

Lowest hereditary honour

Lowest British heritable position

Four-wheeled carriages.

Encouraged to embrace a bishop when heckled

Accommodated as soldiers given hostile reception

Jeered

Hostile demonstrator, a supporter down under

Prevent the car going in reverse with norhing on the end for the slaves

Plymouth muscle car

Predatory fish found in tropical seas

'68 Plymouth with optional Mod Top roof

Southwestern ravines.

Ravines

Barranco

Barrier, to block a street perhaps

Defensive structure, maybe improvised

Temporary blockage to obstruct movement

See Barricade. Barricade.

In essence

At heart

Fundamentally

English word

Church's prohibition covering mineral substance

Major church's interdict embracing quartz etc

One is able to follow saint of the church

St. Peter's and others

Roman assembly halls

St. Peter's et al.

God Only Knows group

All Summer Long singers

They sang "In My Room"

Go shelling, perhaps

Use a metal detector, maybe

Add to a shell collection, say

Miami tourist, often

One packing up the answers to the seven starred clues, maybe

Landing point (for seaborne troops)

Troops' landing site

Normandy campaign objective

Beachy

On the waterfront, say

Trunks, bikinis etc

*Thongs and surf shop T-shirts

Cabana items

Beacon

Rendering immobile, as a schooner

Making still or quiet

Becap

Becarpet

Bechalk

White sauces

Bechance

Bechance

Becharm

Beckoner

Waving over

Seemingly inviting

Making a curling motion with the forefinger, maybe

Beclamor

Beclasp

Becloak

Beclog

Beclothe

Beclothe

Obfuscated

Foggy.

Beclown

Becoming

Becoward

Becrawl

Becrime

Becrowd

Becrust

Becudgel

Becurse

Bedchair

Plots around shelter for sleepovers

Plots around shelter for those looking to keep their head down

Adding adornments to

Adorning.

Bedunce

Beechy

Beechnut

Models on some calendars

They're built

Hunky guys

Befleck

Rah-rah, generally speaking (wordplay)

Looking for scraps (wordplay)

Primed for battle

In the middle with Pa in, perhaps

Dish around vessel mostly is beef

Complain in a whiny manner

Bemock

English word

Standard set by a substitute (wordplay)

Standard score from judges (wordplay)

Don't let Harmon play (wordplay)

Benedick

Late-marrying men

Married men

Married men.

Benefice

Each of them is living for 7 down

There's more than one living like this

They're living in the Church

BENTHON the organisms living in the benthos

Berascal

Berceuse

Berdache

Bernicle

Bescour

Bescreen

Begged (someone for something)

Asked pleadingly but got rotten cheese in place of retirement

Earnestly sought religious area associated with revolutionary in plot

Entreats

Petitions

Implores

Under a spell

Head intersection is enchanted

2005 Nicole Kidman film

Possesses raised lacework with burns on

Workers protecting women long to make entrances

Bloomer associated with Iris by John Berger

Biacetyl

Feeder, strangely slim, keeps in charge of devotion to the book

One skilled in the knowledge of the Bible; a demonstrator of religious truth by the Scriptures.

BIBLE a book containing the Old and New Testaments

Having two Houses (wordplay)

Like the United States legislature

Like Japan's national diet

""Having two heads or origins, as a muscle.""

Squabblers

Disputing petulantly

Like some long-distance relationships

Like the Atlantic bluefin tuna

Like a New York/Los Angeles romance

Of two colors.

Bicolour

""Concave on both sides; as, biconcave vertebr\'91. as, biconcave vertebr\'91.""

Canine neighbors

Bicycler

Tour de France activity

Armstrong, for one

One on two wheels

Many a Beijing commuter

Divide into two branches

Fork into two branches

Bat, cue made with fir, perhaps, having 2 branches

Of two groups

Mathematics A function that is both one-to-one and onto.

""(Mathematics) Maths (of a function, relation, etc.) associating two sets in such a way that every member of each set is uniquely paired with a member of the other the mapping from the set of married men to the set of married women is bijective in a monogamous society""

Billycan

Right sort of hat for one who rules the roost

Compass cases on shipboard.

Ship's compass housings

Perhaps they're encompassing there on board

Concerned with double vision (wordplay)

Buy-one-get-one-free item (wordplay)

For both eyes

Affecting living tissue

Biocycle

Moral aspect of medical research

Biologic

Of life expectancy measurement

Applying statistical analysis to biology

Like the most secure passports nowadays

Science of relationship of organisms to environment

Ecology.

Early movie projectors.

Of or having to do with the interaction of biological and social forces: the biosocial aspects of disease.

Spots for canaries

Canaries' locations

Parakeets' homes

Coos and hoots

Tweets without hashtags

Some tweets

Forking

Halving

Division in half

Evenly dividing lines

Phobic sir (anagram)

Seat of a Catholic official

See, that's for the church