9-Letter Words Starting with B

Babbitt

Made retrospectively valid

Made retroactive, as a contract

Pretended to have written earlier, as a letter

Group of football players

Players behind the line of scrimmage

Part of a football team

Rebounded noisily, perhaps on the grid

Went wrong

Had a bad effect on the instigator of the action

Resembling bacteria in appearance or action.

Badinage

With raised platform unlocked, rook that is occupying it

Round dates for weights there

Stabilized nautically

Put on so much weight to be as round as Edward

Had a rapid weight gain

Increased quickly in size, as a budget

Multiplied at a rapid rate

Banalize

Partook of a feast

Took many courses

Had a feast

Cooked Texas-style

Had a cookout

They say doll waited in line and got roasted

Barbeque

Not ashamed to be 31 across (wordplay)

Yogi unmasked (wordplay)

Kind of lie

Negotiated with lawyers - and won!

Negotiated pub profit with Edward

Haggled in pub, and profited

Barhop

Having crustaceans, as a ship's hull

Encouraged to embrace a bishop when heckled

Accommodated as soldiers given hostile reception

Jeered

Contained counter counter counter-tenor

Made the rounds, say (wordplay)

Type of heat

Wall lining next to the floor.

Wall molding.

Bassett

Having a defence

Batfowl

Took a stab at (wordplay)

Used a daggerlike weapon on

Ran through

Landing point (for seaborne troops)

Troops' landing site

Normandy campaign objective

Made very, very happy

Declared Blessed as precursor to canonisation

Declared blessed as first step towards canonisation

Beblood

Bechalk

Bechance

Becharm

Beclasp

Becloak

Beclog

Beclothe

Obfuscated

Foggy.

Beclown

Becrawl

Becrowd

Becrust

Bedabble

More than impressed*

Overwhelmed, in a way

2000 Brendan Fraser film

Tormented, as with doubt

Tormented maliciously

Gave fits

Bedight

Bedimple

Bedirty

Bedizen

BEDROOM a room for sleeping

Bedrug

Night cover (wordplay)

Something fit for a king (wordplay)

The cover of night (wordplay)

Bedwarf

Beflag

Befleck

Befret

Befringe

Confused

Puzzled

Begirdle

Beglad

Begloom

Begrim

Begroan

Resented another's success

Gave reluctantly

Envied, was jealous of another's good fortune

Adorned with gems (US?spelling)

Bestselling puzzle game since 2001

Like some expensive crowns

Bejumble

Beknot

Bartok yawning (wordplay)

Assailed at length

Beat a dead horse

Made the opponent look small

DI's pa raged at having done this

Took down a peg

One goes around with a carilon, perhaps

Perhaps this might be an allround sort of carillon orchestra (wordplay)

Does its ringing music go round and round (wordplay)

Bemadam

Much decorated.

Bemingle

Bemuddle

Bemuzzle

English word

Benefice

Made a killing

Gained (from)

Was useful

Bename

Ignorant get behind beaten

Ignorant; caught in dark

Overtaken by dark

Similar to benzene in structure or linkage; having an aromatic ring system.

Bepaint

Bepimple

Bescour

Begged (someone for something)

Asked pleadingly but got rotten cheese in place of retirement

Earnestly sought religious area associated with revolutionary in plot

Beshout

Beshrew

Polluted bar seemed horrible

Besmudge

Besmut

Besoothe

Bespouse

Bestead

Roused to action

What your tea needed to

The tree the birds started to move in

Were debts spread out? Yes!

Made drink, having set out then scattered

Sprinkled

Bestrow

Ornamented with nailheads

Beswarm

Bethank

Bethorn

Bethump

Betoken

Promised in marriage

Pledged to be married

Engaged to be married

Bevomit

Beweary

Under a spell

Head intersection is enchanted

2005 Nicole Kidman film

Beworry

Bewrap

Of two colors.

Conceited, like Humpty Dumpty (wordplay)

Conceited with large cranium

Full of oneself

Birdlime

Blabber

Like some Cajun food

Vilified.

Charred

Spot of darkness (wordplay)

Spot gloomy principal

*Facial blemish

To coat or to polish with black lead.

Embedded with cover (wordplay)

That's C over all over

Hit the whole area

Persuaded with flattery

Sweet-talked

Wheedled.

Spoke nonsensically

Babbled

Blatter

Not perfect

After starter of bhaji and lime pickle, one of my colleagues stained

Imperfect

Ran around to that place and chatted

Chatted, then allowed her to get into bed

Narrow view of some racehorses

Narrow-minded and maybe retired (wordplay)

Like some racehorses

Like burnt skin, perhaps

Hit hard, as a baseball

Surgeon in bed with spots

Joyous socialist waffled

Sealed off (eg, a port)

Surrounded by hostile troops or ships.

Lock Father up in bed? That kept him shut in

No rocket scientist, he

Idiot wants to impede the boss

Stupid person

A slaughterhouse (wordplay)

R-rated film feature, maybe

Carnage in Slaughterhouse (wordplay)

Met one's potential

Fulfilled one's potential

Yielded flowers

Bloviate

Retired churl wept buckets

So this fatted calf would not have cried

Beneath all that fat the editor was weeping

Had he a place at Kilbride (wordplay)

Goatee for baseball's Vida (wordplay)

Fatima's murderous spouse

|Made a serious mistake

Moved about awkwardly and clumsily

Committed a faux pas

Used empty threats.

Made empty threats

Played the bully.

Like some breeds of cats

Cut short

Like a rabbit, say, albeit modified in corporeal form

Impudent type (wordplay)

Like obvious type

Like the obvious type

Supported up in bed, perhaps

Given extra overnight support (wordplay)

Supported, with "up"

Shelled

Botanise

Botanize

""Abounding in large rocks or stones; as, bouldered fields.as, bouldered fields.""

Hollywood, for one

Sunset, e.g

Broad tree-lined street

Animal that builds a fancy structure to attract a mate

With pins like a cowpoke's, perhaps

Describing most cowboys.

Like many a cowboy

Boxhaul

Went on strike, led by Geoff (wordplay)

Shunned, Irish style

Shunned (something) in protest

Pin giver, maybe

Male that might be 19 across

Swain keeps fiery type in restraint

(Making a commotion in bed?)

Grouped together

Awful noise in part of garden separated off

Brattice

Promoted without a pay increase

Made wider

Got bigger

Carving top of dry bread, one getting spread out

Decorated old woman at match embarrassed about nothing

Plant of tropical American family that includes the pineapple

Brother

Brutify

Buckler

Gave the quality of a coarse open-weave fabric

Buffalo

""A plant of the Mint family and genus Lycopus; esp. L. Virginicus, which has mild narcotic and astringent properties, and is sometimes used as a remedy for hemorrhage. Lycopus; esp. L. Virginicus, which has mild narcotic and astringent properties, and is sometimes used as a remedy for hemorrhage.""

Intimidated Colloq.

Intimidated: Colloq.

That beast, he dropped off and that's flat

Bulwark

Ego burden (anagram)

Made new buds

Developed and flourished

The stream I disposed of with polish

Polish for Scottish stream I got rid of

The Polish 11 across I disposed of (wordplay)

""BURNOOSE a hooded cloak, also BURNOUS, BURNOUSE""

Burthen

Bushel

Completely mispronounced, as a name

Totally ruined

Save revolutionary socialist from being massacred

Butylate