9-Letter Words Starting with B

Biogas

Biogeny

BIOGEN a hypothetical unit of protoplasm

Book about a legend (wordplay)

Life far more than a sentence (wordplay)

Kind of book.

Autoclave's target

Danger that spreads

Virulent virus or terrifying toxin*

Biologic

Biology

""Use of biological principles in explaining human behavior, especially social behavior.""

Gregor Mendel, for instance.

Life-science lab worker

Jeff's job, officially

Biomass

Of life expectancy measurement

Applying statistical analysis to biology

Like the most secure passports nowadays

Science of relationship of organisms to environment

Ecology.

Bionomy

Bioplasm

Biopsy

Periodic change in behaviour of animals

CDC concern, at times

Laboratory concern

Early movie projectors.

""A device that detects, records, and transmits information regarding a physiological change or process.""

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

Organic section (wordplay)

Life-support system (wordplay)

Where the wild things are (wordplay)

Biotoxin

A cheep place to stay (wordplay)

American nest-box

*Woodcraft hobbyist's creation

Birdshot

High notes (wordplay)

Series of tweets (wordplay)

""An herbaceous plant (Trillium erectum), and its astringent rootstock, which is said to have medicinal properties. Trillium erectum), and its astringent rootstock, which is said to have medicinal properties.""

""A genus of herbs and shrubs (Aristolochia), reputed to have medicinal properties. Aristolochia), reputed to have medicinal properties.""

Division in half

Evenly dividing lines

Bishop

Phobic sir (anagram)

Seat of a Catholic official

See, that's for the church

""Of, relating to, or characteristic of bison.""

Bitstock

Bivouac

BLACK to {blacken=v}

Blackboy

""The male of the European black grouse (Tetrao tetrix, Linn.); so called by sportsmen. The female is called gray hen. See Heath grouse. Tetrao tetrix, Linn.); so called by sportsmen. The female is called gray hen. See Heath grouse.""

Reasons to use flashlights

Some skits

Power failures.

A warbler of the United States (Dendroica striata). Dendroica striata).

Surfaces, as roads, runways, etc.

Broadway's Hagen, who was blacklisted

Paves, as a driveway

Founder of influential magazine: Ebony, possibly (wordplay)

Departures from Cape Canaveral

Launches reports about cricket side

Activities using lox.

Blastoma

Blazoner

Blazon

'Pin the tail on the donkey' prop

Piece of cloth etc to prevent one seeing

Item for a TV panelist.

Small legless lizard

Legless lizard

Snake-like creature's undiscerning malignant software

Sealed off (eg, a port)

Surrounded by hostile troops or ships.

Lock Father up in bed? That kept him shut in

Fleet, at times

Some trade barriers

Artery problems

Drunk goes back, clutching large bottlenecks

All no go

No rocket scientist, he

Idiot wants to impede the boss

Stupid person

Blocky

A sanguinary massacre

Total rout

A gory massacre - might be cleansing (wordplay)

Bloodfin

Likeliest to get an R rating, perhaps

Most violent

Blooding

Feeble; drained of colour

Like some coups

Cold war unlikely to be this

Something tracked for purebreds

Drunken Biondello reveals pedigree

*Horse breeder's concern

Circulatory system (wordplay)

Circulatory system?

With dashing young man, search for scarlet flower

A slaughterhouse (wordplay)

R-rated film feature, maybe

Carnage in Slaughterhouse (wordplay)

Inflamed (of eye)

Reddened, inflamed eye

(Of eye) streaked with red

""Any of various red, segmented marine worms of the genera Polycirrus and Enoplobranchus that have bright red bodies and are often used for bait.""

Bloody

Bloomy

Met one's potential

Fulfilled one's potential

Yielded flowers

Mix lice with broth, as more patchy

BLOTCH to mark with large spots

Blotch

Blotty

Blousy

Bloviate

Goes on and on about nothing

Blowback

Blowball

Blowdown

Metallic blue insects

Bluebottles

*Family of insects that can smell dead animals from up to a mile away...ew

Big talkers

Gasconaders

Windbags

They may spout off

Air-concentrating tubes

If it comes to blows, they're fatal

Glassmakers' tools

Blowsy

Airman's name for jet plane.

Small burner with a very hot flame

Welder's tool

Blowtube

Blowzy

Bound legs with clubs

Uses a club as a weapon

Requirements for some tests

Social registers

Social registers

Police in uniform.

Union soldiers

Strait-laced ones

Holier-than-thou types

Puritanical ones.

Long Island oyster

Small edible oyster

Siamese cat

See you, Esso, for 19 across, perhaps

See you, Esso, for the sapphire, perhaps

See you, Esso, for the sound of this

Bluewood

Boarding

Adjective meaning resembling

Meeting place (wordplay)

Lodge in this meeting place (wordplay)

Where a company's leaders meet

Expensive Monopoly property

Its houses cost $200 each

Site of many arcades

Boatbill

They're used to snag mooring lines

Docking aids

Mooring equipment

One may start a row from there

Punt's spot

Riverside structure

Cargo quantities

Large quantities

Shipping quantities

Was I not AB? Wrong - I was!

Ship's officer sat in bow with a wound

Ship's officer

Boatyard

Bobbery

Hexagonal-meshed laces

P.G.A. Hall of Famer Jones

Birds named for their song.

Migratory songbirds

Like some breeds of cats

Cut short

Like a rabbit, say, albeit modified in corporeal form

Birds

Bocaccio

Most impressive, in dialect

Groovy, dude!

Amazing, in dialect

Bodement

Medical obstruction (wordplay)

Hit on ice

Could be physical obstruction

Minding one's business (wordplay)

One who is paid to protect another

One protecting another

Bodysuit

Doesn't go overboard (wordplay)

Rides the waves, in a way

Rides the waves without a board

Bodywork

Boehmite

Dvorak and Smetana

Unconventional people bemoan his undoing

Convention flouters

Boiserie

Impudent type (wordplay)

Like obvious type

Like the obvious type

Boldface

Boletus

Bolivar

Country with no currency!

100 centavos in a South American country

La Paz currency

Bollix

Bollox

Bollworm

""An instrument for measuring minute quantities of radiant heat, especially in different parts of the spectrum; called also actinic balance, thermic balance. actinic balance, thermic balance.""

Supported up in bed, perhaps

Given extra overnight support (wordplay)

Supported, with "up"

Fan or supporter

What lettuce lovers do (wordplay)

Bolthole

Boltonia

Boltrope

Shelled

Continue to attack such a music maker

Assail with many a blow on instrument

I cast bomb, being pompous in speech

Using too high-flown speech.

Like many stump speeches

Mourner's fabric

That's the stuff to blow up the bottom of the magazine

Bombesin

To hum; to boom.

Bombload

Surefire, as a standup's material (wordplay)

A lot of money made as evidence of being well protected

Stunner or shocker (wordplay)

Jaw-dropping news

Piece of devastating news

Enola Gay device

Aircraft's aiming device

Volatile big shot takes medic on board aerial war contraption

Bombycid

Bondmaid

Masonry wall unit.

Masonry binder.

Old slave's link with sultanate

A woman bondservant.

Highly stupid fellows.

Foolish people with ossified tops (wordplay)

Stupid ones.

Bonemeal

Boneyard

Bongoist

Bonhomie

A pleasant and affable disposition; geniality.

Boniface

Bonnet

Bonspell

Curling tournaments

Bontebok

Ignorant middle class, per H. L. Mencken

Mencken's great unwashed

Stupid people, as H.L. Mencken put it

English word

BOOGER a piece of snot

Boogey

Mr. Fright (wordplay)

""BOOGEY to dance to rock music, also BOOGIE, BOOGY""

Sobbing

Order examples for the works (wordplay)

Law office fixtures

Shelves trial in reserves

BOOKISH pertaining to books

Booklore

A minute wingless psocopterous insect (Liposcelis divinatorius) injurious to books and papers.Liposcelis divinatorius) injurious to books and papers.

Bet middler (wordplay)

Publisher perhaps enjoys course work

Odd accountant (wordplay)

Dog-ear alternates

Volume's identification.

Found in some volumes

One may get stuck into a literary work

Bookrack

Reading supports

Novel storage area (wordplay)

Supporter of literature (wordplay)

Where volume may be turned up (wordplay)

Businesses that thrive on high volume sales (wordplay)

They sell the dead presumably? It's novel to the markets!

Bibliophile's source

Reserves lofty retail outlet

Where the volume is not 30 across

Volume setting (wordplay)

Volume business (wordplay)

Barnes and Noble, for one

Very serious students

They haunt libraries

Ones who study hard

Portable sources of music

Powerful, portable radios

Portable stereos

Noisy Australian club (wordplay)

Get off me, chimed Kylie (wordplay)

One making a comeback (wordplay)

Areas with population explosions

Blast urban areas that have short-lived prosperity

Head of municipality to pull in favours for thriving areas

Rough country: Slang.

Rough country Slang.

Sticks may be advantage with crops

In a rough bad-mannered way

Rudely, coarsely

Buffer (wordplay)

Oxford shiner

Pump polisher

Certain stores in the U. S.

Stores with arrays of leather goods, usually

Bootjack

Producers of tieups at work (wordplay)

They're tightened before a march

Some workers' footwear securers

Bootlick

Item for a certain lift

Computer program loading method

Metaphorical self-help aid

Boracite

Red-light-district houses

Brothels

Memo from lover accepting command

Document listing other documents

Frame leaders of elite army unit with French note by underwriter

Borderer

Along the edges of

What the unclued letters...

On the verge or boundary of

Borecole

Borehole

English word

Librarians' clientele

Loan seekers

Credit card companies encourage it

Taking a loan

Having something on loan