9-Letter Words Starting with B

Babbitt

Baccarat

Female priest can chat and be funny

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

Bacchant

Rock sounds

Perhaps a molar re tib

Molar (wordplay)

One attacks the reputation of another

Attacks absent friends, say

Disparages player defending snacks

Slanders

Backcast

Backchat

Support ministers creating a scene

Maintain ministers should set the scene

Painted fabric scenery

COURT to {woo=v}

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

Backdrop

*Source of a halo effect

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

Many stools' lacks

Places for some drivers, so to speak

Passenger places

Car parts

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

Beat a retreat (wordplay)

Retrace one's steps

Return to support course

Re taw, perhaps, in no current way

O2H (wordplay)

Tew, perhaps, is an isolated spot

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.

Court trials (wordplay)

Venue for one sport or another

Glos estate doesn't show the best china!

*Runs down, in a way

Speaks ill of

Severely criticizes

Game to make music (wordplay)

Light piano piece

Board-game, trifle

Long, thin loaves of bread

Long, thin loaves

French bread loaves

Bailment

Bakemeat

Cueballs, so to speak

Sentimental singer

Traditional singer of considerable weight embracing girl briefly

Round dates for weights there

Stabilized nautically

Put on so much weight to be as round as Edward

Devices of ancient warfare, like catapults

Wild description of missile (wordplay)

What's round is jerky for a missile

Irrational way to go

Ballonet

November VIP's.

Voters

Nov. 4 activity

Today's most popular writer (wordplay)

Kind of pen

Paper Mate product

Stair rail supports.

Staircase railings

Marsupial, one breaking ring on bird

Small insectivorous marsupial

Marsupial in group with one bird

Watch accessory display site (wordplay)

Central park fixture, perhaps

On your feet, instrumentalists!

'N Sync's waist sizes (wordplay)

Range of radio frequencies

Internet user's concern

Bangtail

Sliding places of sorts

Slides for some children

Rails bearing one by top of stairs (wordplay)

Banjoist

Forms of paper money

They're payable on demand.

Promises to pay

Causes to go into receivership.

Forces out of Monopoly

Ruins financially

Small flags or important knights

Sir Roger -, first sub-four-minute miler

Handrail on a staircase

Famed former miler

Partook of a feast

Took many courses

Had a feast

Diner.

Sidewalk, in the South.

Upholstered wall bench

Bench built into a wall

Banterer

Bring round advance payment? Just joking!

Boycott Wagner's work? It's not hard to be joking

Bantling

Baptisia

Baptise

Of Christian ritual immersion

Type of certificate

Type of pool

""In early times, a separate building, usually polygonal, used for baptismal services. Small churches were often changed into baptisteries when larger churches were built near.""

Baptizer

Baptize

Barathea

A savagely cruel act

Savage and cruel behaviour

Barbette

Barbital

Doll swallows a large quantity of 26

Singer injected with British drug

Go to sleep with this bimbo model (not about to split)

Bareboat

Barghest

Barguest

""BARITONE a deep male voice, also BARYTONE""

Merrill and Milnes, for example

Opera cast members

Male opera roles

Rain of the farm (wordplay)

Perform aerial stunts, perhaps

Rain of the farm?

It's all very fine for one to get a rise

It goes up and down

Forecaster's instrument

Collection of air pressure data

Robert may turn to a branch of meteorology

Title that might be played by a cornet

Lowest hereditary honour

Lowest British heritable position

Diminutive form

Barrater

Those guilty of ship scuttling

Barren

Barretor

Hair clasps

Hair metal

Hair clasps

Lawyer maybe railing about the street

Lawyer for the higher courts

Legal advocate, must be briefed

Sit on them

Seats of a sort.

Pub perches

Made the rounds, say (wordplay)

Courtroom judge (wordplay)

Jailer's other job (wordplay)

Gym assistant (wordplay)

Trade association (wordplay)

Working in stock exchanges, they never see colour of someone's money

Traders

Trading without using money

Ban the heartless group trafficking (wordplay)

Were the bar gaining it might bring about a tear

Bartisan

Bartizan

Barytone

Deep stories (wordplay)

Parts of buildings

Bargain spots in department stores.

""Botany Of or relating to the development or maturation of tissues or organs or the movement of substances, such as hormones, from the apex downward toward the base.""

Laundry load, typically

Laundry load

Basset

Bassett

The fish I catches are for the babies

The fish I catches for the babies

Tot holders

Bastardlike; baseborn; spuripous; corrupt.

Fortresses

""See Bastinado, n. Bastinado, n.""

A band is to perform as punishment

Punishment by caning soles

Graduates can have a fuss when punished thus

Having a defence

Flying gurnards.

Batfowl

Seaside building with dressing rooms

It's fitted for a washer

Cabana, e.g

A large mass of intrusive igneous rock believed to have solidified deep within the earth.

After-shower garments

Luxury hotel room items

Spa garb

Places to go

It's tested with a toe

Rubber duck's milieu

It's often draining

Battalia

HQ and two or more companies.

Taliban to become an army unit

Large body of troops

""(Performing Arts / Ballet) Ballet extension of one leg forwards, sideways, or backwards, either once or repeatedly [French, literally: beating]""

Battener

Glutton's activity

Remote activators (wordplay)

Containers with cells producing power

They're in current use for layers

Pounding against, as strong winds

Hitting repeatedly

Queen gets in - 'in' as in 14's game - with ram

""Battier , battiest Slang Crazy; insane.""

Baulky

Took a stab at (wordplay)

Used a daggerlike weapon on

Ran through

Beachy

See Biestings. Biestings.

More brutish

More abominable

More gross.

Made very, very happy

Declared Blessed as precursor to canonisation

Declared blessed as first step towards canonisation

Beatify

Blessed are the meek, for one

"Blessed are the meek," for one

Thrash this blessed thing as it is due

Very nice to look at

Pleasing to the eye

Abounding in pulchritude

Football, despite the scars (wordplay)

That's fine end for 2 down!

Narcissus' wedding song (wordplay)

Becarpet

Beclothe

Beclothe

Becrust

Bedight

Bedirty

Bedirty

Pain the source of this turn-of-the-century novel

Bedplate

Bedquilt

Queen's coverings

Some linens

Bedstand

Twin fixtures in many dorms

Mattress-supporting frameworks

Frames for the night

Bedstraw

Beechy

Beechnut

Yeoman producing crab apple (wordplay)

Carnivorous guard (wordplay)

Yeoman of the guard.

Complaint given audible support gets cut

Protein-rich entree

Kind of tomato

Unwanted piercings (wordplay)

Workers' strikes (wordplay)

First milk produced painful swellings

A source of sugar.

Red vegetables, in Reading

Insect runs around top of orange plants

Suitable or appropriate for

Suitable for

Befret

Begetter

Be obtaining little raising

How one might be starting a family

Be having some offspring

Whales, elephants, hippos, et al.

Big, powerful things

Huge animals mentioned in Job.

Beknight

Beknot

Past the proper time

Not in time to start to be dead

Adverb meaning very or too late

""A conical calcareous fossil, tapering to a point at the lower extremity, with a conical cavity at the other end, where it is ordinarily broken; but when perfect it contains a small chambered cone, called the phragmocone, prolonged, on one side, into a delicate concave blade; the thunderstone. It is the internal shell of a cephalopod related to the sepia, and belonging to an extinct family. The belemnites are found in rocks of the Jurassic and Cretaceous ages.""

Made the opponent look small

DI's pa raged at having done this

Took down a peg

BELITTLE to disparage

D is par ages (wordplay)

Disparages

Puts down

Bellwort

Expanding items for eaters.

Circuit railways.

Circuit railways

Bemist

Late-marrying men

Married men

Married men.

Made a killing

Gained (from)

Was useful

""One who confers a benefit; also, one who receives a benefit.""

Bename

Ignorant get behind beaten

Ignorant; caught in dark

Overtaken by dark

Kindly.

So being tiny makes one kind of like this

BENTHON the organisms living in the benthos

Benthos

Explosive buried under mountain peak to yield clay

Bentwood

Benzoate

Bepaint

Leaves, as in a will

Leaves in will

Leaves the Basque revolution

Bergamot

Berretta

""The act of besetting, or the state of being beset; also, that which besets one, as a sin.""

Assailers

Harassers.

The sin that Crosaire does be having

Habitual gambling - England's consumed

Troubling; surrounding

Beshout

Besmooth

Besmut

Besoothe

Besoothe

Besot

Soil of a resort in superior situation

Cover with slander

Spray with droplets

Bestead

Closest friend embracing one in a sexually depraved way (wordplay)

There's none better than this one to have on your side in such a nasty way

There's not one better than the beastly way one is on your side

Roused to action

What your tea needed to

The tree the birds started to move in

Bestowal

Very good to be in debt - it's a gift

Giving nothing better than to be in debt

Giving of one's best to be in debt