9-Letter Words Starting with B

Female priest can chat and be funny

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

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

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

Behind the scenes (theatrically)

Near, but not in, the limelight

In the green-room

To subject to the action of bacteria.

Game to make music (wordplay)

Light piano piece

Board-game, trifle

""To divide a territory into small, hostile states.""

Devices of ancient warfare, like catapults

Lead by the nose

Mystify, cheat

Bluff queen sent back liquor - about a litre

Flag carried at the masthead

Small military flag.

Small streamer

Sidewalk, in the South.

Upholstered wall bench

Bench built into a wall

To become barbarous.

Doll swallows a large quantity of 26

Singer injected with British drug

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

One perhaps dressed up a part for song

Number in Venice (wordplay)

Exclude Lombard (wordplay)

Diminutive form

Noun (-age)

Barrier, to block a street perhaps

Defensive structure, maybe improvised

Temporary blockage to obstruct movement

English word

""A type of white blood cell, also BASOPHIL""

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

Seaside building with dressing rooms

It's fitted for a washer

Cabana, e.g

On the waterfront, say

Blessed are the meek, for one

"Blessed are the meek," for one

Thrash this blessed thing as it is due

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

Soil, as garments in the mud.

Make wet and limp

Make limp and soiled

""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.""

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

Vatican art gallery in Rome

Summerhouse with view

Summer house with a view

""A fabric having a crosswise ribbed effect made of silk, wool, or synthetic fibers.""

Explosive buried under mountain peak to yield clay

""A yellowish, white, or reddish-gray crystalline powder, NH 2 C 6 H 4 C 6 H 4 NH 2 , used in dyes and to detect blood stains.""

""An alkaloid obtained, as a bitter, yellow substance, from the root of the barberry, gold thread, and other plants.""

Adjective meaning resembling

Competitor who skis and shoots

Skiing/shooting Olympian*

Olympian with a rifle

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

Divide into two branches

Fork into two branches

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

""(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""

""Having two lips, as the corols of certain flowers.""

Affecting living tissue

Organic section (wordplay)

Life-support system (wordplay)

Where the wild things are (wordplay)

Having two sections

Divided into two sections

Involving two sides

""PINNATE resembling a feather, also PINNATED""

A cheep place to stay (wordplay)

American nest-box

*Woodcraft hobbyist's creation

Baby figure (wordplay)

Demographer's concern

Figure that concerned Malthus

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

""SULFATE to treat with sulfuric acid, also SULPHATE""

""SULFIDE a sulfur compound, also SULFID, SULPHID, SULPHIDE""

""SULFITE a chemical salt, also SULPHITE""

With more than one unknown verse, song dividing taste

Guise of American minstrels

Adjective meaning resembling

Utter obscenities or profanities

Curse afflicting sheep and lamb

Curse MP - he's able to change...

Pl. blastulas or blastulae (-l ) An early embryonic form produced by cleavage of a fertilized ovum and consisting of a spherical layer of cells surrounding a fluid-filled cavity. Also called blastosphere .

Hit from behind, say

Unseen run, perhaps

Hit, seemingly from nowhere

Something tracked for purebreds

Drunken Biondello reveals pedigree

*Horse breeder's concern

See you, Esso, for 19 across, perhaps

See you, Esso, for the sapphire, perhaps

See you, Esso, for the sound of this

Adjective meaning resembling

One may start a row from there

Punt's spot

Riverside structure

Mourner's fabric

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

To hum; to boom.

Masonry wall unit.

Masonry binder.

Ignorant middle class, per H. L. Mencken

Mencken's great unwashed

Stupid people, as H.L. Mencken put it

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

Volume's identification.

Found in some volumes

One may get stuck into a literary work

Volume setting (wordplay)

Volume business (wordplay)

Barnes and Noble, for one

English word

In zoology, to use arms for locomotion

Having a bract or bracts.

Same as Bractlet. Bractlet.

Cranium

Branchia

Restaurant using money I put in before

Restaurant for staff officers by a lake

Restaurant that might serve steak frites

One responsible for bust-up (wordplay)

Money that is admitting Queen supporter

It was burned in the '60s

If band's conga formation (wordplay)

A hollow row (wordplay)

One may be on it at the cash dispenser!

Live outside right the same as live outside left? Not likely to last

Fragile

BRECCIA a type of rock

Artwork made from a clog, creatively coated in cheese

Lawyer meeting patient, maybe a carrier

Short job for Belli?

Accessory in a drug deal (wordplay)

Sulphur (when associated with hellfire)

Material for a fiery sermon (wordplay)

Symbolically S might make the edge hard

An oval or pearshaped diamond having its entire surface cut in triangular facets.

Small fuel block

Data entered on computer

Patio fuel unit

General perhaps left following attack

Hard-to-hit barn area (wordplay)

Volley, as of denunciation.

Stick in the oven (wordplay)

Small spit or skewer: French kebab

Spit broth etc out on top of everything

Period with less money (wordplay)

E*Trade is one

Dealer's commission

""See Bromate, v. t. Bromate, v. t.""

Horse kept for breeding

Female horse kept for mating

Stable parent

""A genus (Orobanche) of parasitic plants of Europe and Asia. They are destitute of chlorophyll, have scales instead of leaves, and spiked flowers, and grow attached to the roots of other plants, as furze, clover, flax, wild carrot, etc. The name is sometimes applied to other plants related to this genus, as Aphyllon uniflorumand Aphyllon Ludovicianum.Orobanche) of parasitic plants of Europe and Asia. They are destitute of chlorophyll, have scales instead of leaves, and spiked flowers, and grow attached to the roots of other plants, as furze, clover, flax, wild carrot, etc. The name is sometimes applied to other plants related to this genus, as Aphyllon uniflorumand Aphyllon Ludovicianum.""

Bow and scrape

Act like a toady

Be a suck-up

English word

Brucella

*Fast-spreading blaze, perhaps

Minor rural blaze

Type of conflagration.

Make bestial

To make brutal; beasty; unfeeling; or inhuman.

Any of numerous plants of the division Bryophyta.Bryophyta.

""A cellular, flinty rock, used for mill stones.""

BUILD to construct

That really stings!

Stinging insect (2 words)

Newspaper for klutzes (wordplay)

Cowpoke's crash site

Cowboys' quarters

Where to celebrate the nonsensical (wordplay)

Parody - show with striptease (wordplay)

Like Ives (wordplay)

Show-biz category

See Buhrstone. Buhrstone.

Substance used in synthetic rubber.

A colourless gaseous hydrocarbon used in the manufacture of synthetic rubber

What an intriguing Empire style!

Like a hard-to-navigate bureaucracy

Describing a style of architecture.