2-Letter Words Starting with B

Opposing a painful injection at last

Take it with you around the East when you're confronting it

Facing up to what could be bare and what's in the tail at the bottom

Breaks from workouts, say

Ten-minute breaks.

Breaks the lungs

More like a whisper

BREATHE to inhale and exhale air

Alive (but in need of space?)

Getting a change of air (wordplay)

Elocutionist's concern

BRECCIA a type of rock

House-garage connection, perhaps

Passage covered at school, perhaps

Passage between house and garage

Mason-ballplayer union result (wordplay)

Strong criticism, so to speak

Unkind remarks

Indy Speedway nickname

Richard gripped by poet's works

Mason's resource

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)

Incarcerate Bambi (wordplay)

*Latvian colonel's superior

British military rank

Brigade

Excellent fish ain't at sea!

A diamond could be terrific!

Excellent fish? Ain't cooked!

Brisance

Britzska

Broacher

Google search competitor

Opening up like this has your brother in pain

The little brother finds it painful making an opening

Tools with big heads

Timber topplers

Timber hewers

Kind of network

Fiber optic transmission, for example

Coarse group often used to go online

Sent out in waves (wordplay)

Common female performers put on show

Programme of actors with bad cast

Made wider

Got bigger

Carving top of dry bread, one getting spread out

""A tree (Terminalia latifolia) of Jamaica, the wood of which is used for boards, scantling, shingles, etc; sometimes called the almond tree, from the shape of its fruit. Terminalia latifolia) of Jamaica, the wood of which is used for boards, scantling, shingles, etc; sometimes called the almond tree, from the shape of its fruit.""

Type of carpet - a bold Moor (anagram)

Kind of carpeting.

Type of woven carpet

The condition or quality of being broad; breadth; coarseness; grossness.

General perhaps left following attack

Hard-to-hit barn area (wordplay)

Volley, as of denunciation.

Karakul pelt

Brocade

Brocatel

Brockage

Period with less money (wordplay)

E*Trade is one

Dealer's commission

Bromate

A proteolytic enzyme obtained from pineapples.

Plant of tropical American family that includes the pineapple

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

Kind of tube

Kind of anatomical tube

Horse kept for breeding

Female horse kept for mating

Stable parent

Casual game akin to hockey

Sport similar to ice hockey, played without skates

""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.""

Sounds of impact entertaining rowdy coaches

To-dos

Stinks

Hubbubs

Browband

Intimidates by bullying

Cows.

Bullies

Brucella

Brucella

Showy but inferior

Anything cheap and gaudy: Colloq.

Anything cheap and gaudy Colloq.

*Close pitch: shower tool

*Close pitch shower tool

English word

Make bestial

This is nothing of the kind

At Tilbury crazy barbarity

Cruel, harsh, ruthless treatment

To make brutal; beasty; unfeeling; or inhuman.

Bryozoan

Bubalis

Sir Henry Morgan, for one

U. S. Navy long-range dive-bomber.

One who robs at sea

Southwestern cowboys

Broncobusters

Cowboys.

Buckayro

Buckbean

Oater's "station wagon"

Bound to go on the wagon

Old West transport

Gave the quality of a coarse open-weave fabric

Bucktail

Type of cereal

Ingredient in pancakes

Flour used in pancakes

By luck, lab reconstituted molecule

Buddleia

Of a financial plan

Buffalo

4-footers with growth in the 3rd foot

Wild animals have to rub on trees

Polish drug for bison

BUILD to construct

Bulkhead

Bullhead

Bullyrag

Bulwark

Single-storeyed houses

One-story houses

Bogus lawn goes with the houses

Bunkmate

Buoyance

BUOYANT having buoyancy

Burgrave

English word

Burnable

Bursary

Bushgoat

Bushland

Turn on US president (wife getting chop)

Hit by the 43rd president (wordplay)

Work to clear scrub, ambush (US, Aus)

Busulfan

Substance used in synthetic rubber.

A colourless gaseous hydrocarbon used in the manufacture of synthetic rubber

Butanone

Goat maybe with solid product from dairy

Say female in club gets dairy product

Calorie counter's concern

Butylate

Butylate

Butyrate

Bypass

Innocent one (wordplay)

Onlooker (often innocent)

One in the crowd

What an intriguing Empire style!

Like a hard-to-navigate bureaucracy

Describing a style of architecture.

Babbitt

Meaningless talk

Plural or third person singular

""In both senses also called piroplasmosis . A tick-borne protozoan infection of animals, such as Texas fever of cattle, that is caused by species of Babesia.""

Wild drunken revels

Revels in honor of the wine god.

Wild parties

Bacchante

""A polypeptide antibacterial antibiotic of known chemical structure effective against several types of Gram-positive organisms, and usually used topically for superficial local infection.""

*Ones who criticize others in their absence

Fleas

Nasty office gossip

Malicious talk

Saying mean things, at the wrestling match (wordplay)

Backbite

Backblock

Structures on basketball court.

Rebounding spots

Backcloth

Backcourt

Backdate

Football groups.

It's Dell, if one got rid of the hole (wordplay)

Second dismissal not going as intended

Returning soldiers will be having an undesired effect

Backfit

Support Bacon (wordplay)

Game belonging to the past? Nonsense!

Rump, ham or game (wordplay)

Second-floor family (wordplay)

Person's experience

One never comes to the fore

Like a tennis player's compliment?

Ambiguously flattering remark

Insincere, as a compliment.

A gift for dishonesty (wordplay)

Red Nah for a bribe at court (wordplay)

Bribe (in court?)

Backhaul

Backhouse

Backlash

BACKLASH to cause a reaction

Backlash

Backlight

Backlist

Backlog

Backpack

Traveller with a rucksack

One who likes to hike

One travelling with a rucksack

Football player goes biking (wordplay)

Starts to waffle

Does a volte-face.

Backrush

Recidivist supporter gains second cap

One who reverts

Relapser into sin

Becomes less virtuous.

Loses progress, in a way

Liberal entering behind rear seat perhaps slips

BACKSPACE

Hits the Delete key

SPLASH to scatter liquid about

Servants' secret flight (wordplay)

Type of intrigue

Scandalous

""A stitch made by setting the needle back of the end of the last stitch, and bringing it out in front of the end.""

Road in reverse (wordplay)

*Road less traveled

Best seller by Fannie Hurst

Oyakawa holds this Olympic record.

One way to swim

Swimming specialty

Backswing

Backsword

Searches for an error, maybe

Climbs down path guarded by defenders

Reluctantly; slowly; aversely.

Backwash

Backwash

Isolated, peaceful rural places

Isolated places

BACKWOODS the forest beyond cleared country

The presence of bacteria in the blood.

Of or pertaining to bacteremia.

BACTERIZE to subject to the action of bacteria.

Bacterize

Bacteroid

Badinage

Claret drinks.

Disparaged

Smeared foundation around part of face, on commercial

Slandered

Utter perplexity

Total bewilderment

Chaps chasing fox for time in utter bewilderment

BAFFLING baffle

Trifling things

Trifles with femmes fatales, holding a gun

Trifles.

Fields of competence

Areas of knowledge

Areas of expertise

Bairnly

Bakshish

Bakshish

*Warm mask/cap amalgams

Three-stringed instruments

Russian guitars

Russian instruments mentioned in "Back in the U.S.S.R."

A knitted fabric

Pl. baldachins also baldachinos A rich fabric of silk and gold brocade.

Baldachin

Track event for those less hirsute?

Race that's less hairy (wordplay)

Rhubarb a smidgen less hairy (wordplay)

Baldness

""BALKANIZE to divide a territory into small, hostile states.""

Divides into small, hostile units

Singers need pieces of 15 to cover live Adele hit (wordplay)

Crooners

Balladist

Balladry

Heavy material for stabilizing a ship

Ones keeping on their toes (wordplay)

Jete set (wordplay)

Nureyev's partners

Science of flight dynamics

Science of motion of projectiles.

Police-lab concerns

Airborne activity

Phileas Fogg, for one

One seen in a hanging basket (wordplay)

Party item to sit out, being in the air

He's debased (wordplay)

Fieldstone ring wearer (wordplay)

Musician at a dance (wordplay)

Today's most popular writers (wordplay)

Pens from pin endings

Some pens

Created loud publicity

Balmacaan

A treatise on baths; the science of bathing.

Balcony railing (by Toni Morrison)

A bad result perhaps, but coping

Part of a balcony.

2000 Spike Lee satire

Confused; cheated

Hoodwinked airline's doctor about alcohol left in

Bamboozle

Banality

Banalize

A dart aimed at the bull

Dart thrust into el toro

Banderole

Australian animals

Banditry

One who must face the music (wordplay)

Arm or rubber (wordplay)

Glenn or Mitch Miller

Samba trend (anagram)

Sousa or Alexander, for example

Conductor decorated stand with amber

Group of evil looks (wordplay)

Group of evil looks?

Belts with ammunition stop soldier moving

Sousa's places (wordplay)

Platforms in many parks

Outdoor concert sites

Old parade sights

Bandwidth

Pig out, say, in Dickensian constituency

The exclusion of someone from a country

Exclusive treatment for a political offence

BANISTER a stair hand-rail

Provided funds for

Headline about an attack on Wells Fargo