2-Letter Words Starting with B

BANKROLL to {finance=v}

Desperate declaration (seven letters)

Red state (wordplay)

State of insolvency

Bankrupt

Variant of banneret 1 .

Staircase supports

NB: Southeast Trains may be used for rail-flight connections

Banqueter

Banquet

Banquette

Pool house (wordplay)

Brat's piety seems phony in sacred area

Arab playing with Brian's rugby team

Pub repeatedly is disrupted by an uncivilised lot

Philistines.

But for joke miss out television for instance and 'to boldly go'

Made Hunnish

Barbarize

BARBASCO a variety of S American plants

Barbecuer

Behind tavern, be giving the signal by grilling

Bear cub's broken home - Goldilocks started by cooking outdoors

Barbeque

Barberry

Sportscaster Red's short leap (wordplay)

Dance for tonsorial artists?

Where to find a short cut (wordplay)

Barbitone

Venetian boat songs

Saloon girl's Venetian water music (wordplay)

Run about behind pub to hear sounds from bullfight sung on canal

Gondolier's song

Venetian boat song

Floating melody in tavern song left echo

Shakespearean fan

Worship of Shakespeare

Bareback

Discalced, as certain monks

Kicked around a match official having forgotten trainers (wordplay)

Pub second team paid the cost for not wearing boots

With scalp exposed

Uncapped (wordplay)

How Nixon usually goes.

Bareness

Bargainer

Type of chip

and 6: Source of leverage secure, acquiring Shard (wordplay)

Haggling

A vergeboard.

Lush travel plan (wordplay)

Doing the town

Tavern-tour activity

Barkeeper

Certain ship

Burns celebrated this John

Malt liquor base

Subject of Burns poem.

Makes one-night stands.

Goes on tour

Stunt flies, as at a fair

Agent noun (-or)

Barograph

Forecasting aids in Italy (wordplay)

Forecasting aids in Italy?

Indicators of change

Type of pressure

It's measured by the glass

Like some pressure

A soberness not usually found in ladies

Women entitled to give piece of music zero points

Except individual, content to assess peers

Rank higher than knightdom

Barquette

Barracker

Carmen in East London area, leading to boos and hisses (wordplay)

Barracoon

""Any of several voracious pikelike marine fishes allied to the gray mullets, constituting the genus Sphyr\'91na and family Sphyr\'91nid\'91. The great barracuda (Sphyr\'91na barracuda) of the West Indies, Florida, etc., is often six feet or more long, and as dangerous as a shark. In Cuba its flesh is reputed to be poisonous. Sphyr\'91na Argentea of the Pacific coast and Sphyr\'91na sphyr\'91na of Europe are smaller species, and are used as food.Sphyr\'91na and family Sphyr\'91nid\'91. The great barracuda (Sphyr\'91na barracuda) of the West Indies, Florida, etc., is often six feet or more long, and as dangerous as a shark. In Cuba its flesh is reputed to be poisonous. Sphyr\'91na Argentea of the Pacific coast and Sphyr\'91na sphyr\'91na of Europe are smaller species, and are used as food.""

Ferocious swimmers

""Pl. barramunda or barramundas also barramundi or barramundis Any of several Australian food fishes, such as the lungfish. Also called ceratodus .""

Fish in Scottish island spattered in mud

Edible Australian fish

Australian fish

Barratry

Barrelage

Barrelful

The flat top of a barrel.

Barrel

BARRELS barrel

Lack of vegetation

Inability to produce offspring

Said what Thatcher finally became - no issue with it

Barretry

""BARRICADE A fortification, made in haste, of trees, earth, palisades, wagons, or anything that will obstruct the progress or attack of an enemy. It is usually an obstruction formed in streets to block an enemy's access.""

You can't pass them on highways

Roadblocks

Obstacles in the way of a rotter protected by rails

Old Bailey figures

Lawyers at Old Bailey

Followers of Blackstone.

Ones making the rounds (wordplay)

Prison wardens (wordplay)

They serve when right dart's been thrown

Last stop on the San Francisco subway (wordplay)

Baseboard

They eschew the net

They don't play the net in tennis

Baseness

Basicity

White Men Can't Jump sport

What our play groups are playing

Kobe Bryant's game

Picnic loads

Adjective meaning resembling

Basketry

BASKETS basket

Sit back lazily and in France toil on interlaced articles

Basophile

""The affinity of cellular structures for basic dyes, such as methylene blue.""

BASOPHILE

Bassett

Bassness

Orchestra member

Certain instrumentalist

Woodwind player

Bastardy

Same as bastardize.bastardize.

To make or prove to be a bastard; to stigmatize as a bastard; to declare or decide legally to be illegitimate.

Bastinade

Catching birds at night using lights to confuse them

Features of beaches.

Batholith

Bathwater

""The art or science of sounding, or measuring depths in the sea.""

Deep-sea submersible

Pertaining to the Batrachia.

Arrayed for battle; fit or eager for battle; warlike.

Large military groups

Military units

Military groups

Battement

Archer's post

Ghostly hangout in "Hamlet"

Fortified area of a castle

Formidable, perhaps, as Hood

The USS Maine, for one

15 - or should it be Queen? - maybe 19

Baudrons

Bayberry

Sticking to one's ribs (wordplay)

Taking a stab at (wordplay)

Bayonet

Beachcomb

Coastal strip of land, and a hint to the starts of the starred answers

Beachgoer

D-Day landing locales

Most abominable

Beatify

Skip ill-used religious sayings

Get the better of it with blessed dues

Biblical blessings

Hair-cutting job

Candidate for "What's My Line?"

One who has to take a makeup test (wordplay)

Made to look gorgeous

""One who, or that which, beautifies or makes beautiful.""

Makes prettier

Becarpet

Bechalk

Bechance

Becharm

Beclamor

Beclasp

Becloak

Becoward

Becrawl

Bedabble

Bedarken

Overpowering with strong light

Much too bright

Really brilliant

Where there may be a four-poster

Room for sleeping

Sleeping quarters

Bedeafen

Bediaper

Bedlamite

The worse for wear

In bad shape

Wet and dirty

Makes wet and dirty, as from rain

Makes limp and soiled

They may be laid on for midnight feasts

Throws a banquet in the garden

Nighttime covers

Bedwarf

Red guards (wordplay)

Yeomen of the guard.

Tower of London guards

Live bats seek fast food

Tournedos, e.g

Tournedos, for example

Beflag

WHERE'S THE SECOND (wordplay)

Deck or second (wordplay)

When to ante up (wordplay)

BEGGAR to impoverish

Beglad

Beglamor

Beglamour

Begroan

Like a certain category of sciences

Like some sciences

Type of psychology

Behaviour

Late or slow (in doing something)

Cough so late (wordplay)

Causing worker to be late

Negative review of Dracula (wordplay)

Overworking Bartok without much excitement

Verbally assaulted a bored blue in trouble

Surrounds

Besets.

Seeming to be true or authentic

Creditworthy (wordplay)

Instilling credence

Plausibly

Eye-pupil dilater

Another name for deadly nightshade

Drug made from deadly nightshade

Complained

When in trouble, he called by and went on complaining

Beefed

Ring sailor? No time, he complains

Faultfinding type

Persistent complaints left by Chelsea wags

Complains

Bellyband

Bemadam

Bemadden

Bemedal

Benchland

Sit McGwire and Teixeira (wordplay)

Criteria for judging judges (wordplay)

Points of reference, for surveyors.

One who raised the foundation

Eleemosynar, for example

Supporter's complaint about new player

Changed Inca belief? It's useful!

Like health food

Helpful belief I can spread around

Bengaline

Benignant quality; kindliness.

Anesthetic in some cough drops

""A colorless liquid, C 8 H 6 O, found in coal tar and used to make thermoplastic resins for paints and varnishes. Also called coumarone .""

Bepaint

The act of bequeathing; bequeathment; bequest.

Bequeath

Berascal

Beshadow

Besmear

Splashes with mud

Bespeak

Bestead

The state or quality of being bestial.

""To make bestial, or like a beast; to degrade; to brutalize.""

Hebrew name meaning 'lion'

Medieval books featuring fables

Hebrew name meaning "lion"

Beswarm

Betatter

Bethank

Betrothal

Beweary

Bewrap

When dentist check-ups are recommended

Twice a year.

Biasness

Biathlete

According to the Bible.

""A salt containing two parts of chromic acid to one of the other ingredients; as, potassium bichromate; called also dichromate. as, potassium bichromate; called also dichromate.""

CULTURAL relating to culture

Every other year

How often the Olympic Games occur

How congressional elections are held

FACIALLY pertaining to the face

Two-pronged; forked.

Forks

How Rochester would have at first married Jane

Kind and considerate

Generous description of unambiguous (wordplay)

Generous sack filled with rubbish I gather

Seepage aboard ship

Ship's seepage

Nonsense

BILHARZIA

Bilharzia

Bilingual

All gibbons gathered in distant watering holes

N.F.L. carrier (wordplay)

Ads for Cosby (wordplay)

Ads that get lots of traffic (wordplay)

Double location; the state or power of being in two places at the same instant; a miraculous power attributed to some of the saints.