2-Letter Words Starting with B

Cut diamonds

Between the fish and the insects one may have diamonds on hand

Groups of actors supporting wide screens

Shows wide pitches

Fat groups of actors in TV shows (wordplay)

Fine woolen fabric

'The narrow way': the clergy's material

Densely woven fabric

What travel is so

What travel is so.

Expanding port in boring operation

Broadloom

English word

Newspaper on a double bed (wordplay)

The Times is terribly bad, so there!

Paper covering double bed (wordplay)

*Hit at an intersection, maybe

Volleys of denunciation

Volleys of a kind.

Collides with

Weapon widely used (wordplay)

Dungeons & Dragons weapon

You'd never get a fence of this

Broadtail

Upholstery fabric

N.Y.S.E. members

Trading places

The charges that had one even more bankrupt for times

""A genus (Bromus) of grasses, one species of which is the chess or cheat.(Bromus) of grasses, one species of which is the chess or cheat.""

Bromelain

Stretch your dollars with these flowers

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

Brominate

Jurassic giant

Early vegetarian sausage primarily out - or bran flakes (wordplay)

Important stud farm visitors

They need stud finders to do their jobs

Broomball

Broomrape

Too intimidated to object

Frightened into submission

Bullied Br Owen to uncover rhythm

Brummagem

Brushback

Brushland

BRUTALISE to treat brutally.

Brutalise

BRUTALIZE To make brutal; beasty; unfeeling; or inhuman.

Is attacker L Suarez bit to be replaced (wordplay)

A foolish or empty-headed person: "He presents antiwar protesters . . . as bubbleheads who didn't even know where Southeast Asia was" (Frank Rich).

Tampa Bay team

National League nine

Kidd's men

A muscle of the cheek; so called from its use in blowing wind instruments.

Financial committees (wordplay)

Open horse-drawn carriages

Rustic carriages

Buckram

Buckwheat

Buckyball

Bird, one moving round capital

Popular cage-bird

Bird commonly kept as a pet

Buffalo

Stupid bird (wordplay)

Stupid bird?

The bovine took off!

Stubborn fish with bleeding heart

As obstinate as the monster of Knossos

Bulwark

""A grass growing in bunches and affording pasture. In California, Atropis tenuifolia, Festuca scabrella, and several kinds of Stipa are favorite bunch grasses. In Utah, Eriocoma cuspidata is a good bunch grass.Atropis tenuifolia, Festuca scabrella, and several kinds of Stipa are favorite bunch grasses. In Utah, Eriocoma cuspidata is a good bunch grass.""

Buoyancy

Detail man (wordplay)

A brute, a cur - horrible official!

Office credit gets at bean counter

Second-story jobs

Blair's urge for transportation for such offences

G. Gordon Liddy's peepers (wordplay)

Burladero

Pit viper; sham brutes (anagram)

Top horticulturist (wordplay)

Venomous pit viper

Backwoodsman in awful rush in clapped-out car

So two heads of state spoke across the Atlantic? That's criminal!

Former US president meeting forest officer, backwoodsman

Attacks from concealment

Fights guerrilla-style

Attacks from hiding

Butadiene

A real turkey!

Turkey type

Chubby one

Butterfat

See Buttonwood. Buttonwood.

Butylate

BUTYLATE to add a butyl to

They're usually innocent

They're there

Often-unidentified people in photos

Babblement

Do without restraint (wordplay)

Drunken revels - a China cabal (anagram)

Roman festival; wild revelry

The state of bachelorhood; the whole body of bachelors.

Bacitracin

MP without office

Rank and file MP

MP not holding office

Not in the cabinet, the rest of the MPs

Section of parliament that might check BSE ban

Backbiting

Straw, to a camel (wordplay)

The last straw

Extremely strenuous task

Remote rural region

Remote rural area

The boonies, for example

Backcross

Backcross

Backdrop

The act of refilling with earth

Backfit

Backgammon

Things checked by HR departments

They may be checked in personnel departments

Settings.

Bribes help to bring in sponsors? Just the opposite

Bribes

Backhand

Backhaul

Backlasher

Backlash

Backlight

Backlist

Backlog

*Hostel audience (wordplay)

Peripatetic football team

Wolves keeping supporters outside, walkers with their kit (wordplay)

Trekking with a rucksack

Mount Whitney activity

Hiking with a rucksack

Tried to distance oneself from a gaffe, say

SCATTER to disperse in all directions

Backslap

Effusively friendly person

Cousin of a hail-fellow-well-met.

Hail-fellow-well-met.

""BACKSLIDE to fall back, pa t BACKSLID""

Backslider

Relapsing

Covering up a typing mistake, maybe

Deleting letters, in a way

Backstab

False friend (Medical)

Treacherous person posing as a friend

Poor choice for a friend

Backstop

They may be taken to avoid snarls

Minor thoroughfares

Some shortcuts

Part of Pimlico

Part of Pimlico's field

Backstroke

Backtrack

Backwash

Bacteremia

Bacterial

Same as Germicide. Germicide.

""An antibacterial substance, such as colicin, produced by a strain of certain bacteria and harmful to another strain within the same family.""

The presence of bacteria in urine.

BACTERIZE to subject to the action of bacteria.

Badmouth

Puzzles

Bagginess

A court attendant entrusted with duties such as the maintenance of order in a courtroom during a trial.

Baksheesh

Bakshish

Balbriggan

Baldachino

The quality or state of being baleful.

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

Balkiness

*Airline for Lucille (wordplay)

Boat for fullbacks (wordplay)

Grange for one

Lucy at "Swan Lake" (wordplay)

He goes to "Les Sylphides."

Devotee of Terpsichore.

Ballooning

Floaters with great views

They need to be full of hot air

Some fliers

Judge, Sale, and Trout

Do they cooperate with the dance band (wordplay)

Adam Jones, Ray Rice and LeBron James, for three

Trumpeting to the masses

Hyping

Ballyrag

Balminess

Provided with a supported coping

Supported railings

Hoodwinking

Fooling

Banderilla

Goodman and Ellington, for two

Team captains who know the score

Ellington, Basie, etc.

Bandmaster

Baneberry

Extreme evictions

Ostracisms

Acceptable to or at a bank: bankable funds.

They supply financing

Financing, as a play

Providing funding for

Paying for

Bankrupt

Small ensigns

Bantering

In a baptismal manner.

Baptistry

Cruelties

BARBARIZE To become barbarous.

In a very brutal way

Barbershop

Sleep-inducing drug class

Drug counter snapped on universal charge

Drug ban gripped university class

Barcarolle

Bardolater

Openly; shamelessly.

Bargeboard

Barkentine

Some grains

Performed aerobatics, here and there.

Appeared at county fairs, e.g

Appeared at county fairs, for example

Many an early aviator.

Many an early aviator

Itinerant actor.

Baroceptor

BAROGRAPH An instrument for recording automatically the variations of atmospheric pressure.

Barometry

Baronetage

Baronetcy

Variant of barkentine .

Barracouta

Barramunda

Barramundi

Barrelhead

Kind of jazz.

Jelly Roll Morton style

Old-time saloon

""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.""

Barricado

Barricado

Spring-training drill

The quality of being bashful.

Basipetal

They're shot at nets

Items you might travel with

Court needs

Basketwork

Basophilia

Some orchestra members

They get orchestra seats

Double-reed instrument artists

BASTARDISE Same as bastardize.bastardize.

Bastardise

Deriving from more than one source or style.

Bastardize

Bastinado

Punishes, Asian style.

Of or pertaining to a batholith.

The measurement of the depth of bodies of water.

""A free-diving deep-sea vessel consisting of a large flotation hull with a crewed observation capsule attached to its underside, usually capable of reaching full ocean depths.""

They work under pressure

Deep-sea vessel

Diving bell.

Beebe vehicle

Frogs

Battiness

Sally, keep up the fight!

Fight with Oscar winner Sally (wordplay)

'Sally, keep up the fight!'

The line along which opposing armies face each other.

Low walls round top of building

Walls round castle roof

Castle parts

Oklahoma and West Virginia

Attackers of Truk.

Units of a fleet.

Titan of the Navy

Bawdiness

Bayonet

Beachcomb

Metal detector user, maybe

Shore patroller (wordplay)

One with a metal detector

Sites of many an exclusive summer home

That can be endured: bearable pain; a bearable schedule.

The practice of setting dogs on a chained bear.