2-Letter Words Starting with B

Like some professional hours

Like some hours

Like some lawyers' hours

""Having two lobes, also BILOBATED""

Able to be bound

Ship's compass holder

Housing for ship's compass

Case enclosing a ship's compass.

""Divided into branches, also BIRAMOUS""

Joey's walk (wordplay)

Enclosure for a budgie, say

Perch's place

Able to be bitten

Deserving censure

Deserving reproach

Culpable

A temporary wooden screen(military)

Seal off (a place)

Sea wall (wordplay)

Great barrier above the reef (wordplay)

Obstruction, as in a pipe

Artery obstruction

British rugby player's lifetime obstruction

Make grandiose speeches

Speechify

Able to be negotiated by boat

Able to be boiled

Dark characters (wordplay)

A type to exhibit brazen effrontery

Printing type with thick, heavy lines

Ableto be bonded

The patron saint of Germany

Pope who instituted All Saints' Day.

Patron saint of Germany

Place for flimsy jackets (wordplay)

Cabinet for reading matter

Atlas's locale

Caleb, too, sported this tie

Super-long shoestring not for shoes

Cobbler's item.

A mineral

""To collect plants for study, also BOTANIZE""

Collect and study plants

""A thin slice of meat, also BRACIOLA""

The act of {braking=v}

Money-coining cost

Cost of coinage.

Money-coining fee

Partition in shaft of a mine

An ore of manganese

Damage in transit, maybe

What a smashing time one has of it!

Moving Company con-cern (wordplay)

Relating to the bregma

Like one who can be bought

Open to corruption

Venal

Explosive effect

Log cabin builder's tool

A badly minted coin

Resembling a buffalo

Relating to or resembling a buffalo

Able to be buffed

One who shares sleeping quarters

What makes a lifesaver float

Cheerfulness.

A German nobleman

Susceptible to fire damage

Combustible

Colourless soluble flammable liquid used as a paint remover

To add a butyl to

A chemical salt

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

In the middle with Pa in, perhaps

Dish around vessel mostly is beef

Complain in a whiny manner

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

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

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

Affecting living tissue

Having two sections

Divided into two sections

Involving two sides

""PINNATE resembling a feather, also PINNATED""

Baby figure (wordplay)

Demographer's concern

Figure that concerned Malthus

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

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 .

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.

Volume's identification.

Found in some volumes

One may get stuck into a literary work

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)

General perhaps left following attack

Hard-to-hit barn area (wordplay)

Volley, as of denunciation.

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.""

Brucella

Make bestial

To make brutal; beasty; unfeeling; or inhuman.

BUILD to construct

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.

Oyakawa holds this Olympic record.

One way to swim

Swimming specialty

Balcony railing (by Toni Morrison)

A bad result perhaps, but coping

Part of a balcony.

Variant of banneret 1 .

Gondolier's song

Venetian boat song

Floating melody in tavern song left echo

Certain ship

Rank higher than knightdom

Adjective meaning resembling

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.

Seeming to be true or authentic

Creditworthy (wordplay)

Instilling credence

Anesthetic in some cough drops

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

""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.""

""Having two nuclei; as, binucleate cells.as, binucleate cells.""

Rot, in a good way

Break down

The subject of a biography.

""POLARIZE to give polarity to, also POLARISE""

Town one's arrived in (wordplay)

Natal region (wordplay)

Where one enters the race (wordplay)

""A salt of tartaric acid in which the base replaces but half the acid hydrogen; an acid tartrate, as cream of tartar.""

Strange and unusual thing

Ashy fireworks item

Milky gelatine dessert

French molded dessert.

Jelly-like pudding made with milk

French ragout made with a white sauce

Meat or seafood stew

Fifty tucking into feast, ten almost finished French stew

Cell formed by cleavage of a fertilised ovum

""The pore or opening leading into the cavity of invagination, or archenteron.""

BLEACH to {whiten=v}

Subsidiary rail system

Subsidiary rail track

Secondary railway

Familiar name for the stern - um!

Wicked stabber may land on one

Sternum

Like good air

British herbal tea brewed is fit for inhaling

Capable of being connected by a bridge or as if by a bridge.

Freebootery.

""A coast of armor for the body, consisting of scales or plates, sometimes overlapping each other, generally of metal, and sewed to linen or other material. It was worn in the Middle Ages.""

Two-masted sailing vessel

Craft work of giant encased in salt

Giant waves in the sea for boat

Talent that outshines all others

Sparkling aptitude

Genius; brightness

English word

Upholstery fabric

G. Gordon Liddy's peepers (wordplay)

Same as Germicide. Germicide.

Lucy at "Swan Lake" (wordplay)

He goes to "Les Sylphides."

Devotee of Terpsichore.

Sleep-inducing drug class

Drug counter snapped on universal charge

Drug ban gripped university class

Variant of barkentine .

Kind of jazz.

Jelly Roll Morton style

Old-time saloon

""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.""

Deep-sea vessel

Diving bell.

Beebe vehicle

See penstemon .

To reduce (ores).

Last course of a greasy meal (wordplay)

Type of chemical salt

Indigestion relief

Very rich person

One might support a foundation

Even richer person

Similar to a bladder.

Adjective meaning resembling

""The fluid-filled, central cavity of a blastula. Also called segmentation cavity .""

A fungal spore produced by budding.

Real ball fan.

Standard wording of a contract

Hack writing

Formulaic writing

In the direction of the breadth.

Protector of Galahad's heart (wordplay)

It was worn in war, once

Piece of armor

Unmarried young woman

Bill of exchange includes long learning time, double for single US girl

A spore borne by a basidium.

""A normally colorless aromatic oil, C 6 H 5 CHO, obtained naturally, as from the bitter almond, or made synthetically and used in perfumes and as a solvent and a flavoring.""

English word

A collection of books; a library.

""Having two long, narrow, whiplike appendages.""

Language in a fish market

Foul, vulgar, abusive talk

London fish market

The degree to which or rate at which a drug or other substance is absorbed or becomes available at the site of physiological activity after administration.

... yaks, yaks, yaks ...

... yaks, yaks, yaks ..

Gossip from British bird about soaps

""A double salt of boric and silicic acids, as in the natural minerals tourmaline, datolite, etc.""

Way to cross the pool

Adam Peaty's swimming style

Natant style involving heart massage

Ill in barnet? I could set that right!

Perfumed oil for making hair glossy

One worker in East going after fish oil

French school-leaving exam

Higher education exam

Type of degree

A virus which infects bacteria; -- also colloquially called phage in laboratory jargon.phage in laboratory jargon.

Any of various fungi of the subdivision Basidiomycota.

""A crystalline compound, C 7 H 6 N 2 , that is used in organic synthesis and inhibits the growth of certain microorganisms.""

""The property of being biologically compatible by not producing a toxic, injurious, or immunological response in living tissue: As a result of its strength and biocompatibility, the material is often used in medical devices.""

Naturally breaking down

Capable of decaying

Able to be broken down by bacteria

One place for overnight guests (2 words)

Pay to stay where it's wood (wordplay)

Where Sherlock Holmes lived

Fish stew from Provence

Rich fish stew

Rich spicy fish stew

Some obfuscating jargon

Bureaucrat

BUREAUCRAT An official of a bureau; esp. an official confirmed in a narrow and arbitrary routine.

""A transparent, highly flammable liquid, C 4 H 8 O, used in synthesizing resins.""

English word

""Any of a group of chemical compounds with a common molecular structure and similar pharmacological effects, used as antianxiety agents, muscle relaxants, sedatives, hypnotics, and sometimes as anticonvulsants.""