2-Letter Words Starting with B

Secret challenger (wordplay)

Pass a law about, maybe

Secret rival (wordplay)

Building with a broad side, in a saying

Dance spot, perhaps

Stock room (wordplay)

Haricot or runner (wordplay)

Certain counter's unit (wordplay)

Lima, for one

Fiber One, for one

Cereal for regular guys (wordplay)

Muffin ingredient, perhaps

Danish essayist (wordplay)

17th cen. British essayist

Food - essayist - painter

Lassie, for one

Wee MacGreegor for one

Child (of the North!)

Stable location (wordplay)

John Keynes for one

Nobleman's cut of beef?

Death Valley for one

Saar for one

Saar, for one

Don't get out truncheon!

Office staff stay in (wordplay)

Stick or stay in (wordplay)

Raised the curtain perhaps

Raised the curtain, perhaps

Headed off on

Ellen of "The Second Half"

Animal's blister

PM not right, any number sore

Blaw

Dark Summer poet Louise

Poet Louise

Men Loved Wholly Beyond Wisdom poet Louise

It's a real thinker!

Processing center (wordplay)

Support at home for Einstein (wordplay)

Muscle (as opposed to brain)

Cereal to eat with meat

Ivy in Rhode Island

Blizzard on Asiatic steppes.

Wind blowing from the north

Russian gale

A monkey's uncle (wordplay)

A monkey's uncle?

A beast with a boo inside (wordplay)

Outlaw or villain

Black hat wearer, in old Westerns

Western villain.

Rustlers, for example

Outlaws, usually

No-goodniks

Member of the mob

Collector for the mob

Corrupt political fund-raiser

Bill collectors (wordplay)

Traveling sales people

Organized crime collectors

Who abandons whalebone (wordplay)

Whalebone - enable (anagram)

Enable (anagram) - whalebone

Lightness of movement

East Indian tree variable

Blackball author Fleming

East Indian tree Var.

Tree with many trunks

South Asian shade tree

Tree with multiple trunks

Pour guy (wordplay)

Has counsel taken to drink (wordplay)

Drinks dispenser (wordplay)

Some mix masters

Mixers and shakers

Allow only women to give work in the pub

Abner R. is not productive

Dry and desolate

Arid of unfertile

Subatomic particle made of three quarks

Particle made of quarks

Peer round unknown atomic particle

Midpoint of a skull part.

Cranial feature

Super 'POW!'-er (wordplay)

Super "POW!"-er (wordplay)

Gotham City slugger (wordplay)

Orderlies in the British army

British military officers' orderlies

Boys in costume.

Fasten securely - say the hatches

Close securely (with "down")

Close securely, say the hatches

Guiding light to join Tories (wordplay)

Light communication aid (wordplay)

Source of hope (wordplay)

Not one sound of bex, perhaps

Not one, by the sound of it, to be an X

Not 1, by the sound of it, might be 10

Consign to perdition

Thing cleaned by nurses (bless them)

Hospital room object, sometimes

Where to go in a hospital

Act selfishly: 2 wds.

Act selfishly 2 wds.

Lower (oneself).

Complain about, lament

Sing the blues

Opposite of celebrate

Describe or paint, say coat of arms

Inscribe with colours, or proclaim

Coat of arms.

Did he tie the enemy in knots (wordplay)

Arrowhead (wordplay)

Hood or Tell

Shameless (impudence)

Full of chutzpah

Brassy and impudent.

Sabot's kin

Thick, heavy shoe

Ankle-high work shoe

Transporter on holiday (wordplay)

Ralph Kramden, for one

Holiday driver, in a phrase

Lucy's party decoration (wordplay)

Everyone taking part in benefit? Swell!

One of the party windbags (wordplay)

""A crescent-shaped sand dune, also BARKHAN, BARCHANE, BARKAN""

Three-for-two, say

There's good deal in pub profit

*Searching for a deal

First, second or third person (wordplay)

One playing near a bag (wordplay)

One left holding the bag (wordplay)

Ballpark figures (wordplay)

Ones trying to prevent stealing

Old-style infielders

Will get degrees shortly - what a blow!

Donkey in favour? Blow that!

About to become bachelors, blow it!

Defence - in boats (anagram)

Obtains in fortified place or stronghold

Obtains new defence

Musial, for one.

He's either in or he's out!

Player at crease

Offensive players in cricket

Robinson, Hodges, etc.

The men at bat.

""One who prays for another, also BEADSMAN, BEDEMAN, BEDESMAN""

Beadman

""One who prays for another, also BEADMAN, BEADSMAN, BEDESMAN""

To {moan=v}

Snark hunter; hound of John Peel

Hotel suitcase toter

Town crier

Caused to go, poetically

Caused to move

Ornithologist (of Alcatraz?)

- - of Alcatraz (film)

Rapper who co-founded Cash Money Records

Damage (a reputation)

Destroy (a reputation)

Benjamin about to go without stain

Ark welder (wordplay)

Charon, for one

Superhero holds old gondolier

Punters, e.g

Punters, for example

Gondoliers, e.g

A marsh plant

Evil spirit

Imaginary monster used to frighten children

Imaginary monster, frightening to children

Slave such as Connery, Moore...

Serf or villein.

Unrecompensed worker

Authority for degree captured by good scholar

Bibliophile

Scholar.

Lad grips harrow to extract fern

Mass of ferns as on mountains

Manitoba Premier John

A device used to control a horse

""A horse-collar, also BRECHAM""

Make wide or liberal, perhaps the mind

Enlarge the pass through the mountain

Expand, as one's horizons

Francis X. of film

Francis X. of film

Australian Outback dweller

Pink scab (anagram)

Result of hitting a slice in tennis

Ball's rotation

A vaccine derived from dead bacteria

Prisoner's aid.

Get-out-of-jail guy

Surety provider

Surety providers

Bond providers

Security providers

Sousa employe

Music maker.

Outlaw damns travelling soldier banging his drum

Do they play as strippers (wordplay)

Rings me with number for musicians

They like to play in bar for policeman on the job

London buildings with Arts Centre

Defence over drawbridge

Save article by writer for Arts Centre

Lighter or narrow boat manager

Person in charge of canal boat

A lighter sort of guy

Lighter chaps (wordplay)

Canal workers say turning up among those offering drinks (wordplay)

""A corner turret, also BARTIZAN""

""A corner turret, also BARTISAN""

Like Ty Cobb (wordplay)

Bob's near development that's illegitimate

Ignoble

A brocaded fabric

""One who prays for another, also BEADMAN, BEDEMAN, BEDESMAN""

Beadsman

Cabin rug, maybe

Smokey's folks (wordplay)

Puts up with one's family (wordplay)

To {sully=v}

To impair the sound of

""One who prays for another, also BEADMAN, BEADSMAN, BEDEMAN""

(Having) happened to (someone)

Happened to have been about to decline

Happened to drop, having been holding

To make {angry=adj}

Franklin, for one

His future is in his lap!

C-note, slangily

The original one is in the Smithsonian

New apparatus for M. D.'s.

Apparatus for accelerating electrons

Atom-smasher similar to the synchrotron.

Skiing-shooting combo

Cross-country event

Winter sport involving rifles

A type of {cherry=n}

Cooking pot for camping

Boy is allowed pot for outdoor use

That fellow is able to hold his drink

Free of harmful organisms

Snapper or whitefish

Musician who lost his job, lost his girl... you know

A board member

Boardman

Charon, for one.

Marina employee

Boatsman

Scary personification (wordplay)

Monster moneybag with change (wordplay)

Phantom golfer (wordplay)

Unconventional - like King Wenceslas!

Ham bone I cooked in unconventional way

Avant-garde one

Ernie, possibly a servant

He'll bail you out

Male slave

""A terrifying creature, also BOGEYMAN, BOGYMAN""

Informal word for cranium or skull

Informal word for skull or cranium

Skull; cranium

One in training (wordplay)

Conductor's assistant

Bobsled team member

Train conductor assistants

Some railroaders

Railroad workers

Dye pigment Var.

Dye pigment variable

A chemical compound

""A type of small aquatic animal, also POLYZOAN""

A marsh plant

A medicine

Court trials (wordplay)

Venue for one sport or another

Glos estate doesn't show the best china!

Canopy for a shaven jaw (wordplay)

Unadorned feature beneath a cloth canopy

'Lacking a beard, this will give some cover over the head (9)'

Loose, boxy overcoat

Coat with raglan sleeves.

Man's knee-length loose flaring overcoat with raglan sleeves

1996 John Schultz film

Fred Astaire hit show.

What some politicians ride

Conan, for one

Primitive rugby player (wordplay)

Brute, Scotsman, perhaps behind bars

Prevent the car going in reverse with norhing on the end for the slaves

Church's prohibition covering mineral substance

Major church's interdict embracing quartz etc

One is able to follow saint of the church

HQ and two or more companies.

Taliban to become an army unit

Large body of troops

Twittering twit (wordplay)

Silly person (with sparrow's mind?)

Silly fellow poked bard in rib

Was I not AB? Wrong - I was!

Ship's officer sat in bow with a wound

Ship's officer

Continue to attack such a music maker

Assail with many a blow on instrument

Old slave's link with sultanate

English word

Mr. Fright (wordplay)

Melee

Squabble

Analyse sudden failure to work

Analysis of components

Lively shuffling dance.

Point of no return (wordplay)

End with a zero balance

Show a zero balance

A proteolytic enzyme obtained from pineapples.

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

Backbite

Support Bacon (wordplay)

Game belonging to the past? Nonsense!

Rump, ham or game (wordplay)

A knitted fabric

Burns celebrated this John

Malt liquor base

Subject of Burns poem.

Pertaining to the Batrachia.

Hair-cutting job

Candidate for "What's My Line?"

One who has to take a makeup test (wordplay)

""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 .""

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

What foreign policy often is.

With two-party support

Involving the agreement of two parties

Sloe-bearing bush

Tree producing sloes

Tree bearing sloes

Mark of the killer (wordplay)

Sign of an earlier wound

Forsenic examiner's clue

""A hypotensive tissue hormone (C50H73N15O11) which acts on smooth muscle, dilates peripheral vessels and increases capillary permeability. It is formed locally in injured tissue and is believed to play a role in the inflammatory process. It is a nonapeptide with the sequence: Arg-Pro-Pro-Gly-Phe-Ser-Pro-Phe-Arg.C50H73N15O11) which acts on smooth muscle, dilates peripheral vessels and increases capillary permeability. It is formed locally in injured tissue and is believed to play a role in the inflammatory process. It is a nonapeptide with the sequence: Arg-Pro-Pro-Gly-Phe-Ser-Pro-Phe-Arg.""

Too intimidated to object

Frightened into submission

Bullied Br Owen to uncover rhythm

BUTYLATE to add a butyl to

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

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

Titan of the Navy

The act of conferring a benefit.

""A forking, or division into two branches.""

""The act of dividing into two parts, or of making two correspondent parts, or the state of being so divided.""

A humming or buzzing.

Worry - darn it!

Darn it!

Fiddlesticks!

""BRACHIATE Having branches in pairs, decussated, all nearly horizontal, and each pair at right angles with the next, as in the maple and lilac.""

BRECCIATE BRECCIA a type of rock

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

Enterprise officer (wordplay)

Bloke in a suit (wordplay)

Eg, city gent

Drunken, orgiastic (revel)

Raver in speech to endorse a foreigner

Relating to drunken revelry

English word

BACKCOURT

Uncouth fellow offering deal maybe to seal terrible bank scam

Lords not turning out to support ladies admitting excesses

""-fies , -fying , -fied (tr) to make basic""

See diencephalon .

Biology

Blastulate

BACTERIZE to subject to the action of bacteria.

Geopolitical term for extreme factionalism

The act or process of barbarizing; an act that makes people primitive and uncivilized.

First step towards sainthood

You finally quit cosmetic enhancement? That's a great blessing!

First stage in becoming saint in Roman Catholic church

BENEFICIATE To reduce (ores).

Coming-of-age story

Novel that focuses on character growth

Literary genre of "David Copperfield" or "Ender's Game"

Original ideas from hit issue

Creative products

Products of a fertile imagination (wordplay)

The act or process of making brutal; state of being brutalized.

Certain executive

An act that debases or corrupts.

Cosmetic exercise for all to see in Pope's action (wordplay)

Improving appearance, you said, added to achievement of venerable status

BIODEGRADE

""POLARIZATION The act of polarizing; the state of being polarized, or of having polarity.""

The process of bituminizing.

Genre of the 1970s movies 'Foxy Brown' and 'Three the Hard Way'

Stereotypical movies featuring characters as in fleeing Biloxi plantation

Genre of the 1970s movies "Foxy Brown" and "Three the Hard Way"

The deletion of all passages considered to be indecent.

(used with a sing. verb) Application of statistics to the analysis of biological and medical data.