2-Letter Words Starting with B

Salesperson's handouts

Leaflets, pamphlets

Pamphlets

Brockage

Kind of tube

Kind of anatomical tube

A small branch of the windpipe

""A variety of sorghum (Sorghum bicolor) having a stiff, erect, much-branched flower cluster, the stalks of which are used to make brooms.""

Brucella

Brucella

Brunch

*Close pitch: shower tool

*Close pitch shower tool

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

Buckeroo

Without opening blue KFC tub, in pieces how much chicken's there (wordplay)

Bucket

Buckler

Gave the quality of a coarse open-weave fabric

Buckshee

Pellets aimed at birds and ducks

Cowboy trousers

Bucktail

Reason to get braces

Large projecting incisors

Prominent features of 'dandy champers'

Prickly berried shrub

Prickly shrub with black berries

One of two Bugs Bunny features, both OK, cut out

Type of cereal

Ingredient in pancakes

Flour used in pancakes

By luck, lab reconstituted molecule

Small Eurasian songbird

Bird that eats fruit buds

Common garden bird

Bullneck

Bunchy

Buncombe

Buoyance

Bushbuck

Turn on US president (wife getting chop)

Hit by the 43rd president (wordplay)

Work to clear scrub, ambush (US, Aus)

Completely mispronounced, as a name

Totally ruined

Save revolutionary socialist from being massacred

Like a butcher; without compunction; savage; bloody; inhuman; fell.

Cow, perhaps, a pest on the lawn

In ancient times, say, raised flower

Swap prize ram for cow (wordplay)

English word

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

Fields of competence

Areas of knowledge

Areas of expertise

*Warm mask/cap amalgams

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

Baldachin

Science of flight dynamics

Science of motion of projectiles.

Police-lab concerns

Balmacaan

Australian animals

Desperate declaration (seven letters)

Red state (wordplay)

State of insolvency

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

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

Bareback

Burns celebrated this John

Malt liquor base

Subject of Burns poem.

Agent noun (-or)

Type of pressure

It's measured by the glass

Like some pressure

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

""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

Basicity

BASOPHILE

Deep-sea submersible

Pertaining to the Batrachia.

Beachcomb

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

Beachgoer

D-Day landing locales

Hair-cutting job

Candidate for "What's My Line?"

One who has to take a makeup test (wordplay)

Becarpet

Bechalk

Bechance

Becharm

Beclamor

Beclasp

Becloak

Beclog

Beclothe

Becloud

Beclown

In a becoming manner.

Becoward

Becrawl

Becrowd

Becrust

Becudgel

Where there may be a four-poster

Room for sleeping

Sleeping quarters

Nightcaps, for example (wordplay)

Pajamas, e.g

Sheets, blankets, etc.

Bedrench

Bedrench

Plural noun or verb form

Befleck

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

In the hold.

In a ship's hull... and where it's at

In the hull of a ship

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

Kind of meat without name at small price

Doing good.

Doing good

Changed Inca belief? It's useful!

Like health food

Helpful belief I can spread around

Benefice

Benignant quality; kindliness.

Of or pertaining to bentonite.

Anesthetic in some cough drops

Berascal

Bescorch

Bescorch

Bescour

Bescreen

Supplicant's activity

Asking to observe man in church? On the contrary!

Gathering herbs, medic may get dirty

Sullied

Makes dirty, soils

Magnetic personal charm

Capturing interest as if by spell

Like some sirens

Charmingly appealing

According to the Bible.

Biblicism

Certain religious scholars

Bibliotic

""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

Entertainers at old Madison Square Garden

FACIALLY pertaining to the face

Two-pronged; forked.

Forks

Bijection

Billycock

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

Lithium injected into lamb etc I cooked with steel and tin, perhaps (wordplay)

In job, I met all I could, including Al with Mo, for example

Opera glasses, for example

Bird-watcher's need

Gear for a bird watcher

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

Biocenose

Biocenosie

Asimov, per his doctorate

Person knee-deep in formulas

A studier of living organisms

See biological control .

""Of or relating to the study of the effects of dynamic processes, such as motion or acceleration, on living organisms.""

BIOETHIC relating to ethical questions in biology

Like Ernst Haeckel's law

BIOGRAPH to write a biography of

Kind of warfare.

Relating to living organisms

Type of clock

Pertaining to the biological and physiological aspects of medicine.

Identity verification system

BIOMORPH a decorative image of a living thing

Cissy with phobia, mostly about science