2-Letter Words Starting with B

""An apparatus in which a suspension of microorganisms in a liquid are used to perform chemical reactions, as in synthesis of pharmaceutical agents or the conversion of harmful waste to less harmful substances. The reactor consists of a vessel to contain the suspension of microorganisms, plus a variety of attached devices used to control the reaction.""

Discipline dealing with living organisms

Bioscopy

BIOSPHERE

Town one's arrived in (wordplay)

Natal region (wordplay)

Where one enters the race (wordplay)

Angle operations

Bishopric

Bitchery

""Bitchier , bitchiest Slang Malicious, spiteful, or overbearing.""

Encamped, as an army

Othello

Bold miss dances in bars

Vetoes deliveries by jet

Mournful Chuck (wordplay)

Smart-phone brand

Fruit from a bush

Nursery-rhyme pie filler

Storied pie ingredient

Long Island U. team

Hunter's jungle

Traditional teacher's aid

Teacher's aid

Blackcock

Blackener

Blacken

Blackface

Blackfly

Protector for actress Karen (wordplay)

Dog left in support with sentry

Rogue bishop to go without protection

Blackhead

Joan Jett's own record label

Some soot-covered people (wordplay)

US clubs ban sailors

Billies' relatives.

Regions of heavy, sticky soil covering large areas in Texas

Blacklead

Weapons of demagogues

Coerces, in a way

Extorts money from

Blackpoll

Professional forger (wordplay)

Iron man (wordplay)

Longfellow's famed artisan.

Ashy fireworks item

Blacktail

Sloe-bearing bush

Tree producing sloes

Tree bearing sloes

1975 #1 hit for the Doobie Brothers

1975 hit for the Doobie Brothers

Blackwood

Milky gelatine dessert

French molded dessert.

Jelly-like pudding made with milk

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

The germinal vesicle.

A disc-shaped layer of cells on the surface of the yolk mass of an egg (such as that of a bird) which develops to form the embryo.

Blatancy

BLEACH to {whiten=v}

Blockader

Blockade

Impede leaders viewed as idiots

Idiots obstruct leaders

Black-shoed shuffle for group of 19

Stronghold reinforced against enemy fire

Military fortification

Pioneer fort

Horses in back-to-back races

Thoroughbreds stood around in bar

Blotchy

Naval enlisted man

Ohio pro hockey player

Sailor in the Navy

Bodycheck

Boldface

Of or pertaining to a bolometer.

Some shiners

Bootlick

One fond of dining on tongue (wordplay)

Subservient one

Suck-up

Borescope

Botanical

Botchery

Used for a slide in a bar (wordplay)

Construction effect, often

Cousin of a log jam.

With a bounce.

Boycotter

Not buying, say

Not buying

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

Brachiate

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

Marine invertebrate crab craftily hid around different pool mostly

Linking track being relaid

Bracteole

A nice brass set of skulls

Minerva's original idea (wordplay)

Birth of a notion (wordplay)

Bean product (wordplay)

Most expansive, as a tree

Perhaps unable to give bird sanctuary praise, farm shut up

Branchlet

Subsidiary rail system

Subsidiary rail track

Secondary railway

Brattice

Consisting of angular fragments cemented together; resembling breccia in appearance.

Brecciate

Breeching

Brevetcy

5A's source of building materials

Construction worker's course (wordplay)

Wall builder, maybe

Building trades worker

Brickwork

Blocks and blocks of blocks, possibly (wordplay)

Bricolage

Simple litigations (wordplay)

Simple litigations?

Patient wearing undies must get bags

Talent that outshines all others

Sparkling aptitude

Genius; brightness

Stroke of genius; superb chess game

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

English word

Upholstery fabric

Brochette

A minute bronchial tube.

Plural or third person singular

""Of or pertaining to bronchitis; as, bronchitic inflammation. as, bronchitic inflammation.""

Striking endlessly once British disease

n. affliction common to rodeo clowns

n. affliction common to rodeo clowns

Broomcorn

Vehicle for Endora (wordplay)

Vehicle for Endora?

Halloween carrier (wordplay)

Brushback

Of or pertaining to bryophytes.

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

Bucketful

BUCKETS bucket

Buckler

Buckram

Buckthorn

Buckwheat

Buckyball

What did Taurus do in the balcony?

In need of an outsized collar

What did Taurus do in the balcony (wordplay)

Low-growing plant of the dogwood family

""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

Attacks from concealment

Fights guerrilla-style

Attacks from hiding

Butchery

Butcher

Spread what's blooming well in them

Love-in-a-mist bouquet

Buttstock

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.

Baldachino

*Airline for Lucille (wordplay)

Boat for fullbacks (wordplay)

Grange for one

Barcarolle

Openly; shamelessly.

Some grains

Baroceptor

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

Baronetcy

Barracouta

""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

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

Frogs

Beachcomb

Metal detector user, maybe

Shore patroller (wordplay)

One with a metal detector

Sites of many an exclusive summer home

Salon staff

Becarpet

Beclamor

Becoward

Becudgel

Becudgel

Bedchamber

BEDCOVER a cover for a bed

Bedrench

Aggression, readiness to fight

Aggressiveness

Bellyacher

BELLYACHE Pain in the bowels; colic.

Substitute player: Slang.

Seldom-used substitute

*Sub in the dugout

Grace before or after a meal

Prayer for divine protection

Blessing whose name comes from the Latin for "to speak well"