2-Letter Words Starting with B

""Expressing wishes for good; as, a benedictory prayer. as, a benedictory prayer.""

The act of conferring a benefit.

Lord bountifuls

Donors

Patrons

Active goodness

To whom thy will be done (wordplay)

Name on an insurance policy.

One gaining from will

To reduce (ores).

Disposition to do good

Live current cut power lacking current? Goodness!

Kindliness

Benzocaine

Berascal

Bescorch

Bescreen

Besmirch

Enchantment

Relating to the binding of books.

A library.

Last course of a greasy meal (wordplay)

Type of chemical salt

Indigestion relief

Every 200 years

""BICHROMATE 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.""

Bichromate

""COMPONENT Serving, or helping, to form; composing; constituting; constituent.""

""CONCAVITY A concave surface, or the space bounded by it; the state of being concave.""

CONVEXITY The state of being convex; the exterior surface of a convex body; roundness.

""DIALECTAL Relating to a dialect; dialectical; as, a dialectical variant. as, a dialectical variant.""

FURCATING furcate

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

Bilocation

Bimetallic

""Pertaining to, involving, or formed from, two molecules; as, a bimolecular reaction (a reaction between two molecules).as, a bimolecular reaction (a reaction between two molecules).""

MORPHEMIC Of or pertaining to a morpheme.

In a binocular manner.

NUCLEATED nucleate

BIOACTIVE acting upon or influencing bodily functions; -- of chemical substances.

Kind of engineer

Biochemist

The study of the effects of climatic conditions on living organisms.

Variant of biocenosis .

Variant of biocenosis .

Biocontrol

Of or having to do with the electric current generated by living tissue.

BIOETHIC relating to ethical questions in biology

A training program in which a person is given information about physiological processes (heart rate or blood pressure) that is not normally available with the goal of gaining conscious control of them.

Biological

Of or pertaining to biologism.

""The application of the principles and techniques of the natural sciences, especially biology, to investigate and solve problems in clinical medicine.""

BIOMETRIC

English word

(used with a sing. verb) The science that deals with the application of physics to biological processes and phenomena.

Bioreactor

BIORHYTHM

Botany, immunology, ecology, etc.

Biosocial

Quantity twice squared

Quantity raised to the fourth power

Inflected form of RACIALISM Inflected form of RACIAL pertaining to an ethnic group

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SECTIONAL Of or pertaining to a sections or distinct part of larger body or territory; local.

Bivouac

Blackamoor

Banned, in a way

Ostracized

Blackbird

Pacific slave ship

Schoolteachers write on them

Schoolteachers' surfaces

Blackbody

Blackening

Blackfish

Blackguard

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Blackheart

Blackjack

Put on a certain roster.

Banned from consideration

Put in an unwanted category.

Blacklist

Exerted pressure through threats

French possessive

Extorted from

Perry Mason's prey.

Criminal with dirt on someone

So the unions would ban Norman? That's criminal!

Blackness

Horseless carriage casualty.

Hammer and anvil users

They were the earliest car mechanics

Blacksnake

Blackthorn

Paved over, and what each half of the answers to the starred clues can be

Blackwater

Blancmange

""Connected with, or proceeding from, the blastema; blastemal.""

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

Blastocoel

Blastocyst

Blastodisc

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

Real ball fan.

Big character (wordplay)

Popular film? Ban one about train robber

House wrecker's big brother

Forts made of squared timbers

Bloodstock

Clouds broke over Dracula, for one

Extortioner, one who sponges on another

Leech is one

Items used in "light" boxing (wordplay)

Removes paint, in a way

Vault openers at times

Bluejacket

Bodacious

Bodycheck

Bootlicker

Toadyism

Botanical

Some traffic tie-ups

Traffic jam causes, sometimes

Conditions that hinder progress.

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

Brachiator

Brachiopod

""Slowness of the heart rate, usually fewer than 60 beats per minute in an adult human.""

Boastful and arrogant behaviour

Boastful behaviour

Empty boasting

In a brainsick manner.

Small crustacean

Branchline

BRECCIATE

BRECCIATE BRECCIA a type of rock

""The movable piece which closes the breech of a breechloading firearm, and resists the backward force of the discharge. It is withdrawn for the insertion of a cartridge, and closed again before the gun is fired.""

A cloth worn around the breech.

Covering for the loins.

Brickfield

Building-site workers

Construction-site workers

Artisans briskly race around

Building

Brilliance

Sown over a wide area

CBS, for one

Radio/TV provider

Radio or TV journalist

Broadcloth

Brocatelle

English word

Bronchial

Of or pertaining to a bronchiole.

Bronchiole

Transportation, in folklore.

Witches' transport.

Plural or third person singular

""An infectious bacterial disease of humans that is caused by brucellae, transmitted by contact with infected animals, and characterized by fever, malaise, and headache. Also called Gibraltar fever , Malta fever , Mediterranean fever , Rock fever , undulant fever .""

""Relating to bryology; as, bryological studies. as, bryological studies.""

Plundered the booty, perhaps (or, played like Tom Brady?)

Buccinator

BUCKSKIN the skin of a male deer

Projecting a smile (wordplay)

Like Cletus the slack-jawed yokel

Beaverlike

Bucolical

Bullfinch

One system of administration.

Rule of too-many thumbs

Administration by officials

Red-tape experts.

Certain officials.

Waylaid

Oater villain who attacks from hiding

Western baddie

Oater ambusher

Drunken, orgiastic (revel)

Raver in speech to endorse a foreigner

Relating to drunken revelry

Bachelordom

Unmarried young woman

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

The state or condition of being a bachelor; bachelorship.

MPs settle in seconds

Most MPs' patrons tour mountain chain

There are a lot of them not in 24 across with those who wish they had a ministry

Backbreaker

Physically difficult, as labor

(Of work) physically demanding

Exhausting (toil)

English word

BACKCOURT

Backcross

Backdrop

Background

Background

Backhanded

Backlight

Reversing a stand

Reversed one's previous position

What Rider did to reverse support for what the salesman did on radio

Backscatter

Hale fellows well met.

Effusive greeters

Effusive display of approval

Condones eating soup impolitely (wordplay)

Vigorously hearty

Backsplash

Frenemies, at times

1972 hit for the O'Jays

Bad mouthing rugby players keeping an eye on others

Whats no good for killing Dracula is useful for killing friendship

Backstitch

Backstitch

Backstop

Retracing one's steps

The state of being backward.

Uncouth fellow offering deal maybe to seal terrible bank scam

Lords not turning out to support ladies admitting excesses

Killing micro-organisms that can cause disease

Bactericide

Bacteriocin

The science relating to bacteria.

A chemical or biological material that inhibits bacterial growth.

Bacteriuria

Running backs, often

Bankruptcy

BARBARIC uncivilized

""A sensory nerve ending that is stimulated by changes in pressure, especially one in the walls of blood vessels such as the carotid sinus.""

Barricado

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

BATHETIC {trite=adj}

""Of, relating to, or living in the depths of the ocean, especially between about 1,000 and 4,000 meters (3,280 and 13,120 feet).""

Bathyscaphe

Vagrants hoping the tide will turn in their favour (wordplay)

Seashore pursuit

Beatifical

Becudgel

Bedcovering

BELLETRIST

One looking for scraps may show it

Aggression of drunken reeling celeb

Aggressive behaviour

Guts admitting strangely generic aggression

They don't start

What keeps Johnny comfy in winter (wordplay)

Substitutes

Benediction

Good deeds

Generous female donor

Donor, patron

Generous woman makes complaint about new player

Beneficence

In a beneficent manner; with beneficence.

Going mad in cafe, I fill stomach to good effect

BENEFICIATE To reduce (ores).

Beneficiate