2-Letter Words Starting with B

Benevolence

Benignancy

Beseeching

Glassy-eyed, quite a sight in bed

Wearing glasses

Like someone who has yet to think of exploiting contacts (wordplay)

Bewitchery

Bewitching

Bewitchment

One with a passionate enthusiasm for books

BIBLIOPHILE A lover of books.

A collection of books; a library.

Belonging to a library.

Bibliotheca

""BICAMERAL Consisting of, or including, two chambers, or legislative branches.""

Bicarbonate

Two-hundredth anniversary

Long-delayed celebration.

Relating to a two-hundredth anniversary

""FUNCTIONAL Pertaining to, or connected with, a function or duty; official.""

Bifurcation

BINOCULAR Having two eyes.

""(used with a sing. verb) The study of sounds produced by or affecting living organisms, especially those sounds involved in communication.""

Biochemical

""The chemistry of living organisms; the chemistry of the processes incidental to, and characteristic of, life.""

(used with a sing. verb) Biochemistry The study of the flow and transformation of energy in and between living organisms and between living organisms and their environment.

Bioethicist

Biofeedback

Of or pertaining to biography; containing biography.

Biological

""(used with a sing. verb) The study of the mechanics of a living body, especially of the forces exerted by muscles and gravity on the skeletal structure.""

Biomedicine

Biology

English word

Biomolecule

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

See life science .

Of or pertaining to biosynthesis.

Mankind ergonomics. Environment

Biquadratic

Biracialism

Bitchiness

Excluding, in a way

Ostracism

Bramble fruit.

Fruit

BLACKBIRDER blackbird

Blackbird

Blackguard

In the manner of or resembling a blackguard; abusive; scurrilous; ruffianly.

Blackhander

Blackjack

BLACKLISTER blacklist

Banning tipping on jet

Recording as untrustworthy

Banning from future work

People holding on to secrets

They're looking for hush money on one side of the Board? It's realism gone mad!

Baron, wanting to secure part of armour, raising money

Blacktop

Blastocoele

Of or pertaining to a blastocoel.

Bleacherite

Very successful movies

They're created only if many people see them

Megahits

Blockbust

Parasites

Like mosquitoes

Luck begins to change intellectual

Woman having literary interests

Type of egghead.

Bodycheck

Coagulated sour milk; loppered milk; curdled milk; sometimes called simply clabber. clabber.

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

Bottleneck

Brachiation

""The quality or state of being brackish, or somewhat salt.""

Bradycardia

Braggadocio

Branchiopod

Brecciation

Breechblock

Breechcloth

Breechclout

A firearm which receives its load at the breech.

Bricklaying

Brilliancy

BROADCASTER broadcast

Transmitting radio/TV

*On the air

Wide selection of actors for radio

Bromouracil

Plural or third person singular

Bronchitis

Adjective (-ic)

Instrument used for examining the windpipe

BRONCHOS broncho

English word

Type of ranch hand

Tamer of wild horses

Cowboy, at times

Buccaneer

Like a buccaneer; piratical.

Bunchberry

Bunchgrass

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

Guerillas

""Traveling, or working a way, through bushes; pulling by the bushes, as in hauling a boat along the bushy margin of a stream.""

Sweet goat from Scotland (wordplay)

Sweet bishop, say, having whisky

Foreign flavor (wordplay)

French school-leaving exam

Higher education exam

Type of degree

Bacchanalian

Celebrate host dancing for girls in New York (wordplay)

Bachelorhood

Backcountry

BACKGROUNDER background

Background

Just one on tandem is doing this making U-turn

Backscatter

Backstabbing

Backstitch

Backstretch

""The study of bacteria, especially in relation to medicine and agriculture.""

Pl. bacteriolyses (-s z ) Dissolution or destruction of bacteria.

Rupture of some pathogens by, eg, an antibody

Pl. bacteriolyses (-s z ) Dissolution or destruction of bacteria.

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

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

Bacteriostat

BACTERIZE to subject to the action of bacteria.

""BALLISTIC Of or pertaining to the ballista, or to the art of hurling stones or missile weapons by means of an engine.""

Impudence

Baroreceptor

Any of various fungi of the subdivision Basidiomycota.

Basification

""Pertaining to bathymetry; relating to the measurement of depths, especially of depths in the sea.""

First step towards sainthood

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

First stage in becoming saint in Roman Catholic church

BEHAVIORIST a psychologist who subscribes to behaviorism.

Bellicosity

Belligerence

Beneficiary

BENEFICIATE To reduce (ores).

BENEFICIATE To reduce (ores).

Like the study of books

Bibliomaniac

Bicameralism

Bicentenary

Bicentennial

Biconcavity

""CONDITIONAL Containing, implying, or depending on, a condition or conditions; not absolute; made or granted on certain terms; as, a conditional promise. as, a conditional promise.""

Biconvexity

BICULTURAL

Going both ways

Functioning two ways

Of or pertaining to bimetallism.

Bimolecular

Bioactivity

Biochemical

""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.""

""The conversion of organic materials, such as plant or animal waste, into usable products or energy sources by biological processes or agents, such as certain microorganisms.""

BIOELECTRIC

Bioenergetic

The study of the geographic distribution of organisms.

""(used with a sing. verb) The study of the mechanics of a living body, especially of the forces exerted by muscles and gravity on the skeletal structure.""

Biometrician

Biophysicist

See life science .

Bioscientist

Vital statistics.

Of or pertaining to biosystematics.

Such as genetic modification

Adjective (-ic)

REFRINGENCE

Bisectional

Blackguard

The conduct or language of a blackguard; rufflanism.

Blacksmith

Plural or third person singular

Any of several fungal infections caused by blastomycetes; they are characterized by inflammatory lesions of skin and mucous membranes or internal organs.

BLOCKBUSTING blockbust

Like some screams (2 words)

Horrible (of a scream?)

Like some screams

Pedantic women

There's some such leggy girls at Cambridge

They go on foot with the ladies, likewise

In a pompously inflated manner

In a pompously overblown manner

Bonnyclabber

Borosilicate

Bottleneck

BRACHYCEPHAL

Having short wings.

Original ideas from hit issue

Creative products

Products of a fertile imagination (wordplay)

Breechloader

""An ergot alkaloid, C 32 H 40 BrN 5 O 5 , that slows dopamine turnover and inhibits prolactin secretion and is used to treat Parkinson's disease and to retard the growth of various pituitary tumors.""

Bronchoscope

BRONCHOSCOPE

Bronchospasm

Broncobuster

Bureaucracy

Some obfuscating jargon

Bureaucrat

Nonelective government officials; same as bureaucracy.bureaucracy.

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

Baccalaureate

Backscatter

Backwardness

Bactericidal

Bacteriology

Expert on some microorganisms

One studying harmful micro-organisms

Germ expert

Bacteriophage

Health

""Inhibition of the growth of bacteria, without outright killing of the organism.""

Of or pertaining to bacteriostasis or a bacteriostat.

Bacterization

""By means of a barometer, or according to barometric observations.""

Basidiomycete

Beatification

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

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

Belligerency

Female supporters having been awful over fine players

The quality of being beneficial; profitableness.