2-Letter Words Starting with B

Shade of green or blue

Blue or green pigment.

Blue or green shade

Variety of lawn bowling

Outdoor bowling game

Italian ball game

Pain-in-the-neck wear (wordplay)

One with a supporting role (wordplay)

Two birds in the hand (wordplay)

Bacca

Got to be arrived (wordplay)

Got to be like this

One's got to be like this to be arrived

Does this get to suit you (wordplay)

Get to be suitable for one

Grow into suit

Hand ax

Sport played on a dirt court

Backyard ball game

Italian lawn bowling

Upper part of woman's dress

Lace-up girdle

Basque old boy's given up gambling game

Looped yarn (anag. of LEO CUB)

Three-ply yarn having loops

Yarn that produces rough-textured cloth

Spring back (like a ball)

Recover quickly after surgery, say

Come up as a blightweigt (wordplay)

A fabric similar to brocade

Male will, as they say, give way

(E.g. belt) fastener; crumple

Concentrate, with "down"

Rawhide thongs

Berry-bearing

Berry's description: graduate, county councillor and mischief-maker

Berrylike

It has a big bucket

Shovel at end of mechanical arm

Excavating machine

Poise sought by an accountant (wordplay)

Cab lane (anagram)

Is this made to scale (wordplay)

Drawbridge made of copper in a Swiss city

Why answer (wordplay)

By reason (of)

A word to the whys (wordplay)

To make guility of a crime

To put a curse on

To make a dunce of

Bullfighter's hat.

Matador's headdress.

Napoleon's hat, for example

Means of getting around.

Get about two rounds on this

Armstrong's wheels

Card game akin to bezique

A substance that kills living material

A glass collar on a candlestick

Thicket

Thicket

Woods.

A small {patty=n}

A brittle candy

A cushion shot in billiards

Small French roll

Feather-light bread

Bread made with lots of butter

Rich fabric - bar code (anagram)

An 8's bar code is misread

Rich fabric with raised design.

""A poisonous alkaloid, also BRUCIN""

Nickname for an Ohioan

Big Ten footballer

Ohio State student

Matador's fruit (wordplay)

Pope's pronouncement gets a church bearing fruit

Support aircraftsman before he is a pain

Support a chemical engineer with lumbago

Eg, lumbar pain

Say spiteful things

Say spiteful things about someone

Say mean things

E nob spine (wordplay)

Spinal courage (wordplay)

Spine or courage

Make seem older, in a way

Make retroactive, in a way

In retrospect, validate second meeting

Rebound (on originator)

Rebound adversely (on the originator)

Come home to roost

Get up off yours and cheer on the team!

Bet on team which is bottom

Seems Ed is right at the bottom

Pertaining to a cane

Cure babe (anagram)

Outdoor party (full of sizzle?)

Rake over the coals, say

Nautical hanger-on (wordplay)

Sea creature - lean crab (anagram)

Marine detachment challenge (wordplay)

Four-wheeled carriage

Cry of pain confined to empty carriage

Rod discovered coupon to get carriage

Happen, to Shakespeare

To put clothes on

Muscular men (informal)

Male eye candy

Gateau after red meat in hunks

Church office with property and income

Church position with income

Nice beef for a living

Lullaby-like Chopin work

Cradlesong Fr.

Cradlesong

""An American Indian transvestite, also BERDASH""

A wild goose

Two-colored

Ship's compass holder

Housing for ship's compass

Case enclosing a ship's compass.

A life-supporting region

Early kind of film projector

Kind of early film projector

Old pictures there manage after I sob

Joey's walk (wordplay)

Enclosure for a budgie, say

Perch's place

Seal off (a place)

Sea wall (wordplay)

Great barrier above the reef (wordplay)

Obstruction, as in a pipe

Artery obstruction

British rugby player's lifetime obstruction

Dark characters (wordplay)

A type to exhibit brazen effrontery

Printing type with thick, heavy lines

The patron saint of Germany

Pope who instituted All Saints' Day.

Patron saint of Germany

Place for flimsy jackets (wordplay)

Cabinet for reading matter

Atlas's locale

Insects that damage books [n pl. pl]

Caleb, too, sported this tie

Super-long shoestring not for shoes

Cobbler's item.

A mineral

A variety of cabbage

""A thin slice of meat, also BRACIOLA""

Partition in shaft of a mine

Explosive effect

Booklet or pamphlet with information

Sounds like brother convinced by handout

Publicity booklet or pamphlet

A badly minted coin

A deer: female, you say, and free

Free American money - she gets a quarter

Free of charge

Senseless talk

Humbug.

Claptrap

What makes a lifesaver float

Cheerfulness.

Female priest can chat and be funny

When she's drunk, might she get the cab back to sing a single note (wordplay)

A building behind the main building. Specifically: A privy; a necessary.

Fall away in faith or morals

Revert to old habits

Left in rear, go astray

Return a letter, say

Certain typewriter key

Move a cursor left

Behind the scenes (theatrically)

Near, but not in, the limelight

In the green-room

To subject to the action of bacteria.

One perhaps dressed up a part for song

Number in Venice (wordplay)

Exclude Lombard (wordplay)

Barrier, to block a street perhaps

Defensive structure, maybe improvised

Temporary blockage to obstruct movement

English word

On the waterfront, say

Rah-rah, generally speaking (wordplay)

Looking for scraps (wordplay)

Primed for battle

In the middle with Pa in, perhaps

Dish around vessel mostly is beef

Complain in a whiny manner

""Concave on both sides; as, biconcave vertebr\'91. as, biconcave vertebr\'91.""

Divide into two branches

Fork into two branches

Bat, cue made with fir, perhaps, having 2 branches

""(Mathematics) Maths (of a function, relation, etc.) associating two sets in such a way that every member of each set is uniquely paired with a member of the other the mapping from the set of married men to the set of married women is bijective in a monogamous society""

Affecting living tissue

Guise of American minstrels

English word

In zoology, to use arms for locomotion

Having a bract or bracts.

Same as Bractlet. Bractlet.

Cranium

Branchia

BRECCIA a type of rock

Artwork made from a clog, creatively coated in cheese

Lawyer meeting patient, maybe a carrier

Short job for Belli?

Accessory in a drug deal (wordplay)

Stick in the oven (wordplay)

Small spit or skewer: French kebab

Spit broth etc out on top of everything

Brucella

Oyakawa holds this Olympic record.

One way to swim

Swimming specialty

Gondolier's song

Venetian boat song

Floating melody in tavern song left echo

Anesthetic in some cough drops

""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.""

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

Discipline dealing with living organisms

Town one's arrived in (wordplay)

Natal region (wordplay)

Where one enters the race (wordplay)

Ashy fireworks item

Milky gelatine dessert

French molded dessert.

Jelly-like pudding made with milk

BLEACH to {whiten=v}

Stronghold reinforced against enemy fire

Military fortification

Pioneer fort

Subsidiary rail system

Subsidiary rail track

Secondary railway

Talent that outshines all others

Sparkling aptitude

Genius; brightness

English word

Upholstery fabric

A minute bronchial tube.

Same as Germicide. Germicide.

""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.""

Active goodness

To reduce (ores).

Disposition to do good

Live current cut power lacking current? Goodness!

Kindliness

Last course of a greasy meal (wordplay)

Type of chemical salt

Indigestion relief

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

English word

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

Real ball fan.

Unmarried young woman

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

One looking for scraps may show it

Aggression of drunken reeling celeb

Aggressive behaviour

A collection of books; a library.

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

Instrument used for examining the windpipe

French school-leaving exam

Higher education exam

Type of degree

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

Any of various fungi of the subdivision Basidiomycota.

""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.""

REFRINGENCE

""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.""

Some obfuscating jargon

Bureaucrat

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

English word

Natural glow (wordplay)

*Natural light (wordplay)

The glow of a glowworm

Spherical form of carbon