2-Letter Words Starting with B

Bestud

Betatter

Betrothed

At a loss!

Unruly before entering bunk at sea

Completely confused

""A shantytown on the outskirts of a city, especially in France or North Africa.""

Bifidity

Two-pronged; forked.

Kind and considerate

Generous description of unambiguous (wordplay)

Generous sack filled with rubbish I gather

Very talkative

""A green pigment present in the bile, formed from bilirubin by oxidation.""

N.F.L. carrier (wordplay)

Ads for Cosby (wordplay)

Ads that get lots of traffic (wordplay)

MODALITY the state of being modal

Bioassay

Rot, in a good way

Break down

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

Biohazard

Pertaining to the biological and physiological aspects of medicine.

BIPEDAL having two feet

BIPEDAL having two feet

Bipyramid

Dumb clucks

Nitwits

Cheep joints (wordplay)

Targets for some squirrels

Shelters in some backyards

Birdlime

Bisulfide

A species of Ambrosia (A. artemisi\'91folia); Roman worm wood. (A. artemisi\'91folia); Roman worm wood.

Encamped, as an army

Nursery-rhyme pie filler

Storied pie ingredient

Long Island U. team

Hunter's jungle

Traditional teacher's aid

Teacher's aid

Protector for actress Karen (wordplay)

Dog left in support with sentry

Rogue bishop to go without protection

Blackhead

Regions of heavy, sticky soil covering large areas in Texas

Blacklead

Blackwood

""Any of various deciduous shrubs or small trees of the genus Staphylea, native to north temperate regions and having opposite compound leaves and terminal panicles of white flowers and bladderlike fruits.""

Disturbed lad's behind, should be coaxed gently

One who uses blandishments.

Flatters dull single females

""BLASPHEME To speak of, or address, with impious irreverence; to revile impiously (anything sacred); as, to blaspheme the Holy Spirit. as, to blaspheme the Holy Spirit.""

""The germinal membrane in an ovum, from which the embryo is developed.""

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.

Blessed

Blindfold

BLINDING the act of blinding

Caught by surprise - I did blends (anagram)

When shortened, lesser-played songs

Catches unawares

Blindworm

BLIZZARD a heavy snowstorm

Blockader

Blockade

Impede leaders viewed as idiots

Idiots obstruct leaders

Black-shoed shuffle for group of 19

Bloodbath

The fact or state of being guilty of murder or bloodshed.

Scents make sense to him

John Lawrence, in spring, gets the dog

Dog to follow trail

Gore

Connections traced on ancestry.com

Red puccoons

Expectorant source

Bloodshed

Mark of the killer (wordplay)

Sign of an earlier wound

Forsenic examiner's clue

Horses in back-to-back races

Thoroughbreds stood around in bar

Symbol of a March birthday.

Heliotrope

Heliotrope.

Bloodworm

Hit by stick, doctor bonded with glue

Lethal spouses.

Blunderer

Stumbling below, wearing tacky jewellery

Beneath appearing in flash jewellery - it's crass

Where deals are made (wordplay)

Landladies' meeting-places (wordplay)

Carpenters' storage areas (wordplay)

Promenade platforms near beaches

Directors on a stroll, in a way.

Seaside attractions

Bobsled

Winter Olympian who may go 90 m.p.h

Winter Olympics competitor

Winter Olympian who may go 90 m.p.h.

Bodycheck

Bullet-proof vests for escorts (wordplay)

Minders

Bodysurf

Wave catcher

Boldface

Boldness

NCO arranged raid in Lancaster, maybe

Canadian snowmobile inventor

Crowd round pub ride off with soldier

Bombard

Bombardon

BOMBINATE To hum; to boom.

Promise to take case, as tends to be fireproof in this country!

Union offers support to one that never gets burned in this place (wordplay)

Investor

Bondstone

Like Mother Hubbard (wordplay)

Like Mother Hubbard?

Really, really dumb

He wraps leaves up (wordplay)

Printing-shop employe

What a waste!

Do pointless work

Giant waste of money

Bootleg

Bootlick

""Pl. bordereaux (-r ) A detailed memorandum, especially one that lists documents or accounts.""

Politically contested territory, maybe

Division is problematic

Indecisive boundary row

Only just acceptable

""Having the form of a bunch of grapes; like a cluster of grapes, as a mineral presenting an aggregation of small spherical or spheroidal prominences; as, botryoidal hematite.as, botryoidal hematite.""

Low-lying farmsite

Low-lying fields along a watercourse

Often-flooded locale

Wide roads

Zodiacal borders (wordplay)

Limits for spring star sign

Marches, tied to sign

BOUNDER one that {bounds=v}

Bourgeon

Expurgate the indelicate unnecessarily

Bimbo extremely lewd, perhaps come up and use a figleaf

Censor wicked and loathsome extremists heading for Richmond in US state capital

Cut, in a way

Desex the text

Expurgate.

Bowerbird

Heartthrobs, perhaps

Ring in by Friday with results and dates

Beaus

""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

""A hypotensive tissue hormone (C50H73N15O11) which acts on smooth muscle, dilates peripheral vessels and increases capillary permeability. It is formed locally in injured tissue and is believed to play a role in the inflammatory process. It is a nonapeptide with the sequence: Arg-Pro-Pro-Gly-Phe-Ser-Pro-Phe-Arg.C50H73N15O11) which acts on smooth muscle, dilates peripheral vessels and increases capillary permeability. It is formed locally in injured tissue and is believed to play a role in the inflammatory process. It is a nonapeptide with the sequence: Arg-Pro-Pro-Gly-Phe-Ser-Pro-Phe-Arg.""

Minerva's original idea (wordplay)

Birth of a notion (wordplay)

Bean product (wordplay)

Waved the mark 1 26 down

Waved sword I discarded

Flourished after cereal was served

Food helping to keep you regular is flourishing

Flourishes as bachelor, having organised lots of food

Shaw's Captain has money tied up

Uncompromising.

Uncompromising

""The reddish wood of certain tropical trees or shrubs in the pea family, especially a Brazilian tree Caesalpinia echinata, whose wood is used for violin bows and as a source of a red or purplish dye.""

*Surface for slicing rye, say

Base for cutting loaf

Where bank directors make their cuts

Puzzle theme depicted by seven grid "containers"

Pacific islanders cash crop (wordplay)

Two-fer menu item (wordplay)

Plant brought on board the HMS Bounty

Local money rows in foodie queues

Depression scenes.

""Grain, flour, or meal of which bread is made.""

Stoppages slow down vehicles, we hear, on hills

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

5A's source of building materials

Blocks and blocks of blocks, possibly (wordplay)

Lohengrin, for one.

Man of the match (wordplay)

Union member (wordplay)

Girl holding up train (wordplay)

Female supporter at the match

Wedding party attendant

Bridewell

Capable of being connected by a bridge or as if by a bridge.

Secured position from which to advance

Encourages former strange sort of story

Part of a combat zone

It's not easy to cross an English poet embracing the French

Humber is no longer where pressure's high - express good wishes about it

That tooth will have to come out!

GI is barred for abusing officers

Officers ordering a ride aboard sailing ships

A dire manoeuvre accepted by ship's officers

Freebootery.

""A coast of armor for the body, consisting of scales or plates, sometimes overlapping each other, generally of metal, and sewed to linen or other material. It was worn in the Middle Ages.""

Cheered up after book's corrected

Made vibrant

Bishop, having got put straight, cheered up

Bringdown

BRIQUETTE

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

What travel is so

What travel is so.

Expanding port in boring operation

Broadloom

English word

Newspaper on a double bed (wordplay)

The Times is terribly bad, so there!

Paper covering double bed (wordplay)

*Hit at an intersection, maybe

Volleys of denunciation

Volleys of a kind.

Collides with

Weapon widely used (wordplay)

Dungeons & Dragons weapon

You'd never get a fence of this

Broadtail

Broidery

Broider

Stretch your dollars with these flowers

""BROMINATE See Bromate, v. t. Bromate, v. t.""

""Broodier , broodiest a. Meditative; contemplative.""

BROODING an act of brooding

Important stud farm visitors

They need stud finders to do their jobs

Acted like a toady

Browridge

Brushland

Brushwood

BRUTALISE to treat brutally.

BRUTALIZE To make brutal; beasty; unfeeling; or inhuman.

A foolish or empty-headed person: "He presents antiwar protesters . . . as bubbleheads who didn't even know where Southeast Asia was" (Frank Rich).

Financial committees (wordplay)

Open horse-drawn carriages

Rustic carriages

Bird, one moving round capital

Popular cage-bird

Bird commonly kept as a pet

America's Dodge, England's Butler

Stupid bird (wordplay)

Stupid bird?

Bugleweed

Attacked with fierceness and anger

BULLDOG to wrestle and throw a steer

Bovine earthmovers (wordplay)

Equipment needed for demos

They're used to make the grade

Bovine asleep (wordplay)

Leveling, in a way

Lazy optimist's favorite activity (wordplay)

Bulletin

The bovine took off!

Stubborn fish with bleeding heart

As obstinate as the monster of Knossos

What did Taurus do in the balcony?

In need of an outsized collar

What did Taurus do in the balcony (wordplay)

Do E-numbers turn heavy (wordplay)

A real hassle

Trying numbers, do set out last of three

Burgundy

Burladero

Broken by nasty sequel, old lady is mocked

'Snoopy' characters

Butadiene

An annual composite plant of the Mississippi valley (Senecio lobatus). Senecio lobatus).

Timber tree

Sycamore tree

Supported, nevertheless, with locks

Sweet container taken around and held up

Supported and lifted ice-cream pot, perhaps

They're usually innocent

They're there

Often-unidentified people in photos

The state of bachelorhood; the whole body of bachelors.

Backcross

Backdrop

Things checked by HR departments

They may be checked in personnel departments

Settings.

Bribes help to bring in sponsors? Just the opposite

Bribes

Backhand

Backlight

Tried to distance oneself from a gaffe, say

Backslap

""BACKSLIDE to fall back, pa t BACKSLID""

Backslider

Relapsing

Backstab

Backstop

Backtrack

Same as Germicide. Germicide.

Badmouth

Baldachino

Ballyrag

Provided with a supported coping

Supported railings

Banderilla

Goodman and Ellington, for two

Team captains who know the score

Ellington, Basie, etc.

Bandmaster

Bardolater