2-Letter Words Starting with B

The condition or quality of being broad; breadth; coarseness; grossness.

General perhaps left following attack

Hard-to-hit barn area (wordplay)

Volley, as of denunciation.

Karakul pelt

Brocade

Decorated old woman at match embarrassed about nothing

Plant of tropical American family that includes the pineapple

Broody

Horse kept for breeding

Female horse kept for mating

Stable parent

Brother

Browband

English word

English word

Copse.

Brutify

Oater's "station wagon"

Bound to go on the wagon

Old West transport

Buckler

Gave the quality of a coarse open-weave fabric

Buddleia

Of a financial plan

David Bell, for example.

Budgeter

Blooming little to get gin if the money will stretch to it

Buffalo

""A plant of the Mint family and genus Lycopus; esp. L. Virginicus, which has mild narcotic and astringent properties, and is sometimes used as a remedy for hemorrhage. Lycopus; esp. L. Virginicus, which has mild narcotic and astringent properties, and is sometimes used as a remedy for hemorrhage.""

BUILD to construct

Man-made structures

More than one construction vehicle's caught idling foully

Bulkhead

Intimidated Colloq.

Intimidated: Colloq.

That beast, he dropped off and that's flat

One who coerces animal to sleep by river

Farm animal, sleepy type in tractor

Beast that's 13 is a pushy one

Brings down the house (wordplay)

Ferdinand sleeps with cows

Browbeats.

Bullhead

Bullweed

Bulwark

Bundling

Encumbers

Weighing down with a load

Ego burden (anagram)

Made new buds

Developed and flourished

English word

The stream I disposed of with polish

Polish for Scottish stream I got rid of

The Polish 11 across I disposed of (wordplay)

""BURNOOSE a hooded cloak, also BURNOUS, BURNOUSE""

Relative of muttonchops

Full whiskers and a mustache

Handlebars' neighbors

Burthen

Bushel

Bushland

Substance used in synthetic rubber.

A colourless gaseous hydrocarbon used in the manufacture of synthetic rubber

Completely mispronounced, as a name

Totally ruined

Save revolutionary socialist from being massacred

Butylate

Part of a techie's arsenal

Trendy terms

Techno-jargon

Innocent one (wordplay)

Onlooker (often innocent)

One in the crowd

Structures on basketball court.

Rebounding spots

Backdate

Football groups.

It's Dell, if one got rid of the hole (wordplay)

Backfit

Second-floor family (wordplay)

Person's experience

One never comes to the fore

Like a tennis player's compliment?

Ambiguously flattering remark

Insincere, as a compliment.

A gift for dishonesty (wordplay)

Red Nah for a bribe at court (wordplay)

Bribe (in court?)

Backhaul

Backlash

Backlist

Backlog

Backpack

Football player goes biking (wordplay)

Starts to waffle

Does a volte-face.

Recidivist supporter gains second cap

One who reverts

Relapser into sin

Becomes less virtuous.

Loses progress, in a way

Liberal entering behind rear seat perhaps slips

BACKSPACE

Backsword

Reluctantly; slowly; aversely.

Backwash

BACKWOODS the forest beyond cleared country

BACTERIZE to subject to the action of bacteria.

Bacteroid

Badinage

Claret drinks.

Disparaged

Smeared foundation around part of face, on commercial

Slandered

Bakshish

Pl. baldachins also baldachinos A rich fabric of silk and gold brocade.

Baldachin

Track event for those less hirsute?

Race that's less hairy (wordplay)

Rhubarb a smidgen less hairy (wordplay)

Baldness

""BALKANIZE to divide a territory into small, hostile states.""

Singers need pieces of 15 to cover live Adele hit (wordplay)

Crooners

Balladist

Balladry

Created loud publicity

Balcony railing (by Toni Morrison)

A bad result perhaps, but coping

Part of a balcony.

2000 Spike Lee satire

Confused; cheated

Hoodwinked airline's doctor about alcohol left in

A dart aimed at the bull

Dart thrust into el toro

Banderole

Australian animals

Banditry

One who must face the music (wordplay)

Arm or rubber (wordplay)

Glenn or Mitch Miller

Samba trend (anagram)

Sousa or Alexander, for example

Conductor decorated stand with amber

Group of evil looks (wordplay)

Group of evil looks?

Belts with ammunition stop soldier moving

Sousa's places (wordplay)

Platforms in many parks

Outdoor concert sites

Old parade sights

Bandwidth

BANISTER a stair hand-rail

Provided funds for

Headline about an attack on Wells Fargo

Bankrupt

Made Hunnish

Shakespearean fan

Worship of Shakespeare

Bareback

Discalced, as certain monks

Kicked around a match official having forgotten trainers (wordplay)

Pub second team paid the cost for not wearing boots

With scalp exposed

Uncapped (wordplay)

How Nixon usually goes.

A vergeboard.

Ferocious swimmers

""Pl. barramunda or barramundas also barramundi or barramundis Any of several Australian food fishes, such as the lungfish. Also called ceratodus .""

Fish in Scottish island spattered in mud

Edible Australian fish

Australian fish

The flat top of a barrel.

""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.""

You can't pass them on highways

Roadblocks

Obstacles in the way of a rotter protected by rails

Ones making the rounds (wordplay)

Prison wardens (wordplay)

They serve when right dart's been thrown

Last stop on the San Francisco subway (wordplay)

Baseboard

Bastardy

Same as bastardize.bastardize.

To make or prove to be a bastard; to stigmatize as a bastard; to declare or decide legally to be illegitimate.

Bastinade

Baudrons

Bayonet

D-Day landing locales

Skip ill-used religious sayings

Get the better of it with blessed dues

Biblical blessings

Made to look gorgeous

Beblood

Becarpet

Beclamor

Becloud

Becoward

Becrowd

Becudgel

Bedabble

Bedarken

Overpowering with strong light

Much too bright

Really brilliant

Where there may be a four-poster

Room for sleeping

Sleeping quarters

Nightcaps, for example (wordplay)

Pajamas, e.g

Sheets, blankets, etc.

Bedeafen

BEDEVIL to {torment=v}

Caused continual trouble to (someone)

Driven to distraction

Plot reprobate supervised is frustrated

Sleeping partners (wordplay)

Altogether lying chaps

Associates

Bediaper

Bedight

Bedimple

Bedirty

Bedizen

Bedlamite

The worse for wear

In bad shape

Wet and dirty

Makes wet and dirty, as from rain

Makes limp and soiled

Bedrench

Bedrench

Bedrivel

Bedrug

They may be laid on for midnight feasts

Throws a banquet in the garden

Nighttime covers

JUMPING AIDS

Bedwarf

Plural noun or verb form

Befinger

Beflower

WHERE'S THE SECOND (wordplay)

Deck or second (wordplay)

When to ante up (wordplay)

Became mates with (someone)

Got close to

Treated as ally in brief realignment, then stopped

Befuddle

BEGGAR to impoverish

Begirdle

Beglad

Beglamor

Giving reluctantly

Late or slow (in doing something)

Cough so late (wordplay)

Causing worker to be late

Adorned with gems

Gem-encrusted

Beknight

Verbally assaulted a bored blue in trouble

Beliquor

Eye-pupil dilater

Another name for deadly nightshade

Drug made from deadly nightshade

Complained

When in trouble, he called by and went on complaining

Beefed

Bellyband

In the hold.

In a ship's hull... and where it's at

In the hull of a ship

Cigars.

Bemadam

Bemadden

Bemedal

Bemuddle

Bemurmur

Benchland

Received an advantage

Benzidine

Bequeath

Berascal

Like Hello Kitty

Bescorch

Bescreen

Beshadow

Beshiver

Beshroud

Gathering herbs, medic may get dirty

Sullied

Besmooth

Besmudge

Bestead

Spanned, it's clear, in first study

Finest travelled by horse and dominated

First past the post would surely have been this!

Dominating prime equestrian activity (wordplay)

Walking over the nicest part of Yorkshire once