2-Letter Words Starting with B

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

Red guards (wordplay)

Yeomen of the guard.

Tower of London guards

Live bats seek fast food

Tournedos, e.g

Tournedos, for example

Apiary workers

They profit from their workers' operations

THEME ANSWER 2

A honey of a job (wordplay)

Apiarist's job

Honey producer's task

Befinger

Beflag

Befleck

Beflower

WHERE'S THE SECOND (wordplay)

Deck or second (wordplay)

When to ante up (wordplay)

Early example of an oxymoron (wordplay)

Early, while the pub is still open

Not - - means none too soon

Befret

Became mates with (someone)

Got close to

Treated as ally in brief realignment, then stopped

Befringe

Befuddle

BEGGAR to impoverish

"Please may I bat for starters?"

Starts to ask for opportunity to score

Please let me go in at the very start

Begirdle

Beglad

Beglamor

Beglamour

Begloom

Begrim

Begroan

Giving reluctantly

Like a certain category of sciences

Like some sciences

Type of psychology

Behaviour

Late or slow (in doing something)

Cough so late (wordplay)

Causing worker to be late

Bejewel

Adorned with gems

Gem-encrusted

Bejumble

Beknight

Beknot

Negative review of Dracula (wordplay)

Overworking Bartok without much excitement

Verbally assaulted a bored blue in trouble

Surrounds

Besets.

Belemnite

Seeming to be true or authentic

Creditworthy (wordplay)

Instilling credence

Plausibly

Beliquor

Hecklers, to Rich (wordplay)

Putting someone down

Is the DI's pa raging, to say the least (wordplay)

Pooh-poohing

Eye-pupil dilater

Another name for deadly nightshade

Drug made from deadly nightshade

A writer of literature

Little Serb turns out to be writer of aesthetic essays

Showy blossom

Flared plant

Campanula.

V.I.P. among sheep

Leader of the flock

Leading sheep; trendsetter

Complained

When in trouble, he called by and went on complaining

Beefed

Ring sailor? No time, he complains

Faultfinding type

Persistent complaints left by Chelsea wags

Complains

Bellyband

Be craving someone's first possessions

What you own*

People purchasing pine stuff

In the hold.

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

In the hull of a ship

Cigars.

Bemadam

Bemadden

Bemedal

Bemingle

Bemuddle

Bemurmur

Absent-mindedness

Confusion, bewilderment

Puzzled thoughts

Bemuzzle

Benchland

Sit McGwire and Teixeira (wordplay)

Criteria for judging judges (wordplay)

Points of reference, for surveyors.

One who raised the foundation

Eleemosynar, for example

Supporter's complaint about new player

Kind of meat without name at small price

Doing good.

Doing good

Changed Inca belief? It's useful!

Like health food

Helpful belief I can spread around

Benefice

Benefiter

Been fit to have gin with it? You'll be the better for that

Received an advantage

Well meaning, kindly

Like an Elk, supposedly

Well-meaning, kindly

Bengaline

Benignant quality; kindliness.

Bentonite

Of or pertaining to bentonite.

Benzidine

Anesthetic in some cough drops

""A colorless liquid, C 8 H 6 O, found in coal tar and used to make thermoplastic resins for paints and varnishes. Also called coumarone .""

Bepaint

Bepimple

The act of bequeathing; bequeathment; bequest.

Bequeath

Berascal

Berberine

Berberis

Like Hello Kitty

Berkelium

Berserker

Beryllium

Bescorch

Bescorch

Bescour

Bescreen

Supplicant's activity

Asking to observe man in church? On the contrary!

Besetment

Beshadow

Beshiver

Beshout

Beshrew

Beshroud

Besmear

Gathering herbs, medic may get dirty

Sullied

Makes dirty, soils

Besmooth

Besmudge

Besmut

Besoothe

Splashes with mud

Bespeak

Bespouse

To sprinkle over; to scatter over.

Bestead

The state or quality of being bestial.

""To make bestial, or like a beast; to degrade; to brutalize.""

Hebrew name meaning 'lion'

Medieval books featuring fables

Hebrew name meaning "lion"

Rousing

Bestrew

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

Bestrow

Bestud

Beswarm

Betatter

Bethank

Bethink

Bethorn

Bethump

Being a sign of (something)

Betrothal

Betrothed

Betroth

Progress in standard of living

Live with Hilary, perhaps, in a tent for gain

How more good men come to tea for improvement

Bevomit

Beweary

At a loss!

Unruly before entering bunk at sea

Completely confused

Magnetic personal charm

Capturing interest as if by spell

Like some sirens

Charmingly appealing

Beworry

Bewrap

Biasness

Biathlete

Pile big boy upset reveals some fine bookbinding

Bookseller.

""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.""

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

Every other year

How often the Olympic Games occur

How congressional elections are held

Bifidity

Two-pronged; forked.

Forks

Bigeminy

Kind and considerate

Generous description of unambiguous (wordplay)

Generous sack filled with rubbish I gather

Very talkative

Bijection

From Beirut Joe and I removed jewellery

Jewellery especially trinkets

Trinkets from Beirut Joe and I distributed

Bilberry

Seepage aboard ship

Ship's seepage

Nonsense

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

Billfish

Most wavy.

Lithium injected into lamb etc I cooked with steel and tin, perhaps (wordplay)

In job, I met all I could, including Al with Mo, for example

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

Bioassay

Biocenose

Biocenosie

Asimov, per his doctorate

Person knee-deep in formulas

A studier of living organisms

Rot, in a good way

Break down

BIOETHIC relating to ethical questions in biology

BIOGEN a hypothetical unit of protoplasm

T. H. Huxley's postulation

Life-begets-life hypothesis

Like Ernst Haeckel's law

The subject of a biography.

Creator of life in a bookshop (wordplay)

A life's work for him

One who can tell your story

Pertaining to the biological and physiological aspects of medicine.

Identity verification system

Biometry

""A macromolecule in a living organism that is formed by linking together several smaller molecules, as a protein from amino acids or DNA from nucleotides.""

""An apparatus in which a suspension of microorganisms in a liquid are used to perform chemical reactions, as in synthesis of pharmaceutical agents or the conversion of harmful waste to less harmful substances. The reactor consists of a vessel to contain the suspension of microorganisms, plus a variety of attached devices used to control the reaction.""

Discipline dealing with living organisms

Bioscopy

Biosensor

Is posh beer brewed in living quarters (wordplay)

BIOSPHERE

PARENTAL pertaining to a parent

BIPEDAL having two feet

BIPEDAL having two feet

""POLARIZE to give polarity to, also POLARISE""

Cheep joints (wordplay)

Targets for some squirrels

Shelters in some backyards