2-Letter Words Starting with B

Betoken

Promised in marriage

Pledged to be married

Engaged to be married

Bevomit

Beweary

Under a spell

Head intersection is enchanted

2005 Nicole Kidman film

Beworry

Bewrap

Of two colors.

Conceited, like Humpty Dumpty (wordplay)

Conceited with large cranium

Full of oneself

Birdlime

Blabber

Like some Cajun food

Vilified.

Charred

Spot of darkness (wordplay)

Spot gloomy principal

*Facial blemish

To coat or to polish with black lead.

Embedded with cover (wordplay)

That's C over all over

Hit the whole area

Persuaded with flattery

Sweet-talked

Wheedled.

Spoke nonsensically

Babbled

Blatter

Not perfect

After starter of bhaji and lime pickle, one of my colleagues stained

Imperfect

Ran around to that place and chatted

Chatted, then allowed her to get into bed

Narrow view of some racehorses

Narrow-minded and maybe retired (wordplay)

Like some racehorses

Like burnt skin, perhaps

Hit hard, as a baseball

Surgeon in bed with spots

Joyous socialist waffled

Sealed off (eg, a port)

Surrounded by hostile troops or ships.

Lock Father up in bed? That kept him shut in

No rocket scientist, he

Idiot wants to impede the boss

Stupid person

A slaughterhouse (wordplay)

R-rated film feature, maybe

Carnage in Slaughterhouse (wordplay)

Met one's potential

Fulfilled one's potential

Yielded flowers

Bloviate

Retired churl wept buckets

So this fatted calf would not have cried

Beneath all that fat the editor was weeping

Had he a place at Kilbride (wordplay)

Goatee for baseball's Vida (wordplay)

Fatima's murderous spouse

|Made a serious mistake

Moved about awkwardly and clumsily

Committed a faux pas

Used empty threats.

Made empty threats

Played the bully.

Like some breeds of cats

Cut short

Like a rabbit, say, albeit modified in corporeal form

Impudent type (wordplay)

Like obvious type

Like the obvious type

Supported up in bed, perhaps

Given extra overnight support (wordplay)

Supported, with "up"

Shelled

Botanise

Botanize

""Abounding in large rocks or stones; as, bouldered fields.as, bouldered fields.""

Hollywood, for one

Sunset, e.g

Broad tree-lined street

Animal that builds a fancy structure to attract a mate

With pins like a cowpoke's, perhaps

Describing most cowboys.

Like many a cowboy

Boxhaul

Went on strike, led by Geoff (wordplay)

Shunned, Irish style

Shunned (something) in protest

Pin giver, maybe

Male that might be 19 across

Swain keeps fiery type in restraint

(Making a commotion in bed?)

Grouped together

Awful noise in part of garden separated off

Brattice

Promoted without a pay increase

Made wider

Got bigger

Carving top of dry bread, one getting spread out

Decorated old woman at match embarrassed about nothing

Plant of tropical American family that includes the pineapple

Brother

Brutify

Buckler

Gave the quality of a coarse open-weave fabric

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.""

Intimidated Colloq.

Intimidated: Colloq.

That beast, he dropped off and that's flat

Bulwark

Ego burden (anagram)

Made new buds

Developed and flourished

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""

Burthen

Bushel

Completely mispronounced, as a name

Totally ruined

Save revolutionary socialist from being massacred

Butylate

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

Backfit

Like a tennis player's compliment?

Ambiguously flattering remark

Insincere, as a compliment.

Backhaul

Backlash

Backlist

Backlog

Backpack

BACKSPACE

Backwash

BACTERIZE to subject to the action of bacteria.

Disparaged

Smeared foundation around part of face, on commercial

Slandered

Bakshish

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

Created loud publicity

2000 Spike Lee satire

Confused; cheated

Hoodwinked airline's doctor about alcohol left in

BANISTER a stair hand-rail

Provided funds for

Headline about an attack on Wells Fargo

Bankrupt

Made Hunnish

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.

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.""

Bayonet

Made to look gorgeous

Becarpet

Beclamor

Becoward

Becudgel

Bedarken

Bedeafen

Caused continual trouble to (someone)

Driven to distraction

Plot reprobate supervised is frustrated

Bediaper

The worse for wear

In bad shape

Wet and dirty

Bedrench

Bedrivel

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

BEGGAR to impoverish

Beglamor

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

Complained

When in trouble, he called by and went on complaining

Beefed

Bemadden

Bemedal

Bemurmur

Received an advantage

Bequeath

Berascal

Like Hello Kitty

Bescorch

Bescreen

Beshadow

Beshiver

Beshroud

Gathering herbs, medic may get dirty

Sullied

Besmooth

Betatter

At a loss!

Unruly before entering bunk at sea

Completely confused

Two-pronged; forked.

Kind and considerate

Generous description of unambiguous (wordplay)

Generous sack filled with rubbish I gather

Very talkative

Bioassay

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

Encamped, as an army

Disturbed lad's behind, should be coaxed gently

""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.""

Caught by surprise - I did blends (anagram)

Hit by stick, doctor bonded with glue

Bobsled

Bodysurf

BOMBINATE To hum; to boom.

Like Mother Hubbard (wordplay)

Like Mother Hubbard?

Really, really dumb

Bootleg

Bootlick

Politically contested territory, maybe

Bourgeon

""BRACHIATE Having branches in pairs, decussated, all nearly horizontal, and each pair at right angles with the next, as in the maple and lilac.""

Waved the mark 1 26 down

Waved sword I discarded

Flourished after cereal was served

*Surface for slicing rye, say

Base for cutting loaf

Where bank directors make their cuts

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

5A's source of building materials

Girl holding up train (wordplay)

Female supporter at the match

Wedding party attendant

Secured position from which to advance

Encourages former strange sort of story

Part of a combat zone

Cheered up after book's corrected

Made vibrant

Bishop, having got put straight, cheered up

BRIQUETTE

*Hit at an intersection, maybe

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

Acted like a toady

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).

Stupid bird (wordplay)

Stupid bird?

Attacked with fierceness and anger

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)

Broken by nasty sequel, old lady is mocked

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

Supported, nevertheless, with locks

Sweet container taken around and held up

Supported and lifted ice-cream pot, perhaps

Backcross

Backdrop

Backlight

Tried to distance oneself from a gaffe, say

Backslap

Backstab

Backstop

Backtrack

Ballyrag

Provided with a supported coping

Performed aerobatics, here and there.

Appeared at county fairs, e.g

Appeared at county fairs, for example

Barricado

BASTARDISE Same as bastardize.bastardize.

Deriving from more than one source or style.

Bastinado

Sally, keep up the fight!

Fight with Oscar winner Sally (wordplay)

'Sally, keep up the fight!'

Beachcomb

Building material for walls

Becudgel

Bedrivel

Beglamour

Beset by enemy forces (or by troubles!)

In a difficult situation - under siege

Under siege

Situated or occurring below the surface of the ground: belowground telephone cables.

Splashed with liquid

Like a painter's smock

Splashed (with)

Strewed

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