2-Letter Words Starting with B

Bushing

Unsettled forest land

Having no bushes

Resembling a bush

Bushtit

Bushwah

Meat shop (look!)

Owners of Pork Place (wordplay)

Sellers of meat (look!)

Needless or brutal killing

Needless or brutal killing, slaughter

Indiscriminate slaughter

Russian peasant wear

Russian headscarves

Babyhood

Cold tea consumed by trite reveller

Wild and drunken celebration

Drunken party

Female priest can chat and be funny

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

Bacchant

Single-minded people (wordplay)

Male roles for the composer (wordplay)

Ones not tied down

Backache

Like most MPs, needing support with seat

(Of MP) not holding office

Bet against the replacements not in the cabinet

Backchat

Support ministers creating a scene

Maintain ministers should set the scene

Painted fabric scenery

Reverse shots on court (wordplay)

Not hush-hush tennis shots!

Support workers making plays in court

Backhaul

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

*Source of a halo effect

*Runs down, in a way

Speaks ill of

Severely criticizes

Baghouse

Bakeshop

Payment to expedite service

Just the tip of the East

Cook's welcoming that woman with hot tip

Canopy for a shaven jaw (wordplay)

Unadorned feature beneath a cloth canopy

'Lacking a beard, this will give some cover over the head (9)'

Baldhead

Ballhawk

Hypes vigorously

Overpublicizes

'N Sync's waist sizes (wordplay)

Range of radio frequencies

Internet user's concern

Those forcing expatriation

Expellers

Driving away

Expatriating.

Barathea

Barghest

Barhop

One puts pen to paper when there's pressure

Four-wheeled carriages.

With a blush, beat one up thoroughly

In a shy and timid manner

""A type of white blood cell, also BASOPHIL""

Basophil

Flying gurnards.

Seaside building with dressing rooms

It's fitted for a washer

Cabana, e.g

A large mass of intrusive igneous rock believed to have solidified deep within the earth.

After-shower garments

Luxury hotel room items

Spa garb

Places to go

It's tested with a toe

Rubber duck's milieu

It's often draining

Bauhinia

God Only Knows group

All Summer Long singers

They sang "In My Room"

Go shelling, perhaps

Use a metal detector, maybe

Add to a shell collection, say

Miami tourist, often

One packing up the answers to the seven starred clues, maybe

Landing point (for seaborne troops)

Troops' landing site

Normandy campaign objective

Beachy

On the waterfront, say

Trunks, bikinis etc

*Thongs and surf shop T-shirts

Cabana items

BEAMISH radiant

BEARISH in the manner of a bear

Bechalk

White sauces

Bechance

Bechance

Becharm

Beclothe

Beclothe

Bedchair

Bedight

Queen's coverings

Some linens

Beechy

Beechnut

Behavior

It is monitored in the football crowd

Measurable activity of an organism

Conduct - performance

Anne Boleyn's fate

Lady Jane Grey's fate

Method of execution

Whales, elephants, hippos, et al.

Big, powerful things

Huge animals mentioned in Job.

Eyes, beautywise

The seers might be getting to grips with them

Eyewitnesses

Grasp there's a person outside observing

To open self up, keep observing

Looking at

Benefitting

Behowl

Beknight

In the middle with Pa in, perhaps

Dish around vessel mostly is beef

Complain in a whiny manner

English word

Standard set by a substitute (wordplay)

Standard score from judges (wordplay)

Don't let Harmon play (wordplay)

Ignorant get behind beaten

Ignorant; caught in dark

Overtaken by dark

BENTHON the organisms living in the benthos

Benthos

Leaves, as in a will

Leaves in will

Leaves the Basque revolution

Berdache

Berhyme

Begged (someone for something)

Asked pleadingly but got rotten cheese in place of retirement

Earnestly sought religious area associated with revolutionary in plot

Entreats

Petitions

Implores

Beshadow

Beshame

Beshiver

Beshout

Beshrew

Beshroud

Besmooth

Besoothe

Besoothe

Bethank

Bethesda

Bethorn

Elizabeth should have had this in mind

Elizabeth should have minded this

Girl should have considered

Bethump

Promise that makes both alter

Harbottle is thrown out by union

Promise to join criminal at brothel

Promised in marriage

Pledged to be married

Engaged to be married

Under a spell

Head intersection is enchanted

2005 Nicole Kidman film

Possesses raised lacework with burns on

Workers protecting women long to make entrances

Bloomer associated with Iris by John Berger

Bheesty

Competitor who skis and shoots

Skiing/shooting Olympian*

Olympian with a rifle

Two-event events

Two-event sporting competitions

Winter Games competitions

Conceited, like Humpty Dumpty (wordplay)

Conceited with large cranium

Full of oneself

Secrets aren't safe with them

Windbags

Genus of parasitic worms

Billhead

Billhook

What 'nano-' means

Bimethyl

Like Popular Science

Six times a year

Like AARP The Magazine

Moral aspect of medical research

Book about a legend (wordplay)

Life far more than a sentence (wordplay)

Kind of book.

Autoclave's target

Danger that spreads

Virulent virus or terrifying toxin*

Periodic change in behaviour of animals

Organic section (wordplay)

Life-support system (wordplay)

Where the wild things are (wordplay)

Biphenyl

Where finches dip

Robins' rest stops

Sites of avian ablution

A cheep place to stay (wordplay)

American nest-box

*Woodcraft hobbyist's creation

Birdshot

What some candles signify

Occasions for which clowns may be booked

Age-old celebrations

Beauty spot, perhaps

Means of identification, in fiction.

Blemish on the skin

Baby figure (wordplay)

Demographer's concern

Figure that concerned Malthus

""An herbaceous plant (Trillium erectum), and its astringent rootstock, which is said to have medicinal properties. Trillium erectum), and its astringent rootstock, which is said to have medicinal properties.""

""A genus of herbs and shrubs (Aristolochia), reputed to have medicinal properties. Aristolochia), reputed to have medicinal properties.""

Bishop

Phobic sir (anagram)

Seat of a Catholic official

See, that's for the church

""Of or pertaining to bismuth; containing bismuth, when this element has its higher valence; as, bismuthic oxide. as, bismuthic oxide.""

Bitchy

Somewhat bitter.

""A small kind of whale, of the genus Globicephalus, of several species. The most common is G. melas. Also sometimes applied to other whales of larger size. Globicephalus, of several species. The most common is G. melas. Also sometimes applied to other whales of larger size.""

Spot of darkness (wordplay)

Spot gloomy principal

*Facial blemish

They're obviously shocked

Blanch

Utter obscenities or profanities

Curse afflicting sheep and lamb

Curse MP - he's able to change...

That's sacrilege!

Sacrilege, profane speech

Profane talk or behaviour

Spoke nonsensically

Babbled

Long-winded sort

Someone talking a lot about a little

One who talks senselessly; the barrel (anagram)

Laundry Spectators (wordplay)

Seats in the sun.

Salon workers, at times

Lightening up (wordplay)

Process of whitening

Whitening.

Not perfect

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

Imperfect

Marks that spoil the appearance

Teen's woe, euphemistically

Small marks or flaws

Blencher

Turning pale

Quailing.

Ran around to that place and chatted

Chatted, then allowed her to get into bed

Reprobates ultimately bomb boats

So-and-sos offering second-rate barges

Blighty

Dashing crooner keeps entertaining

""A small fish (Amblyopsis spel\'91us) destitute of eyes, found in the waters of the Mammoth Cave, in Kentucky. Related fishes from other caves take the same name. Amblyopsis spel\'91us) destitute of eyes, found in the waters of the Mammoth Cave, in Kentucky. Related fishes from other caves take the same name.""

Joyous socialist waffled

No rocket scientist, he

Idiot wants to impede the boss

Stupid person

A sanguinary massacre

Total rout

A gory massacre - might be cleansing (wordplay)

A slaughterhouse (wordplay)

R-rated film feature, maybe

Carnage in Slaughterhouse (wordplay)

Inflamed (of eye)

Reddened, inflamed eye

(Of eye) streaked with red

Mix lice with broth, as more patchy

BLOTCH to mark with large spots

Blotch

Big talkers

Gasconaders

Windbags

They may spout off

Airman's name for jet plane.

Small burner with a very hot flame

Welder's tool

Bluehead

(Astronomy) a shift in the spectral lines of a stellar spectrum towards the blue end of the visible region relative to the wavelengths of these lines in the terrestrial spectrum: a result of the Doppler effect caused by stars approaching the solar system Compare redshift

They're used to snag mooring lines

Docking aids

Mooring equipment

One may start a row from there

Punt's spot

Riverside structure

Birds

Medical obstruction (wordplay)

Hit on ice

Could be physical obstruction

Boehmite

Dvorak and Smetana

Unconventional people bemoan his undoing

Convention flouters

What lettuce lovers do (wordplay)

Bolthole

Stunner or shocker (wordplay)

Jaw-dropping news

Piece of devastating news

Enola Gay device

Aircraft's aiming device

Volatile big shot takes medic on board aerial war contraption

Highly stupid fellows.

Foolish people with ossified tops (wordplay)

Stupid ones.

Bonhomie

A pleasant and affable disposition; geniality.

Sobbing

BOOKISH pertaining to books

Novel storage area (wordplay)

Supporter of literature (wordplay)

Where volume may be turned up (wordplay)

Businesses that thrive on high volume sales (wordplay)

They sell the dead presumably? It's novel to the markets!

In a rough bad-mannered way

Rudely, coarsely

Borehole

Boschbok

Boshvark

Botchy

Aggravating in night-robe

Taking the time

One bright rogue is a pest

Bothrium

Large containers for cut flowers.

Boxfish

Boxhaul

Boxthorn

Boychick

Brachial

In zoology, to use arms for locomotion