2-Letter Words Starting with B

Speaks irreverently.

Curses

Blatherer

Turner entertained by escort's prattle

Windbag's activity

BLEACH to {whiten=v}

Causing flaws in

Spotting part of problem is hinge

Its damaging to search engine going around the French motorway on QT (wordplay)

Blether

BLIMPISH like Colonel Blimp

Cheerful band, though stupid (wordplay)

Prattling away in happy band

Carefree group talking nonsense

Cheerful bachelor landed male part

Carefree bishop able to move about easily

Cheery.

Impede leaders viewed as idiots

Idiots obstruct leaders

Black-shoed shuffle for group of 19

Stronghold reinforced against enemy fire

Military fortification

Pioneer fort

Bloodbath

Scents make sense to him

John Lawrence, in spring, gets the dog

Dog to follow trail

Bloodshed

Blotchy

Blowfish

Bluefish

Blueshift

Vaguely azure quality

Guns by hill going off in confusion

Showing embarrassment

Boarfish

Covers punts, for example

Bodycheck

"Peace, Bread and Land" movement

Peace, Bread and Land movement

BOLSHEVIZE

Shocking surprises

Beautiful women, they'll leave you in pieces!

Shockers

Instruments on B-29's.

Devices found aboard B-29s

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

Bonefish

Like Mother Hubbard (wordplay)

Like Mother Hubbard?

Really, really dumb

Botchery

Annoying to disturb a few

Mob there so unruly, causing trouble

Annoying mob's here to riot

BOUNDER one that {bounds=v}

Boxhaul

The manners or behavior of a boy.

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

Brachiate

""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

Minerva's original idea (wordplay)

Birth of a notion (wordplay)

Bean product (wordplay)

Most expansive, as a tree

Perhaps unable to give bird sanctuary praise, farm shut up

Branchlet

Subsidiary rail system

Subsidiary rail track

Secondary railway

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

Like good air

British herbal tea brewed is fit for inhaling

Breathy

Breathing

Dead tired (wordplay)

Still excited (wordplay)

Dead excited (wordplay)

Breeching

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

BRIGHTEN to make {bright=adj}

Light from Beth's ring's shimmering

Magnitude of book's propriety

Noon at the Loch

Metal parts or fixtures made bright by polishing.

Fine woolen fabric

'The narrow way': the clergy's material

Densely woven fabric

Newspaper on a double bed (wordplay)

The Times is terribly bad, so there!

Paper covering double bed (wordplay)

Brochette

A minute bronchial tube.

Plural or third person singular

""Of or pertaining to bronchitis; as, bronchitic inflammation. as, bronchitic inflammation.""

Striking endlessly once British disease

n. affliction common to rodeo clowns

n. affliction common to rodeo clowns

Brother

Hitlerian militia member

(Dress of) Nazi militiaman

Storm trooper

Brushback

Brushland

Brushwood

Brushwork

Bryophyte

Of or pertaining to bryophytes.

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

Buckthorn

Buckwheat

Stupid bird (wordplay)

Stupid bird?

Like a buffoon; consisting in low jests or gestures.

Buhrstone

Bullfight

The bovine took off!

Stubborn fish with bleeding heart

As obstinate as the monster of Knossos

Bullrush

BUMPKIN a clumsy rustic

Low-growing plant of the dogwood family

""A grass growing in bunches and affording pasture. In California, Atropis tenuifolia, Festuca scabrella, and several kinds of Stipa are favorite bunch grasses. In Utah, Eriocoma cuspidata is a good bunch grass.Atropis tenuifolia, Festuca scabrella, and several kinds of Stipa are favorite bunch grasses. In Utah, Eriocoma cuspidata is a good bunch grass.""

They hold hands

Burnisher

Burnish

Burthen

Bushel

Pit viper; sham brutes (anagram)

Top horticulturist (wordplay)

Venomous pit viper

Backwoodsman in awful rush in clapped-out car

So two heads of state spoke across the Atlantic? That's criminal!

Former US president meeting forest officer, backwoodsman

Attacks from concealment

Fights guerrilla-style

Attacks from hiding

Butchery

Butcher

Atlantic gunnel

Wild licorice

Corner with talk of flowers (wordplay)

Waylay Rose, perhaps

Accost and detain for conversation

Turnaround pass play, or two phone parts

Football play

Do without restraint (wordplay)

Drunken revels - a China cabal (anagram)

Roman festival; wild revelry

The state of bachelorhood; the whole body of bachelors.

MP without office

Rank and file MP

MP not holding office

Not in the cabinet, the rest of the MPs

Section of parliament that might check BSE ban

Bribes help to bring in sponsors? Just the opposite

Bribes

Backhand

Backhaul

Backlasher

Backlash

Backlight

Part of Pimlico

Part of Pimlico's field

Backwash

Badmouth

A court attendant entrusted with duties such as the maintenance of order in a courtroom during a trial.

Baksheesh

Bakshish

Baldachino

Trumpeting to the masses

Hyping

Extreme evictions

Ostracisms

Barbershop

BAROGRAPH An instrument for recording automatically the variations of atmospheric pressure.

Barrelhead

Kind of jazz.

Jelly Roll Morton style

Old-time saloon

The quality of being bashful.

Basophilia

Of or pertaining to a batholith.

The measurement of the depth of bodies of water.

""A free-diving deep-sea vessel consisting of a large flotation hull with a crewed observation capsule attached to its underside, usually capable of reaching full ocean depths.""

They work under pressure

Deep-sea vessel

Diving bell.

Beebe vehicle

Frogs

Oklahoma and West Virginia

Attackers of Truk.

Units of a fleet.

Beachcomb

Metal detector user, maybe

Shore patroller (wordplay)

One with a metal detector

Sites of many an exclusive summer home

Behavior like that of a bear.

Bedchamber

Bedrench

An approach to psychology that emphasizes observable measurable behavior.

Hazarding a guess: worker with really good manners (wordplay)

Beknight

Bellwether

Bellyacher

BELLYACHE Pain in the bowels; colic.

Substitute player: Slang.

Seldom-used substitute

*Sub in the dugout

Benighted

Bequeathal

Bequeath

Bescorch

Beshadow

Beshiver

Beshroud

Besmirch

Besmooth

Having whiskers.

Enchantment

Lover of books

Collector of books

Book lover

BIBLIOPHIL

A library.

""BICHROMATE 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.""

Bichromate

Some magazines

MORPHEMIC Of or pertaining to a morpheme.

Kind of engineer

Biochemist

BIOETHIC relating to ethical questions in biology

Biographee

Some writers

Lives in a bookshop!

They're under 920

(used with a sing. verb) The science that deals with the application of physics to biological processes and phenomena.

BIORHYTHM

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They're owed by inheritance

Opals, for example

Gems associated with particular months

Garnet and others

""An evergreen shrub of the genus Purshia, especially P. tridentata of western North America, having bitter-tasting leaves with fuzzy undersides that are nutritious for deer, elk, and antelope.""

Blackfish

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Blackheart

Horseless carriage casualty.

Hammer and anvil users

They were the earliest car mechanics

Blackthorn

By law mother might be culpable

Mother, by law breaking, is culpable

Responsible for a wrong

Blandisher

Blandish

Blasphemer

Blasphemy

""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.""

Cursing humble soap's slip-up

Irreverent towards sacred things

Sacrilegious in talk

Real ball fan.

Blindfish

Forts made of squared timbers

Hunting dogs

Items used in "light" boxing (wordplay)

Removes paint, in a way

Vault openers at times

Blueshift

Compassionate person delaying attainment of nirvana (Buddhism)

Bodycheck

Socially unconventional style of, eg, artists and writers

Bolshevism

BOLSHEVIZE

Bolshevize

Bondholder

BONEFISH a marine fish

BOOKISH pertaining to books

Library staples