2-Letter Words Starting with B

Moral aspect of medical research

Biogas

Biogeny

BIOGEN a hypothetical unit of protoplasm

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*

Biologic

Biology

""Use of biological principles in explaining human behavior, especially social behavior.""

Gregor Mendel, for instance.

Life-science lab worker

Jeff's job, officially

Biomass

Of life expectancy measurement

Applying statistical analysis to biology

Like the most secure passports nowadays

Science of relationship of organisms to environment

Ecology.

Bionomy

Bioplasm

Biopsy

Periodic change in behaviour of animals

CDC concern, at times

Laboratory concern

Early movie projectors.

""A device that detects, records, and transmits information regarding a physiological change or process.""

Of or having to do with the interaction of biological and social forces: the biosocial aspects of disease.

Organic section (wordplay)

Life-support system (wordplay)

Where the wild things are (wordplay)

Biotoxin

Having two sections

Divided into two sections

Involving two sides

BIPEDAL having two feet

Biphenyl

""PINNATE resembling a feather, also PINNATED""

PYRAMID to increase by adding gradually

Where finches dip

Robins' rest stops

Sites of avian ablution

Twittering twit (wordplay)

Silly person (with sparrow's mind?)

Silly fellow poked bard in rib

Spots for canaries

Canaries' locations

Parakeets' homes

Coos and hoots

Tweets without hashtags

Some tweets

Birdfarm

A cheep place to stay (wordplay)

American nest-box

*Woodcraft hobbyist's creation

Birdie

Birdlime

Birdlime

Snacks for frequent flyers

They may be scattered

Ornithophiles' purchases

Birdseye

Birdshot

High notes (wordplay)

Series of tweets (wordplay)

Birretta

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.""

Forking

Halving

Division in half

Evenly dividing lines

Bisexual

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.""

""Of, relating to, or characteristic of bison.""

""SULFATE to treat with sulfuric acid, also SULPHATE""

""SULFIDE a sulfur compound, also SULFID, SULPHID, SULPHIDE""

""SULFITE a chemical salt, also SULPHITE""

Bitchy

Bitewing

Bitstock

Most sour-tasting

Most cynical

Most acrid

Bitter

Somewhat bitter.

Bivalent

With more than one unknown verse, song dividing taste

Bivouac

BIZARRE a strangely striped flower

Jet flier (wordplay)

Pie filling of a sort

'White Album' song

Blackfin

""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.""

Blacking

Relative of boycott.

The Weavers topped it in 1952

Bar in Hollywood

Exact money (wordplay)

Motive for murder, perhaps

Film murder motive, perhaps

Western mule deer

Mule deer

Deer.

Adjective meaning resembling

Blanch

Blasty

Blasting

BLAZING blaze

Blazon

Lightening up (wordplay)

Process of whitening

Whitening.

Least clear, in a way

Most misty

Superlatively fuzzy

They are for the bloody letting of a single bed

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

Turning pale

Quailing.

Good things to count

Grace and others.

God's provisions

Reprobates ultimately bomb boats

So-and-sos offering second-rate barges

Blighty

Dashing crooner keeps entertaining

Blindage

""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.""

'Pin the tail on the donkey' prop

Piece of cloth etc to prevent one seeing

Item for a TV panelist.

Milton's final affliction

Failing to see new elevated purpose in heaven

Not seeing death? That's new over in heaven

Hit from behind, say

Unseen run, perhaps

Hit, seemingly from nowhere

Small legless lizard

Legless lizard

Snake-like creature's undiscerning malignant software

Blinkard

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

Dairy Queen offerings

Winter phenomena.

Big storms

BLIZZARD a heavy snowstorm

Blocky

Bloodfin

Likeliest to get an R rating, perhaps

Most violent

Blooding

Something tracked for purebreds

Drunken Biondello reveals pedigree

*Horse breeder's concern

Bloody

Bloomy

Mix lice with broth, as more patchy

BLOTCH to mark with large spots

Blotch

Blotty

Blousy

Bloviate

Goes on and on about nothing

Metallic blue insects

Bluebottles

*Family of insects that can smell dead animals from up to a mile away...ew

Air-concentrating tubes

If it comes to blows, they're fatal

Glassmakers' tools

Blowsy

Blowzy

Bluebill

*Symbols of happiness

Over the Rainbow fauna

They are not flying high at Ninian Park

Bass feed

Panfish.

N.H.L. rink features

Long Island oyster

Small edible oyster

Siamese cat

Plan to have naughty image (wordplay)

Design for a rude picture (wordplay)

Depressing picture (wordplay)

(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

Bluesy

Bluetick

Blurry

Boarding

Adjective meaning resembling

Boatbill

Was I not AB? Wrong - I was!

Ship's officer sat in bow with a wound

Ship's officer

Bobbery

Hexagonal-meshed laces

P.G.A. Hall of Famer Jones

Birds named for their song.

Migratory songbirds

Like some breeds of cats

Cut short

Like a rabbit, say, albeit modified in corporeal form

Birds

Bocaccio

Most impressive, in dialect

Groovy, dude!

Amazing, in dialect

Bodysuit

Boehmite

Dvorak and Smetana

Unconventional people bemoan his undoing

Convention flouters

Boiserie

Bolivar

Country with no currency!

100 centavos in a South American country

La Paz currency

Bollix

Bollox

Boltonia

I cast bomb, being pompous in speech

Using too high-flown speech.

Like many stump speeches

Mourner's fabric

That's the stuff to blow up the bottom of the magazine

Bombesin

To hum; to boom.

Enola Gay device

Aircraft's aiming device

Volatile big shot takes medic on board aerial war contraption

Bombycid

Bondmaid

Bongoist

Bonhomie

Boniface

Bonnet

Curling tournaments

Ignorant middle class, per H. L. Mencken

Mencken's great unwashed

Stupid people, as H.L. Mencken put it

Boogey

Sobbing

BOOKISH pertaining to books

In a rough bad-mannered way

Rudely, coarsely

Certain stores in the U. S.

Stores with arrays of leather goods, usually

Bootlick

Boracite

Along the edges of

What the unclued letters...

On the verge or boundary of

Credit card companies encourage it

Taking a loan

Having something on loan

Domineering sort of ownership, perhaps

Control freak's trait

Tendency to play dictator

Garden variety (wordplay)

Such gardens give trouble to Caliban

Derived from plants

Botanica

Botanise

Botanise

Ones with growing concerns (wordplay)

Plant experts

Botanize

Botanize

Botchy

Aggravating in night-robe

Taking the time

One bright rogue is a pest

Bothrium

Bottling

The act of reaching the lowest point before stabilising or improving

BOTULIN a nerve poison

""An anaerobic, rod-shaped bacterium (Clostridium botulinum) that secretes botulin and inhabits soils.""

BOTULIN a nerve poison

Botulism

Rich broths

French broths

Bouncy

Ample or generous (Lady!)

Generous lady of Farquahar (wordplay)

Mrs. Ivy Baker Priest's home in Utah.

Middle-class (person)

Shapiro's sort of poet

Member(s) of the middle class

Bourride

English word

Bousouki

Shops providing bouquets I ordered

Small dress shops

Chic shops

English word

Bouzouki