2-Letter Words Starting with B

A temporary wooden screen(military)

Make grandiose speeches

Speechify

Primitive native weapon

Weapon akin to peashooter

Tube for propelling darts, pellets etc

Hockey division

Rink marker

Marker in Sochi that hockey players should cross with care

Good name for a birdwatcher (wordplay)

Bird that quails?

Bird that quails (wordplay)

A mineral

Able to be boiled

Carved paneling

A genial manner in France

Good-natured manner.

Good fellowship, genial manner

The patron saint of Germany

Pope who instituted All Saints' Day.

Patron saint of Germany

Insects that damage books [n pl. pl]

A mineral

""To collect plants for study, also BOTANIZE""

Collect and study plants

A fish stew

Fashionable little shop

Trendy mall unit

Small shop selling fashion clothes

Concave

""A thin slice of meat, also BRACIOLA""

Partition in shaft of a mine

An ore of manganese

Like one who can be bought

Open to corruption

Venal

Explosive effect

A mineral

Resembling a buffalo

Relating to or resembling a buffalo

Square-sail rope

Type of nautical rope

Furling rope

Trouble in the Aussie wilderness

Rapidly-spreading conflagration

Scrub conflagration

Resembling a bush

Fall away in faith or morals

Revert to old habits

Left in rear, go astray

To subject to the action of bacteria.

""To divide a territory into small, hostile states.""

Devices of ancient warfare, like catapults

To become barbarous.

Doll swallows a large quantity of 26

Singer injected with British drug

Go to sleep with this bimbo model (not about to split)

Barrier, to block a street perhaps

Defensive structure, maybe improvised

Temporary blockage to obstruct movement

English word

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

""See Bastinado, n. Bastinado, n.""

On the waterfront, say

Blessed are the meek, for one

"Blessed are the meek," for one

Thrash this blessed thing as it is due

Pain the source of this turn-of-the-century novel

""A conical calcareous fossil, tapering to a point at the lower extremity, with a conical cavity at the other end, where it is ordinarily broken; but when perfect it contains a small chambered cone, called the phragmocone, prolonged, on one side, into a delicate concave blade; the thunderstone. It is the internal shell of a cephalopod related to the sepia, and belonging to an extinct family. The belemnites are found in rocks of the Jurassic and Cretaceous ages.""

Rah-rah, generally speaking (wordplay)

Looking for scraps (wordplay)

Primed for battle

""A fabric having a crosswise ribbed effect made of silk, wool, or synthetic fibers.""

Explosive buried under mountain peak to yield clay

""A yellowish, white, or reddish-gray crystalline powder, NH 2 C 6 H 4 C 6 H 4 NH 2 , used in dyes and to detect blood stains.""

""An alkaloid obtained, as a bitter, yellow substance, from the root of the barberry, gold thread, and other plants.""

Adjective meaning resembling

Competitor who skis and shoots

Skiing/shooting Olympian*

Olympian with a rifle

""Concave on both sides; as, biconcave vertebr\'91. as, biconcave vertebr\'91.""

Divide into two branches

Fork into two branches

Bat, cue made with fir, perhaps, having 2 branches

""(Mathematics) Maths (of a function, relation, etc.) associating two sets in such a way that every member of each set is uniquely paired with a member of the other the mapping from the set of married men to the set of married women is bijective in a monogamous society""

""Having two lips, as the corols of certain flowers.""

Affecting living tissue

Organic section (wordplay)

Life-support system (wordplay)

Where the wild things are (wordplay)

Having two sections

Divided into two sections

Involving two sides

""PINNATE resembling a feather, also PINNATED""

A cheep place to stay (wordplay)

American nest-box

*Woodcraft hobbyist's creation

Baby figure (wordplay)

Demographer's concern

Figure that concerned Malthus

""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""

With more than one unknown verse, song dividing taste

Adjective meaning resembling

Hit from behind, say

Unseen run, perhaps

Hit, seemingly from nowhere

Something tracked for purebreds

Drunken Biondello reveals pedigree

*Horse breeder's concern

Adjective meaning resembling

Mourner's fabric

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

To hum; to boom.

Ignorant middle class, per H. L. Mencken

Mencken's great unwashed

Stupid people, as H.L. Mencken put it

In zoology, to use arms for locomotion

Cranium

Branchia

Restaurant using money I put in before

Restaurant for staff officers by a lake

Restaurant that might serve steak frites

One responsible for bust-up (wordplay)

Money that is admitting Queen supporter

It was burned in the '60s

If band's conga formation (wordplay)

A hollow row (wordplay)

One may be on it at the cash dispenser!

BRECCIA a type of rock

Artwork made from a clog, creatively coated in cheese

Lawyer meeting patient, maybe a carrier

Short job for Belli?

Accessory in a drug deal (wordplay)

Sulphur (when associated with hellfire)

Material for a fiery sermon (wordplay)

Symbolically S might make the edge hard

An oval or pearshaped diamond having its entire surface cut in triangular facets.

Small fuel block

Data entered on computer

Patio fuel unit

General perhaps left following attack

Hard-to-hit barn area (wordplay)

Volley, as of denunciation.

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

English word

*Fast-spreading blaze, perhaps

Minor rural blaze

Type of conflagration.

Make bestial

To make brutal; beasty; unfeeling; or inhuman.

BUILD to construct

Substance used in synthetic rubber.

A colourless gaseous hydrocarbon used in the manufacture of synthetic rubber

What an intriguing Empire style!

Like a hard-to-navigate bureaucracy

Describing a style of architecture.

Certain ship

Adjective meaning resembling

Same as bastardize.bastardize.

To make or prove to be a bastard; to stigmatize as a bastard; to declare or decide legally to be illegitimate.

Early example of an oxymoron (wordplay)

Early, while the pub is still open

Not - - means none too soon

Seeming to be true or authentic

Creditworthy (wordplay)

Instilling credence

Anesthetic in some cough drops

To sprinkle over; to scatter over.

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

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.""

From Beirut Joe and I removed jewellery

Jewellery especially trinkets

Trinkets from Beirut Joe and I distributed

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

Rot, in a good way

Break down

The subject of a biography.

Discipline dealing with living organisms

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

Town one's arrived in (wordplay)

Natal region (wordplay)

Where one enters the race (wordplay)

Opal, for example

Peridot, for example

Gem for particular occasion.

""A salt of tartaric acid in which the base replaces but half the acid hydrogen; an acid tartrate, as cream of tartar.""

""To prepare, treat, impregnate, or coat with bitumen.""

Strange and unusual thing

Cheerful bachelor landed male part

Carefree bishop able to move about easily

Cheery.

BOLSHEVIZE

Library on wheels

Kind of library.

Division is problematic

Indecisive boundary row

Only just acceptable

BOURGEOIS A size of type between long primer and brevier. See Type. Type.

Expurgate the indelicate unnecessarily

Bimbo extremely lewd, perhaps come up and use a figleaf

Censor wicked and loathsome extremists heading for Richmond in US state capital

Cut, in a way

Desex the text

Expurgate.

Subsidiary rail system

Subsidiary rail track

Secondary railway

Capable of being connected by a bridge or as if by a bridge.

Freebootery.

""A coast of armor for the body, consisting of scales or plates, sometimes overlapping each other, generally of metal, and sewed to linen or other material. It was worn in the Middle Ages.""

Two-masted sailing vessel

Craft work of giant encased in salt

Giant waves in the sea for boat

Talent that outshines all others

Sparkling aptitude

Genius; brightness

A minute bronchial tube.

Bluntness of speech, French style.

G. Gordon Liddy's peepers (wordplay)

Same as Germicide. Germicide.

Sleep-inducing drug class

Drug counter snapped on universal charge

Drug ban gripped university class

Variant of barkentine .

Active goodness

To reduce (ores).

Lover of books

Collector of books

Book lover

Last course of a greasy meal (wordplay)

Type of chemical salt

Indigestion relief

Very rich person

One might support a foundation

Even richer person

""The application of the principles and techniques of the natural sciences, especially biology, to investigate and solve problems in clinical medicine.""

English word

Similar to a bladder.

Adjective meaning resembling

Real ball fan.

Its cargo was in circulation (wordplay)

Red Cross vehicle

Its cargo is in circulation

Standard wording of a contract

Hack writing

Formulaic writing

English word

Owners of the means of production

*Capitalist class, in Marxism

The middle class

Spray of flowers worn

Subject of a recent popular song.

Flower in a lapel

In the direction of the breadth.

Resembling a bristle in stiffness.

A spore borne by a basidium.

One looking for scraps may show it

Aggression of drunken reeling celeb

Aggressive behaviour

A collection of books; a library.

""Having two long, narrow, whiplike appendages.""

Language in a fish market

Foul, vulgar, abusive talk

London fish market

The degree to which or rate at which a drug or other substance is absorbed or becomes available at the site of physiological activity after administration.

... yaks, yaks, yaks ...

... yaks, yaks, yaks ..

Gossip from British bird about soaps

""A double salt of boric and silicic acids, as in the natural minerals tourmaline, datolite, etc.""

Ill in barnet? I could set that right!

Perfumed oil for making hair glossy

One worker in East going after fish oil

Professional with racket has something to admire

Professional

My preferred transport conveys head, being efficient

A virus which infects bacteria; -- also colloquially called phage in laboratory jargon.phage in laboratory jargon.

Any of various fungi of the subdivision Basidiomycota.

""A crystalline compound, C 7 H 6 N 2 , that is used in organic synthesis and inhibits the growth of certain microorganisms.""

""The property of being biologically compatible by not producing a toxic, injurious, or immunological response in living tissue: As a result of its strength and biocompatibility, the material is often used in medical devices.""

Naturally breaking down

Capable of decaying

Able to be broken down by bacteria

REFRINGENCE

One place for overnight guests (2 words)

Pay to stay where it's wood (wordplay)

Where Sherlock Holmes lived

Fish stew from Provence

Rich fish stew

Rich spicy fish stew

English word

""An ergot alkaloid, C 32 H 40 BrN 5 O 5 , that slows dopamine turnover and inhibits prolactin secretion and is used to treat Parkinson's disease and to retard the growth of various pituitary tumors.""

Bureaucrat

BUREAUCRAT An official of a bureau; esp. an official confirmed in a narrow and arbitrary routine.

""Any of a group of chemical compounds with a common molecular structure and similar pharmacological effects, used as antianxiety agents, muscle relaxants, sedatives, hypnotics, and sometimes as anticonvulsants.""

English word

Natural glow (wordplay)

*Natural light (wordplay)

The glow of a glowworm

Spherical form of carbon