2-Letter Words Starting with B

Bemuzzle

English word

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

Bepimple

Bepimple

Berascal

""A chemical element of the transuranic series. Chemical symbol Bk; atomic number 97; atomic weight 247. It is a radioactive element, with no stable isotopes; the longest-lived isotope is of mass number 247.07, decaying by alpha-emission with a half-life of 1,400 years. The isotope with atomic weight 249 has a half-life of 314 days, and was isolated in weighable quantities.""

Bernicle

Adjective meaning resembling

BERSERK out of control

Aerospace structural material

Fourth element on the periodic table

Be 51 stone in front, without odd tummy

Beslime

Besmile

Closest friend embracing one in a sexually depraved way (wordplay)

There's none better than this one to have on your side in such a nasty way

There's not one better than the beastly way one is on your side

Bestowal

Asian palm seeds

Tropical kernels

Basque leader and separatists admit resistance and murder over breaches of trust

Promise that makes both alter

Harbottle is thrown out by union

Promise to join criminal at brothel

Beveller

Sloping the edges of.

Bewailer

Bewail

Causes to become perplexed and confused

Confounds

Addles

Biacetyl

Competitor who skis and shoots

Skiing/shooting Olympian*

Olympian with a rifle

Two-event events

Two-event sporting competitions

Winter Games competitions

AXIALLY pertaining to an axial

Feeder, strangely slim, keeps in charge of devotion to the book

One skilled in the knowledge of the Bible; a demonstrator of religious truth by the Scriptures.

BIBLE a book containing the Old and New Testaments

Having two Houses (wordplay)

Like the United States legislature

Like Japan's national diet

""Having two heads or origins, as a muscle.""

Like some long-distance relationships

Like the Atlantic bluefin tuna

Like a New York/Los Angeles romance

Of two colors.

Bicolour

Bicycler

Tour de France activity

Armstrong, for one

One on two wheels

Many a Beijing commuter

Biennale

Cook nine basil plants

Plants that last two years

Plants that live two years

BIFILAR having two threads

GEMINAL having two matching substituted groups on the same atom

How Archie Bunker thought

Letters such as b and m

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

Bilander

Two-faced (wordplay)

Like some treaties

Involving both sides

Genus of parasitic worms

Shakira, for one

Able to code-switch, say

Fluent in double-talk (wordplay)

BILIOUS pertaining to {bile=n}

""A reddish yellow pigment present in human bile, and in that from carnivorous and herbivorous animals; the normal biliary pigment.""

Pool of stagnant water

Backwater, in Australia

Australian stream-bed

Cosby two-by-four (wordplay)

Cosby two-by-four?

Annoyance or aid (wordplay)

Soldiers quartered in private homes

Housing, as soldiers

Placing in quarters.

Quartering

Money holders

Pickpockets' targets

Billhead

Billhook

A form of spot the ball (wordplay)

A sort of spot the ball (wordplay)

A game of spot the ball (wordplay)

What 'nano-' means

Billowy

Unpaid debt rolling and swelling

The wavy account has not been settled

The outstanding debt is swelling

Billycan

Right sort of hat for one who rules the roost

Bimethyl

Like Popular Science

Six times a year

Like AARP The Magazine

So as to bind.

Compass cases on shipboard.

Ship's compass housings

Perhaps they're encompassing there on board

Concerned with double vision (wordplay)

Buy-one-get-one-free item (wordplay)

For both eyes

Basic algebra expressions

Mathematical expressions

Biocycle

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

Bioplasm

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

BIPEDAL having two feet

Biphenyl

Coos and hoots

Tweets without hashtags

Some tweets

Birdlime

Birdlime

Bisexual

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

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

""SULFITE a chemical salt, also SULPHITE""

Bivalent

BIZARRE a strangely striped flower

Blabber

Karen and Lucille vote no (wordplay)

Shut out (of a group)

Something from a snooker room or bar

Jet flier (wordplay)

Pie filling of a sort

'White Album' song

BLACK to {blacken=v}

Blackboy

Birds which were signs of doom (wordplay)

""The male of the European black grouse (Tetrao tetrix, Linn.); so called by sportsmen. The female is called gray hen. See Heath grouse. Tetrao tetrix, Linn.); so called by sportsmen. The female is called gray hen. See Heath grouse.""

Like some Cajun food

Vilified.

Charred

One who blackens.

Guise of American minstrels

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.""

Blackgum

Spot of darkness (wordplay)

Spot gloomy principal

*Facial blemish

Blacking

Great deal (wordplay)

Knave of Clubs (wordplay)

Gambler's game, perhaps

English word

To coat or to polish with black lead.

Scabs left in some beastly panto costume

Gloomy members, who do not strike

Relative of boycott.

The Weavers topped it in 1952

Bar in Hollywood

Exact money (wordplay)

Motive for murder, perhaps

Film murder motive, perhaps

A situation without light

Reasons to use flashlights

Some skits

Power failures.

A warbler of the United States (Dendroica striata). Dendroica striata).

Western mule deer

Mule deer

Deer.

Surfaces, as roads, runways, etc.

Broadway's Hagen, who was blacklisted

Paves, as a driveway

Founder of influential magazine: Ebony, possibly (wordplay)

Adjective meaning resembling

Pl -ries (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) Brit another name for bilberry [1] [2] [from blae + berry ]

Without culpability, innocent

Be grateful for securing weak upright

Confer favour around criminal male? No, innocent!

They're obviously shocked

Blanch

Gentle quality of light concealed by black cape

Embedded with cover (wordplay)

That's C over all over

Hit the whole area

Void

Persuaded with flattery

Sweet-talked

Wheedled.

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

Relating to the blastema; rudimentary.

Blastema

Blasty

Blasting

A sudden stroke or injury produced by some destructive cause.

Departures from Cape Canaveral

Launches reports about cricket side

Activities using lox.

Blastoma

Pl. blastulas or blastulae (-l ) An early embryonic form produced by cleavage of a fertilized ovum and consisting of a spherical layer of cells surrounding a fluid-filled cavity. Also called blastosphere .

Metazoan stages

Obviously handled, perhaps

All batty about new doctor, obviously!

In very obvious and unashamed manner

Spoke nonsensically

Babbled

Long-winded sort

Someone talking a lot about a little

One who talks senselessly; the barrel (anagram)

Blatter

BLAZING blaze

Blazoner

Blazon

Laundry Spectators (wordplay)

Seats in the sun.

Salon workers, at times

Lightening up (wordplay)

Process of whitening

Whitening.

Starkness

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

Blencher

Turning pale

Quailing.

Blesbuck

Blessed

Fortunately, happily

Sacredly

Good things to count

Grace and others.

God's provisions

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

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

Sealed off (eg, a port)

Surrounded by hostile troops or ships.

Lock Father up in bed? That kept him shut in

Fleet, at times

Some trade barriers

Artery problems

Drunk goes back, clutching large bottlenecks

All no go

No rocket scientist, he

Idiot wants to impede the boss

Stupid person

Blocky

A sanguinary massacre

Total rout

A gory massacre - might be cleansing (wordplay)

Bloodfin

Likeliest to get an R rating, perhaps

Most violent

Blooding

Feeble; drained of colour

Like some coups

Cold war unlikely to be this

Something tracked for purebreds

Drunken Biondello reveals pedigree

*Horse breeder's concern

Circulatory system (wordplay)

Circulatory system?

With dashing young man, search for scarlet flower

A slaughterhouse (wordplay)

R-rated film feature, maybe

Carnage in Slaughterhouse (wordplay)

Inflamed (of eye)

Reddened, inflamed eye

(Of eye) streaked with red

""Any of various red, segmented marine worms of the genera Polycirrus and Enoplobranchus that have bright red bodies and are often used for bait.""

Bloody

Bloomy

Met one's potential

Fulfilled one's potential

Yielded flowers

Mix lice with broth, as more patchy

BLOTCH to mark with large spots

Blotch

Blotty

Blousy

Bloviate

Goes on and on about nothing

Blowback

Blowball

Blowdown