2-Letter Words Starting with B

Still without building material (wordplay)

5A's source of building materials

Construction worker's course (wordplay)

Wall builder, maybe

Building trades worker

Bricolage

Bridewell

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

It's not easy to cross an English poet embracing the French

Humber is no longer where pressure's high - express good wishes about it

Talent that outshines all others

Sparkling aptitude

Genius; brightness

Stroke of genius; superb chess game

Cut diamonds

Between the fish and the insects one may have diamonds on hand

Briolette

Bristly

Fine woolen fabric

'The narrow way': the clergy's material

Densely woven fabric

Broadloom

English word

Broadtail

Upholstery fabric

Bromelain

Stretch your dollars with these flowers

A minute bronchial tube.

BROODING an act of brooding

Broomball

Brushland

BRUTALISE to treat brutally.

Brutalise

BRUTALIZE To make brutal; beasty; unfeeling; or inhuman.

Is attacker L Suarez bit to be replaced (wordplay)

Bryology

One versed in bryology.

Bubblegum

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

Bucketful

BUCKETS bucket

Buckler

Buckyball

Buffalo

Stupid bird (wordplay)

Stupid bird?

Bugleweed

Attacked with fierceness and anger

BULLDOG to wrestle and throw a steer

Bovine earthmovers (wordplay)

Equipment needed for demos

They're used to make the grade

Bovine asleep (wordplay)

Leveling, in a way

Lazy optimist's favorite activity (wordplay)

Bulletin

Bullfight

The bovine took off!

Stubborn fish with bleeding heart

As obstinate as the monster of Knossos

What did Taurus do in the balcony?

In need of an outsized collar

What did Taurus do in the balcony (wordplay)

Bullrush

Bulwark

Members of the Hymenoptera.

They generate a lot of buzz

Hairy insects

BUMBLING an instance of clumsiness

""Awkward to move or use especially because of shape; as, a load of bunglesome paraphernalia.as, a load of bunglesome paraphernalia.""

Clumsily; awkwardly.

Second-story jobs

Blair's urge for transportation for such offences

G. Gordon Liddy's peepers (wordplay)

Burladero

Broken by nasty sequel, old lady is mocked

One who burlesques.

Travesties of a sort

Parodies.

Bushel

BUSTLING bustle

A real turkey!

Turkey type

Chubby one

BUTTER to spread with a milk product

Pancake ingredient, perhaps

Dale Evans's horse

Bar label on type of dairy product

See Buttonwood. Buttonwood.

Corner with talk of flowers (wordplay)

Waylay Rose, perhaps

Accost and detain for conversation

BUTTON to fasten with a small disk

Butylate

BUTYLATE to add a butyl to

Babblement

Do without restraint (wordplay)

Drunken revels - a China cabal (anagram)

Roman festival; wild revelry

The state of bachelorhood; the whole body of bachelors.

The act of refilling with earth

Backhaul

Backlasher

Backlash

Backlight

Backlist

Backlog

Tried to distance oneself from a gaffe, say

Backslap

Effusively friendly person

Cousin of a hail-fellow-well-met.

Hail-fellow-well-met.

""BACKSLIDE to fall back, pa t BACKSLID""

Backslider

Relapsing

Bacterial

Puzzles

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

Balbriggan

Baldachino

The quality or state of being baleful.

""BALKANIZE to divide a territory into small, hostile states.""

Balkiness

*Airline for Lucille (wordplay)

Boat for fullbacks (wordplay)

Grange for one

Lucy at "Swan Lake" (wordplay)

He goes to "Les Sylphides."

Devotee of Terpsichore.

Ballooning

Floaters with great views

They need to be full of hot air

Some fliers

Judge, Sale, and Trout

Do they cooperate with the dance band (wordplay)

Adam Jones, Ray Rice and LeBron James, for three

Trumpeting to the masses

Hyping

Ballyrag

Balminess

Provided with a supported coping

Supported railings

Hoodwinking

Fooling

Banderilla

Goodman and Ellington, for two

Team captains who know the score

Ellington, Basie, etc.

Acceptable to or at a bank: bankable funds.

They supply financing

Financing, as a play

Providing funding for

Paying for

Bantering

In a baptismal manner.

In a very brutal way

Barcarolle

Bardolater

Openly; shamelessly.

Some grains

Barrelhead

Kind of jazz.

Jelly Roll Morton style

Old-time saloon

The quality of being bashful.

Basipetal

They're shot at nets

Items you might travel with

Court needs

Basophilia

Of or pertaining to a batholith.

Sally, keep up the fight!

Fight with Oscar winner Sally (wordplay)

'Sally, keep up the fight!'

The line along which opposing armies face each other.

Low walls round top of building

Walls round castle roof

Castle parts

Oklahoma and West Virginia

Attackers of Truk.

Units of a fleet.

Titan of the Navy

That can be endured: bearable pain; a bearable schedule.

Set lesbians free from meanness

Unpleasant behaviour

Inhumanity

Beauteous

Beautiful

Beclamor

Becudgel

Becudgel

Bedevil

The causing of continual trouble

Torment of daughter meeting immoral chaps in risky venture

Torment

""BEDRAGGLE To draggle; to soil, as garments which, in walking, are suffered to drag in dust, mud, etc.""

Bedrivel

Bedrivel

In a befitting manner; suitably.

Beflower

Beglamor

Beglamour

Charm, enchantment

In a fascinating way

Bejewel

Belabour

BELATED belate

Beset by enemy forces (or by troubles!)

In a difficult situation - under siege

Under siege

Beliquor

Belladonna

Essayist's beauties keep assignation, say

Bellflower

Aggression, readiness to fight

Aggressiveness

Looking for scraps (wordplay)

Looking for 5 across (wordplay)

Aggressive - it'll be green (anagram)

Bellwether

Bellyacher

BELLYACHE Pain in the bowels; colic.

Situated or occurring below the surface of the ground: belowground telephone cables.

Disposition to do good

Live current cut power lacking current? Goodness!

Kindliness

Benighted

Benignant

Bequeathal

Berascal

Strewed

Besprinkle

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

Bestialize

Existing around author is confusing

*Strait bordering the Arctic Ocean

Like a puzzle by Gene or Billy (wordplay)

Excessive adherence to a literal interpretation of the Bible.

""Book worship, esp. of the Bible; applied by Roman Catholic divine<?/ to the exaltation of the authority of the Bible over that of the pope or the church, and by Protestants to an excessive regard to the letter of the Scriptures.""

Book-collecting urge

Relating to the binding of books.

Lover of books

Collector of books

Book lover

BIBLIOPHIL

Bibliopole

A library.

Bibliotist

Games Strong enough to be bid. Used of a hand of cards.

""DIALECTAL Relating to a dialect; dialectical; as, a dialectical variant. as, a dialectical variant.""

Bidonville

Bilateral

Bilgewater

Line lost in presenting account to posh colleague with forked tongue (wordplay)

The state of being bilious.

Biliverdin

Billboard

Very rich person

One might support a foundation

Even richer person

Bilocation

Bimetallic

""The legalized use of two metals (as gold and silver) in the currency of a country, at a fixed relative value; in opposition to monometallism. monometallism.""

An advocate of bimetallism.

Marking a long stretch away, having included lawyer's terms in email bust-up

""Pertaining to, involving, or formed from, two molecules; as, a bimolecular reaction (a reaction between two molecules).as, a bimolecular reaction (a reaction between two molecules).""

Some magazines

In a binocular manner.

NUCLEATED nucleate

Kind of engineer

The study of the effects of climatic conditions on living organisms.

Biocontrol