2-Letter Words Starting with B

Of or having to do with the electric current generated by living tissue.

Biofouling

Biological

Of or pertaining to biologism.

""A biocompatible material that is used to construct artificial organs, rehabilitation devices, or prostheses and replace natural body tissues.""

BIOMETRIC

English word

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

Biopolymer

Biosocial

Bipartite

Bipedalism

Bipinnate

POLARIZED polarize

Bipolarize

""Consisting of two pyramids placed base to base; having a pyramid at each of the extremities of a prism, as in quartz crystals.""

Inflected form of RACIALISM Inflected form of RACIAL pertaining to an ethnic group

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SECTIONAL Of or pertaining to a sections or distinct part of larger body or territory; local.

Certain flexible attraction

Certain orientation

Blackamoor

Banned, in a way

Ostracized

Blackbird

Pacific slave ship

Schoolteachers write on them

Schoolteachers' surfaces

Blackbody

Blackening

Blackfish

Blackguard

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Blackheart

Blackjack

Put on a certain roster.

Banned from consideration

Put in an unwanted category.

Blacklist

Exerted pressure through threats

French possessive

Extorted from

Perry Mason's prey.

Criminal with dirt on someone

So the unions would ban Norman? That's criminal!

Blackness

Horseless carriage casualty.

Hammer and anvil users

They were the earliest car mechanics

Blacksnake

Blackthorn

Paved over, and what each half of the answers to the starred clues can be

Blackwater

Similar to a bladder.

Bladdernut

Aquatic plant whose leaves trap small insects

Blaeberry

In a blameless manner.

By law mother might be culpable

Mother, by law breaking, is culpable

Responsible for a wrong

Blancmange

Blandisher

Blandish

Blandness

Adjective meaning resembling

Blankness

Blanquette

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

""Connected with, or proceeding from, the blastema; blastemal.""

""The fluid-filled, central cavity of a blastula. Also called segmentation cavity .""

Blastocoel

Blastocyst

Blastoderm

Blastodisc

Blastomere

Blastopore

""BLASTOPORE The pore or opening leading into the cavity of invagination, or archenteron.""

A fungal spore produced by budding.

Real ball fan.

Bleakness

Holy state

Sanctity

Beatitude

Blindfish

Unable to see curtain being packed up

Like players in pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey

Blindness

""BLINDSIDE to attack a person from his blind side; metaphorically, to give a person an unpleasant suprise.blind side; metaphorically, to give a person an unpleasant suprise.""

Blitzkrieg

Big character (wordplay)

Popular film? Ban one about train robber

House wrecker's big brother

Forts made of squared timbers

Bloodguilt

Guilty of murder or bloodshed.

Hunting dogs

Bloodless

Its cargo was in circulation (wordplay)

Red Cross vehicle

Its cargo is in circulation

Evidence in many "Law & Order" episodes

Forensic clues with scattered money from a shark (wordplay)

Bloodstock

Bloodstone

Animal's flow of oxygenating fluid

Circulatory system flow

Circulatory system component

Clouds broke over Dracula, for one

Extortioner, one who sponges on another

Leech is one

Items used in "light" boxing (wordplay)

Removes paint, in a way

Vault openers at times

Bludgeon

Fruit baked into muffins

Edible output of the heath family

Sweet, dark edibles

Bluebonnet

Fruity preserves for coppers

Coppers showing courage when overrun by Oxbridge types

Bluegrass

Bluejacket

Made plans

Blueshift

Bluetongue

Bluffness

Short handgun that has a wide bore

It's a mistake to kiss; one may be fired

Early form of gun

Bluntness

See windsurfing .

Noah was one

He made a bluebird to perform for Sir Donald!

Bobsledder

Hope on a slope (wordplay)

Sport in which competitors race down a steeply banked chute

Bodacious

One doing serious physical exercise

One developing muscles through exercise

Mr. Olympia, e.g

Beer-and-whiskey cocktail

Whiskey with a beer chaser

Whiskey-beer combo

Standard wording of a contract

Hack writing

Formulaic writing

Boilersuit

Bolshevism

BOLSHEVIZE

Bolshevize

Bondholder

Mobile sources of reading material (pl.) (4,7)

Charge drug dealers (wordplay)

Proprietors for word lovers

Barnes & Noble and competitors

The employment of selling books.

Library staples

As astonished mind did, admitting working party worked unnecessarily

""BOONDOGGLE a braided cord made by hand by young scouts, used for various purposes, such as a hat cord or a key chain.""

Money-eating projects

Big ol' wastes

Useless endeavors

Jazz Age figures

They sold alcohol illegally

Suppliers of illegal recordings

Running in two items of footwear

Bootlicker

Toadyism

What the Balkans are to Russians.

Territories often under dispute

Frontier areas

State dividers

Gray areas, maybe ... or a hint to 12 incomplete answers in this puzzle

Gray areas, maybe... or a hint to 12 incomplete answers in this puzzle

Botanical

Kitchen cleaner will get it in the neck

Some traffic tie-ups

Traffic jam causes, sometimes

Conditions that hinder progress.

Bottomland

Botulinus

Boundless

Bounteous

Bountiful

(Literature) edited for 'decency'

Removed text considered improper

Bowdlerise

""BOWDLERIZE To expurgate, as a book, by omitting or modifying the parts considered offensive; to remove morally objectionable parts; -- said of literary texts.""

""BOWDLERIZE To expurgate, as a book, by omitting or modifying the parts considered offensive; to remove morally objectionable parts; -- said of literary texts.""

Bowdlerize

Brainless

In a brainsick manner.

Branchline

Brazilwood

Protector of Galahad's heart (wordplay)

It was worn in war, once

Piece of armor

""The movable piece which closes the breech of a breechloading firearm, and resists the backward force of the discharge. It is withdrawn for the insertion of a cartridge, and closed again before the gun is fired.""

A cloth worn around the breech.

Covering for the loins.

Brickfield

Building-site workers

Construction-site workers

Artisans briskly race around

Building

Brilliance

In a brilliant manner.

Resembling a bristle in stiffness.

""An insect of the genera Lepisma, Campodea, etc., belonging to the Thysanura. Lepisma, Campodea, etc., belonging to the Thysanura.""

Tendency to break easily

Broadcloth

Brocatelle

English word

Bronchial

Of or pertaining to a bronchiole.

Bronchiole

Broomball

Plural or third person singular

""An infectious bacterial disease of humans that is caused by brucellae, transmitted by contact with infected animals, and characterized by fever, malaise, and headache. Also called Gibraltar fever , Malta fever , Mediterranean fever , Rock fever , undulant fever .""

BRUTALISE to treat brutally.

Dry area torched, that is start of several cruel deeds

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

""Relating to bryology; as, bryological studies. as, bryological studies.""

Bryologist

English word

Bubblehead

Bucolical

Carplike member of the sucker family

Bufflehead

Bulkiness

The formerly popular sport of setting dogs to attack a chained bull and especially to seize it by the nose.

Bulldogger

Competitive rodeo activity

Rodeo activity

Bulletin

Lined with Kevlar

Able to resist being shot

Like police vests

Spanish athlete in a ring

Waver of a red cape

Suit of lights wearer

Bullfinch

... unfortunately uses NHS bill to show brutish quality

Cross-breed dog

Short-muzzled dog breed

Powerful cross-bred dog

Breed of dog

Breed developed in England

English dog breed

Bullwhip

Bullyrag

Bumptious

Pertaining to burglary; constituting the crime of burglary.

BURGLARIZE

Burglarize

Burlesque

Burlesquer

""BURLESQUE Tending to excite laughter or contempt by extravagant images, or by a contrast between the subject and the manner of treating it, as when a trifling subject is treated with mock gravity; jocular; ironical.""

Burliness

Plump people, rudely

Some turkeys

Like some chickens before roasting

Dairy pests (wordplay)

Realization at a food fight (wordplay)

Monarchs, for example