2-Letter Words Starting with B

Devices of ancient warfare, like catapults

Lead by the nose

Mystify, cheat

Bluff queen sent back liquor - about a litre

Flag carried at the masthead

Small military flag.

Small streamer

One perhaps dressed up a part for song

Number in Venice (wordplay)

Exclude Lombard (wordplay)

Noun (-age)

English word

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

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

Soil, as garments in the mud.

Make wet and limp

Make limp and soiled

""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

In the middle with Pa in, perhaps

Dish around vessel mostly is beef

Complain in a whiny manner

Vatican art gallery in Rome

Summerhouse with view

Summer house with a view

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

Adjective meaning resembling

Competitor who skis and shoots

Skiing/shooting Olympian*

Olympian with a rifle

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

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

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

""SULFITE a chemical salt, also SULPHITE""

Guise of American minstrels

Adjective meaning resembling

Utter obscenities or profanities

Curse afflicting sheep and lamb

Curse MP - he's able to change...

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 .

Hit from behind, say

Unseen run, perhaps

Hit, seemingly from nowhere

Something tracked for purebreds

Drunken Biondello reveals pedigree

*Horse breeder's concern

See you, Esso, for 19 across, perhaps

See you, Esso, for the sapphire, perhaps

See you, Esso, for the sound of this

Adjective meaning resembling

A minute wingless psocopterous insect (Liposcelis divinatorius) injurious to books and papers.Liposcelis divinatorius) injurious to books and papers.

Volume's identification.

Found in some volumes

One may get stuck into a literary work

Same as Bractlet. Bractlet.

If band's conga formation (wordplay)

A hollow row (wordplay)

One may be on it at the cash dispenser!

Live outside right the same as live outside left? Not likely to last

Fragile

Artwork made from a clog, creatively coated in cheese

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

Brucella

Make bestial

To make brutal; beasty; unfeeling; or inhuman.

BUILD to construct

That really stings!

Stinging insect (2 words)

Newspaper for klutzes (wordplay)

Parody - show with striptease (wordplay)

Like Ives (wordplay)

Show-biz category

Balcony railing (by Toni Morrison)

A bad result perhaps, but coping

Part of a balcony.

Gondolier's song

Venetian boat song

Floating melody in tavern song left echo

Adjective meaning resembling

Seeming to be true or authentic

Creditworthy (wordplay)

Instilling credence

To sprinkle over; to scatter over.

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

Bookseller.

""A shantytown on the outskirts of a city, especially in France or North Africa.""

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

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

Town one's arrived in (wordplay)

Natal region (wordplay)

Where one enters the race (wordplay)

Ashy fireworks item

Milky gelatine dessert

French molded dessert.

Jelly-like pudding made with milk

French ragout made with a white sauce

Meat or seafood stew

Fifty tucking into feast, ten almost finished French stew

Cell formed by cleavage of a fertilised ovum

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

BLEACH to {whiten=v}

Cheerful bachelor landed male part

Carefree bishop able to move about easily

Cheery.

Stronghold reinforced against enemy fire

Military fortification

Pioneer fort

Symbol of a March birthday.

Heliotrope

Heliotrope.

Fly in dirty glass container (wordplay)

Fly down to canteen, maybe

Insect on filthy drink container

""A viral disease of sheep and cattle that is transmitted by biting insects and is characterized by fever, the formation of oral lesions, and swelling and cyanosis of the lips and tongue.""

BOLSHEVIZE

Library on wheels

Kind of library.

What a waste!

Do pointless work

Giant waste of money

Division is problematic

Indecisive boundary row

Only just acceptable

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

Like good air

British herbal tea brewed is fit for inhaling

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

Talent that outshines all others

Sparkling aptitude

Genius; brightness

English word

Upholstery fabric

A minute bronchial tube.

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

G. Gordon Liddy's peepers (wordplay)

Corner with talk of flowers (wordplay)

Waylay Rose, perhaps

Accost and detain for conversation

Lucy at "Swan Lake" (wordplay)

He goes to "Les Sylphides."

Devotee of Terpsichore.

Kind of jazz.

Jelly Roll Morton style

Old-time saloon

Disposition to do good

Live current cut power lacking current? Goodness!

Kindliness

Lover of books

Collector of books

Book lover

Very rich person

One might support a foundation

Even richer person

English word

Similar to a bladder.

Adjective meaning resembling

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

A fungal spore produced by budding.

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

Protector of Galahad's heart (wordplay)

It was worn in war, once

Piece of armor

Resembling a bristle in stiffness.

Unmarried young woman

Bill of exchange includes long learning time, double for single US girl

One looking for scraps may show it

Aggression of drunken reeling celeb

Aggressive behaviour

""A normally colorless aromatic oil, C 6 H 5 CHO, obtained naturally, as from the bitter almond, or made synthetically and used in perfumes and as a solvent and a flavoring.""

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

French school-leaving exam

Higher education exam

Type of degree

""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

Fish stew from Provence

Rich fish stew

Rich spicy fish stew

""A transparent, highly flammable liquid, C 4 H 8 O, used in synthesizing resins.""

English word

Natural glow (wordplay)

*Natural light (wordplay)

The glow of a glowworm

Spherical form of carbon