2-Letter Words Starting with B

Shoulder of a road

Shoulder of a road.

Zoo division perhaps

Zoo division, perhaps

Rain forest, for one

Apply a charge to, maybe

Pin fault on (someone)

Thing to shift

Judy who wrote Then Again Maybe I Wont

'Then Again, Maybe I Won't' author Judy

Then Again, Maybe I Won't author Judy

Explosive dessert (wordplay)

Molded ice cream confection

Molded ice-cream dessert

Flat-bladed grass

Grass having large drooping spikelets.

Grass having large drooping spikelets

Mist

Vapors.

Mist

{frothy=adj}

Got to be arrived (wordplay)

Got to be like this

One's got to be like this to be arrived

Does this get to suit you (wordplay)

Get to be suitable for one

Grow into suit

Stick in the mud

Fix in the mud.

Cover with mud.

Puzzle or inspire artist, perhaps

Inspire, as it were, to produce puzzle

Act as inspiration for puzzle

Denominate Archaic.

Denominate: Archaic.

To compose in rhyme

To {betide=v}

Purchase paper, say, for ancient craft

No galley aboard this old galley

Ancient vessel with two banks of oars

Type of bee

Beadle at Mudfog

Muddle (through); sort of bee

Way to identify someone

One way to address somebody

How to single someone out

To make guility of a crime

Silent partner, ideally (wordplay)

One who's on the other side (wordplay)

Snorer's victim

When to tuck in (wordplay)

When to say "Nighty-night"

When lids should be closed (wordplay)

Soil with oil, say

Cover with smut

Make dirty

Old, ugly woman

Old crone.

Old woman to be found straddling railway barrier

Mention in verse.

To put to shame

To cover with slime

To smile on

To pollute with smoke

Blackberry jam for one in authority

Wild thorny shrub

Book hike in bush

Salt of element #35

Salt of a certain acid.

Certain salt

"The show must go on," for one.

The show must go on, for one.

Trite saying

Element used in fire retardants

My little 22 down? That's elementary

Dark red element

""To treat with bromine, also BROMISE""

New situation in Rugby perhaps

Football tennis (wordplay)

Perhaps played for the dance

Like balm

Like a beam

Headboard and footboard locale

A headboard is part of it

Nighttime supporter

To make a small impression in

To mix confusedly

To mix together

To {confuse=v}

To put a gag on

To cover with pimples

To {smudge=v}

Two-colored

""Divided into branches, also BIRAMOUS""

It brings the perch to a sticky end

Substance to catch small birds.

Sticky stuff makes porridge green

Deserving censure

Deserving reproach

Culpable

A mineral

A genial manner in France

Good-natured manner.

Good fellowship, genial manner

Uninteresting

Tedious

Relating to the bregma

Senseless talk

Humbug.

Claptrap

One who shares sleeping quarters

Lead by the nose

Mystify, cheat

Bluff queen sent back liquor - about a litre

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.""

Utter obscenities or profanities

Curse afflicting sheep and lamb

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

Mourner's fabric

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

To hum; to boom.

Sulphur (when associated with hellfire)

Material for a fiery sermon (wordplay)

Symbolically S might make the edge hard

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

Horse kept for breeding

Female horse kept for mating

Stable parent

""A genus (Orobanche) of parasitic plants of Europe and Asia. They are destitute of chlorophyll, have scales instead of leaves, and spiked flowers, and grow attached to the roots of other plants, as furze, clover, flax, wild carrot, etc. The name is sometimes applied to other plants related to this genus, as Aphyllon uniflorumand Aphyllon Ludovicianum.Orobanche) of parasitic plants of Europe and Asia. They are destitute of chlorophyll, have scales instead of leaves, and spiked flowers, and grow attached to the roots of other plants, as furze, clover, flax, wild carrot, etc. The name is sometimes applied to other plants related to this genus, as Aphyllon uniflorumand Aphyllon Ludovicianum.""

That really stings!

Stinging insect (2 words)

Newspaper for klutzes (wordplay)

Early example of an oxymoron (wordplay)

Early, while the pub is still open

Not - - means none too soon

""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.""

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

Milky gelatine dessert

French molded dessert.

Jelly-like pudding made with milk

Cell formed by cleavage of a fertilised ovum

Cheerful bachelor landed male part

Carefree bishop able to move about easily

Cheery.

Library on wheels

Kind of library.

Annoying to disturb a few

Mob there so unruly, causing trouble

Annoying mob's here to riot

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

Do E-numbers turn heavy (wordplay)

A real hassle

Trying numbers, do set out last of three

Lucy at "Swan Lake" (wordplay)

He goes to "Les Sylphides."

Devotee of Terpsichore.

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

English word

Its cargo was in circulation (wordplay)

Red Cross vehicle

Its cargo is in circulation

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.""

""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.""

Natural glow (wordplay)

*Natural light (wordplay)

The glow of a glowworm

Spherical form of carbon