2-Letter Words Starting with B

Prolonged missile attack

Nine ac attack

Assault, shelling

BOMBINATE To hum; to boom.

A humming or buzzing.

Bondholder

BONEFISH a marine fish

Bonesetter

Bookbinder

A bookbinder's shop; a place or establishment for binding books.

Provision of jackets for reserve with no negotiation possible

BOOKISH pertaining to books

Triple-header-double-letter word

Figureheads (wordplay)

They work with numbers

Clerk's charge, perhaps

Librarian's accounts (wordplay)

Forte of certain borrowers

Bookmaking

Page savers

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

Backfired, in a way

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

BOORISH {rude=adj}

Chamber of commerce policies

Jazz Age figures

They sold alcohol illegally

Suppliers of illegal recordings

Running in two items of footwear

Bootlicker

Toadyism

Stomach-growling sound

Expression of gut feelings about grubby rooms

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

English word

Bossiness

Botanical

Worry - darn it!

Darn it!

Fiddlesticks!

Kitchen cleaner will get it in the neck

Some traffic tie-ups

Traffic jam causes, sometimes

Conditions that hinder progress.

Bottomland

Botulinus

The quality of being finite.

Boundless

Bounteous

Bountiful

Bourbonism

Bourgeoise

Owners of the means of production

*Capitalist class, in Marxism

The middle class

Bourgeon

Of meat dishes, stewed with onions and mushrooms in red wine

Spray of flowers worn

Subject of a recent popular song.

Flower in a lapel

(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

It might get into a jam

Type of jam

Hybrid sometimes found in a jam

""BRACHIATE Having branches in pairs, decussated, all nearly horizontal, and each pair at right angles with the next, as in the maple and lilac.""

Brachiator

Brachiopod

Boastful and arrogant behaviour

Boastful behaviour

Empty boasting

Brainpower

Sudden aberrations.

Sudden inspirations

Bright ideas.

Small crustacean

Brazilwood

Breadboard

Shut down bogus businesses (wordplay)

Cabinets of a sort.

Breastbone

Low walls used as a defense in battle

BRECCIATE BRECCIA a type of rock

""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.

Ones making vows

Men marrying

Bridgework

Brightwork

Sown over a wide area

CBS, for one

Radio/TV provider

Radio or TV journalist

Broadcloth

Broadness

They're bigger than tabloids

""BROADSIDE The side of a ship above the water line, from the bow to the quarter.""

Excalibur and Glamdring

England cricketer's remarks? They can be cutting and lethal!

Brocatelle

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

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

English word

Bronchial

Of or pertaining to a bronchiole.

Bronchiole

Brontosaur

Broomball

Transportation, in folklore.

Witches' transport.

Relatively masculine association

Alliance runs into trouble with gangster

Feeling of close kinship

Blustery bullying

Intimidating

Being bossy with, at the wrestling match (wordplay)

Brownnoser

BROWNNOSE

Brownshirt

Baltimore structures

Some townhouses

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 .""

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

Bryologist

English word

Buccinator

Projecting a smile (wordplay)

Like Cletus the slack-jawed yokel

Beaverlike

Bucolical

Carplike member of the sucker family

Bulldogger

Competitive rodeo activity

Rodeo activity

Lined with Kevlar

Able to resist being shot

Like police vests

Umbrella, humorously

In the back of the car, brown, half shut brolly

Umbrella

Bumptious

Pertaining to burglary; constituting the crime of burglary.

Mayor in Germany, Austria, etc

Mayor, in Mainz

Mayor.

Butterwort

Buttonball

Detained with conversation

BUTTONHOLE The hole or loop in which a button is caught.

Suit jacket features

Gets to talk to racing driver near pits

They're sported by men at matches

Buttonhook

Evergreen shrubs

Butylation

Buxomness

Plural or third person singular

Bachelordom

Unmarried young woman

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

The state or condition of being a bachelor; bachelorship.

English word

BACKCOURT

Backcross

Backdrop

Background

Background

Backstop

Uncouth fellow offering deal maybe to seal terrible bank scam

Lords not turning out to support ladies admitting excesses

Bacteriocin

The science relating to bacteria.

A chemical or biological material that inhibits bacterial growth.

Balletomane

An ardent admirer of the ballet.

Balneology

Matador's aide

Bullfighter who uses darts

Stop trainer taking drug round to participant in bloodsport

Bardolatry

Some traveling performers

Some troupers.

Flamboyantly vigorous and effective

Campaigning from town to town

Decoration no good round much of shop with minister on election tour (wordplay)

""A sensory nerve ending that is stimulated by changes in pressure, especially one in the walls of blood vessels such as the carotid sinus.""

Barrelhouse

Barricado

A spore borne by a basidium.

""-fies , -fying , -fied (tr) to make basic""

Bastinado

Battlefront

Action station (wordplay)

Bull Run, for one.

Place of military encounter

Battlewagon

Vagrants hoping the tide will turn in their favour (wordplay)

Seashore pursuit

Beardtongue

Beaverboard

Bedcovering

Beglamour

Behavioral

Behaviorism

Behaviorist

Benediction

Good deeds

Benevolence

Lovely net Ben weaves kind-heartedly

English word

""A white crystalline compound, C 6 H 5 COC 6 H 6 , used in perfumery and in medicine. Also called diphenylketone .""

List of books on a subject

List of sources used in preparation of a book

Worn by athlete at photo finish in oily sport at end of academic endeavour

Bibliolater

Bibliology

One with a passionate enthusiasm for books

Bibliomania

Bibliopegy

A bookbinder.

Bibliophile

BIBLIOPHILE A lover of books.

Same as Bibliopole. Bibliopole.

A collection of books; a library.

Belonging to a library.

Bibliotheca

BIBULOUS addicted to strong drink

Bicarbonate

""FUNCTIONAL Pertaining to, or connected with, a function or duty; official.""

Bifurcation

Billboard

Billionaire

Bimodality

BINOCULAR Having two eyes.

""(used with a sing. verb) The study of sounds produced by or affecting living organisms, especially those sounds involved in communication.""

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.

Biochemical

""The chemistry of living organisms; the chemistry of the processes incidental to, and characteristic of, life.""

R?sum? is demeaning to those working in waste management

(Habitat's) variety of life

Ecological variety of richness

Nature's rich mixture: 'obi' clued cryptically (wordplay)

(used with a sing. verb) Biochemistry The study of the flow and transformation of energy in and between living organisms and between living organisms and their environment.

Bioengineer

Bioethicist

Biofeedback