2-Letter Words Starting with B

Brutify

BRUTISH {brutal=adj}

Any of numerous plants of the division Bryophyta.Bryophyta.

Bryozoan

Sir Henry Morgan, for one

U. S. Navy long-range dive-bomber.

One who robs at sea

Southwestern cowboys

Broncobusters

Cowboys.

Buckayro

Oater's "station wagon"

Bound to go on the wagon

Old West transport

Buckeroo

Buckler

Gave the quality of a coarse open-weave fabric

Prickly berried shrub

Prickly shrub with black berries

Of a financial plan

David Bell, for example.

Budgeter

Shielding of a sort

Buffeter

Buggery

Bugger

Buhlwork

""A cellular, flinty rock, used for mill stones.""

One who coerces animal to sleep by river

Farm animal, sleepy type in tractor

Beast that's 13 is a pushy one

Ranids with bass voices

Pond croakers

Instruments for some marches (wordplay)

Voice boosters

FOR CRYING OUT LOUD

Rendezvous for matadors.

Fighting there all through the nose

Picadors' places

Bullyrag

Tall marsh plants

Sound of male flies in marsh plants

Bulwark

Bumper

Bunker

Burbly

Encumbers

Weighing down with a load

Ego burden (anagram)

Made new buds

Developed and flourished

Colonial legislators

Old members of British parliament produced sailing flag around ship at point

Burgonet

Burgrave

English word

Parody - show with striptease (wordplay)

Like Ives (wordplay)

Show-biz category

Tough enough to polish up the rulings to the South

Tough solidity for road transport crossing a bit of rail track

Burnable

BURNING the firing of ceramic materials

The stream I disposed of with polish

Polish for Scottish stream I got rid of

The Polish 11 across I disposed of (wordplay)

Smart on top, is that woman in rubber (wordplay)

Rub out 'shines,' changing to 'polishes'

Gives a shine to

Polishes with the odd rub. Shines amazingly

""BURNOOSE a hooded cloak, also BURNOUS, BURNOUSE""

Lawrence of Arabia costumes

Riyadh robes

Arabian cloaks

What Cockney arsonist does in a cloak (wordplay)

Relative of muttonchops

Full whiskers and a mustache

Handlebars' neighbors

Burrower

Digging tunnels

Barn extension where pack animals sleep (wordplay)

Mole activity

See Buhrstone. Buhrstone.

Bursary

Burstone

Burthen

Busheler

Bushfire

Busywork

Completely mispronounced, as a name

Totally ruined

Save revolutionary socialist from being massacred

Like a butcher; without compunction; savage; bloody; inhuman; fell.

Butlery

Cow, perhaps, a pest on the lawn

In ancient times, say, raised flower

Swap prize ram for cow (wordplay)

Goat maybe with solid product from dairy

Say female in club gets dairy product

Calorie counter's concern

A stroke or a comma, maybe

Monarch, for one

Net stroke (wordplay)

Buttery

Buttery

Toast task

Born fool wrapping complete tree

Squash and spread fruitcake

Goat head, a sort of pumpkin down under

Fasteners

Butyrate

Part of a techie's arsenal

Trendy terms

Techno-jargon

Innocent one (wordplay)

Onlooker (often innocent)

One in the crowd

Bystreet

""A polypeptide antibacterial antibiotic of known chemical structure effective against several types of Gram-positive organisms, and usually used topically for superficial local infection.""

*Ones who criticize others in their absence

Fleas

Structures on basketball court.

Rebounding spots

Backcourt

Second dismissal not going as intended

Returning soldiers will be having an undesired effect

Second-floor family (wordplay)

Person's experience

One never comes to the fore

A gift for dishonesty (wordplay)

Red Nah for a bribe at court (wordplay)

Bribe (in court?)

BACKLASH to cause a reaction

Traveller with a rucksack

One who likes to hike

One travelling with a rucksack

Backrush

Recidivist supporter gains second cap

One who reverts

Relapser into sin

Servants' secret flight (wordplay)

Type of intrigue

Scandalous

Road in reverse (wordplay)

*Road less traveled

Best seller by Fannie Hurst

Oyakawa holds this Olympic record.

One way to swim

Swimming specialty

Backsword

Searches for an error, maybe

Climbs down path guarded by defenders

Reluctantly; slowly; aversely.

Isolated, peaceful rural places

Isolated places

The presence of bacteria in the blood.

Of or pertaining to bacteremia.

BACTERIZE to subject to the action of bacteria.

Bacterize

Bacteroid

Bairnly

A knitted fabric

Track event for those less hirsute?

Race that's less hairy (wordplay)

Rhubarb a smidgen less hairy (wordplay)

Singers need pieces of 15 to cover live Adele hit (wordplay)

Crooners

Balladry

Ones keeping on their toes (wordplay)

Jete set (wordplay)

Nureyev's partners

He's debased (wordplay)

Fieldstone ring wearer (wordplay)

Musician at a dance (wordplay)

Balcony railing (by Toni Morrison)

A bad result perhaps, but coping

Part of a balcony.

A dart aimed at the bull

Dart thrust into el toro

Banderole

Banditry

One who must face the music (wordplay)

Arm or rubber (wordplay)

Glenn or Mitch Miller

Samba trend (anagram)

Sousa or Alexander, for example

Conductor decorated stand with amber

Group of evil looks (wordplay)

Group of evil looks?

Belts with ammunition stop soldier moving

BANISTER a stair hand-rail

Provided funds for

Headline about an attack on Wells Fargo

BANKROLL to {finance=v}

Desperate declaration (seven letters)

Red state (wordplay)

State of insolvency

Bankrupt

Variant of banneret 1 .

Staircase supports

NB: Southeast Trains may be used for rail-flight connections

Banqueter

Pool house (wordplay)

Brat's piety seems phony in sacred area

Arab playing with Brian's rugby team

Pub repeatedly is disrupted by an uncivilised lot

Philistines.

But for joke miss out television for instance and 'to boldly go'

Made Hunnish

Barbarize

BARBASCO a variety of S American plants

Barbecuer

Behind tavern, be giving the signal by grilling

Bear cub's broken home - Goldilocks started by cooking outdoors

Barbeque

Barberry

Sportscaster Red's short leap (wordplay)

Dance for tonsorial artists?

Where to find a short cut (wordplay)

Barbitone

Venetian boat songs

Saloon girl's Venetian water music (wordplay)

Run about behind pub to hear sounds from bullfight sung on canal

Gondolier's song

Venetian boat song

Floating melody in tavern song left echo

Shakespearean fan

Worship of Shakespeare

Bareback

Discalced, as certain monks

Kicked around a match official having forgotten trainers (wordplay)

Pub second team paid the cost for not wearing boots

With scalp exposed

Uncapped (wordplay)

How Nixon usually goes.

Bareness

Bargainer

Type of chip

and 6: Source of leverage secure, acquiring Shard (wordplay)

Haggling

A vergeboard.

Lush travel plan (wordplay)

Doing the town

Tavern-tour activity

Barkeeper

Certain ship

Burns celebrated this John

Malt liquor base

Subject of Burns poem.

Makes one-night stands.

Goes on tour

Stunt flies, as at a fair

Agent noun (-or)

Barograph

Forecasting aids in Italy (wordplay)

Forecasting aids in Italy?

Indicators of change

Type of pressure

It's measured by the glass

Like some pressure

A soberness not usually found in ladies

Women entitled to give piece of music zero points

Except individual, content to assess peers

Rank higher than knightdom

Barquette

Barracker

Carmen in East London area, leading to boos and hisses (wordplay)

Barracoon

""Any of several voracious pikelike marine fishes allied to the gray mullets, constituting the genus Sphyr\'91na and family Sphyr\'91nid\'91. The great barracuda (Sphyr\'91na barracuda) of the West Indies, Florida, etc., is often six feet or more long, and as dangerous as a shark. In Cuba its flesh is reputed to be poisonous. Sphyr\'91na Argentea of the Pacific coast and Sphyr\'91na sphyr\'91na of Europe are smaller species, and are used as food.Sphyr\'91na and family Sphyr\'91nid\'91. The great barracuda (Sphyr\'91na barracuda) of the West Indies, Florida, etc., is often six feet or more long, and as dangerous as a shark. In Cuba its flesh is reputed to be poisonous. Sphyr\'91na Argentea of the Pacific coast and Sphyr\'91na sphyr\'91na of Europe are smaller species, and are used as food.""

Ferocious swimmers

""Pl. barramunda or barramundas also barramundi or barramundis Any of several Australian food fishes, such as the lungfish. Also called ceratodus .""

Fish in Scottish island spattered in mud

Edible Australian fish

Australian fish

Barratry

Barrelage

Barrelful

The flat top of a barrel.

Barrel

BARRELS barrel

Lack of vegetation

Inability to produce offspring

Said what Thatcher finally became - no issue with it

Barretry

""BARRICADE A fortification, made in haste, of trees, earth, palisades, wagons, or anything that will obstruct the progress or attack of an enemy. It is usually an obstruction formed in streets to block an enemy's access.""

You can't pass them on highways

Roadblocks

Obstacles in the way of a rotter protected by rails

Old Bailey figures

Lawyers at Old Bailey

Followers of Blackstone.

Ones making the rounds (wordplay)

Prison wardens (wordplay)

They serve when right dart's been thrown

Last stop on the San Francisco subway (wordplay)

Baseboard

They eschew the net

They don't play the net in tennis

Basketry

Sit back lazily and in France toil on interlaced articles

Bastardy

Same as bastardize.bastardize.

To make or prove to be a bastard; to stigmatize as a bastard; to declare or decide legally to be illegitimate.

Bathwater

""The art or science of sounding, or measuring depths in the sea.""

Pertaining to the Batrachia.

Baudrons

Bayberry

Coastal strip of land, and a hint to the starts of the starred answers

Beachgoer

""One who, or that which, beautifies or makes beautiful.""

Becarpet

Becharm

Beclamor

Becoward

Becrawl

Becrowd

Becrust

Bedarken

Where there may be a four-poster

Room for sleeping

Sleeping quarters

Bediaper

Bedirty