2-Letter Words Starting with B

One who burlesques.

Travesties of a sort

Parodies.

Burnisher

Burnish

Burrstone

Bursitis

Burthen

Pit viper; sham brutes (anagram)

Top horticulturist (wordplay)

Venomous pit viper

Backwoodsman in awful rush in clapped-out car

So two heads of state spoke across the Atlantic? That's criminal!

Former US president meeting forest officer, backwoodsman

Butchery

Butcher

A real turkey!

Turkey type

Chubby one

Spread what's blooming well in them

Love-in-a-mist bouquet

Butterfat

Atlantic gunnel

Buttery

BUTTER to spread with a milk product

Pancake ingredient, perhaps

Dale Evans's horse

Bar label on type of dairy product

Work pants of homespun cloth.

Civil War partisans of South

Montana city in Confederate uniforms

An annual composite plant of the Mississippi valley (Senecio lobatus). Senecio lobatus).

""A genus of low herbs (Pinguicula) having simple leaves which secrete from their glandular upper surface a viscid fluid, to which insects adhere, after which the margin infolds and the insects are digested by the plant. The species are found mostly in the North Temperate zone. Pinguicula) having simple leaves which secrete from their glandular upper surface a viscid fluid, to which insects adhere, after which the margin infolds and the insects are digested by the plant. The species are found mostly in the North Temperate zone.""

Supported, nevertheless, with locks

Sweet container taken around and held up

Supported and lifted ice-cream pot, perhaps

Supports yet locks

Supports doubt over locks

Projections on wall, however, need locks

They're usually innocent

They're there

Often-unidentified people in photos

The state of bachelorhood; the whole body of bachelors.

Bacitracin

MP without office

Rank and file MP

MP not holding office

Straw, to a camel (wordplay)

The last straw

Extremely strenuous task

Remote rural region

Remote rural area

The boonies, for example

Backcross

Backcross

Backdrop

Things checked by HR departments

They may be checked in personnel departments

Settings.

Bribes help to bring in sponsors? Just the opposite

Bribes

Backlasher

*Hostel audience (wordplay)

Peripatetic football team

Wolves keeping supporters outside, walkers with their kit (wordplay)

SCATTER to disperse in all directions

Effusively friendly person

Cousin of a hail-fellow-well-met.

Hail-fellow-well-met.

Backslider

False friend (Medical)

Treacherous person posing as a friend

Poor choice for a friend

They may be taken to avoid snarls

Minor thoroughfares

Some shortcuts

Part of Pimlico

Part of Pimlico's field

Backstroke

Backtrack

Bacteremia

Bacterial

Same as Germicide. Germicide.

""An antibacterial substance, such as colicin, produced by a strain of certain bacteria and harmful to another strain within the same family.""

The presence of bacteria in urine.

BACTERIZE to subject to the action of bacteria.

Balbriggan

*Airline for Lucille (wordplay)

Boat for fullbacks (wordplay)

Grange for one

Judge, Sale, and Trout

Do they cooperate with the dance band (wordplay)

Adam Jones, Ray Rice and LeBron James, for three

Ballyrag

Provided with a supported coping

Supported railings

Banderilla

Goodman and Ellington, for two

Team captains who know the score

Ellington, Basie, etc.

Bandmaster

Baneberry

They supply financing

Financing, as a play

Providing funding for

Paying for

Bankrupt

Small ensigns

Bantering

Baptistry

Cruelties

BARBARIZE To become barbarous.

In a very brutal way

Barbershop

Sleep-inducing drug class

Drug counter snapped on universal charge

Drug ban gripped university class

Barcarolle

Bardolater

Openly; shamelessly.

Bargeboard

Barkentine

Some grains

Performed aerobatics, here and there.

Appeared at county fairs, e.g

Appeared at county fairs, for example

Many an early aviator.

Many an early aviator

Itinerant actor.

Baroceptor

BAROGRAPH An instrument for recording automatically the variations of atmospheric pressure.

Barometry

Baronetage

Baronetcy

Variant of barkentine .

Barracouta

Barramunda

Barramundi

Barrelhead

Kind of jazz.

Jelly Roll Morton style

Old-time saloon

""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.""

Barricado

Barricado

Spring-training drill

Basketwork

BASTARDISE Same as bastardize.bastardize.

Bastardise

Deriving from more than one source or style.

Bastardize

The measurement of the depth of bodies of water.

Deep-sea vessel

Diving bell.

Beebe vehicle

Frogs

The line along which opposing armies face each other.

Metal detector user, maybe

Shore patroller (wordplay)

One with a metal detector

Sites of many an exclusive summer home

That can be endured: bearable pain; a bearable schedule.

The practice of setting dogs on a chained bear.

Bearberry

BEARDED beard

See penstemon .

Behavior like that of a bear.

Beautifier

Building material for walls

Becarpet

Beclamor

Becoward

Bedarken

Bedchamber

BEDCOVER a cover for a bed

Bediaper

""BEDRAGGLE To draggle; to soil, as garments which, in walking, are suffered to drag in dust, mud, etc.""

Bedrench

Bedrivel

Bedrivel

Befinger

Beflower

Befriend

Beggarweed

Beglamor

Beglamour

An approach to psychology that emphasizes observable measurable behavior.

Hazarding a guess: worker with really good manners (wordplay)

Belabour

Beset by enemy forces (or by troubles!)

In a difficult situation - under siege

Under siege

Beliquor

Essayist's beauties keep assignation, say

Bellflower

Looking for scraps (wordplay)

Looking for 5 across (wordplay)

Aggressive - it'll be green (anagram)

Bellwether

Bellyacher

Situated or occurring below the surface of the ground: belowground telephone cables.

Bemurmur

Substitute player: Slang.

Seldom-used substitute

*Sub in the dugout

""Expressing wishes for good; as, a benedictory prayer. as, a benedictory prayer.""

Lord bountifuls

Donors

Patrons

To whom thy will be done (wordplay)

Name on an insurance policy.

One gaining from will

Benzofuran

Berascal

Loss of someone close

Deprivation.

Mourning

Bescorch

Bescreen

Beshiver

Beshroud

Besmirch

Splashed with liquid

Like a painter's smock

Splashed (with)

Bespread

Strewed

Besprinkle

Betatter

Improvements

Having whiskers.

Existing around author is confusing

*Strait bordering the Arctic Ocean

Like a puzzle by Gene or Billy (wordplay)

Excessive adherence to a literal interpretation of the Bible.

""Book worship, esp. of the Bible; applied by Roman Catholic divine<?/ to the exaltation of the authority of the Bible over that of the pope or the church, and by Protestants to an excessive regard to the letter of the Scriptures.""

Last course of a greasy meal (wordplay)

Type of chemical salt

Indigestion relief

Every 200 years

""BICHROMATE 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.""

Bichromate

FURCATING furcate

""A forking, or division into two branches.""

Bijouterie

Bilateral

Bilgewater

Biliverdin

Billboard

Very rich person

One might support a foundation

Even richer person

Marking a long stretch away, having included lawyer's terms in email bust-up

""Pertaining to, involving, or formed from, two molecules; as, a bimolecular reaction (a reaction between two molecules).as, a bimolecular reaction (a reaction between two molecules).""

MORPHEMIC Of or pertaining to a morpheme.

In a binocular manner.

Biocontrol

Broke down, in a way

Biodegrade

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

Jean (wordplay)

Biographee

Some writers

Lives in a bookshop!

They're under 920

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

BIOMETRIC

Biopolymer

Bioreactor

BIORHYTHM

Bipartite

""The act of dividing into two parts, or of making two correspondent parts, or the state of being so divided.""

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.""

Quantity twice squared

Quantity raised to the fourth power

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