2-Letter Words Starting with B

Touched, in a way

Silly thinking cats are dangerous

Thinking only "Crumbs, I'm hungry" (wordplay)

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They're owed by inheritance

Opals, for example

Gems associated with particular months

Garnet and others

Bitartrate

""An evergreen shrub of the genus Purshia, especially P. tridentata of western North America, having bitter-tasting leaves with fuzzy undersides that are nutritious for deer, elk, and antelope.""

Rocky Mountain flowering plants.

Mont.'s state flowers

Sugary drink (wordplay)

Like a lemon dessert (wordplay)

Play with acid drop (wordplay)

Bitterweed

BIZARRE a strangely striped flower

Bizarrerie

Blackamoor

Blackbird

Pacific slave ship

Schoolteachers write on them

Schoolteachers' surfaces

Blackguard

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Blackheart

Blacklist

Perry Mason's prey.

Criminal with dirt on someone

So the unions would ban Norman? That's criminal!

Blackthorn

Blackwater

Similar to a bladder.

Bladdernut

Aquatic plant whose leaves trap small insects

Blaeberry

By law mother might be culpable

Mother, by law breaking, is culpable

Responsible for a wrong

Blandisher

Blasphemer

Blastoderm

Blastomere

Blastopore

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

A fungal spore produced by budding.

Real ball fan.

Blitzkrieg

Big character (wordplay)

Popular film? Ban one about train robber

House wrecker's big brother

Animal's flow of oxygenating fluid

Circulatory system flow

Circulatory system component

Clouds broke over Dracula, for one

Extortioner, one who sponges on another

Leech is one

Items used in "light" boxing (wordplay)

Removes paint, in a way

Vault openers at times

Fruit baked into muffins

Edible output of the heath family

Sweet, dark edibles

Bluegrass

Made plans

Short handgun that has a wide bore

It's a mistake to kiss; one may be fired

Early form of gun

See windsurfing .

Noah was one

He made a bluebird to perform for Sir Donald!

Bobsledder

One doing serious physical exercise

One developing muscles through exercise

Mr. Olympia, e.g

Bodysurfer

Water sport of a sort

Offshore fun

Beer-and-whiskey cocktail

Whiskey with a beer chaser

Whiskey-beer combo

Standard wording of a contract

Hack writing

Formulaic writing

Boilersuit

Airmen

Prolonged missile attack

Nine ac attack

Assault, shelling

Bondholder

Bonesetter

Bookbinder

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

Triple-header-double-letter word

Figureheads (wordplay)

They work with numbers

Page savers

Charge drug dealers (wordplay)

Proprietors for word lovers

Barnes & Noble and competitors

Backfired, in a way

""BOONDOGGLE a braided cord made by hand by young scouts, used for various purposes, such as a hat cord or a key chain.""

BOORISH {rude=adj}

Chamber of commerce policies

Jazz Age figures

They sold alcohol illegally

Suppliers of illegal recordings

Bootlicker

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

Worry - darn it!

Darn it!

Fiddlesticks!

Kitchen cleaner will get it in the neck

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.""

""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

""Slowness of the heart rate, usually fewer than 60 beats per minute in an adult human.""

Bradykinin

Boastful and arrogant behaviour

Boastful behaviour

Empty boasting

Brainless

Brainpower

In a brainsick manner.

Sudden aberrations.

Sudden inspirations

Bright ideas.

It may call for lateral thinking

Puzzle requiring thought

New artisan beer is a puzzle

Changed one's mind

Indoctrinated, in a way

George Harrison's final album

Genius spiffer-upper (wordplay)

Cult leader, in a way

Brainwash

Small crustacean

Branchline

Brandish

Brashness

Brazilwood

Region of comparable size (wordplay)

Baker's middle name (wordplay)

Stomach (with rolls?)

Breadboard

Breadfruit

Loaf-making ingredients

In the direction of the breadth.

Person who supports a family

Family's main earner

Source of family funds

Had meal in bar, fed steak specially cooked

Breakfast

Shut down bogus businesses (wordplay)

Cabinets of a sort.

Coastal structures countering erosion

Shore walls

Breastbone

Protector of Galahad's heart (wordplay)

It was worn in war, once

Piece of armor

Low walls used as a defense in battle

BREATHE to inhale and exhale air

BRECCIATE

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.

Brickfield

Building-site workers

Construction-site workers

Artisans briskly race around

Building

Ones making vows

Men marrying

Beware! (if you were planning to elope)

Members of the wedding.

Members of the wedding party

Military footholds.

Bridgework

Briefness

Brigandage

Brigandine

Two-masted ships.

Two-masted ships of yore

Brightener

Brighten

Brightwork

Brilliance

In a brilliant manner.

Brininess

BRIQUETTE

Briskness

Resembling a bristle in stiffness.

""An insect of the genera Lepisma, Campodea, etc., belonging to the Thysanura. Lepisma, Campodea, etc., belonging to the Thysanura.""

Tendency to break easily

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 .""

Abrupt incivility

Blunt quality of British-American female figurehead advancing new ship

Brusquerie

BRUTALISE to treat brutally.

Dry area torched, that is start of several cruel deeds

BRUTALIZE To make brutal; beasty; unfeeling; or inhuman.

BRUTISH {brutal=adj}

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

Bryologist

English word

Plundered the booty, perhaps (or, played like Tom Brady?)

Buccinator

Parrots

Bulldogger

Lined with Kevlar

Able to resist being shot

Like police vests

Spanish athlete in a ring

Waver of a red cape

Suit of lights wearer

Breed of dog

Breed developed in England

English dog breed

Bullyrag

Umbrella, humorously

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

Umbrella

One system of administration.

Rule of too-many thumbs

Administration by officials

Red-tape experts.

Certain officials.

Pertaining to burglary; constituting the crime of burglary.

BURGLARIZE

Burglarize

Mayor in Germany, Austria, etc

Mayor, in Mainz

Mayor.

Burlesque

Burlesquer

""BURLESQUE Tending to excite laughter or contempt by extravagant images, or by a contrast between the subject and the manner of treating it, as when a trifling subject is treated with mock gravity; jocular; ironical.""

Burliness