2-Letter Words Starting with B

Noun (-age)

Barrier, to block a street perhaps

Defensive structure, maybe improvised

Temporary blockage to obstruct movement

Soil, as garments in the mud.

Make wet and limp

Make limp and soiled

Vatican art gallery in Rome

Summerhouse with view

Summer house with a view

""An alkaloid obtained, as a bitter, yellow substance, from the root of the barberry, gold thread, and other plants.""

Adjective meaning resembling

Divide into two branches

Fork into two branches

Bat, cue made with fir, perhaps, having 2 branches

Organic section (wordplay)

Life-support system (wordplay)

Where the wild things are (wordplay)

Having two sections

Divided into two sections

Involving two sides

A cheep place to stay (wordplay)

American nest-box

*Woodcraft hobbyist's creation

Baby figure (wordplay)

Demographer's concern

Figure that concerned Malthus

With more than one unknown verse, song dividing taste

Adjective meaning resembling

Volume setting (wordplay)

Volume business (wordplay)

Barnes and Noble, for one

English word

In zoology, to use arms for locomotion

Having a bract or bracts.

Same as Bractlet. Bractlet.

Cranium

Branchia

Restaurant using money I put in before

Restaurant for staff officers by a lake

Restaurant that might serve steak frites

One responsible for bust-up (wordplay)

Money that is admitting Queen supporter

It was burned in the '60s

If band's conga formation (wordplay)

A hollow row (wordplay)

One may be on it at the cash dispenser!

Live outside right the same as live outside left? Not likely to last

Fragile

BRECCIA a type of rock

Artwork made from a clog, creatively coated in cheese

Lawyer meeting patient, maybe a carrier

Short job for Belli?

Accessory in a drug deal (wordplay)

Sulphur (when associated with hellfire)

Material for a fiery sermon (wordplay)

Symbolically S might make the edge hard

An oval or pearshaped diamond having its entire surface cut in triangular facets.

Small fuel block

Data entered on computer

Patio fuel unit

General perhaps left following attack

Hard-to-hit barn area (wordplay)

Volley, as of denunciation.

Stick in the oven (wordplay)

Small spit or skewer: French kebab

Spit broth etc out on top of everything

Period with less money (wordplay)

E*Trade is one

Dealer's commission

""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.""

Bow and scrape

Act like a toady

Be a suck-up

English word

Brucella

*Fast-spreading blaze, perhaps

Minor rural blaze

Type of conflagration.

Make bestial

To make brutal; beasty; unfeeling; or inhuman.

Any of numerous plants of the division Bryophyta.Bryophyta.

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

Parody - show with striptease (wordplay)

Like Ives (wordplay)

Show-biz category

See Buhrstone. Buhrstone.

Oyakawa holds this Olympic record.

One way to swim

Swimming specialty

Balcony railing (by Toni Morrison)

A bad result perhaps, but coping

Part of a balcony.

Variant of banneret 1 .

Gondolier's song

Venetian boat song

Floating melody in tavern song left echo

Certain ship

Rank higher than knightdom

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.

Early example of an oxymoron (wordplay)

Early, while the pub is still open

Not - - means none too soon

To sprinkle over; to scatter over.

""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.""

From Beirut Joe and I removed jewellery

Jewellery especially trinkets

Trinkets from Beirut Joe and I distributed

Rot, in a good way

Break down

The subject of a biography.

""POLARIZE to give polarity to, also POLARISE""

Town one's arrived in (wordplay)

Natal region (wordplay)

Where one enters the race (wordplay)

Opal, for example

Peridot, for example

Gem for particular occasion.

""A salt of tartaric acid in which the base replaces but half the acid hydrogen; an acid tartrate, as cream of tartar.""

Strange and unusual thing

Cell formed by cleavage of a fertilised ovum

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

Division is problematic

Indecisive boundary row

Only just acceptable

Annoying to disturb a few

Mob there so unruly, causing trouble

Annoying mob's here to riot

BOURGEOIS A size of type between long primer and brevier. See Type. Type.

Expurgate the indelicate unnecessarily

Bimbo extremely lewd, perhaps come up and use a figleaf

Censor wicked and loathsome extremists heading for Richmond in US state capital

Cut, in a way

Desex the text

Expurgate.

Subsidiary rail system

Subsidiary rail track

Secondary railway

Familiar name for the stern - um!

Wicked stabber may land on one

Sternum

Like good air

British herbal tea brewed is fit for inhaling

Capable of being connected by a bridge or as if by a bridge.

Freebootery.

""A coast of armor for the body, consisting of scales or plates, sometimes overlapping each other, generally of metal, and sewed to linen or other material. It was worn in the Middle Ages.""

Two-masted sailing vessel

Craft work of giant encased in salt

Giant waves in the sea for boat

Talent that outshines all others

Sparkling aptitude

Genius; brightness

English word

Upholstery fabric

A minute bronchial tube.

An Ivy League jewel?

An Ivy League jewel (wordplay)

Type of house

Bluntness of speech, French style.

Do E-numbers turn heavy (wordplay)

A real hassle

Trying numbers, do set out last of three

G. Gordon Liddy's peepers (wordplay)

Same as Germicide. Germicide.

Sleep-inducing drug class

Drug counter snapped on universal charge

Drug ban gripped university class

Variant of barkentine .

Kind of jazz.

Jelly Roll Morton style

Old-time saloon

Deep-sea vessel

Diving bell.

Beebe vehicle

See penstemon .

Last course of a greasy meal (wordplay)

Type of chemical salt

Indigestion relief

Very rich person

One might support a foundation

Even richer person

Similar to a bladder.

A fungal spore produced by budding.

Real ball fan.

Standard wording of a contract

Hack writing

Formulaic writing

English word

Owners of the means of production

*Capitalist class, in Marxism

The middle class

Spray of flowers worn

Subject of a recent popular song.

Flower in a lapel

In the direction of the breadth.

Protector of Galahad's heart (wordplay)

It was worn in war, once

Piece of armor

Resembling a bristle in stiffness.

Unmarried young woman

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

A spore borne by a basidium.

One looking for scraps may show it

Aggression of drunken reeling celeb

Aggressive behaviour

English word

... yaks, yaks, yaks ...

... yaks, yaks, yaks ..

Gossip from British bird about soaps

""A double salt of boric and silicic acids, as in the natural minerals tourmaline, datolite, etc.""

Way to cross the pool

Adam Peaty's swimming style

Natant style involving heart massage

Ill in barnet? I could set that right!

Perfumed oil for making hair glossy

One worker in East going after fish oil

Instrument used for examining the windpipe

French school-leaving exam

Higher education exam

Type of degree

A virus which infects bacteria; -- also colloquially called phage in laboratory jargon.phage in laboratory jargon.

Naturally breaking down

Capable of decaying

Able to be broken down by bacteria

REFRINGENCE

One place for overnight guests (2 words)

Pay to stay where it's wood (wordplay)

Where Sherlock Holmes lived

English word

""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.""

Some obfuscating jargon

Bureaucrat

BUREAUCRAT An official of a bureau; esp. an official confirmed in a narrow and arbitrary routine.

""A transparent, highly flammable liquid, C 4 H 8 O, used in synthesizing resins.""

""Any of a group of neuroleptic drugs, such as haloperidol, administered in the treatment of acute psychotic episodes, schizophrenia, and other psychiatric disorders.""

English word

Spherical form of carbon