2-Letter Words Starting with B

""SULFITE a chemical salt, also SULPHITE""

Bitchy

Bitewing

Bitstock

Most sour-tasting

Most cynical

Most acrid

Somewhat bitter.

Bivalent

Bivouac

Blackboy

Birds which were signs of doom (wordplay)

Blackfin

""A small kind of whale, of the genus Globicephalus, of several species. The most common is G. melas. Also sometimes applied to other whales of larger size. Globicephalus, of several species. The most common is G. melas. Also sometimes applied to other whales of larger size.""

Blackgum

Blacking

Scabs left in some beastly panto costume

Gloomy members, who do not strike

Relative of boycott.

The Weavers topped it in 1952

Bar in Hollywood

A situation without light

Reasons to use flashlights

Some skits

Power failures.

Surfaces, as roads, runways, etc.

Broadway's Hagen, who was blacklisted

Paves, as a driveway

Without culpability, innocent

Be grateful for securing weak upright

Confer favour around criminal male? No, innocent!

They're obviously shocked

Gentle quality of light concealed by black cape

Void

Utter obscenities or profanities

Curse afflicting sheep and lamb

Curse MP - he's able to change...

That's sacrilege!

Sacrilege, profane speech

Profane talk or behaviour

Relating to the blastema; rudimentary.

Blastema

Blasty

Blasting

A sudden stroke or injury produced by some destructive cause.

Departures from Cape Canaveral

Launches reports about cricket side

Activities using lox.

Blastoma

Pl. blastulas or blastulae (-l ) An early embryonic form produced by cleavage of a fertilized ovum and consisting of a spherical layer of cells surrounding a fluid-filled cavity. Also called blastosphere .

Metazoan stages

Blazoner

Laundry Spectators (wordplay)

Seats in the sun.

Salon workers, at times

Starkness

Least clear, in a way

Most misty

Superlatively fuzzy

They are for the bloody letting of a single bed

Not perfect

After starter of bhaji and lime pickle, one of my colleagues stained

Imperfect

Marks that spoil the appearance

Teen's woe, euphemistically

Small marks or flaws

Blencher

Blesbuck

Blessed

Fortunately, happily

Sacredly

Good things to count

Grace and others.

God's provisions

Reprobates ultimately bomb boats

So-and-sos offering second-rate barges

Blighty

Blindage

""A small fish (Amblyopsis spel\'91us) destitute of eyes, found in the waters of the Mammoth Cave, in Kentucky. Related fishes from other caves take the same name. Amblyopsis spel\'91us) destitute of eyes, found in the waters of the Mammoth Cave, in Kentucky. Related fishes from other caves take the same name.""

Milton's final affliction

Failing to see new elevated purpose in heaven

Not seeing death? That's new over in heaven

Hit from behind, say

Unseen run, perhaps

Hit, seemingly from nowhere

Blinkard

Like burnt skin, perhaps

Hit hard, as a baseball

Surgeon in bed with spots

Dairy Queen offerings

Winter phenomena.

Big storms

Some trade barriers

Artery problems

Drunk goes back, clutching large bottlenecks

All no go

Blocky

Bloodfin

Likeliest to get an R rating, perhaps

Most violent

Blooding

Feeble; drained of colour

Like some coups

Cold war unlikely to be this

A slaughterhouse (wordplay)

R-rated film feature, maybe

Carnage in Slaughterhouse (wordplay)

Inflamed (of eye)

Reddened, inflamed eye

(Of eye) streaked with red

Bloomy

Met one's potential

Fulfilled one's potential

Yielded flowers

Blotty

Blousy

Goes on and on about nothing

Blowback

Blowball

Blowdown

Metallic blue insects

Bluebottles

*Family of insects that can smell dead animals from up to a mile away...ew

Big talkers

Gasconaders

Windbags

They may spout off

Air-concentrating tubes

If it comes to blows, they're fatal

Glassmakers' tools

Blowsy

Blowtube

Blowzy

Bound legs with clubs

Uses a club as a weapon

Unsatisfied reaction, perhaps

Common affliction in teen sex comedies

Flowers (maybe of Scotland)

Hiya, Cinth! Shady rings for you (wordplay)

Woodland flowers

Bluebill

*Symbols of happiness

Over the Rainbow fauna

They are not flying high at Ninian Park

Requirements for some tests

Social registers

Social registers

Police in uniform.

Union soldiers

Bass feed

Panfish.

Unhappy shop music (wordplay)

A type of country music

The shade for age in Kentucky

Bluehead

Bluejack

N.H.L. rink features

Strait-laced ones

Holier-than-thou types

Puritanical ones.

(Astronomy) a shift in the spectral lines of a stellar spectrum towards the blue end of the visible region relative to the wavelengths of these lines in the terrestrial spectrum: a result of the Doppler effect caused by stars approaching the solar system Compare redshift

Bluesy

Bluestem

See you, Esso, for 19 across, perhaps

See you, Esso, for the sapphire, perhaps

See you, Esso, for the sound of this

Bluetick

Blueweed

Bluewood

Deceive head, showing outspoken nature

Lack of sharp quality

Blurry

Used empty threats.

Made empty threats

Played the bully.

Be around the north in order to get right person with loud voice

Boarding

Boatbill

They're used to snag mooring lines

Docking aids

Mooring equipment

One may start a row from there

Punt's spot

Riverside structure

Cargo quantities

Large quantities

Shipping quantities

Was I not AB? Wrong - I was!

Ship's officer sat in bow with a wound

Ship's officer

Boatyard

Bobbery

Hexagonal-meshed laces

P.G.A. Hall of Famer Jones

Birds named for their song.

Migratory songbirds

Birds

Bocaccio

Most impressive, in dialect

Groovy, dude!

Amazing, in dialect

Bodement

Bodysuit

Doesn't go overboard (wordplay)

Rides the waves, in a way

Rides the waves without a board

Bodywork

Boehmite

Dvorak and Smetana

Unconventional people bemoan his undoing

Convention flouters

Boiserie

Boldface

Boletus

Bolivar

Bollworm

Supported up in bed, perhaps

Given extra overnight support (wordplay)

Supported, with "up"

Fan or supporter

What lettuce lovers do (wordplay)

Bolthole

Boltonia

Boltrope

I cast bomb, being pompous in speech

Using too high-flown speech.

Like many stump speeches

Bombesin

Bombload

Stunner or shocker (wordplay)

Jaw-dropping news

Piece of devastating news

Enola Gay device

Aircraft's aiming device

Volatile big shot takes medic on board aerial war contraption

Bombycid

Bondmaid

Masonry wall unit.

Masonry binder.

Highly stupid fellows.

Foolish people with ossified tops (wordplay)

Stupid ones.

Bonemeal

Boneyard

Bongoist

Bonhomie

A pleasant and affable disposition; geniality.

Boniface

Bonspell

Curling tournaments

Bontebok

Ignorant middle class, per H. L. Mencken

Mencken's great unwashed

Stupid people, as H.L. Mencken put it

Order examples for the works (wordplay)

Law office fixtures

Shelves trial in reserves

BOOKISH pertaining to books

Booklore

A minute wingless psocopterous insect (Liposcelis divinatorius) injurious to books and papers.Liposcelis divinatorius) injurious to books and papers.

Dog-ear alternates

Bookrack

Reading supports

Novel storage area (wordplay)

Supporter of literature (wordplay)

Where volume may be turned up (wordplay)

Businesses that thrive on high volume sales (wordplay)

They sell the dead presumably? It's novel to the markets!

Bibliophile's source

Reserves lofty retail outlet

Where the volume is not 30 across

Volume setting (wordplay)

Volume business (wordplay)

Barnes and Noble, for one

Very serious students

They haunt libraries

Ones who study hard

Portable sources of music

Powerful, portable radios

Portable stereos

Areas with population explosions

Blast urban areas that have short-lived prosperity

Head of municipality to pull in favours for thriving areas

Rough country: Slang.

Rough country Slang.

Sticks may be advantage with crops

In a rough bad-mannered way

Rudely, coarsely

Certain stores in the U. S.

Stores with arrays of leather goods, usually

Bootjack

Producers of tieups at work (wordplay)

They're tightened before a march

Some workers' footwear securers

Bootlick

Item for a certain lift

Computer program loading method

Metaphorical self-help aid

Boracite

Red-light-district houses

Brothels

Borderer

Borecole

Borehole

English word

Librarians' clientele

Loan seekers

Boschbok

Boshvark

Domineering sort of ownership, perhaps

Control freak's trait

Tendency to play dictator

Botanica

Botanise

Botanise

Ones with growing concerns (wordplay)

Plant experts

Botanize

Botchy

Bothrium

Bottling

Bottomer

BOTULIN a nerve poison

Botulism

Bouffant

Large containers for cut flowers.

Rich broths

French broths

Bouncy

Call for reduction to jumper that's vast

Having no limit, extensive

Seemingly without limit