2-Letter Words Starting with B

Blacksnake

Blackthorn

Blackwater

Bladdernut

Blaeberry

In a blameless manner.

Blancmange

Blandisher

Blandish

Blandness

Blankness

Blanquette

Blasphemer

Blasphemy

""BLASPHEME To speak of, or address, with impious irreverence; to revile impiously (anything sacred); as, to blaspheme the Holy Spirit. as, to blaspheme the Holy Spirit.""

Cursing humble soap's slip-up

Irreverent towards sacred things

Sacrilegious in talk

""Connected with, or proceeding from, the blastema; blastemal.""

""The fluid-filled, central cavity of a blastula. Also called segmentation cavity .""

Blastocoel

Blastocyst

Blastoderm

Blastodisc

Blastomere

Blastopore

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

A fungal spore produced by budding.

Bleakness

Holy state

Sanctity

Beatitude

Blindfish

Blindness

""BLINDSIDE to attack a person from his blind side; metaphorically, to give a person an unpleasant suprise.blind side; metaphorically, to give a person an unpleasant suprise.""

Blitzkrieg

Big character (wordplay)

Popular film? Ban one about train robber

House wrecker's big brother

Forts made of squared timbers

Bloodguilt

Hunting dogs

Bloodless

Evidence in many "Law & Order" episodes

Forensic clues with scattered money from a shark (wordplay)

Bloodstock

Bloodstone

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

Bluebonnet

Fruity preserves for coppers

Coppers showing courage when overrun by Oxbridge types

Bluegrass

Bluejacket

Blueshift

Bluetongue

Bluffness

Short handgun that has a wide bore

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

Early form of gun

Bluntness

See windsurfing .

Bobsledder

Hope on a slope (wordplay)

Sport in which competitors race down a steeply banked chute

Bodacious

Compassionate person delaying attainment of nirvana (Buddhism)

Bodysurfer

Water sport of a sort

Offshore fun

Socially unconventional style of, eg, artists and writers

Boilersuit

Bolshevism

BOLSHEVIZE

Bolshevize

Airmen

Bondholder

BONEFISH a marine fish

Bonesetter

Bookbinder

BOOKISH pertaining to books

Triple-header-double-letter word

Figureheads (wordplay)

They work with numbers

Bookmaking

Page savers

Mobile sources of reading material (pl.) (4,7)

Charge drug dealers (wordplay)

Proprietors for word lovers

Barnes & Noble and competitors

The employment of selling books.

Library staples

Money-eating projects

Big ol' wastes

Useless endeavors

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

Bossiness

Kitchen cleaner will get it in the neck

Some traffic tie-ups

Traffic jam causes, sometimes

Conditions that hinder progress.

Bottomland

Botulinus

The quality of being finite.

Boundless

Bounteous

Bourbonism

Bourgeoise

Owners of the means of production

*Capitalist class, in Marxism

The middle class

(Literature) edited for 'decency'

Removed text considered improper

Bowdlerise

Bowdlerize

It might get into a jam

Type of jam

Hybrid sometimes found in a jam

Brachiator

Brachiopod

Bradykinin

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

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.

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

Brickfield

Building-site workers

Construction-site workers

Artisans briskly race around

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

Brightwork

Brilliance

Brininess

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

Bronchiole

Brontosaur

Transportation, in folklore.

Witches' transport.

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

BRUTISH {brutal=adj}

Bryologist

Bubblehead

Buccinator

BUCKSKIN the skin of a male deer

Parrots

Carplike member of the sucker family

Bufflehead

Bulkiness

Bulldogger

Bullfinch

... unfortunately uses NHS bill to show brutish quality

Cross-breed dog

Short-muzzled dog breed

Powerful cross-bred dog

Umbrella, humorously

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

Umbrella

Bumpiness

Bumptious

Red-tape experts.

Certain officials.

Pertaining to burglary; constituting the crime of burglary.

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

Burnishing

Bushiness

Rattlesnake relatives

Bushranger

Present participle or gerund

Waylaid

Oater villain who attacks from hiding

Western baddie

Oater ambusher

Enterprise officer (wordplay)

Bloke in a suit (wordplay)

Eg, city gent