2-Letter Words Starting with B

Tough, woody fiber (STAB anagram)

Jute or hemp for example

Fibre used in rope making.

Worst? Quite the opposite!

How father knows (wordplay)

Humdinger (formerly, "Defeat")

Turn 22, say (wordplay)

Broken statue (wordplay)

Chest, or above it exhibited (wordplay)

Can one so inhuman be a saint (wordplay)

Horse, for one

Maybe a stable housing animal

Surround (with problems)

Hemmed in (by)

Harry's live on TV!

Get a woman drunk say

Get a woman drunk, say

Make stupid or foolish.

Explosion in knickers!

Criticise or clap (wordplay)

Dynamite time (wordplay)

Divinely favored (var.)

Favored by God (Var.)

- Pair of Sirens (Parry)

Speak for yourself (wordplay)

Let out hot air (wordplay)

Veni, vidi, vici, for one

Kicking boots for one of the Spurs

Shoplift so to say

Push up (eg morale, chances)

Explode; volley (of fire)

Let it all out say

Succumb to pressure (wordplay)

Least furnished, as a room

Most scantily dressed

Most sparsely furnished

Estonian, say, collects a singular 25

Moon rock makeup

Fine-grained rock

Least decent or most lowly

Least governed by morality

Bottom-of-the-barrel

Score after dribbling, say

Sort of case for an analyst (wordplay)

Woven container for carrying food etc

Low-down dog (wordplay)

Hound (named Fred?)

Dog getting a B-plus!

Premier's dynamite, say, in authority

Order cream - what's in it (wordplay)

Command - Thebes (anagram)

Obscure

Cloud.

Befog.

To blacken with soot

Go halves (wordplay)

Cut, as a line

Cut part taking short amount of time

Most like Newman's eyes

Down the most

Subtle changes in most intense colour

Beet soup (Var.)

Russian soup.

Beet soup

Thicket

Set bar (anagram)

Reach the top of (a hill)

Reach summit of (hill)

Gone

Countercurrent.

Most excellent, in modern slang

Most mean, slangily

Best on the street, ironically

With the least hair

Least disguised

Lab salt (anagram)

Stabilising weight (naut.)

Ship's stabilizer

John, for one

Was John apt to be in bits (wordplay)

Variety of Protestant

Close-fitting steel helmet.

Medieval helmet with visor

Light steel helmet

The Who's John Entwistle, for one

McCartney, for one

Charlie Mingus, for one

""Having white marks, also BAUSOND""

To cover with a crust

Becurse

Animal swallowing bits of dog food, unable to get up

Retired person's supporter (wordplay)

Pole near a mattress

Pole near a pillow

Will power (wordplay)

A dead giveaway (wordplay)

Dead giveaway (wordplay)

To shout at

One skilled in biblical learning

Most wanted, maybe

Bites very largely about one horse

The largest popular force is French

Gravy base (wordplay)

Brown water, perhaps

Food (literally twice cooked)

A plant of the dock family

Tops in audacity

Most daring or naughty

Most daring.

What a boastful way to blow a street up!

High-sounding words.

High-sounding words with little meaning

Herb also called agueweed

Folk medicine herb.

Plant used in folk medicine

Skinny to the max

Most difficult to fillet

Hardest to eat, as fish

Soup often served with sour cream

Dish ladled out hot or cold

Eastern European soup

""A thicket, also BOSK, BOSQUE""

Arrow's flight distance

Distance an arrow flies

Old firing range is bandy and randy

Most squarish

Most daring pair of undies (wordplay)

Least likely to shrink

Least likely to turn tail

Braw

Relating to brisance

Quick note about joint of meat

Cut of meat.

Cut of beef from near the ribs

Bum

A member of a political association

But this cuckoo is a songbird

Long-tailed western American bird

Small American songbird

Like the most active bee (wordplay)

Least likely to be free

Having the most work to do

To make a backward cast in fishing

Publisher's asset.

Older titles, to a publisher

Support composer giving out unknown previous compositions

Farthest to the rear

Farthest to the rear.

Part of a chair

Chair part, often

Bet on others for support

Favorite location at the drive-in (4,4)

Take this to become invisible (wordplay)

Certain driver's spot

Furthest from formfitting

Most loose-fitting

Balky

Most pleasantly warm

Most refreshing.

Most summery

Musician with a lot of pluck (wordplay)

Prohibit support for musician

Veto support for plucky player

Doglike goblin of folklore

""A dog-like goblin, also BARGHEST""

Barky

Least sensible part of job armies tackled

Lots of soldiers in outskirts of Beirut? That's extremely foolish

Barny

Place for a bargain (wordplay)

Best name perhaps for servants' quarters

Bargain setting (wordplay)

The fish I catch for baby (wordplay)

Fish in bed (wordplay)

Berth of a baby (wordplay)

Least lucid

Most eccentric

Most crazy

Most off-colour - bed waits (anagram)

Most lewd

Spangliest

Beaky

Beamy

It may be fit for a queen (wordplay)

What's needed on the double (wordplay)

Cover for sleeper

Brawny to the nth degree.

Most drunken

Most drunk

Bishop most strange and least likely to be sober (wordplay)

The bogus criminal begged

Begged, pleaded with

Entreated, begged

Sprinkled, old-style

Man with double trouble (wordplay)

One with two other halves (wordplay)

Woman over-groomed (wordplay)

Bilgy

Small pellets for hunting rifle

Small spheres found in shells

Bitty

Most tragic thing missing in defeat

Most gloomy.

Outside range, sandwich is least tasty

Most in need of ponzu or piri-piri

Most soothing.

Most unproductive

Most vague

Most expressionless

Most dismal and desolate

Most dark bitter's bottled to make water

Least cheerful

Least able to see

Least percipient.

Most carefree

Most merry

Most joyful

Most fair (wordplay)

Like Baby Spice, vis-a-vis the other Spice Girls

Most fair

Wildest line in Ziggy Stardust's 'Time' (wordplay)

Most breezy

Bluff

Most brutally honest

Least sharp

Most offensive about conservationists, and most outspoken

Bits you'd adjusted in tight outfit

One-piece outfit

One-piece to look good on torso first

Boggy

A bongo player

Most healthy-looking baby

Most comely

Literary supporter (wordplay)

Reader's support

Den accessory

Boomy

Most alcoholic

Jeer is followed by enthusiasm when crossing island least dry

Bosky

Most domineering and overbearing

Most dictatorial: Colloq.

Most dictatorial Colloq.

Plant supervisor (wordplay)

Plant manager (wordplay)

Asa Gray for one

Bit of ship to buckle on trips at sea

Pole, tie and skewer? That's about right

Spar projecting from front of a boat

Brag

Braky

Flashiest and loudest

Most insolent

Most impertinent

Sort of band using instruments with skill

Cheese party (wordplay)

Of shortest duration

Most epigrammatic

Highest in salt, perhaps

Most refreshing

Most peppy

Chance to be among the finest, most energetic

With the most breadth

Most general, extensive

With the most latitude

Is that where the forehead was born - in the darkest shade (wordplay)

Brusk

Projectiles for hunting game

Coarse lead pellets for guns

Money's stolen and ammunition, too

Buffy

Buggy

Bulgy

Hardest to carry, perhaps

Hardest to ship, say

Bishop and I cutting version of St Luke that's taking up most space

Bully

A drink made of vodka and bouillon

Least smooth

Most husky

Burry

""A small antelope, also BUSHBUCK""

Bushy

Model held in greatest demand (wordplay)

Buxom

Hardly a main drag

Part of many a detour

Obscure road in town

Defenders cried moving away from front

Slanting away

Sentimental singer

Traditional singer of considerable weight embracing girl briefly

Barren

Baulky

Beachy

Beechy

""The act of besetting, or the state of being beset; also, that which besets one, as a sin.""

One skilled in the knowledge of the Bible; a demonstrator of religious truth by the Scriptures.

Armstrong, for one

One on two wheels

Many a Beijing commuter

Gregor Mendel, for instance.

Life-science lab worker

Jeff's job, officially

Bitchy

Most sour-tasting

Most cynical

Most acrid

Relative of boycott.

The Weavers topped it in 1952

Bar in Hollywood

Blasty

A sudden stroke or injury produced by some destructive cause.

Least clear, in a way

Most misty

Superlatively fuzzy

Blocky

Likeliest to get an R rating, perhaps

Most violent

Inflamed (of eye)

Reddened, inflamed eye

(Of eye) streaked with red

Bloomy

Blotty

Blousy

Blowsy

Blowzy

(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

Blurry

Enola Gay device

Aircraft's aiming device

Volatile big shot takes medic on board aerial war contraption

Botchy

Bouncy

Braggy

BRAILLE to write in raised print for the blind

Like the class valedictorian, perhaps

Most clever

Most brilliant

Branny

Brashy

Having the most nerve

Bratty

Link of German origin

German pork sausage

A type of small pork sausage

Brawlie

Maximally muscular

Eat on the go (wordplay)

Baker cooked cracking meal

First meal at Tiffany's

Most carefree

Bricky

Superlative for Sirius

Most intelligent

Most brainy

Most likely to crumble

Least likely to bend

Most fragile

Sent out in waves (wordplay)

Common female performers put on show

Programme of actors with bad cast

Bronzy

Broody

Broomy

Browny

Brushy

Brusque

Most enthusiastic

Bunchy

Burbly

Road in reverse (wordplay)

*Road less traveled

Best seller by Fannie Hurst

Bairnly

Phileas Fogg, for one

One seen in a hanging basket (wordplay)

Party item to sit out, being in the air

Pig out, say, in Dickensian constituency

The exclusion of someone from a country

Exclusive treatment for a political offence

Orchestra member

Certain instrumentalist

Woodwind player

Most abominable

A writer of literature

Little Serb turns out to be writer of aesthetic essays

Absent-mindedness

Confusion, bewilderment

Puzzled thoughts

Person associated with (-ist)

Most wavy.