2-Letter Words Starting with B

To make brutal; beasty; unfeeling; or inhuman.

Brutify

Brutify

BRUTISH {brutal=adj}

Any of numerous plants of the division Bryophyta.Bryophyta.

Most enthusiastic

Without opening blue KFC tub, in pieces how much chicken's there (wordplay)

Bucket

Pellets aimed at birds and ducks

Bucktail

Reason to get braces

Large projecting incisors

Prominent features of 'dandy champers'

Prickly berried shrub

Prickly shrub with black berries

One of two Bugs Bunny features, both OK, cut out

Type of cereal

Ingredient in pancakes

Flour used in pancakes

Of a financial plan

David Bell, for example.

Budgeter

Blooming little to get gin if the money will stretch to it

Buffeter

Buffet

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

Bullet

Reports of things fired around home

News reports.

They're issued with cans of beef, by the sound of it

Dispute among optimists (wordplay)

Spectacle in "Around the World."

Death in the Afternoon event

Bullpout

Bullshot

Irritatingly self-assertive

Seat up, so it moves forward

Offensively self-assertive

Bunchy

Bunkmate

Buntline

BUOYANT having buoyancy

Burbly

Burgonet

See Buhrstone. Buhrstone.

Burstone

Burthen

Bushgoat

Bustline

Substance used in synthetic rubber.

A colourless gaseous hydrocarbon used in the manufacture of synthetic rubber

Butanone

Completely mispronounced, as a name

Totally ruined

Save revolutionary socialist from being massacred

Like a butcher; without compunction; savage; bloody; inhuman; fell.

Butlery

Cow, perhaps, a pest on the lawn

In ancient times, say, raised flower

Swap prize ram for cow (wordplay)

Goat maybe with solid product from dairy

Say female in club gets dairy product

Calorie counter's concern

A stroke or a comma, maybe

Monarch, for one

Net stroke (wordplay)

Buttery

Buttery

Toast task

Born fool wrapping complete tree

Squash and spread fruitcake

Goat head, a sort of pumpkin down under

Nosy Parker variable

Someone who can't stay out of the conversation but can go downhill fast

Nosy person

Intruder

Meddler

Fasteners

Making it fast despite the weight of gin

Fastening, though going together

English word

Butylate

Butylate

Butylene

Butyrate

Innocent one (wordplay)

Onlooker (often innocent)

One in the crowd

Bystreet

What an intriguing Empire style!

Like a hard-to-navigate bureaucracy

Describing a style of architecture.

Babbitt

Meaningless talk

Bacchante

""A polypeptide antibacterial antibiotic of known chemical structure effective against several types of Gram-positive organisms, and usually used topically for superficial local infection.""

*Ones who criticize others in their absence

Fleas

Nasty office gossip

Malicious talk

Saying mean things, at the wrestling match (wordplay)

Backbite

Backcloth

Backcourt

Backdate

Backfit

Backlight

Backlist

Servants' secret flight (wordplay)

Type of intrigue

Scandalous

""A stitch made by setting the needle back of the end of the last stitch, and bringing it out in front of the end.""

Road in reverse (wordplay)

*Road less traveled

Best seller by Fannie Hurst

Oyakawa holds this Olympic record.

One way to swim

Swimming specialty

Searches for an error, maybe

Climbs down path guarded by defenders

Isolated, peaceful rural places

Isolated places

The presence of bacteria in the blood.

Of or pertaining to bacteremia.

BACTERIZE to subject to the action of bacteria.

Bacterize

Bacteroid

Claret drinks.

Disparaged

Smeared foundation around part of face, on commercial

Slandered

Utter perplexity

Total bewilderment

Chaps chasing fox for time in utter bewilderment

Trifling things

Trifles with femmes fatales, holding a gun

Trifles.

Bairnly

Balladist

Heavy material for stabilizing a ship

Science of flight dynamics

Science of motion of projectiles.

Police-lab concerns

Phileas Fogg, for one

One seen in a hanging basket (wordplay)

Party item to sit out, being in the air

Today's most popular writers (wordplay)

Pens from pin endings

Some pens

Balcony railing (by Toni Morrison)

A bad result perhaps, but coping

Part of a balcony.

Banality

Australian animals

Banditry

Samba trend (anagram)

Sousa or Alexander, for example

Conductor decorated stand with amber

Sousa's places (wordplay)

Platforms in many parks

Outdoor concert sites

Bandwidth

Pig out, say, in Dickensian constituency

The exclusion of someone from a country

Exclusive treatment for a political offence

BANISTER a stair hand-rail

Desperate declaration (seven letters)

Red state (wordplay)

State of insolvency

Bankrupt

Variant of banneret 1 .

Staircase supports

NB: Southeast Trains may be used for rail-flight connections

Banqueter

Banquet

Banquette

Pool house (wordplay)

Brat's piety seems phony in sacred area

Barbitone

Shakespearean fan

Worship of Shakespeare

Discalced, as certain monks

Kicked around a match official having forgotten trainers (wordplay)

Pub second team paid the cost for not wearing boots

Certain ship

Makes one-night stands.

Goes on tour

Stunt flies, as at a fair

Agent noun (-or)

Forecasting aids in Italy (wordplay)

Forecasting aids in Italy?

Indicators of change

Type of pressure

It's measured by the glass

Like some pressure

Rank higher than knightdom

Barquette

""Any of several voracious pikelike marine fishes allied to the gray mullets, constituting the genus Sphyr\'91na and family Sphyr\'91nid\'91. The great barracuda (Sphyr\'91na barracuda) of the West Indies, Florida, etc., is often six feet or more long, and as dangerous as a shark. In Cuba its flesh is reputed to be poisonous. Sphyr\'91na Argentea of the Pacific coast and Sphyr\'91na sphyr\'91na of Europe are smaller species, and are used as food.Sphyr\'91na and family Sphyr\'91nid\'91. The great barracuda (Sphyr\'91na barracuda) of the West Indies, Florida, etc., is often six feet or more long, and as dangerous as a shark. In Cuba its flesh is reputed to be poisonous. Sphyr\'91na Argentea of the Pacific coast and Sphyr\'91na sphyr\'91na of Europe are smaller species, and are used as food.""

Barratry

Barretry

Old Bailey figures

Lawyers at Old Bailey

Followers of Blackstone.

Ones making the rounds (wordplay)

Prison wardens (wordplay)

They serve when right dart's been thrown

Last stop on the San Francisco subway (wordplay)

Basicity

White Men Can't Jump sport

What our play groups are playing

Kobe Bryant's game

Picnic loads

Adjective meaning resembling

Basketry

BASKETS basket

Sit back lazily and in France toil on interlaced articles

Bassett

Orchestra member

Certain instrumentalist

Woodwind player

Bastardy

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.

Bastinade

Catching birds at night using lights to confuse them

Features of beaches.

Batholith

Bathwater

""The art or science of sounding, or measuring depths in the sea.""

Deep-sea submersible

Pertaining to the Batrachia.

Arrayed for battle; fit or eager for battle; warlike.

Large military groups

Military units

Military groups

Battement

Archer's post

Ghostly hangout in "Hamlet"

Fortified area of a castle

Formidable, perhaps, as Hood

The USS Maine, for one

15 - or should it be Queen? - maybe 19

Sticking to one's ribs (wordplay)

Taking a stab at (wordplay)

Bayonet

Coastal strip of land, and a hint to the starts of the starred answers

Most abominable

Beatify

Skip ill-used religious sayings

Get the better of it with blessed dues

Biblical blessings

Hair-cutting job

Candidate for "What's My Line?"

One who has to take a makeup test (wordplay)

Made to look gorgeous

""One who, or that which, beautifies or makes beautiful.""

Makes prettier

Becarpet

Beclothe

Becrust

Nightcaps, for example (wordplay)

Pajamas, e.g

Sheets, blankets, etc.

Bedight

Bedirty

Bedlamite

Red guards (wordplay)

Yeomen of the guard.

Tower of London guards

Live bats seek fast food

Tournedos, e.g

Tournedos, for example

Early example of an oxymoron (wordplay)

Early, while the pub is still open

Not - - means none too soon

Befret

Beknight

Beknot

Belemnite

Hecklers, to Rich (wordplay)

Putting someone down

Is the DI's pa raging, to say the least (wordplay)

Pooh-poohing

A writer of literature

Little Serb turns out to be writer of aesthetic essays

V.I.P. among sheep

Leader of the flock

Leading sheep; trendsetter

Absent-mindedness

Confusion, bewilderment

Puzzled thoughts

One who raised the foundation

Eleemosynar, for example

Supporter's complaint about new player

Kind of meat without name at small price

Doing good.

Doing good

Benefiter

Been fit to have gin with it? You'll be the better for that

Received an advantage

Well meaning, kindly

Like an Elk, supposedly

Well-meaning, kindly

Bentonite

Of or pertaining to bentonite.

Bepaint

The act of bequeathing; bequeathment; bequest.

Bequeath

Besetment

Beshout

Besmooth

Besmut

Besoothe