2-Letter Words Starting with B

Splashes with mud

Bestead

The state or quality of being bestial.

""To make bestial, or like a beast; to degrade; to brutalize.""

Hebrew name meaning 'lion'

Medieval books featuring fables

Hebrew name meaning "lion"

Rousing

Bestrew

Spanned, it's clear, in first study

Finest travelled by horse and dominated

First past the post would surely have been this!

Dominating prime equestrian activity (wordplay)

Walking over the nicest part of Yorkshire once

Bestrow

Bestud

Betatter

Bethank

Bethink

Bethorn

Bethump

Being a sign of (something)

Betrothal

Betrothed

Betroth

Progress in standard of living

Live with Hilary, perhaps, in a tent for gain

How more good men come to tea for improvement

Bevomit

Magnetic personal charm

Capturing interest as if by spell

Like some sirens

Charmingly appealing

Biathlete

Certain religious scholars

Bibliotic

Person associated with (-ist)

""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.""

CULTURAL relating to culture

Entertainers at old Madison Square Garden

Bifidity

Two-pronged; forked.

Forks

Kind and considerate

Generous description of unambiguous (wordplay)

Generous sack filled with rubbish I gather

Very talkative

Bijection

From Beirut Joe and I removed jewellery

Jewellery especially trinkets

Trinkets from Beirut Joe and I distributed

Seepage aboard ship

Ship's seepage

Nonsense

Billionth

Most wavy.

Double location; the state or power of being in two places at the same instant; a miraculous power attributed to some of the saints.

Lithium injected into lamb etc I cooked with steel and tin, perhaps (wordplay)

In job, I met all I could, including Al with Mo, for example

MODALITY the state of being modal

NATIONAL a citizen of a nation

""Having two nuclei; as, binucleate cells.as, binucleate cells.""

Asimov, per his doctorate

Person knee-deep in formulas

A studier of living organisms

See biological control .

BIOETHIC relating to ethical questions in biology

Like Ernst Haeckel's law

Watson and Crick, for two

Julian Huxley and James Watson

Identity verification system

Biometry

""An apparatus in which a suspension of microorganisms in a liquid are used to perform chemical reactions, as in synthesis of pharmaceutical agents or the conversion of harmful waste to less harmful substances. The reactor consists of a vessel to contain the suspension of microorganisms, plus a variety of attached devices used to control the reaction.""

Biorhythm

PARENTAL pertaining to a parent

What foreign policy often is.

With two-party support

Involving the agreement of two parties

BIPEDAL having two feet

State of two extremes

First impressions that stay with you (wordplay)

Deliveries around old capital - the types that leave impressions on you for life

Town one's arrived in (wordplay)

Natal region (wordplay)

Where one enters the race (wordplay)

Population growth factors

Demographic data

Demographers' concerns

Civil liberty in the U. S.

Labour facing Tory inheritance

Inheritance of the firstborn

Birthroot

Opal, for example

Peridot, for example

Gem for particular occasion.

Birthwort

Angle operations

Bistoury

Bisulfate

Bisulfite

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

Bitchery

""Bitchier , bitchiest Slang Malicious, spiteful, or overbearing.""

Resentment of booming female (wordplay)

Wading birds' acrimony?

Wading birds' acrimony (wordplay)

State flower of Montana

Montana's state flower

Montana-Idaho range.

A species of Ambrosia (A. artemisi\'91folia); Roman worm wood. (A. artemisi\'91folia); Roman worm wood.

""To prepare, treat, impregnate, or coat with bitumen.""

Describing soft coal.

Pertaining to a petrified Pa. product

Kind of coal.

Joan Jett's own record label

Weapons of demagogues

Professional forger (wordplay)

Iron man (wordplay)

Longfellow's famed artisan.

Blacktail

Sloe-bearing bush

Tree producing sloes

Tree bearing sloes

1975 #1 hit for the Doobie Brothers

1975 hit for the Doobie Brothers

""Any of various deciduous shrubs or small trees of the genus Staphylea, native to north temperate regions and having opposite compound leaves and terminal panicles of white flowers and bladderlike fruits.""

Heavy snowstorrm

French ragout made with a white sauce

Meat or seafood stew

Fifty tucking into feast, ten almost finished French stew

""Pl. blastemas or blastemata (-m -t ) The formative, undifferentiated material from which cells are formed.""

Blastment

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

The germinal vesicle.

""The germinal membrane in an ovum, from which the embryo is developed.""

A disc-shaped layer of cells on the surface of the yolk mass of an egg (such as that of a bird) which develops to form the embryo.

Blastoma

Cell formed by cleavage of a fertilised ovum

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

Blatancy

Blatherer

Turner entertained by escort's prattle

Windbag's activity

Blatter

Blessed

Blether

Gruelingly intense

Very hot American crooner embracing surgeon

Very hot, so tires out wearing some large items of jewellery

Cheerful band, though stupid (wordplay)

Prattling away in happy band

Carefree group talking nonsense

Cheerful bachelor landed male part

Carefree bishop able to move about easily

Cheery.

Swift military offensive

Sudden overwhelming attack

Sudden overpowering military attack

Bloodbath

The fact or state of being guilty of murder or bloodshed.

Red puccoons

Expectorant source

Mark of the killer (wordplay)

Sign of an earlier wound

Forsenic examiner's clue

Horses in back-to-back races

Thoroughbreds stood around in bar

Symbol of a March birthday.

Heliotrope

Heliotrope.

Blotchy

Bloviate

Depressed stomach in Balmoral, perhaps

Sad Easter headgear (wordplay)

Milliner's favorite flower (wordplay)

Fly in dirty glass container (wordplay)

Fly down to canteen, maybe

Insect on filthy drink container

Naval enlisted man

Ohio pro hockey player

Sailor in the Navy

Small oysters

Choice oysters

Many have designs on them

They're drawn for lots

Architect's plans

Blueshift

Pavers' materials

""A viral disease of sheep and cattle that is transmitted by biting insects and is characterized by fever, the formation of oral lesions, and swelling and cyanosis of the lips and tongue.""

Troublemaking bigmouths

Foolish man from Balkans all over fractured north with those blowing hot air

Swaggering.

Swaggering crooner, one with passionate desires hidden

Stormy.

Swaggering

In an overly self-proud manner

Covers punts, for example

They're in charge of rigging

Petty officers

Docking, as a Doberman

Overall troubles I doubly reviewed

Overall, last set of clothes is for a tough old bird locally

Bruises too appalling, as unruly

Issue robot order to be rowdy

Noisy and lacking in restraint

Bolometer

Of or pertaining to a bolometer.

Bolsterer

Propping up pillow in middle of night

Giving a boost

Supporting

BOMBINATE To hum; to boom.

Bombinate

Instruments on B-29's.

Devices found aboard B-29s

Bondstone

Could he make broken nose better (wordplay)

Cured one's inside, though no doctor (wordplay)

Unqualified treater of fractures in times past

Set of ex libris

Bookstall

Where bibliophiles browse.

BOOSTER that which boosts

Some shiners

Bootleg

Salesman of sorts.

One running for work (wordplay)

Speak-easy supplier

BOOTLESS without boots

Bootlick

One fond of dining on tongue (wordplay)

Subservient one

Suck-up

Fasteners on a German boat (wordplay)

Pull yourself up the ladder to load computer program

Botanical

Botanise

Botanize

Botchery

Annoying to disturb a few

Mob there so unruly, causing trouble

Annoying mob's here to riot

""Having the form of a bunch of grapes; like a cluster of grapes, as a mineral presenting an aggregation of small spherical or spheroidal prominences; as, botryoidal hematite.as, botryoidal hematite.""

Botrytis

Bottleful

Used for a slide in a bar (wordplay)

Construction effect, often

Cousin of a log jam.

Low-lying farmsite

Low-lying fields along a watercourse

Often-flooded locale

Like some pits

Unfathomable

Very deep

Like the green traffic light

Lowest

Bottomry

Botulinum

Bovinity

Archer's supplies

They launch Cupid's darts and play violins etc.

Boycotter

Not buying, say

Not buying

""BRACHIATE Having branches in pairs, decussated, all nearly horizontal, and each pair at right angles with the next, as in the maple and lilac.""

Brachiate

""BRACHIATE Having branches in pairs, decussated, all nearly horizontal, and each pair at right angles with the next, as in the maple and lilac.""

Linking track being relaid

Bracteole

French writing experts start from bad track records

A maddening sort of 2 down (wordplay)

Gather one's thoughts (wordplay)

Sudden thought, not too bright.

Least passable, as a thicket of shrubs

Most expansive, as a tree

Branchlet

Brattice

""Brattier , brattiest Characteristic of or being a brat; ill-mannered.""

German sausages

Pacific islanders cash crop (wordplay)

Two-fer menu item (wordplay)

Plant brought on board the HMS Bounty

""Grain, flour, or meal of which bread is made.""

Post-Communion get-togethers

Diner meals

Morning meals

Cabinet or bookcase

Dining-room piece

Large cabinet.

Mole takes holiday by lake perhaps

Mole's holiday by river (wordplay)

Protection from shore erosion

Familiar name for the stern - um!

Wicked stabber may land on one

Sternum

*Fortification about four feet high

Fortification

What a cosmetic surgeon may do to offer a sort of defence

Like good air

British herbal tea brewed is fit for inhaling

Breathy

Breathing

Dead tired (wordplay)

Still excited (wordplay)

Dead excited (wordplay)

Consisting of angular fragments cemented together; resembling breccia in appearance.

Brecciate

Brevetcy

Brevet

Two-masted sailing vessel

Craft work of giant encased in salt

Giant waves in the sea for boat

Cheered up after book's corrected

Made vibrant

Bishop, having got put straight, cheered up

BRIGHTEN to make {bright=adj}