2-Letter Words Starting with B

Light from Beth's ring's shimmering

Magnitude of book's propriety

Noon at the Loch

Metal parts or fixtures made bright by polishing.

Cut diamonds

Between the fish and the insects one may have diamonds on hand

Brimstone

Briolette

BRIQUETTE

Pile in a grill

Cookout needs

Bristly

Groups of actors supporting wide screens

Shows wide pitches

Fat groups of actors in TV shows (wordplay)

Fine woolen fabric

'The narrow way': the clergy's material

Densely woven fabric

Newspaper on a double bed (wordplay)

The Times is terribly bad, so there!

Paper covering double bed (wordplay)

Broadtail

Upholstery fabric

Brochette

""BROMINATE See Bromate, v. t. Bromate, v. t.""

Brominate

Plural or third person singular

""Of or pertaining to bronchitis; as, bronchitic inflammation. as, bronchitic inflammation.""

Striking endlessly once British disease

n. affliction common to rodeo clowns

n. affliction common to rodeo clowns

Jurassic giant

Early vegetarian sausage primarily out - or bran flakes (wordplay)

Vehicle for Endora (wordplay)

Vehicle for Endora?

Halloween carrier (wordplay)

Brother

Too intimidated to object

Frightened into submission

Bullied Br Owen to uncover rhythm

Hitlerian militia member

(Dress of) Nazi militiaman

Storm trooper

An Ivy League jewel?

An Ivy League jewel (wordplay)

Type of house

BRUTALISE to treat brutally.

Brutalise

BRUTALIZE To make brutal; beasty; unfeeling; or inhuman.

Is attacker L Suarez bit to be replaced (wordplay)

Brutify

One versed in bryology.

Bryophyte

Of or pertaining to bryophytes.

A muscle of the cheek; so called from its use in blowing wind instruments.

Bucketful

BUCKETS bucket

Buckthorn

Buckwheat

America's Dodge, England's Butler

Buhrstone

Bulletin

Bullfight

Detail man (wordplay)

A brute, a cur - horrible official!

Office credit gets at bean counter

Burrstone

Bursitis

Burthen

Pit viper; sham brutes (anagram)

Top horticulturist (wordplay)

Venomous pit viper

BUSTLING bustle

Butadiene

Butchery

Butcher

A real turkey!

Turkey type

Chubby one

Spread what's blooming well in them

Love-in-a-mist bouquet

Butterfat

Atlantic gunnel

Buttery

BUTTER to spread with a milk product

Pancake ingredient, perhaps

Dale Evans's horse

Bar label on type of dairy product

Work pants of homespun cloth.

Civil War partisans of South

Montana city in Confederate uniforms

An annual composite plant of the Mississippi valley (Senecio lobatus). Senecio lobatus).

""A genus of low herbs (Pinguicula) having simple leaves which secrete from their glandular upper surface a viscid fluid, to which insects adhere, after which the margin infolds and the insects are digested by the plant. The species are found mostly in the North Temperate zone. Pinguicula) having simple leaves which secrete from their glandular upper surface a viscid fluid, to which insects adhere, after which the margin infolds and the insects are digested by the plant. The species are found mostly in the North Temperate zone.""

See Buttonwood. Buttonwood.

Wild licorice

Corner with talk of flowers (wordplay)

Waylay Rose, perhaps

Accost and detain for conversation

Turnaround pass play, or two phone parts

Football play

BUTTON to fasten with a small disk

Timber tree

Sycamore tree

Supported, nevertheless, with locks

Sweet container taken around and held up

Supported and lifted ice-cream pot, perhaps

Supports yet locks

Supports doubt over locks

Projections on wall, however, need locks

Buttstock

Butylate

BUTYLATE to add a butyl to

They're usually innocent

They're there

Often-unidentified people in photos

Babblement

Bacitracin

Backbiting

Remote rural region

Remote rural area

The boonies, for example

Backfit

Backlight

Backlist

SCATTER to disperse in all directions

Backstab

False friend (Medical)

Treacherous person posing as a friend

Poor choice for a friend

Backstop

They may be taken to avoid snarls

Minor thoroughfares

Some shortcuts

Part of Pimlico

Part of Pimlico's field

Backstroke

Backtrack

Bacteremia

Bacterial

Same as Germicide. Germicide.

""An antibacterial substance, such as colicin, produced by a strain of certain bacteria and harmful to another strain within the same family.""

The presence of bacteria in urine.

BACTERIZE to subject to the action of bacteria.

Badmouth

Puzzles

Lucy at "Swan Lake" (wordplay)

He goes to "Les Sylphides."

Devotee of Terpsichore.

Floaters with great views

They need to be full of hot air

Some fliers

Provided with a supported coping

Supported railings

Bandmaster

Extreme evictions

Ostracisms

Acceptable to or at a bank: bankable funds.

Bankrupt

Small ensigns

Bantering

In a baptismal manner.

Baptistry

Cruelties

Sleep-inducing drug class

Drug counter snapped on universal charge

Drug ban gripped university class

Bardolater

Barkentine

Performed aerobatics, here and there.

Appeared at county fairs, e.g

Appeared at county fairs, for example

Many an early aviator.

Many an early aviator

Itinerant actor.

Baroceptor

Barometry

Baronetage

Baronetcy

Variant of barkentine .

Barracouta

Basipetal

They're shot at nets

Items you might travel with

Court needs

Basketwork

Some orchestra members

They get orchestra seats

Double-reed instrument artists

BASTARDISE Same as bastardize.bastardize.

Bastardise

Deriving from more than one source or style.

Bastardize

Bastinado

Punishes, Asian style.

Of or pertaining to a batholith.

The measurement of the depth of bodies of water.

""A free-diving deep-sea vessel consisting of a large flotation hull with a crewed observation capsule attached to its underside, usually capable of reaching full ocean depths.""

They work under pressure

Deep-sea vessel

Diving bell.

Beebe vehicle

Frogs

Battiness

Sally, keep up the fight!

Fight with Oscar winner Sally (wordplay)

'Sally, keep up the fight!'

The line along which opposing armies face each other.

Low walls round top of building

Walls round castle roof

Castle parts

Oklahoma and West Virginia

Attackers of Truk.

Units of a fleet.

Titan of the Navy

Bayonet

Sites of many an exclusive summer home

That can be endured: bearable pain; a bearable schedule.

The practice of setting dogs on a chained bear.

See penstemon .

Set lesbians free from meanness

Unpleasant behaviour

Inhumanity

Beauteous

Salon staff

Beautifier

Beautiful

Beautify

Becarpet

The causing of continual trouble

Torment of daughter meeting immoral chaps in risky venture

Torment

""That which bedizens; the act of dressing, or the state of being dressed, tawdrily.""

In a befitting manner; suitably.

Charm, enchantment

Hazarding a guess: worker with really good manners (wordplay)

Beknight

BELATED belate

Essayist's beauties keep assignation, say

Aggression, readiness to fight

Aggressiveness

Looking for scraps (wordplay)

Looking for 5 across (wordplay)

Aggressive - it'll be green (anagram)

Bellwether

Bemusement

Grace before or after a meal

Prayer for divine protection

Blessing whose name comes from the Latin for "to speak well"

""Expressing wishes for good; as, a benedictory prayer. as, a benedictory prayer.""

The act of conferring a benefit.

Lord bountifuls

Donors

Patrons

To reduce (ores).

Benefit

Benighted

Benignant

Benignity

Bequeathal

Bequeath

Loss of someone close

Deprivation.

Mourning

Besmooth

Splashed with liquid

Like a painter's smock

Splashed (with)

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

Bestialize

Betatter

Improvements

BETWEEN a needle of middling size

Enchantment

Excessive adherence to a literal interpretation of the Bible.

""Book worship, esp. of the Bible; applied by Roman Catholic divine<?/ to the exaltation of the authority of the Bible over that of the pope or the church, and by Protestants to an excessive regard to the letter of the Scriptures.""

A library.

Bibliotist

Last course of a greasy meal (wordplay)

Type of chemical salt

Indigestion relief

Every 200 years

""BICHROMATE 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.""

Bichromate

""COMPONENT Serving, or helping, to form; composing; constituting; constituent.""

""CONCAVITY A concave surface, or the space bounded by it; the state of being concave.""

CONVEXITY The state of being convex; the exterior surface of a convex body; roundness.

Games Strong enough to be bid. Used of a hand of cards.

""DIALECTAL Relating to a dialect; dialectical; as, a dialectical variant. as, a dialectical variant.""

FURCATING furcate