2-Letter Words Starting with B

Most sour-tasting

Most cynical

Most acrid

Bitter

Somewhat bitter.

Bivalent

With more than one unknown verse, song dividing taste

Relative of boycott.

The Weavers topped it in 1952

Bar in Hollywood

Reasons to use flashlights

Some skits

Power failures.

Western mule deer

Mule deer

Deer.

Surfaces, as roads, runways, etc.

Broadway's Hagen, who was blacklisted

Paves, as a driveway

Embedded with cover (wordplay)

That's C over all over

Hit the whole area

Relating to the blastema; rudimentary.

Blastema

Blasty

Blasting

A sudden stroke or injury produced by some destructive cause.

Departures from Cape Canaveral

Launches reports about cricket side

Activities using lox.

Blastoma

Pl. blastulas or blastulae (-l ) An early embryonic form produced by cleavage of a fertilized ovum and consisting of a spherical layer of cells surrounding a fluid-filled cavity. Also called blastosphere .

Metazoan stages

Obviously handled, perhaps

All batty about new doctor, obviously!

In very obvious and unashamed manner

Spoke nonsensically

Babbled

Long-winded sort

Someone talking a lot about a little

One who talks senselessly; the barrel (anagram)

Blatter

Least clear, in a way

Most misty

Superlatively fuzzy

Ran around to that place and chatted

Chatted, then allowed her to get into bed

Reprobates ultimately bomb boats

So-and-sos offering second-rate barges

Blighty

Dashing crooner keeps entertaining

Like burnt skin, perhaps

Hit hard, as a baseball

Surgeon in bed with spots

Joyous socialist waffled

Blocky

A sanguinary massacre

Total rout

A gory massacre - might be cleansing (wordplay)

Likeliest to get an R rating, perhaps

Most violent

Circulatory system (wordplay)

Circulatory system?

With dashing young man, search for scarlet flower

Inflamed (of eye)

Reddened, inflamed eye

(Of eye) streaked with red

Bloomy

Mix lice with broth, as more patchy

BLOTCH to mark with large spots

Blotch

Blotty

Blousy

Bloviate

Goes on and on about nothing

Blowsy

Airman's name for jet plane.

Small burner with a very hot flame

Welder's tool

Blowtube

Blowzy

Police in uniform.

Union soldiers

Long Island oyster

Small edible oyster

Siamese cat

Plan to have naughty image (wordplay)

Design for a rude picture (wordplay)

Depressing picture (wordplay)

(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

Bluestem

See you, Esso, for 19 across, perhaps

See you, Esso, for the sapphire, perhaps

See you, Esso, for the sound of this

Bluetick

Lack of sharp quality

Blurry

Used empty threats.

Made empty threats

Played the bully.

Be around the north in order to get right person with loud voice

Boatbill

They're used to snag mooring lines

Docking aids

Mooring equipment

One may start a row from there

Punt's spot

Riverside structure

Cargo quantities

Large quantities

Shipping quantities

Was I not AB? Wrong - I was!

Ship's officer sat in bow with a wound

Ship's officer

Boatyard

Hexagonal-meshed laces

Like some breeds of cats

Cut short

Like a rabbit, say, albeit modified in corporeal form

Birds

Bodement

Bodysuit

Boehmite

Boletus

""An instrument for measuring minute quantities of radiant heat, especially in different parts of the spectrum; called also actinic balance, thermic balance. actinic balance, thermic balance.""

Supported up in bed, perhaps

Given extra overnight support (wordplay)

Supported, with "up"

Fan or supporter

What lettuce lovers do (wordplay)

Bolthole

Boltonia

Boltrope

I cast bomb, being pompous in speech

Using too high-flown speech.

Like many stump speeches

To hum; to boom.

Enola Gay device

Aircraft's aiming device

Volatile big shot takes medic on board aerial war contraption

Masonry wall unit.

Masonry binder.

Bongoist

Bonnet

Bontebok

Volume's identification.

Found in some volumes

One may get stuck into a literary work

Reading supports

Bibliophile's source

Reserves lofty retail outlet

Where the volume is not 30 across

Volume setting (wordplay)

Volume business (wordplay)

Barnes and Noble, for one

Areas with population explosions

Blast urban areas that have short-lived prosperity

Head of municipality to pull in favours for thriving areas

Buffer (wordplay)

Oxford shiner

Pump polisher

Certain stores in the U. S.

Stores with arrays of leather goods, usually

Bootjack

Producers of tieups at work (wordplay)

They're tightened before a march

Some workers' footwear securers

Bootlick

Item for a certain lift

Computer program loading method

Metaphorical self-help aid

Boracite

Garden variety (wordplay)

Such gardens give trouble to Caliban

Derived from plants

Botanica

Botanise

Botanise

Ones with growing concerns (wordplay)

Plant experts

Botanize

Botanize

Botchy

Aggravating in night-robe

Taking the time

One bright rogue is a pest

Bothrium

The quantity contained in a bottle.

Bottling

Bottomer

The act of reaching the lowest point before stabilising or improving

BOTULIN a nerve poison

""An anaerobic, rod-shaped bacterium (Clostridium botulinum) that secretes botulin and inhabits soils.""

BOTULIN a nerve poison

Botulism

Bouffant

Large containers for cut flowers.

Bouncy

Open-handed

Use boot movement to keep peacekeepers benevolent

Munificent

Ample or generous (Lady!)

Generous lady of Farquahar (wordplay)

Mrs. Ivy Baker Priest's home in Utah.

Bourtree

Shops providing bouquets I ordered

Small dress shops

Chic shops

Sailors' spars

Archer's need

It has plenty of pull

Horizontal tie on a bridge or girder

Boxthorn

Went on strike, led by Geoff (wordplay)

Shunned, Irish style

Shunned (something) in protest

A participant in boycotting.

Symbols of friendship at camp

Adornments for the wrist

Bands that jingle

In zoology, to use arms for locomotion

(Making a commotion in bed?)

Grouped together

Awful noise in part of garden separated off

Having a bract or bracts.

Same as Bractlet. Bractlet.

Bractlet

Blowhards

Self-advertisers

Braggy

BRAILLE to write in raised print for the blind

Like the class valedictorian, perhaps

Most clever

Most brilliant

A little bit wooden (wordplay)

Branny

Brantail

Brashy

Brassart

Having the most nerve

Brattice

Brattice

Bratty

Brattle

Link of German origin

German pork sausage

A type of small pork sausage

Braunite

Brawlie

Maximally muscular

Breadnut

Eat on the go (wordplay)

Baker cooked cracking meal

First meal at Tiffany's

Can openings (wordplay)

Jail escapes

Insurrections.

Opposing a painful injection at last

Take it with you around the East when you're confronting it

Facing up to what could be bare and what's in the tail at the bottom

Breaks from workouts, say

Ten-minute breaks.

Breaks the lungs

More like a whisper

BREATHE to inhale and exhale air

Alive (but in need of space?)

Getting a change of air (wordplay)

Elocutionist's concern

BRECCIA a type of rock

Most carefree

Brevet

Promoted without a pay increase

They are the soul of wit

Short news items.

Mason-ballplayer union result (wordplay)

Strong criticism, so to speak

Unkind remarks

Bricky

Makes a little better, as someone's day

Benjamin is just about right - it' getting lighter

Improves.

Superlative for Sirius

Most intelligent

Most brainy

Excellent fish ain't at sea!

A diamond could be terrific!

Excellent fish? Ain't cooked!

Sulphur (when associated with hellfire)

Material for a fiery sermon (wordplay)

Symbolically S might make the edge hard

An oval or pearshaped diamond having its entire surface cut in triangular facets.

Small fuel block

Data entered on computer

Patio fuel unit

Bristly

Getting stiff, like quills

Reacting angrily

Reacting defensively

In a brittle manner.

Most likely to crumble

Least likely to bend

Most fragile

Brittle

Britzska

Sent out in waves (wordplay)

Common female performers put on show

Programme of actors with bad cast

Karakul pelt

Brocatel

Stick in the oven (wordplay)

Small spit or skewer: French kebab

Spit broth etc out on top of everything

Bromate

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

Bronzy

Broody

Brookite

Reading material you probably won't ever look at again

Broomy

Brother

Soup to rely on to a relative extent

Kind of 9 adult leaves ahead of schedule

Not the same middle to a relative extent

Intimidates by bullying

Cows.

Bullies

Browny

Power company problems

Blonde wannabes, maybe

Gentlemen's second choices (wordplay)

Whom gentlemen marry, according to Loos

Brushy

Brusque

Make bestial

This is nothing of the kind

At Tilbury crazy barbarity

Cruel, harsh, ruthless treatment