2-Letter Words Starting with B

Caged hawk's tantrum

Lessen, to the Bard

Deprive of, as breath

Not a lot to eat? Exist without it!

Hurt the dentist, perhaps

Itch cause, perhaps

Cyberphile's nosh (wordplay)

Napster file measurement, maybe

Piece of Apple (wordplay)

Moisten one's meat, maybe

Pour hot fat over (meat)

Wet chicken (wordplay)

Utilize a hot tub (wordplay)

Enjoy the hot tub (wordplay)

Get taken away by Calgon (wordplay)

{boastful=adj}

Good-king-henry

Goodkinghenry

Case or box French

Place to sip a Medoc

Can, in Cannes

Bestial Caesar's last word (wordplay)

'Et tu, - - !' (J.Caesar)

Caesar's last word

To serve as a butler

Montana geological feature (foul!)

Geologist's flattop (wordplay)

Devils Tower, for one

Mineral also called heavy spar

A tribe moving heavy spar

X-ray substance's mineral form

""A mineral, also BARITE""

Bull Run, for one

Field event (wordplay)

General assembly (wordplay)

Indiscriminate slaughter

A dog

Scarab, say (wordplay)

Bug Paul McCartney we hear (wordplay)

Rabbit's cousin (wordplay)

Give an earful

Carpet free? Large one's dumped

Chew up or dress down

Go (with "oneself")

To cause oneself to move

Go (used reflexively).

Happen to (arch)

Happen (to)

Happen to, in days of yore

To {betide=v}

Act of stupidity Fr.

Folly

Act of stupidity: Fr

Double, as a leaf

Produced in pairs, as leaves.

Having two parts, as a leaf.

Brown gravy unfinished, red unfinished

Tawny or swarthy French.

Dark brown color.

"... Spirit" (Noel Coward play)

Spirit of Noel follows this (wordplay)

- - Spirit (Noel Coward)

A "penny bun" or similar mushroom

Baby's first shoe (wordplay)

Piggies' protector (wordplay)

Protection for piggies (wordplay)

Piggies' protector (wordplay)

Apres-ski warmer

Itty bitty baby sock

Mix with a certain acid.

Salt of an acid.

Compound used in wood preservatives

Genie's home (wordplay)

Magnum, for one

Message holder, maybe

To be on the go is, maybe, subtle

Broke the French, perhaps, out behind

It's hurrying behind one

Gas in lighters

Fuel for a lighter

Bottled gas used as a fuel

Carbon compound found in crude oil

Hydrocarbon derived from petroleum

Compound in synthetic rubber

Berry-bearing

Berry's description: graduate, county councillor and mischief-maker

Berrylike

A small inflatable parachute

Administer the first RC sacrament

First Roman Catholic sacrament

Add a little water and you name it

Make an awe-inspiring dunk (wordplay)

Use a font (wordplay)

Dunk a few times

Bearded

Small fortress of olden times.

A small fortress

Small fortress.

Fine, thin fabric

Light cotton fabric

Fine, soft, sheer fabric

Resembling a chiropter

Ore yielding aluminium

Clay containing aluminium

Ore which contains aluminium

Beekeeping like it upsets Scots animal

Burns's "cowrin, tim'rous" critter

Mouse, to Burns

Silent partner, ideally (wordplay)

One who's on the other side (wordplay)

Snorer's victim

When to tuck in (wordplay)

When to say "Nighty-night"

When lids should be closed (wordplay)

Alkaloid used in medicine

""An Indian water carrier, also BHEESTIE, BHEESTY, BHISHTI, BHISTEE, BHISTI""

Dark-colored mica

Mineral of the mica group

Region adapted to its fauna

Group of genetically related organisms

Genetically similar organisms

Organisms sharing a trait

Word for agency such as Port Authority.

Like some port authorities

Capable of being bitten

A {dwarf=n}

Fruit-filled pancake

Jewish pancake

Crepe cousin

Valuable ore of copper.

Peacock-ore

Peacock ore

""Having arms ending in a trefoil, also BOTONNEE""

Loud noise, in Scotland

Have aspirations (wordplay)

Have an inspiration (wordplay)

Whisper, as a secret

See red hair (wordplay)

Abruptly calls off plans, say

Black stone carried in anger, to show it

Easily go broke (wordplay)

Hard but easily broken

Crisp candy, with peanuts.

Salt of element #35

Salt of a certain acid.

Certain salt

Having a blistered appearance

Chemistry graduate (wordplay)

Tube of butter spread with end of knife

Chemistry lab tube

A {burker=n}

Pertaining to a {bursa=n}

Say spiteful things

Say spiteful things about someone

Say mean things

Make seem older, in a way

Make retroactive, in a way

In retrospect, validate second meeting

Long loaf - tube gate (anagram)

Stick from the French (wordplay)

As loaves go, this one's a gem!

A chap with no hair should duck!

Bird for Yul Brynner?

Bird for Yul Brynner (wordplay)

Sawbuck, for one

Greenback, for example

Some money difficulty in plague

Gun-turret protector

Gun platform.

Gun platform

Who sings except for one note (wordplay)

Under ten, or this invoice (wordplay)

Exclude it, one invoice, perhaps

Hair piece (wordplay)

Clip on locks

A pin for holding the hair in place

""A deep male voice, also BARITONE""

Place to be on 7/14/89 (wordplay)

Stormy day in Paris (wordplay)

Prison destroyed in 1789

Bachelor buzzing with energy in gown

Towelling dressing gown

So wearing for a washer

Action of beating the feet together in a ballet leap

A drum is so round and strong

Unlike city hall

Open to being defeated

To put clothes on

A frame support

D.I's pa rage for this (wordplay)

Take off the high heels and run down!

Imply that person is inferior

Spare tire site (wordplay)

Spare tire location

Stretch of highway surrounding a city

Food preservative (with "of soda")

To {soothe=v}

Top horse (wordplay)

Get on highest roller coaster (wordplay)

Sit the finest mount (wordplay)

Stood astride or over

Defended top highway reportedly

Sat on, formally

""An Indian water carrier, also BHEESTY, BHISHTI, BHISTEE, BHISTI, BHISTIE""

Having two perforations

Two-paired

""Having two lobes, also BILOBATED""

Able to be bitten

Make grandiose speeches

Speechify

Dart shooter

Able to be negotiated by boat

Good name for a birdwatcher (wordplay)

Bird that quails?

Bird that quails (wordplay)

A mineral

Private place to hide away in

Place to hide to escape danger

Place to which one can escape

A rope sewn to a sail

Caleb, too, sported this tie

Super-long shoestring not for shoes

Cobbler's item.

A mineral

""To collect plants for study, also BOTANIZE""

Collect and study plants

""Having arms ending in a trefoil, also BOTONEE""

""Like a bunch of grapes, also BOTRYOID""

""The elder-tree, also BOORTREE, BOUNTREE""

Fashionable little shop

Trendy mall unit

Small shop selling fashion clothes

Partition in shaft of a mine

An ore of manganese

Relating to the bregma

A mineral

Run into Ms Davis and Ms Taylor, perhaps

A dark girl's true bent, perhaps

Blonde-to-be, perhaps

One who shares sleeping quarters

Square-sail rope

Type of nautical rope

Furling rope

A heavy stone

Colourless soluble flammable liquid used as a paint remover

To add a butyl to

Hydrocarbon in gasoline.

A chemical salt

Female priest can chat and be funny

When she's drunk, might she get the cab back to sing a single note (wordplay)

Behind the scenes (theatrically)

Near, but not in, the limelight

In the green-room

To subject to the action of bacteria.

Game to make music (wordplay)

Light piano piece

Board-game, trifle

Devices of ancient warfare, like catapults

Sidewalk, in the South.

Upholstered wall bench

Bench built into a wall

Doll swallows a large quantity of 26

Singer injected with British drug

Go to sleep with this bimbo model (not about to split)

Diminutive form

""See Bastinado, n. Bastinado, n.""

Seaside building with dressing rooms

It's fitted for a washer

Cabana, e.g

Blessed are the meek, for one

"Blessed are the meek," for one

Thrash this blessed thing as it is due

Pain the source of this turn-of-the-century novel

""A conical calcareous fossil, tapering to a point at the lower extremity, with a conical cavity at the other end, where it is ordinarily broken; but when perfect it contains a small chambered cone, called the phragmocone, prolonged, on one side, into a delicate concave blade; the thunderstone. It is the internal shell of a cephalopod related to the sepia, and belonging to an extinct family. The belemnites are found in rocks of the Jurassic and Cretaceous ages.""

Explosive buried under mountain peak to yield clay

Competitor who skis and shoots

Skiing/shooting Olympian*

Olympian with a rifle

Divide into two branches

Fork into two branches

Bat, cue made with fir, perhaps, having 2 branches

""(Mathematics) Maths (of a function, relation, etc.) associating two sets in such a way that every member of each set is uniquely paired with a member of the other the mapping from the set of married men to the set of married women is bijective in a monogamous society""

""Having two lips, as the corols of certain flowers.""

Affecting living tissue

Having two sections

Divided into two sections

Involving two sides

""PINNATE resembling a feather, also PINNATED""

Baby figure (wordplay)

Demographer's concern

Figure that concerned Malthus

""Of, relating to, or characteristic of bison.""

""SULFATE to treat with sulfuric acid, also SULPHATE""

""SULFITE a chemical salt, also SULPHITE""

With more than one unknown verse, song dividing taste

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 .

See you, Esso, for 19 across, perhaps

See you, Esso, for the sapphire, perhaps

See you, Esso, for the sound of this

One may start a row from there

Punt's spot

Riverside structure

To hum; to boom.

Masonry wall unit.

Masonry binder.

Volume's identification.

Found in some volumes

One may get stuck into a literary work

Volume setting (wordplay)

Volume business (wordplay)

Barnes and Noble, for one

In zoology, to use arms for locomotion

Having a bract or bracts.

Same as Bractlet. Bractlet.

BRECCIA a type of rock

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

Stick in the oven (wordplay)

Small spit or skewer: French kebab

Spit broth etc out on top of everything

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

Make bestial

To make brutal; beasty; unfeeling; or inhuman.

Any of numerous plants of the division Bryophyta.Bryophyta.

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

See Buhrstone. Buhrstone.

Substance used in synthetic rubber.

A colourless gaseous hydrocarbon used in the manufacture of synthetic rubber

What an intriguing Empire style!

Like a hard-to-navigate bureaucracy

Describing a style of architecture.

Oyakawa holds this Olympic record.

One way to swim

Swimming specialty

Balcony railing (by Toni Morrison)

A bad result perhaps, but coping

Part of a balcony.

Variant of banneret 1 .

Certain ship

Rank higher than knightdom

Adjective meaning resembling

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.

Early example of an oxymoron (wordplay)

Early, while the pub is still open

Not - - means none too soon

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

""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.""

From Beirut Joe and I removed jewellery

Jewellery especially trinkets

Trinkets from Beirut Joe and I distributed

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

Town one's arrived in (wordplay)

Natal region (wordplay)

Where one enters the race (wordplay)

Opal, for example

Peridot, for example

Gem for particular occasion.

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

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

French ragout made with a white sauce

Meat or seafood stew

Fifty tucking into feast, ten almost finished French stew

Cell formed by cleavage of a fertilised ovum

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

Cheerful bachelor landed male part

Carefree bishop able to move about easily

Cheery.

Symbol of a March birthday.

Heliotrope

Heliotrope.

Fly in dirty glass container (wordplay)

Fly down to canteen, maybe

Insect on filthy drink container

""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.""

Annoying to disturb a few

Mob there so unruly, causing trouble

Annoying mob's here to riot

Familiar name for the stern - um!

Wicked stabber may land on one

Sternum

Like good air

British herbal tea brewed is fit for inhaling

Two-masted sailing vessel

Craft work of giant encased in salt

Giant waves in the sea for boat

Upholstery fabric

An Ivy League jewel?

An Ivy League jewel (wordplay)

Type of house

Corner with talk of flowers (wordplay)

Waylay Rose, perhaps

Accost and detain for conversation

Same as Germicide. Germicide.

Lucy at "Swan Lake" (wordplay)

He goes to "Les Sylphides."

Devotee of Terpsichore.