2-Letter Words Starting with B

Square-sail rope

Type of nautical rope

Furling rope

Channel-marking systems.

What makes a lifesaver float

Cheerfulness.

Life jacket quality

Archimedes principle factor

Keeping up? You can by going round

Burbler

Burbly

Speaking lengthily and unintelligibly

Return to polish fancy jewellery, making an odd noise

Weighed on

Weighed down

Loaded down

One that {burdens=v}

Weeds with prickly heads

Stopcock chemistry tubes

Liquid dispensers in laboratories

Lab tubes

Burgage

One grubs about for mushrooms

It will turn and leave in any old way

Grows rapidly

Medieval citizens

Borough residents

Citizens

They break in to steal

Thieves who break into buildings

Thieves who break in

Domestic lifting (wordplay)

The Italian Job steals the show perhaps (wordplay)

There's breaking in this

Have a bung around the twisted, criminal girl

An open helmet

Burgout

A German nobleman

Red French wine

Shade of red.

Red wine region

Burkite

Burlesk

Most husky

Susceptible to fire damage

Combustible

British misrepresenting nursing leads to firings

Arab's hooded cloak

Moorish garment

Hooded cloak

Current events (wordplay)

Rat race casualties

Rat race victims

Burry

Tortillas folded around a filling

San Diego snacks

Tex-Mex treats

Went underground

Animal such as a rabbit

Mole.

Bristly plants

Condition such as housemaid's knee

Inflammation of a shoulder joint

Painful inflammation, as of the shoulder

They can't take the pressure

Breaking open suddenly and violently

Spilling over

Exploding

A heavy stone

Burthen

Burweed

""A small antelope, also BUSHGOAT""

Bushel

One who mends clothing

Trouble in the Aussie wilderness

Rapidly-spreading conflagration

Scrub conflagration

""A small antelope, also BUSHBUCK""

Bushido

Bushy

Bushing

Unsettled forest land

Having no bushes

Resembling a bush

Bushtit

Bushwah

Maybe show concern

Work shop (wordplay)

Firm that you might mean (wordplay)

Wearing boots, as early tragedians.

Bussing

Birds broke over there in Ulster

Dusts bar off for the birds

Large Old World birds

Form-fitting pieces of lingerie

Close-fitting women's garments

Tight-fitting undergarments

Model held in greatest demand (wordplay)

Where to wear a training bra (wordplay)

Busy making Victorian skirt (wordplay)

Active rookie involved in arrest

A medicine

A meddlesome person, certainly not idle

Meddlesome, prying person

One minds everyone else's business

The state of being {busy=adj}

It's pointless and time-consuming

Reshining the pencils, for example

Butanol

Colourless soluble flammable liquid used as a paint remover

Meat shop (look!)

Owners of Pork Place (wordplay)

Sellers of meat (look!)

Needless or brutal killing

Needless or brutal killing, slaughter

Indiscriminate slaughter

How to serve toast, say, when retired

Tried to soften (up)

How to serve toast, say, when retired (wordplay)

Cheeky couple (wordplay)

Bottom (not ticks ...)

Body parts covered at least by 13

Although to Edward, made fast

Like some very old shoes

Of coat, closed using small discs

Certain garment worker

Garment worker

Seamstress, sometimes

Support (for wall)

Prop is barring lock

Projecting support for a 21 ac

To add a butyl to

Hydrocarbon in gasoline.

Butyral

A chemical salt

Butyrin

Resembling butter

Butyryl

Buxom

Buyback

North American vultures

High over a road, small birds of prey

Ones flying in circles

Buzzwig

Fashionable bit of jargon (for bees?)

Phone wife or daughter in new term

Fashionable new term

Byssus

Babirusa

Russian peasant wear

Russian headscarves

COURT to {woo=v}

Backhaul

A building behind the main building. Specifically: A privy; a necessary.

Salmonella, for example

Micro-organism that can cause disease

Micro-organism

*Runs down, in a way

Speaks ill of

Severely criticizes

Baghouse

Long, thin loaves of bread

Long, thin loaves

French bread loaves

With malice aforethought.

With undisguised menace

Balisaur

Stair rail supports.

Staircase railings

BANEFUL poisonous

Causes to go into receivership.

Forces out of Monopoly

Ruins financially

Partook of a feast

Took many courses

Had a feast

Diner.

Sidewalk, in the South.

Upholstered wall bench

Bench built into a wall

Exceedingly brutal

Brutal; uncivilised

Two boozers getting round us, being uncivilised

Cooked Texas-style

Had a cookout

They say doll waited in line and got roasted

""BARBECUE to grill over an open fire, also BARBEQUE""

Events with steak-holders (wordplay)

Meals outside cooked on an open fire

Uses an outdoor grill

Barbeque

Barbeque

Barguest

Barleduc

""BAROQUE a bold decorative style, also BAROCCO, BAROCK""

Four-wheeled carriages.

Diminutive form

Plymouth muscle car

Predatory fish found in tropical seas

'68 Plymouth with optional Mod Top roof

Quantity of laughs (wordplay)

Quantity of monkeys or laughs

As much beer as can be put in one container (wordplay)

With a blush, beat one up thoroughly

In a shy and timid manner

Basinful

Laundry load, typically

Laundry load

Seaside building with dressing rooms

It's fitted for a washer

Cabana, e.g

Baudekin

Bauhinia

Baulky

Bdellium

Blessed are the meek, for one

"Blessed are the meek," for one

Thrash this blessed thing as it is due

Very nice to look at

Pleasing to the eye

Abounding in pulchritude

Football, despite the scars (wordplay)

That's fine end for 2 down!

Narcissus' wedding song (wordplay)

Obfuscated

Foggy.

Becrust

Becudgel

Becurse

Smearing teacher, having deployed a bug outside home

Bedquilt

Bedrug

Bedumb

Bedunce

Beechnut

Befouler

Befoul

Confused

Puzzled

Discombobulates

English word

Resented another's success

Gave reluctantly

Envied, was jealous of another's good fortune

Resents, is jealous of

Is envious

Gives resentfully

Beguiler

Deceptively charming

Seductive

Begulf

It is monitored in the football crowd

Measurable activity of an organism

Conduct - performance

Bejumble

Bejumble

Be hard work if one is beating this

Might this be the work that beats one (wordplay)

There could be a lot of work when you 5 down

Belaud

Surround with trouble

Bug fever rebel unfortunately catches

Put in a very difficult position

Beliquor

Bellpull

Bellyful

Bemuddle

Bemuddle

Bemurmur

BEMUSED bemuse

Bemuzzle

Bemuzzle

Man, lousy bum, gin's making insensitive

Leaves, as in a will

Leaves in will

Leaves the Basque revolution

Berceuse

""A chemical element of the transuranic series. Chemical symbol Bk; atomic number 97; atomic weight 247. It is a radioactive element, with no stable isotopes; the longest-lived isotope is of mass number 247.07, decaying by alpha-emission with a half-life of 1,400 years. The isotope with atomic weight 249 has a half-life of 314 days, and was isolated in weighable quantities.""

Aerospace structural material

Fourth element on the periodic table

Be 51 stone in front, without odd tummy

Bescour

Beshout

Beshroud

Besmudge

Besmudge

Besmut

Bespouse

Bespouse

Ornamented with nailheads

Asian palm seeds

Tropical kernels

Elizabeth should have had this in mind

Elizabeth should have minded this

Girl should have considered

Bethump

Bicolour

Canine neighbors

Biennium

Divide into two branches

Fork into two branches

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

Secrets aren't safe with them

Windbags

Shakira, for one

Able to code-switch, say

Fluent in double-talk (wordplay)

BILIOUS pertaining to {bile=n}

""A reddish yellow pigment present in human bile, and in that from carnivorous and herbivorous animals; the normal biliary pigment.""

Concerned with double vision (wordplay)

Buy-one-get-one-free item (wordplay)

For both eyes

BIOGEN a hypothetical unit of protoplasm

A cheep place to stay (wordplay)

American nest-box

*Woodcraft hobbyist's creation

Bisexual

""Of or pertaining to bismuth; containing bismuth, when this element has its higher valence; as, bismuthic oxide. as, bismuthic oxide.""

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

""SULFIDE a sulfur compound, also SULFID, SULPHID, SULPHIDE""

""SULFITE a chemical salt, also SULPHITE""

Bivouac

Blackgum

Reasons to use flashlights

Some skits

Power failures.

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

Blesbuck