2-Letter Words Starting with B

Bestowal

Very good to be in debt - it's a gift

Giving nothing better than to be in debt

Giving of one's best to be in debt

Were debts spread out? Yes!

Made drink, having set out then scattered

Sprinkled

Bestrow

Beswarm

Bewailer

Bewail

Beweary

Beweary

Beweep

Bewig

Causes to become perplexed and confused

Confounds

Addles

Under a spell

Head intersection is enchanted

2005 Nicole Kidman film

Possesses raised lacework with burns on

Workers protecting women long to make entrances

Bloomer associated with Iris by John Berger

Beworm

Beworry

Beworry

Bewrap

Bewrayer

Bewray

Billowy

Unpaid debt rolling and swelling

The wavy account has not been settled

The outstanding debt is swelling

Bindweed

""A genus of herbs and shrubs (Aristolochia), reputed to have medicinal properties. Aristolochia), reputed to have medicinal properties.""

Bitewing

Founder of influential magazine: Ebony, possibly (wordplay)

Small legless lizard

Legless lizard

Snake-like creature's undiscerning malignant software

""Any of various red, segmented marine worms of the genera Polycirrus and Enoplobranchus that have bright red bodies and are often used for bait.""

Blowback

Blowball

Blowdown

Metallic blue insects

Bluebottles

*Family of insects that can smell dead animals from up to a mile away...ew

Big talkers

Gasconaders

Windbags

They may spout off

Air-concentrating tubes

If it comes to blows, they're fatal

Glassmakers' tools

Blowsy

Airman's name for jet plane.

Small burner with a very hot flame

Welder's tool

Blowtube

Blowzy

Blueweed

Bluewood

Expensive Monopoly property

Its houses cost $200 each

Site of many arcades

Was I not AB? Wrong - I was!

Ship's officer sat in bow with a wound

Ship's officer

Birds

Bodywork

Bollworm

Old slave's link with sultanate

A woman bondservant.

Very serious students

They haunt libraries

Ones who study hard

Areas with population explosions

Blast urban areas that have short-lived prosperity

Head of municipality to pull in favours for thriving areas

Librarians' clientele

Loan seekers

Credit card companies encourage it

Taking a loan

Having something on loan

Without pity.

Bowel

Animal that builds a fancy structure to attract a mate

With pins like a cowpoke's, perhaps

Describing most cowboys.

Like many a cowboy

Sailors' spars

Archer's need

It has plenty of pull

Horizontal tie on a bridge or girder

Bowwow

Clear one's mind!

Leave without reason (wordplay)

Reindoctrinate, modern style.

Link of German origin

German pork sausage

A type of small pork sausage

Brawlie

Maximally muscular

Work out a route for escape

Made to come apart easily

Form splinter group for foreign holiday

Analyse sudden failure to work

Analysis of components

Lively shuffling dance.

House-garage connection, perhaps

Passage covered at school, perhaps

Passage between house and garage

Local suppliers (wordplay)

Places in which beer is made

Companies that produce beer

Between back walls, stack and line up masonry

Spouse quite possibly in prison

The Wife not in hospital? No, prison

Newly-wed rightly in prison

Fetch a bit of fluff, appearing humble

Overthrow; humble

Browband

Intimidates by bullying

Cows.

Bullies

Browny

Bow and scrape

Act like a toady

Be a suck-up

Power company problems

English word

Copse.

Is S weeping for this? P ain't with it

Painter's technique

Encounter with Gorky discovered the technique of an artist

Type of cereal

Ingredient in pancakes

Flour used in pancakes

""A plant of the Mint family and genus Lycopus; esp. L. Virginicus, which has mild narcotic and astringent properties, and is sometimes used as a remedy for hemorrhage. Lycopus; esp. L. Virginicus, which has mild narcotic and astringent properties, and is sometimes used as a remedy for hemorrhage.""

Buhlwork

Bullweed

Heavy lash

Bulwark

Single-storeyed houses

One-story houses

Bogus lawn goes with the houses

Burrower

Digging tunnels

Barn extension where pack animals sleep (wordplay)

Mole activity

Turn on US president (wife getting chop)

Hit by the 43rd president (wordplay)

Work to clear scrub, ambush (US, Aus)

Busywork

Part of a techie's arsenal

Trendy terms

Techno-jargon

Backswing

Backsword

Reluctantly; slowly; aversely.

Backwash

Backwash

Isolated, peaceful rural places

Isolated places

BACKWOODS the forest beyond cleared country

Fields of competence

Areas of knowledge

Areas of expertise

Old parade sights

Bandwidth

Sit back lazily and in France toil on interlaced articles

Catching birds at night using lights to confuse them

Bathwater

Beclown

Becoward

Becrawl

Becrowd

Sleeping partners (wordplay)

Altogether lying chaps

Associates

Bedwarf

Beflower

BEGGAR to impoverish

Bejewel

Adorned with gems

Gem-encrusted

Showy blossom

Flared plant

Campanula.

V.I.P. among sheep

Leader of the flock

Leading sheep; trendsetter

In the hold.

In a ship's hull... and where it's at

In the hull of a ship

Beshadow

Beshrew

Bestrew

Bestrow

Beswarm

Beweary

At a loss!

Unruly before entering bunk at sea

Completely confused

Magnetic personal charm

Capturing interest as if by spell

Like some sirens

Charmingly appealing

Beworry

Bewrap

Seepage aboard ship

Ship's seepage

Nonsense

Most wavy.

Birthwort

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

They're published every 14 days

ESPN The Magazine, etc.

1975 #1 hit for the Doobie Brothers

1975 hit for the Doobie Brothers

Blackwood

Blindworm

Bloodworm

Blowfish

Promenade platforms near beaches

Directors on a stroll, in a way.

Seaside attractions

They're in charge of rigging

Petty officers

Borrowing

Expurgate the indelicate unnecessarily

Bimbo extremely lewd, perhaps come up and use a figleaf

Censor wicked and loathsome extremists heading for Richmond in US state capital

Cut, in a way

Desex the text

Expurgate.

Bowerbird

Archer's supplies

They launch Cupid's darts and play violins etc.

Ruling (or, more modestly, intelligence)

Support presiding wisdom

'Solvers need this book' (The Sun's ruling)

German sausages

Muscularity

""The reddish wood of certain tropical trees or shrubs in the pea family, especially a Brazilian tree Caesalpinia echinata, whose wood is used for violin bows and as a source of a red or purplish dye.""

Starts of races

Stoppages slow down vehicles, we hear, on hills

Mole takes holiday by lake perhaps

Mole's holiday by river (wordplay)

Protection from shore erosion

*Fortification about four feet high

Fortification

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

Some house-to-garage links

Roofed passageways

Brickwork

Bridewell

That tooth will have to come out!

Metal parts or fixtures made bright by polishing.

Bringdown

Weapon widely used (wordplay)

Dungeons & Dragons weapon

You'd never get a fence of this

Too intimidated to object

Frightened into submission

Bullied Br Owen to uncover rhythm

Acted like a toady

Obsequious person

Obsequious student

Brother right to cover own nose for obsequious person

Brownnose

Hitlerian militia member

(Dress of) Nazi militiaman

Storm trooper

An Ivy League jewel?

An Ivy League jewel (wordplay)

Type of house

Browridge

Brushwood

Brushwork

Buckwheat

Bugleweed

Bulwark

Attacks from concealment

Fights guerrilla-style

Attacks from hiding

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.""

Timber tree

Sycamore tree

Backwash

Basketwork

Titan of the Navy

Bawdiness

Becoward

Beflower

Beggarweed

Bejewel

Bellflower

Bellwether

Situated or occurring below the surface of the ground: belowground telephone cables.

Substitute player: Slang.

Seldom-used substitute

*Sub in the dugout

Beshadow

BETWEEN a needle of middling size

Having whiskers.

Existing around author is confusing

*Strait bordering the Arctic Ocean

Like a puzzle by Gene or Billy (wordplay)

Enchantment

Bilgewater

Sugary drink (wordplay)

Like a lemon dessert (wordplay)

Play with acid drop (wordplay)

Bitterweed

Blackwater

Aquatic plant whose leaves trap small insects

By law mother might be culpable

Mother, by law breaking, is culpable

Responsible for a wrong

Items used in "light" boxing (wordplay)

Removes paint, in a way

Vault openers at times

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