2-Letter Words Starting with B

Blarney

The germinal vesicle.

BLIMPISH like Colonel Blimp

BLINDING the act of blinding

With Joy and Sibyl's full review

BLIZZARD a heavy snowstorm

BLURRING blur

Guns by hill going off in confusion

Showing embarrassment

In an overly self-proud manner

Bodycheck

Bullet-proof vests for escorts (wordplay)

Minders

Bodysurf

Wave catcher

BOOTLESS without boots

Borborygmus

""Having the form of a bunch of grapes; like a cluster of grapes, as a mineral presenting an aggregation of small spherical or spheroidal prominences; as, botryoidal hematite.as, botryoidal hematite.""

Botrytis

With a bounce.

Boycotter

Not buying, say

Not buying

Heartthrobs, perhaps

Ring in by Friday with results and dates

Beaus

The manners or behavior of a boy.

""A hypotensive tissue hormone (C50H73N15O11) which acts on smooth muscle, dilates peripheral vessels and increases capillary permeability. It is formed locally in injured tissue and is believed to play a role in the inflammatory process. It is a nonapeptide with the sequence: Arg-Pro-Pro-Gly-Phe-Ser-Pro-Phe-Arg.C50H73N15O11) which acts on smooth muscle, dilates peripheral vessels and increases capillary permeability. It is formed locally in injured tissue and is believed to play a role in the inflammatory process. It is a nonapeptide with the sequence: Arg-Pro-Pro-Gly-Phe-Ser-Pro-Phe-Arg.""

Starts of races

Some house-to-garage links

Roofed passageways

Construction worker's course (wordplay)

Wall builder, maybe

Building trades worker

Blocks and blocks of blocks, possibly (wordplay)

Stroke of genius; superb chess game

BROODING an act of brooding

Brutify

Bryology

One versed in bryology.

Bryophyte

Of or pertaining to bryophytes.

Buckyball

Harlequinade

Foolishness

Clowning

BUMBLING an instance of clumsiness

Low-growing plant of the dogwood family

Clumsily; awkwardly.

Buoyancy

BUSTLING bustle

'Snoopy' characters

Busyness

Butylate

BUTYLATE to add a butyl to

BYSSINE made of fine linen

BYSSINE made of fine linen

They're usually innocent

They're there

Often-unidentified people in photos

Remote rural region

Remote rural area

The boonies, for example

Bacterial

Judge, Sale, and Trout

Do they cooperate with the dance band (wordplay)

Adam Jones, Ray Rice and LeBron James, for three

Trumpeting to the masses

Hyping

Ballyrag

Acceptable to or at a bank: bankable funds.

Bantering

In a baptismal manner.

In a very brutal way

Openly; shamelessly.

Some grains

Basipetal

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

Bayonet

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

Beauteous

Beautiful

Beautify

In a befitting manner; suitably.

In a fascinating way

Aggression, readiness to fight

Aggressiveness

Bellyacher

BELLYACHE Pain in the bowels; colic.

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

To whom thy will be done (wordplay)

Name on an insurance policy.

One gaining from will

Benighted

Benignant

""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.""

BIBLIOPHIL

Every 200 years

""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.

Bilateral

Line lost in presenting account to posh colleague with forked tongue (wordplay)

Marking a long stretch away, having included lawyer's terms in email bust-up

In a binocular manner.

BIOACTIVE acting upon or influencing bodily functions; -- of chemical substances.

Bioassay

(used with a sing. verb) The science that deals with the application of physics to biological processes and phenomena.

Biopolymer

BIORHYTHM

Biosocial

Bipartite

Bipinnate

""Consisting of two pyramids placed base to base; having a pyramid at each of the extremities of a prism, as in quartz crystals.""

Certain flexible attraction

Certain orientation

In a blameless manner.

By law mother might be culpable

Mother, by law breaking, is culpable

Responsible for a wrong

Blastocyst

Guilty of murder or bloodshed.

Bloodless

Bodacious

One doing serious physical exercise

One developing muscles through exercise

Mr. Olympia, e.g

Bodycheck

Bodysurfer

Water sport of a sort

Offshore fun

A bookbinder's shop; a place or establishment for binding books.

Stomach-growling sound

Expression of gut feelings about grubby rooms

English word

Botanical

Boundless

Bounteous

Bountiful

It might get into a jam

Type of jam

Hybrid sometimes found in a jam

""Slowness of the heart rate, usually fewer than 60 beats per minute in an adult human.""

Bradykinin

Brainless

In a brainsick manner.

Building-site workers

Construction-site workers

Artisans briskly race around

Building

In a brilliant manner.

Bronchial

""Relating to bryology; as, bryological studies. as, bryological studies.""

Bryologist

English word

Bucolical

Bullyrag

Bumptious

One system of administration.

Rule of too-many thumbs

Administration by officials

Burlesque

Butterfly

Butylation

Backhanded

The science relating to bacteria.

Ballyrag

BARBARIC uncivilized

BATHETIC {trite=adj}

Bathymetry

""Of, relating to, or living in the depths of the ocean, especially between about 1,000 and 4,000 meters (3,280 and 13,120 feet).""

Bathyscaphe

Bathysphere

Beatifical

Begrudging

Behavioral

Guts admitting strangely generic aggression

In a beneficent manner; with beneficence.

Going mad in cafe, I fill stomach to good effect

Lovely net Ben weaves kind-heartedly

""A normally colorless aromatic oil, C 6 H 5 CHO, obtained naturally, as from the bitter almond, or made synthetically and used in perfumes and as a solvent and a flavoring.""

English word

Beseeching

Bewildered

Bewitching

List of books on a subject

List of sources used in preparation of a book

Worn by athlete at photo finish in oily sport at end of academic endeavour

Bighearted

BINOCULAR Having two eyes.

""The chemistry of living organisms; the chemistry of the processes incidental to, and characteristic of, life.""

(Habitat's) variety of life

Ecological variety of richness

Nature's rich mixture: 'obi' clued cryptically (wordplay)

The branch of biology which deals with the geographical distribution of animals and plants. It includes both zo\'94geography and phytogeography.

Biological

(used with a sing. verb) The science that deals with the application of physics to biological processes and phenomena.

Plural or third person singular

Production of molecules in living cells

The sort of thing that's produced in the cells for boys in trouble with theory

Of or pertaining to biosynthesis.

""The monitoring, recording, and measuring of a living organism's basic physiological functions, such as heart rate, muscle activity, and body temperature, by the use of telemetry techniques.""

Biparental

In the manner of or resembling a blackguard; abusive; scurrilous; ruffianly.

Blistering

Blithesome

Is the count this inhuman (wordplay)

Savage as Dracula

Craving violence and slaughter

In a blundering manner.

In a blustering manner.

Lots of DNA found in gym

Where to get a full physical (wordplay)

Pastime I'd ignobly dub 'freakish'

Weightlifter's practice

Bodycheck

Oboist surely played loudly and exuberantly

Coagulated sour milk; loppered milk; curdled milk; sometimes called simply clabber. clabber.

Borohydride

Bottomless

""BOURGEOISIE The French middle class, particularly such as are concerned in, or dependent on, trade.""

Boyishness

Bradycardia

Surprisingly, her best sally's showing lack of inspiration

Bricklaying

BRONCHOS broncho

Abstract noun (-ity)

Bryophyllum

English word

Bullheaded

Bullyrag

BUTTERFLYER butterfly

Butterfly

Pl. bacteriolyses (-s z ) Dissolution or destruction of bacteria.

Rupture of some pathogens by, eg, an antibody

Pl. bacteriolyses (-s z ) Dissolution or destruction of bacteria.

BACTERIOPHAGE a virus which infects bacteria; -- also colloquially called phage in laboratory jargon.phage in laboratory jargon.

""BALLISTIC Of or pertaining to the ballista, or to the art of hurling stones or missile weapons by means of an engine.""

Any of various fungi of the subdivision Basidiomycota.