2-Letter Words Starting with B

Overpower by light

Charm the pants off

Confuse with light

Very hot in Spain, the poor young socialite's overcome

Headboard and footboard locale

A headboard is part of it

Nighttime supporter

To make a small impression in

A frame support

Muscular men (informal)

Male eye candy

Gateau after red meat in hunks

To adorn with fringes

Bishop having nasty feud led to puzzle

Make stupid with drink

Confuse or perplex

To {surround=v}

Implore Dickensian to mind!

Ask Dickensian to feel resentment

Resent move to imprison European monarch

To mix confusedly

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

To mix together

To {confuse=v}

To put a gag on

Opposite of "rigid"

Unrigid

Pliable

Diagonally

Church office with property and income

Church position with income

Nice beef for a living

Food preservative (with "of soda")

To cover with pimples

Lullaby-like Chopin work

Cradlesong Fr.

Cradlesong

""An American Indian transvestite, also BERDASH""

A wild goose

Greenish blue

To {smudge=v}

To {soothe=v}

To {marry=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

Tea, say, and beer gave out

Drink (other than water)

British? Always time for a drink!

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

Two-colored

""An Eskimo kayak, also BIDARKA""

Meekly ready to follow instructions

Ready to be instructed

Willing to be instructed

Art show held every two years

Every-other-year event

International art festival regularly held in Venice since 1895

Having two perforations

Told to eat fish with Seville orange

Sour orange, in French cuisine

Orange sauce in French cuisine

Two-paired

Like some professional hours

Like some hours

Like some lawyers' hours

""Having two lobes, also BILOBATED""

Able to be bound

Ship's compass holder

Housing for ship's compass

Case enclosing a ship's compass.

A life-supporting region

Early kind of film projector

Kind of early film projector

Old pictures there manage after I sob

""Divided into branches, also BIRAMOUS""

Joey's walk (wordplay)

Enclosure for a budgie, say

Perch's place

Peckish (wordplay)

Having avian qualities

Resembling our feathered friends

It brings the perch to a sticky end

Substance to catch small birds.

Sticky stuff makes porridge green

Panoramic primrose, perhaps

Elevated freezer (wordplay)

View of kites on the head (4'1,3)

Able to be bitten

Being a type of correspondence between two sets

Deserving censure

Deserving reproach

Culpable

A temporary wooden screen(military)

Seal off (a place)

Sea wall (wordplay)

Great barrier above the reef (wordplay)

Obstruction, as in a pipe

Artery obstruction

British rugby player's lifetime obstruction

Make grandiose speeches

Speechify

Main opening (wordplay)

Whale's nostril

Whale's breather

Primitive native weapon

Weapon akin to peashooter

Tube for propelling darts, pellets etc

Dart shooter

Hockey division

Rink marker

Marker in Sochi that hockey players should cross with care

Overly moral one

Strait-laced sort

Nickname for a Nova Scotian.

Able to be negotiated by boat

Good name for a birdwatcher (wordplay)

Bird that quails?

Bird that quails (wordplay)

A mineral

Able to be boiled

Carved paneling

Dark characters (wordplay)

A type to exhibit brazen effrontery

Printing type with thick, heavy lines

Private place to hide away in

Place to hide to escape danger

Place to which one can escape

A rope sewn to a sail

Ableto be bonded

A genial manner in France

Good-natured manner.

Good fellowship, genial manner

The patron saint of Germany

Pope who instituted All Saints' Day.

Patron saint of Germany

Place for flimsy jackets (wordplay)

Cabinet for reading matter

Atlas's locale

Insects that damage books [n pl. pl]

Book learning

Caleb, too, sported this tie

Super-long shoestring not for shoes

Cobbler's item.

A mineral

A variety of cabbage

It's made to locate water or oil

Something drilled to find water/oil

One way to get at oil

Uninteresting

Tedious

""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""

A fish stew

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

Fashionable little shop

Trendy mall unit

Small shop selling fashion clothes

Concave

""A thin slice of meat, also BRACIOLA""

The act of {braking=v}

Money-coining cost

Cost of coinage.

Money-coining fee

Partition in shaft of a mine

An ore of manganese

Damage in transit, maybe

What a smashing time one has of it!

Moving Company con-cern (wordplay)

Relating to the bregma

Like one who can be bought

Open to corruption

Venal

Explosive effect

Log cabin builder's tool

Booklet or pamphlet with information

Sounds like brother convinced by handout

Publicity booklet or pamphlet

A badly minted coin

A mineral

Run into Ms Davis and Ms Taylor, perhaps

A dark girl's true bent, perhaps

Blonde-to-be, perhaps

Resembling a buffalo

Relating to or resembling a buffalo

A deer: female, you say, and free

Free American money - she gets a quarter

Free of charge

Able to be buffed

Crazy, slangily

Wacko

Bring down the house (wordplay)

Force through (against all opposition)

Flatten (with a powerful tractor)

Something with a rounded edge

Senseless talk

Humbug.

Claptrap

Opening in a barrel or cask

Cask opening

Anus

One who shares sleeping quarters

Square-sail rope

Type of nautical rope

Furling rope

What makes a lifesaver float

Cheerfulness.

A German nobleman

Susceptible to fire damage

Combustible

Arab's hooded cloak

Moorish garment

Hooded cloak

A heavy stone

Trouble in the Aussie wilderness

Rapidly-spreading conflagration

Scrub conflagration

Resembling a bush

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)

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

Fall away in faith or morals

Revert to old habits

Left in rear, go astray

Return a letter, say

Certain typewriter key

Move a cursor left

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

""To divide a territory into small, hostile states.""

Devices of ancient warfare, like catapults

Lead by the nose

Mystify, cheat

Bluff queen sent back liquor - about a litre

Flag carried at the masthead

Small military flag.

Small streamer

Sidewalk, in the South.

Upholstered wall bench

Bench built into a wall

To become barbarous.

Doll swallows a large quantity of 26

Singer injected with British drug

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

One perhaps dressed up a part for song

Number in Venice (wordplay)

Exclude Lombard (wordplay)

Diminutive form

Noun (-age)

Barrier, to block a street perhaps

Defensive structure, maybe improvised

Temporary blockage to obstruct movement

English word

""A type of white blood cell, also BASOPHIL""

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

Seaside building with dressing rooms

It's fitted for a washer

Cabana, e.g

On the waterfront, say

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

Soil, as garments in the mud.

Make wet and limp

Make limp and soiled

""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.""

Rah-rah, generally speaking (wordplay)

Looking for scraps (wordplay)

Primed for battle

In the middle with Pa in, perhaps

Dish around vessel mostly is beef

Complain in a whiny manner

Vatican art gallery in Rome

Summerhouse with view

Summer house with a view

""A fabric having a crosswise ribbed effect made of silk, wool, or synthetic fibers.""

Explosive buried under mountain peak to yield clay

""A yellowish, white, or reddish-gray crystalline powder, NH 2 C 6 H 4 C 6 H 4 NH 2 , used in dyes and to detect blood stains.""

""An alkaloid obtained, as a bitter, yellow substance, from the root of the barberry, gold thread, and other plants.""

Adjective meaning resembling

Competitor who skis and shoots

Skiing/shooting Olympian*

Olympian with a rifle

""Concave on both sides; as, biconcave vertebr\'91. as, biconcave vertebr\'91.""

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

Organic section (wordplay)

Life-support system (wordplay)

Where the wild things are (wordplay)

Having two sections

Divided into two sections

Involving two sides

""PINNATE resembling a feather, also PINNATED""

A cheep place to stay (wordplay)

American nest-box

*Woodcraft hobbyist's creation

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""

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

""SULFITE a chemical salt, also SULPHITE""

With more than one unknown verse, song dividing taste

Guise of American minstrels

Adjective meaning resembling

Utter obscenities or profanities

Curse afflicting sheep and lamb

Curse MP - he's able to change...

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 .

Hit from behind, say

Unseen run, perhaps

Hit, seemingly from nowhere

Something tracked for purebreds

Drunken Biondello reveals pedigree

*Horse breeder's concern

See you, Esso, for 19 across, perhaps

See you, Esso, for the sapphire, perhaps

See you, Esso, for the sound of this

Adjective meaning resembling

One may start a row from there

Punt's spot

Riverside structure

Mourner's fabric

That's the stuff to blow up the bottom of the magazine

To hum; to boom.

Masonry wall unit.

Masonry binder.

Ignorant middle class, per H. L. Mencken

Mencken's great unwashed

Stupid people, as H.L. Mencken put it

A minute wingless psocopterous insect (Liposcelis divinatorius) injurious to books and papers.Liposcelis divinatorius) injurious to books and papers.

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

English word

In zoology, to use arms for locomotion

Having a bract or bracts.

Same as Bractlet. Bractlet.

Cranium

Branchia

Restaurant using money I put in before

Restaurant for staff officers by a lake

Restaurant that might serve steak frites

One responsible for bust-up (wordplay)

Money that is admitting Queen supporter

It was burned in the '60s

If band's conga formation (wordplay)

A hollow row (wordplay)

One may be on it at the cash dispenser!