2-Letter Words Starting with B

The original one is in the Smithsonian

New apparatus for M. D.'s.

Apparatus for accelerating electrons

Atom-smasher similar to the synchrotron.

Skiing-shooting combo

Cross-country event

Winter sport involving rifles

A type of {cherry=n}

Cooking pot for camping

Boy is allowed pot for outdoor use

That fellow is able to hold his drink

Free of harmful organisms

Poison made by a plant or animal

Snapper or whitefish

A freshwater fish

Begun old novel in club

Stick bond with glue coming unstuck

Beat repeatedly with a heavy object

Musician who lost his job, lost his girl... you know

Howlin' Wolf, Willie Dixon and others

A board member

Boardman

Charon, for one.

Marina employee

Boatsman

Scary personification (wordplay)

Monster moneybag with change (wordplay)

Phantom golfer (wordplay)

Child scarers (wordplay)

Folklore monsters

Bugaboos.

Unconventional - like King Wenceslas!

Ham bone I cooked in unconventional way

Avant-garde one

A combination of amino acids

Ernie, possibly a servant

He'll bail you out

Male slave

They're called from jail, often

They serve without pay

Slaves

""A terrifying creature, also BOGEYMAN, BOGYMAN""

Boogyman

City with rapid population growth

*Gold rush phenomenon

Rapidly growing burg

Purchased

Stock sold in blocks (wordplay)

Creation from cubes

Broth often made from a cube

Germinate, or produce buds

Grow and flourish

Produce buds or germinate

A thorny shrub

Informal word for cranium or skull

Informal word for skull or cranium

Skull; cranium

One in training (wordplay)

Conductor's assistant

Bobsled team member

Train conductor assistants

Some railroaders

Railroad workers

Dye pigment Var.

Dye pigment variable

A chemical compound

Colleagues (in sect)

The older brothers in the family

Old plural of brother

Cheer up - prison changes the name!

Turn gay in seaside town, say

Make more colorful

An {enzyme=n}

""A type of small aquatic animal, also POLYZOAN""

A marsh plant

Family for Pearl (wordplay)

Hide money before family appears

Horse or leather

Report like loaded weapon (wordplay)

Blue lint (anagram)

Loaded statement (wordplay)

Animal's instrument (wordplay)

March instrument (wordplay)

Megaphone's kin

A medicine

Court trials (wordplay)

Venue for one sport or another

Glos estate doesn't show the best china!

Canopy for a shaven jaw (wordplay)

Unadorned feature beneath a cloth canopy

'Lacking a beard, this will give some cover over the head (9)'

Loose, boxy overcoat

Coat with raglan sleeves.

Man's knee-length loose flaring overcoat with raglan sleeves

1996 John Schultz film

Fred Astaire hit show.

What some politicians ride

Conan, for one

Primitive rugby player (wordplay)

Brute, Scotsman, perhaps behind bars

Prevent the car going in reverse with norhing on the end for the slaves

Church's prohibition covering mineral substance

Major church's interdict embracing quartz etc

One is able to follow saint of the church

HQ and two or more companies.

Taliban to become an army unit

Large body of troops

Very ill, perhaps

Not up to being up

Laid up with an illness

Mathematics A function that is both one-to-one and onto.

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

Twittering twit (wordplay)

Silly person (with sparrow's mind?)

Silly fellow poked bard in rib

Division in half

Was I not AB? Wrong - I was!

Ship's officer sat in bow with a wound

Ship's officer

Continue to attack such a music maker

Assail with many a blow on instrument

Old slave's link with sultanate

A woman bondservant.

English word

BOOGER a piece of snot

Mr. Fright (wordplay)

""BOOGEY to dance to rock music, also BOOGIE, BOOGY""

Melee

Squabble

Analyse sudden failure to work

Analysis of components

Lively shuffling dance.

Point of no return (wordplay)

End with a zero balance

Show a zero balance

Fetch a bit of fluff, appearing humble

Overthrow; humble

A proteolytic enzyme obtained from pineapples.

""A variety of sorghum (Sorghum bicolor) having a stiff, erect, much-branched flower cluster, the stalks of which are used to make brooms.""

Prickly berried shrub

Prickly shrub with black berries

""A polypeptide antibacterial antibiotic of known chemical structure effective against several types of Gram-positive organisms, and usually used topically for superficial local infection.""

Backbite

Support Bacon (wordplay)

Game belonging to the past? Nonsense!

Rump, ham or game (wordplay)

A knitted fabric

Burns celebrated this John

Malt liquor base

Subject of Burns poem.

Pertaining to the Batrachia.

Hair-cutting job

Candidate for "What's My Line?"

One who has to take a makeup test (wordplay)

""A colorless liquid, C 8 H 6 O, found in coal tar and used to make thermoplastic resins for paints and varnishes. Also called coumarone .""

Spanned, it's clear, in first study

Finest travelled by horse and dominated

First past the post would surely have been this!

""A green pigment present in the bile, formed from bilirubin by oxidation.""

Double location; the state or power of being in two places at the same instant; a miraculous power attributed to some of the saints.

What foreign policy often is.

With two-party support

Involving the agreement of two parties

Sloe-bearing bush

Tree producing sloes

Tree bearing sloes

Mark of the killer (wordplay)

Sign of an earlier wound

Forsenic examiner's clue

""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.""

Too intimidated to object

Frightened into submission

Bullied Br Owen to uncover rhythm

BUTYLATE to add a butyl to

""BACKSLIDE to fall back, pa t BACKSLID""

""An antibacterial substance, such as colicin, produced by a strain of certain bacteria and harmful to another strain within the same family.""

Titan of the Navy

Grace before or after a meal

Prayer for divine protection

Blessing whose name comes from the Latin for "to speak well"

The act of conferring a benefit.

""A forking, or division into two branches.""

""The act of dividing into two parts, or of making two correspondent parts, or the state of being so divided.""

A humming or buzzing.

Worry - darn it!

Darn it!

Fiddlesticks!

Of meat dishes, stewed with onions and mushrooms in red wine

""BRACHIATE Having branches in pairs, decussated, all nearly horizontal, and each pair at right angles with the next, as in the maple and lilac.""

BRECCIATE BRECCIA a type of rock

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

Enterprise officer (wordplay)

Bloke in a suit (wordplay)

Eg, city gent

Rotary Club members

Drunken, orgiastic (revel)

Raver in speech to endorse a foreigner

Relating to drunken revelry

English word

BACKCOURT

Uncouth fellow offering deal maybe to seal terrible bank scam

Lords not turning out to support ladies admitting excesses

""-fies , -fying , -fied (tr) to make basic""

See diencephalon .

Biology

Blastulate

BACTERIZE to subject to the action of bacteria.

Geopolitical term for extreme factionalism

The act or process of barbarizing; an act that makes people primitive and uncivilized.

First step towards sainthood

You finally quit cosmetic enhancement? That's a great blessing!

First stage in becoming saint in Roman Catholic church

BENEFICIATE To reduce (ores).

Coming-of-age story

Novel that focuses on character growth

Literary genre of "David Copperfield" or "Ender's Game"

""The conversion of organic materials, such as plant or animal waste, into usable products or energy sources by biological processes or agents, such as certain microorganisms.""

""An ancient mode of writing, in alternate directions, one line from left to right, and the next from right to left (as fields are plowed), as in early Greek and Hittite.""

Original ideas from hit issue

Creative products

Products of a fertile imagination (wordplay)

The act or process of making brutal; state of being brutalized.

Certain executive

More than one female professional wins me bonuses, working

Those involved in dealing, practice with half the golf club workers

An act that debases or corrupts.

Cosmetic exercise for all to see in Pope's action (wordplay)

Improving appearance, you said, added to achievement of venerable status

BIODEGRADE

""POLARIZATION The act of polarizing; the state of being polarized, or of having polarity.""

The process of bituminizing.

Genre of the 1970s movies 'Foxy Brown' and 'Three the Hard Way'

Stereotypical movies featuring characters as in fleeing Biloxi plantation

Genre of the 1970s movies "Foxy Brown" and "Three the Hard Way"

The deletion of all passages considered to be indecent.

One engaged in business. See Usage Note at man .

(used with a sing. verb) Application of statistics to the analysis of biological and medical data.