10-Letter Words Starting with B

Babbitt

Meaningless talk

Plural or third person singular

""In both senses also called piroplasmosis . A tick-borne protozoan infection of animals, such as Texas fever of cattle, that is caused by species of Babesia.""

Wild drunken revels

Revels in honor of the wine god.

Wild parties

Bacchante

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

*Ones who criticize others in their absence

Fleas

Nasty office gossip

Malicious talk

Saying mean things, at the wrestling match (wordplay)

Backbite

Backblock

Structures on basketball court.

Rebounding spots

Backcloth

Backcourt

Backdate

Football groups.

It's Dell, if one got rid of the hole (wordplay)

Second dismissal not going as intended

Returning soldiers will be having an undesired effect

Backfit

Support Bacon (wordplay)

Game belonging to the past? Nonsense!

Rump, ham or game (wordplay)

Second-floor family (wordplay)

Person's experience

One never comes to the fore

Like a tennis player's compliment?

Ambiguously flattering remark

Insincere, as a compliment.

A gift for dishonesty (wordplay)

Red Nah for a bribe at court (wordplay)

Bribe (in court?)

Backhaul

Backhouse

Backlash

BACKLASH to cause a reaction

Backlash

Backlight

Backlist

Backlog

Backpack

Traveller with a rucksack

One who likes to hike

One travelling with a rucksack

Football player goes biking (wordplay)

Starts to waffle

Does a volte-face.

Backrush

Recidivist supporter gains second cap

One who reverts

Relapser into sin

Becomes less virtuous.

Loses progress, in a way

Liberal entering behind rear seat perhaps slips

BACKSPACE

Hits the Delete key

SPLASH to scatter liquid about

Servants' secret flight (wordplay)

Type of intrigue

Scandalous

""A stitch made by setting the needle back of the end of the last stitch, and bringing it out in front of the end.""

Road in reverse (wordplay)

*Road less traveled

Best seller by Fannie Hurst

Oyakawa holds this Olympic record.

One way to swim

Swimming specialty

Backswing

Backsword

Searches for an error, maybe

Climbs down path guarded by defenders

Reluctantly; slowly; aversely.

Backwash

Backwash

Isolated, peaceful rural places

Isolated places

BACKWOODS the forest beyond cleared country

The presence of bacteria in the blood.

Of or pertaining to bacteremia.

BACTERIZE to subject to the action of bacteria.

Bacterize

Bacteroid

Badinage

Claret drinks.

Disparaged

Smeared foundation around part of face, on commercial

Slandered

Utter perplexity

Total bewilderment

Chaps chasing fox for time in utter bewilderment

BAFFLING baffle

Trifling things

Trifles with femmes fatales, holding a gun

Trifles.

Fields of competence

Areas of knowledge

Areas of expertise

Bairnly

Bakshish

Bakshish

*Warm mask/cap amalgams

Three-stringed instruments

Russian guitars

Russian instruments mentioned in "Back in the U.S.S.R."

A knitted fabric

Pl. baldachins also baldachinos A rich fabric of silk and gold brocade.

Baldachin

Track event for those less hirsute?

Race that's less hairy (wordplay)

Rhubarb a smidgen less hairy (wordplay)

Baldness

""BALKANIZE to divide a territory into small, hostile states.""

Divides into small, hostile units

Singers need pieces of 15 to cover live Adele hit (wordplay)

Crooners

Balladist

Balladry

Heavy material for stabilizing a ship

Ones keeping on their toes (wordplay)

Jete set (wordplay)

Nureyev's partners

Science of flight dynamics

Science of motion of projectiles.

Police-lab concerns

Airborne activity

Phileas Fogg, for one

One seen in a hanging basket (wordplay)

Party item to sit out, being in the air

He's debased (wordplay)

Fieldstone ring wearer (wordplay)

Musician at a dance (wordplay)

Today's most popular writers (wordplay)

Pens from pin endings

Some pens

Created loud publicity

Balmacaan

A treatise on baths; the science of bathing.

Balcony railing (by Toni Morrison)

A bad result perhaps, but coping

Part of a balcony.

2000 Spike Lee satire

Confused; cheated

Hoodwinked airline's doctor about alcohol left in

Bamboozle

Banality

Banalize

A dart aimed at the bull

Dart thrust into el toro

Banderole

Australian animals

Banditry

One who must face the music (wordplay)

Arm or rubber (wordplay)

Glenn or Mitch Miller

Samba trend (anagram)

Sousa or Alexander, for example

Conductor decorated stand with amber

Group of evil looks (wordplay)

Group of evil looks?

Belts with ammunition stop soldier moving

Sousa's places (wordplay)

Platforms in many parks

Outdoor concert sites

Old parade sights

Bandwidth

Pig out, say, in Dickensian constituency

The exclusion of someone from a country

Exclusive treatment for a political offence

BANISTER a stair hand-rail

Provided funds for

Headline about an attack on Wells Fargo

BANKROLL to {finance=v}

Desperate declaration (seven letters)

Red state (wordplay)

State of insolvency

Bankrupt

Variant of banneret 1 .

Staircase supports

NB: Southeast Trains may be used for rail-flight connections

Banqueter

Banquet

Banquette

Pool house (wordplay)

Brat's piety seems phony in sacred area

Arab playing with Brian's rugby team

Pub repeatedly is disrupted by an uncivilised lot

Philistines.

But for joke miss out television for instance and 'to boldly go'

Made Hunnish

Barbarize

BARBASCO a variety of S American plants

Barbecuer

Behind tavern, be giving the signal by grilling

Bear cub's broken home - Goldilocks started by cooking outdoors

Barbeque

Barberry

Sportscaster Red's short leap (wordplay)

Dance for tonsorial artists?

Where to find a short cut (wordplay)

Barbitone

Venetian boat songs

Saloon girl's Venetian water music (wordplay)

Run about behind pub to hear sounds from bullfight sung on canal

Gondolier's song

Venetian boat song

Floating melody in tavern song left echo

Shakespearean fan

Worship of Shakespeare

Bareback

Discalced, as certain monks

Kicked around a match official having forgotten trainers (wordplay)

Pub second team paid the cost for not wearing boots

With scalp exposed

Uncapped (wordplay)

How Nixon usually goes.

Bareness

Bargainer

Type of chip

and 6: Source of leverage secure, acquiring Shard (wordplay)

Haggling

A vergeboard.

Lush travel plan (wordplay)

Doing the town

Tavern-tour activity

Barkeeper

Certain ship

Burns celebrated this John

Malt liquor base

Subject of Burns poem.

Makes one-night stands.

Goes on tour

Stunt flies, as at a fair

Agent noun (-or)

Barograph

Forecasting aids in Italy (wordplay)

Forecasting aids in Italy?

Indicators of change

Type of pressure

It's measured by the glass

Like some pressure

A soberness not usually found in ladies

Women entitled to give piece of music zero points

Except individual, content to assess peers

Rank higher than knightdom

Barquette

Barracker

Carmen in East London area, leading to boos and hisses (wordplay)

Barracoon

""Any of several voracious pikelike marine fishes allied to the gray mullets, constituting the genus Sphyr\'91na and family Sphyr\'91nid\'91. The great barracuda (Sphyr\'91na barracuda) of the West Indies, Florida, etc., is often six feet or more long, and as dangerous as a shark. In Cuba its flesh is reputed to be poisonous. Sphyr\'91na Argentea of the Pacific coast and Sphyr\'91na sphyr\'91na of Europe are smaller species, and are used as food.Sphyr\'91na and family Sphyr\'91nid\'91. The great barracuda (Sphyr\'91na barracuda) of the West Indies, Florida, etc., is often six feet or more long, and as dangerous as a shark. In Cuba its flesh is reputed to be poisonous. Sphyr\'91na Argentea of the Pacific coast and Sphyr\'91na sphyr\'91na of Europe are smaller species, and are used as food.""

Ferocious swimmers

""Pl. barramunda or barramundas also barramundi or barramundis Any of several Australian food fishes, such as the lungfish. Also called ceratodus .""

Fish in Scottish island spattered in mud

Edible Australian fish

Australian fish

Barratry

Barrelage

Barrelful

The flat top of a barrel.

Barrel

BARRELS barrel

Lack of vegetation

Inability to produce offspring

Said what Thatcher finally became - no issue with it

Barretry

""BARRICADE A fortification, made in haste, of trees, earth, palisades, wagons, or anything that will obstruct the progress or attack of an enemy. It is usually an obstruction formed in streets to block an enemy's access.""

You can't pass them on highways

Roadblocks

Obstacles in the way of a rotter protected by rails

Old Bailey figures

Lawyers at Old Bailey

Followers of Blackstone.

Ones making the rounds (wordplay)

Prison wardens (wordplay)

They serve when right dart's been thrown

Last stop on the San Francisco subway (wordplay)

Baseboard

They eschew the net

They don't play the net in tennis

Baseness

Basicity

White Men Can't Jump sport

What our play groups are playing

Kobe Bryant's game

Picnic loads

Adjective meaning resembling

Basketry

BASKETS basket

Sit back lazily and in France toil on interlaced articles

Basophile

""The affinity of cellular structures for basic dyes, such as methylene blue.""

BASOPHILE

Bassett

Bassness

Orchestra member

Certain instrumentalist

Woodwind player

Bastardy

Same as bastardize.bastardize.

To make or prove to be a bastard; to stigmatize as a bastard; to declare or decide legally to be illegitimate.

Bastinade

Catching birds at night using lights to confuse them

Features of beaches.

Batholith

Bathwater

""The art or science of sounding, or measuring depths in the sea.""

Deep-sea submersible

Pertaining to the Batrachia.

Arrayed for battle; fit or eager for battle; warlike.

Large military groups

Military units

Military groups