Words beginning with B

To utter words imperfectly or indistinctly

A confused mixture of sounds

Drunken orgy behaviour

Light playful banter

To puzzle or mystify

Something of little value - a thing regarded as too unimportant to worthy much consideration

Idle, ill-informed talk

Full of menacing or maligned influences

A clamorous attempt to win customers or advance a cause

Hackneyed or trite

Suitable for manual workers, uncultivated

A cause of great distress or annoyance

Fundamental

Social dialect of a given language which is judged to be least prestigious

To moderate or restrain the breath

Ludicrous descent from the elevated to the commonplace

Tedious and unnecessary repetition of words and phrases in speech and writing

Vulgar and rude

Feeling or expressing blissful happiness

Supreme blessedness

A noble and generous act but often futile or having no effect

A person or thing representing the highest possible standard of excellence in a particular respect

Fashionable society

Dress up or decorate gaudily

Cause to become unable to think clearly

To be discontented at seeing a person have something

Charm, trick or enchant someone often in a deceptive way

A huge and powerful person

A person's order or command

A duty or responsibility for someone to do something

To surround with an army

Of an appearance- fail to give a true impression of something

Dismiss someone or something as unimportant

Literature regarded as fine art

Inclined to war, pugnacious

Warlike

A social group which is the leader in a particular trend

To moan over, lament

Puzzle, confuse, bewilder

Generous or doing good

Desiring to do good for others

In a state of pitiful intellectual or moral ignorance

Gentle and kind, mild and favourable

Kind, gracious

To scold

To be deprived of someone through death

Deprived of or lacking

To implore urgently

To attack on all sides

To damage one's reputation

Made to order

Of or belonging to a beast

To present as a gift

A person or thing that one particularly dislikes

Happen

A foolish or ill-timed remark or action

Be a sign of, be a warning or indication of a future event

A large group of people or things of a particular kind

To express deep sorrow or lament

Confuse or puzzle

Occurring twice a year

Lover of books

Excessively fond of alcohol

Having 2 chambers in a legislative body

Having 2 heads

To ensure or bear

Espousing the orthodox view

Major exhibition occurring every 2 years

Occurring every 2 years

A period of 2 years

To separate into 2 parts

Spiteful, bad tempered

Defraud, cheat

An expression which is a sum or difference of two terms

A biographical film

Animal and plant life of a particular region

Supported by two political parties

Being in two corresponding parts

A temporary camp

A course, despicable person

Mild

To treat flatteringly

Unmoved or unperturbed

Speak impiously or irreverently of God

Foolish talk

Display prominently or vividly

Happy or carefree

Complete, utter

To force someone into something

Stupid blundering person

Loud noisy or swaggering

Excellent, admirable or attractive

Be a portent of a particular outcome

A person with artistic or intellectual tendencies or pretensions who lives & acts without regard to conventional rules

Rough and noisy, clamorous

Wish for someone to have a satisfying meal

A clever saying or witticism

A person who lives luxuriously, especially one who enjoys the pleasures of eating and drinking

To wish someone a safe trip

Genuine, real

The state of being bound

Cheerful friendliness

Radiant with health

A thing that is helpful or beneficial

A pleasure seeker

An overturning, convulsion, turmoil

Liberal in bestowing gifts, favours or bounties

Member of the middle class

The bourgeois class

To expurgate prudishly

Empty boasting, bragging

Someone prone to bragging

To shake or wave something usually a weapon

Boasting, swaggering, pretence

Shortness of time or duration

The use of only the materials or tools at hand to achieve a purpose

A bandit

Practice of pursuing a dangerous policy to the limits before stopping

Liveliness, spirit, vivacity

To be visibly roused to anger

To mention or suggest for the first time

To intimidate by overbearing looks or words

The main stress, force against something

Abrupt in manner

To clench or grind teeth

Rustic, rural

A ridiculous but amusing person

Bulb-shaped, bulging

Any protection against something

Offensively self-assertive

Not easily depressed, cheerful

Citizen of a town or city, usually the bourgeois

An absurd or comically exaggerated imitation of something

To make smooth or bright

To move in with a great show of energy

any prop or support

That which is past

Alluringly dark, mysterious and moody

Excessively complicated and typically involving a great deal of administrative detail