2-Letter Words Starting with H

24 across with two showy strips

Small butterfly

Small butterfly.

Beehive, page boy, etc.

Coiffures

Haleness

Halfness

Thank God Almighty!

Praise ye the Lord!

'Thank God Almighty!'

Auditorium noted and given stamp of approval

""A compound, such as a fluorocarbon, that consists of carbon and one or more halogens.""

Halocline

HALOGEN a non metallic element

Of the nature of a halogen.

Halogeton

Halophile

HALOPHILE

Halophyte

""HALOPHYTE A plant found growing in salt marshes, or in the sea.""

Halothane

King cobras

Pl. hamantaschen (-täsh n) A triangular pastry with a filling such as preserves or poppy seeds.

Cookout menu item

Roll-top items

Nonporcine fast food

Carpenter wild about pounding (wordplay)

Shark with a useful noggin?

Shark with a useful noggin (wordplay)

Team from London importing the French kind of firearm

Rapper M.C.'s tress (wordplay)

... wrestling move (wordplay)

Bit of arm-twisting (wordplay)

Hammertoe

Hinders the efficiency of

Renders powerless

Leg tendons

Garden cart

Conveyance with bishop entering public school

Transport to hell (wordplay)

Hell transport (wordplay)

Carrier for a small load

Worker embraces American's greetings

Welcome gestures

Creates, as an artisan

Embroiders, for example

Embroiders, e.g

Being restrained, worker smacked

Struck by writing that's restrained

Restrained worker dealt a blow

HANDED hand

Handfast

Skill one has keeping worker off boat

Trade cards with one on ship

Sailor in charge of vessel showing skill

Handiwork

Capable of being handled.

What to grab for the road (wordplay)

What bouncers do (wordplay)

From barn, as horse led out, they steer

""Having no handle; as, sleek cabinets with apparently handleless doors. Opposite of handled.as, sleek cabinets with apparently handleless doors. Opposite of handled.""

Is she higher than a footman (wordplay)

What law is to justice

Nerissa was Portia's.

Passed over tool specially chosen

Chosen with care

Personally selected.

Basis of turkey art

Kids may use them to make turkeys

""HANDSEL to give a good luck gift to, also HANSEL""

Handsel

Some deal closers

Deal closers

Finishes 15 across with small welcoming gestures

Smoothly and moderately, nautical style

How good tippers tip

In an attractive manner

Most pleasing to the eye

Handspike

Feat in tumbling

Worker bound to produce gymnastic feat

Relative of a cartwheel.

Heels-over-head maneuvers

They may be done on a beam

Gymnastic feats

Handwheel

HANDWORK manual labor

Handwrite

Hansel

Haphazard

Haphtara

Haploidy

Haplotype

Central Park events

Youth assemblies

Modern theatrics

Boring or noisy communicators

Bombastic talkers

Aggressively lecturing (someone)

Subject of a workplace lawsuit, maybe

Means trash (anagram)

Constant intimidation

Precursors.

Indications of a lot of hard drinkers going on spree

Harborage

Harborful

Without a harbor; shelterless.

The area adjacent to a harbor.

Protecting various characters from rough Brian

Hardboard

Hardcover

Hardening

Niggardly.

Stingy

Ruthless

Stingy and strict

Oppressive

Oppressive expression of joy in flagrante, as earth moves

Hurried to welcome daughter and boss, being shrewd

Unsentimental, as a boxer taking some punches needs to be (wordplay)

Hurried to introduce key point, tough and realistic

Hardihood

Hardiment

Hardness

Hardstand

Hardwire

Summer romances, maybe

Fifteen pantomime figures

Masqueraders.

Harlotry

Dust-laden winds of African coast.

In a benign manner

In a nonthreatening manner

Instruments - maraschino (anagram)

Mouth organs

Wind instruments.

In tune; friendly

OK class, singing that meshes well is...

Sweet, as Mourinho gets sacked

Brought together amicably in rough hansom ride

Injured eating skinned bony fish, blended

Harmonise

Harmonium

Sang in a barbershop quartet

Barbershop quartet man

Barbershop-quartet member

Harmonize

Controlling and making use of headland, running round

Queequeg et al

Queequeg et al.

Queequeg, and others

Job for Ahab's crew

Harrumph

Harshen

Animal feeding insects to mad hatter

An antelope - sound healthy animal

When trained he's a better animal

Hartshorn

Harumph

Haruspex

They pick on The Greens for those at The Gathering

Harvest

Eight-footer came a cropper

Sharecropper, at times

Something worn for piercing injury by an arachnid

""HARVEST to gather in a crop, also HAIRST""

Hasheesh

Produce finance on small cars

Plan to reverse small vehicles

Reverses under shade in these vehicles

HATCHEL to separate flax fibres with a comb

Hatchel

Early birds found here at Cheshire mill

Fish farms

Spawning grounds.

Hatchling

Hatchment

Haughty

HAUNTING the act of returning to memory

Some married women

Hamburg homemakers

""The sucking proboscis of various insects. See Lepidoptera, and Diptera. Lepidoptera, and Diptera.""

HAUSTORIA

One of the suckerlike rootlets of such plants as the dodder and ivy.

Packs waffles full of old wine

Journalist outside raves about small bags

States accepted by worn-out horses having these on their backs

Hawfinch

Hawksbill

Hawsehole

Haziness

Headachy

They hold your pillows in place

Places for bookshelves

Butcher's offering

Meat jelly with a dairy-sounding name

Jellied sandwich loaf

Headfish

Care taken about poster with old racing driver subject to recruitment

Job for Edith and Kim (wordplay)

Lettuce-picker's other job (wordplay)

Executive searcher (wordplay)

Auto's "eyes"

Beams in the night.

UNKLE placed a rabbit in yours

Marquee names

Celebrities

Stars

Appearing as the star at (a concert)

Big fish in a school (wordplay)

Education wallah read them as ordered

Prep-school V.I.P.

Audiophile's above-the-neckwear

Radio receivers

Hearing devices

Gear for telephone operators.

Headspace

Gymnastics flip

Headstall

Some clowning around

Things done in the gym

Some yoga poses

Headstock

Grave accents (wordplay)

Mick Jagger's last tributes (wordplay)

They may say 'R.I.P.'

River source

Froth that's mighty intractable

Showing wilfulness, the gods ran amok

Obstinate (wordplay)

Service chief (wordplay)

Restaurant employee, perhaps

He orders those who take orders

Higher tributaries of a river

River's source

Lake Victoria, for example

Leading the "in-the-pink" group

He takes his latte out. It does him most good

Hearken

Long-popular Al Hoffman tune.

Anguish caused when the rash ace crashed

Breast pumping (wordplay)

Fetal ultrasound features

Pitter-patter sounds

Sorrow thus seen in hater (wordplay)

Try the northern-style holiday - agony!

Anguish after a romantic split

Heartburn

Encouraging 'X' to interrupt trial

Encouraging a number to take part in an audition

Encouraging a number to join in judicial inquiry

Backslapper's quality.

Boniface's bonhomie

Jollity - in a way she earns it

Pivotal areas

Middle England carrying light suit (wordplay)

Important areas

Pansy to suit a bed of roses (wordplay)

Plant making seat messy in vehicle

Peace of mind.

Matinee idol, say

Both rather fancy dish

Excitingly good-looking man

Heartwood

Heartworm

Europhile PM to cease mantra in faithless regions

Capital mostly invested in male dominion, in which people don't have faith

PM to conclude with honour? There's a certain lack of belief here

Lacking culture or religious principles

Impious characters in Arimathea then? I shudder!

Irreligiousness

To render heathen or heathenish.

Heathland

Dehydration may help bring this on

Exhaustion from too much sun

Effect of too much sun

Heavenly

To the sky

Way up

Report of weakly cure embracing odd bod and lunatic

Hebetate

Increasingly dull state

Hebraize

HECTICAL {hectic=adj}

Small units of weight

Duplicating device

Reproducer of Trojan holding note at a pub

It's about 26.4 gallons

Abbr. hm A metric unit of length equal to 100 meters. See Table at measurement .

Concerned with self-gratification

Devoted to pleasure

Pleasure-seeking

Without paying attention

Shelley's novel about education without thought

Heelpiece

Hegemony

Hegumeny

Heeding the tremors, climbed further

Raised in quality, degree or intensity

Balls on chicken, number eaten, brought up

In a heliacal manner.

Helicity

Spiral

Helicopt

Cheer pilot going off in this (wordplay)

Igor Ivan Sikorsky's 1939 good idea

Sikorsky's brainchild

Helilift

Device signalling by reflected sunlight

Sun worship. See Sabianism. Sabianism.

An instrument devised originally for measuring the diameter of the sun; now employed for delicate measurements of the distance and relative direction of two stars too far apart to be easily measured in the field of view of an ordinary telescope.

Heliostat

Reddish-purple color that's also a shrub

Pink-purple flower

Serf I engaged to secure plant

Heliozoan

Distasteful and repellant: hellacious smog.

Amphibian in box by shelter

Large salamander

Hellbroth

Hellebore

HELLENIZE To use the Greek language; to play the Greek; to Grecize.

Hellenize

Fiends.

Adjective meaning resembling

""Of or relating to worms, or Helminthes; expelling worms.""

(Laugh) uncontrollably

Impotently

In a vulnerable manner, ill sheep slaughtered without one knowing

""Pl. hemangiomas also hemangiomata (-m -t ) A benign skin lesion consisting of dense, usually elevated masses of dilated blood vessels.""