2-Letter Words Starting with H

Instrument for measuring humidity

The merry-go-round instrument

Instrument of geometry replaced in short time

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Botany) any plant that grows in wet or waterlogged soil hygrophytic   [ˌhaɪgrəˈfɪtɪk] adj HYPALGESIA (Medicine / Pathology) Pathol diminished sensitivity to pain hypalgesic   adj HYPEROSMIA (Medicine / Pathology) an abnormally acute sense of smell [from hyper- + Greek osmē odour]

Hylozoism

Hylozoist

HYMENEAL a wedding song or poem

""Geology Solidifying chiefly as a minor intrusion, especially as a dike or sill, before reaching the earth's surface. Used of rocks.""

Wholly or partly open to the sky: an ancient hypaethral temple.

Hypallage

""A fruit consisting in large part of a receptacle, enlarged below the calyx, as in the alycanthus, the rose hip, and the pear. alycanthus, the rose hip, and the pear.""

ACUTE a type of accent mark

ALERT to {warn=v}

AWARE knowing and alert

""Of, pertaining to, or using a pressure that is greater than normal atmospheric pressure; as, a hyperbaric chamber, where divers may decompress slowly to avoid the bends.as, a hyperbaric chamber, where divers may decompress slowly to avoid the bends.""

""Pl. hyperbolas or hyperbolae (-l ) A plane curve having two branches, formed by the intersection of a plane with both halves of a right circular cone at an angle parallel to the axis of the cone. It is the locus of points for which the difference of the distances from two given points is a constant.""

Hyperbola

Extravagant exaggerations

Over the top

Type of geometry

Like some geometric curves

Hypercube

Hyperemia

HYPERGOL a rocket fuel

MANIA an excessive or unreasonable desire; a craze

MANIC one who is affected with mania

A verse which has a redundant syllable or foot; a hypercatalectic verse.

Hyperopia

PLANE to make smooth and even

Having a chromosome number greater than but not an exact multiple of the normal euploid number.

Hyperpnea

Abnormally deep or rapid breathing.

Faster than Mach 5

Very much faster than sound

Why person ice-skating circles very fast (wordplay)

A helluva keyboard key (wordplay)

(In sci-fi) the fourth dimension

Four-dimensional realm

TENSE to make {taut=adj}

Hypertext

Pathology The state of being hypertonic.

""Having a higher osmotic pressure than a comparison solution; -- of an aqueous solution. Increasing the concentration of dissolved solids increases the osmotic pressure, and thus the tonicity of a solution. Opposite of hypotonic and contrasting with isotonic.hypotonic and contrasting with isotonic.""

Broken, in a way

Like well-connected characters

Having bars, like well-known watering-holes

Strings two words together

Turns section of poultry farm into co-op (wordplay)

HYPHEN to connect words with a punctuation mark

Leading to sleep; applied to the illusions of one who is half asleep.

Variant of hypnagogic .

Hypnotism

People are entranced by their performances

Open to suggestions, say

Bewitched, in a way.

Spellbound

Puts into a trance

Hypoblast

Hypocaust

CENTER to place at the middle point

Baby talk spoken by adults

Hypocotyl

Terrible ropy ethics of types like Moliere's Tartuffe

DERMAL relating to the derm

Like a flu shot

Type of syringe

Kind of needle

Same as Hypoblast. Hypoblast.

Hypogyny

""Inserted below the pistil or pistils; said of sepals, petals, and stamens; having the sepals, petals, and stamens inserted below the pistil; said of a flower or a plant.""

""The layer of water in a thermally stratified lake that lies below the thermocline, is noncirculating, and remains perpetually cold.""

Hypomania

Hypomorph

PHYSES physis

""See Pituitary body, under Pituitary. Pituitary body, under Pituitary.""

""Size a condition in which tissue or an organ of the body fails to grow to normal size. Cf. hypertrophy . ; hypoplastic ,""

Hypoploid

STASES stasis

That which forms the basis of anything; underlying principle; a concept or mental entity conceived or treated as an existing being or thing.

STATIC random noise produced in a radio or television receiver

Hypostome

Hypostyle

TACTIC a manoeuvre for gaining an objective

Side facing a corner (wordplay)

Longest side of a right-angled triangle

Longest side of right-angled triangle

Scientists' formulations

Assumptions

It's tested using the scientific method

A tentative theory

Injection before the son is 21

Hypotonia

Hypoxemia

""An instrument for measuring heights by observation of barometric pressure; esp., one for determining heights by ascertaining the boiling point of water. It consists of a vessel for water, with a lamp for heating it, and an inclosed thermometer for showing the temperature of ebullition.""

""Pl. hystereses (-s z) The lagging of an effect behind its cause, as when the change in magnetism of a body lags behind changes in the magnetic field.""

(In physics) a lag between cause and effect

Of or pertaining to hysteresis.

Uncontrollably laughing or crying

Affected by wildly uncontrolled emotion

More than funny

Brimstone ring wearer (wordplay)

Dealer in sewing items etc

Shop frequented by dressmakers

Habiliment

Made fit, as for functioning in society

Fits out.

Living places.

HABITUATE To make accustomed; to accustom; to familiarize.

Addiction

Haciendado

Hackberry

Hackmatack

HAGGADIST

HAGGARD an adult hawk

Study of saints

Biography of saintly person

Seminary study

Hagiology

Hagioscope

""HAGIOSCOPE An opening made in the interior walls of a cruciform church to afford a view of the altar to those in the transepts; called, in architecture, a squint. squint.""

Very small distance.

Hairbrush

Haircutter

Salon worker's job

He shares drier, perhaps

Locksmith who must make cuts (wordplay)

One providing shock treatment (wordplay)

Hairiness

Hairspring

Hairstreak

HAIRSTYLE

Entourage member, sometimes

Barber, modern style.

One doing dos

With a shrug, perhaps

Without enthusiasm or energy

Lacking in zeal

Halfpenny

Cries inside church (wordplay)

Words of joy

Exclamations of praise.

Hallmark

See what isn't there

Have strange visions

Experience unreal things

Halocarbon

HALOGENATE

Halogenate

Adjective (-ic)

""A tranquilizer, C 21 H 23 ClFNO 2 , used especially in the treatment of psychotic disorders, including schizophrenia, and also in the management of Tourette's syndrome.""

English word

English word

Some sharks

Numskulls

Wrestling holds

Wrestling maneuvers

Some holds

Hamminess

Handbarrow

Handbasket

A space equal to the breadth of the hand; a palm.

Made without machinery

Manually made

Fancy end with hard fact, not out of factory

Prelude to a "stretch."

Handfast

Disadvantaged, or given an advantage

Wasn't up to scratch, suffering from some disability

Disabled

One who deals with books

Job involving prediction

Race-track habitue

Baskets, for example

Manually-made decorative items

Decorative skills

Handiness

Handmaiden

Handpick

Handpress

Handsel

Things done in the gym

Floor routine components

Acrobatic feats

Craftsmen

Craftsmen

""Clasping and squeezing of the hands, often in distress.""

Biblical wall decor

That which is studied by a calligrapher

Passing around legal document or script

Scribbled, for example

Holographic

English word

English word

Willy-nilly

At random

HAPHAZARD Extra hazard; chance; accident; random.

HAPLESS {luckless=adj}

Haplology

Happiness

A plasma protein that is a normal constituent of blood serum and functions in the binding of free hemoglobin in the bloodstream.

Causes of "headaches."

Harbinger

Hardiness

""Not sensible to the bit; not easily governed; as, a hardmouthed horse. as, a hardmouthed horse.""

Like many an office aide

Industrious

Organically foolish (wordplay)

Hire IRA band (anagram) - rash

Like some schemes

Part of body in raging sun with flesh? There's capacity for injury

HARMONIC an {overtone=n}

HARMONISE

Harmonizer

Activity of choir members

Instrument rich and sharp, do play!

Member of Set 2

Old keyboard instrument

Harquebuse

Harrumph

Harshness

Hartebeest

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

Fall, and this puzzle's theme

Fall of the year

Busy period on the farm

Hastiness

Hatchel

MALICE

Yellow sunflower

Proud quality

Arrogance

Advocacy of war

With great risk.

Dangerously

Headachy

Jellied loaves of hog parts

Frocks for locks (wordplay)

Frocks for locks?

Sioux war bonnets, for example

Jobs that lice are well qualified for (wordplay)

Murderous types moving with a tender hush

Headhunt

Headiness

Rest ashamed (anagram)

V.I.P.'s at prep schools

Scholastic titles great artists held no doubt

Informal chiefly US to place in or establish as headquarters

Headspring

Headstream

Service chiefs (wordplay)

Dictators of a sort

Some restaurant VIPS

The state of being healthy or healthful; freedom from disease.

Shaw's "House" et al.

Major disappointments many, blackjack (nonverbal)

Emotional traumas

2 conceivably sad (wordplay)

Akin to Ruth "amid the alien corn."

Like one just jilted

Fireplace part, sometimes

Part of an open fireplace, often

Material forming a fireplace

In callous fashion, she tells Ray off

Man naturally showing no compassion

With cruelty

Heartsease

Heartsome

Lothario's list of lasses?

Lothario's list of lasses (wordplay)

It's not real, but it's still tugged on

Objects of infatuation

Matinee idols

Certain idols

Heathendom

Heathenism

HEATHENIZE To render heathen or heathenish.

Heathenize

Heatstroke

Most celestial

Heavenward

Heaviness

Anthony Joshua's current boxing division

Person of import - boxer

Boxing division

""A type of schizophrenia characterized by foolish mannerisms, senseless laughter, delusions, hallucinations, and regressive behavior.""

""A type of schizophrenia characterized by foolish mannerisms, senseless laughter, delusions, hallucinations, and regressive behavior.""