2-Letter Words Starting with H

Waited as the tide turned

Showed uncertainty as the tide went out

He said I was included but dithered

Lost one (wordplay)

Indecisive one

What the lost orienteer does (wordplay)

What the lost competitor does (wordplay)

Thinks twice, perhaps

""A series of six notes, with a semitone between the third and fourth, the other intervals being whole tones.""

Shaped like the cells in a honeycomb

Like typical snowflakes

Six-sided like geometric figure

I Ching figures

'I Ching' figures

English word

Measure used in the "Iliad"

Six-footer encountered in verse

Verse line of six metrical feet

Hexamine

English word

Take a long nap, maybe

Burn off fat, perhaps

Sleep like a bear

Treehouses and such

Places with no telephones.

Relatives of ivory towers.

They're high in the chain of command

Religious leaders

Status ranking system

System arranged in graded ranks

Governing levels of organisation

Pompous, informally

Snooty, informally

Hoity-toity

Highball

Highjack

Go here for indigenous games

Where to go for the games

Part of Scotland.

Highroad

Hightail

They take planes

Certain terrorists

The act of stealing in transit

Uriah's oil (anagram)

A total card

Like a very successful comedian

Hilloa

Himation

""The posterior of the three principal divisions of the brain, including the epencephalon and metencephalon. Sometimes restricted to the epencephalon only. epencephalon only.""

Nicer hand (anagram)

CNN hired a drunk with an impediment

Exotic dancer seen by husband in bar

Hipparch

Spiced wine of yore.

Spiced wine, or Sapphic cocktail

Hiragana

Noun denoting doctrine or practice

I name this compound an irritant

Allergy-medicine target

Chemical in Thames I dissipated

Histamin

Bloke's weight is entertaining to chart

Fonteyn reflects on the man's analysis

Chart man's got up to stuff

Past master (wordplay)

Gibbon, for one

Scholar in thin air so flustered

Hoactzin

Billboards, in Britain

Part of a Christmas land-scape

Proof of a cold night

Phenomenon of a chilly dawn.

The state of being hoary.

Got raspy, as a voice

Carrier holds aptly named football manager having strained his voice (wordplay)

Hoatzin

Like loggers' boots

Hodaddy

Hogmanay

Hogmenay

LARGE CASKS

Hogwash

Adjective (-ic)

Holdback

Holdfast

Passport indeed put in storage compartment, as went on leave

HOLIDAY to take a vacation

Holloa

English word

Destruction by fire.

Fatal conflagration

Mass slaughter

Kind of three-dimensional images

Most of them are monochromatic

Some credit card security features

""A document, as a letter, deed, or will, wholly in the handwriting of the person from whom it proceeds and whose act it purports to be.""

Pilgrims leave them

William Levitt, for one

Architect's other job (wordplay)

Is she a house builder (wordplay)

In no way a quack, some might say

Therapist's in work, at hospital

Practitioner of nontraditional medicine

Homestay

Farmhouse, for example

1862 Act of Congress

House with adjoining farm

Towards one's house

Forster's End keeping the author away from work (wordplay)

Pilot who dreams where some pigeons are heading (wordplay)

Wanting to kill someone else (wordplay)

Murderous loch maid I upset

Like Bluebeard

Hominian

See allograft .

Bass the fish, to "bass" the singing voice, for example

Word spelled the same as another but with a different meaning

See Homogeny. Homogeny.

(Chemistry) Chem of uniform charge; not ionic; covalent a homopolar bond homopolarity   [ˌhəʊməʊpəʊˈlærɪtɪ ˌhɒm-] n

Title for a Congressman.

Mayor's title

Worthy of high respect

""In an honorable manner; in a manner showing, or consistent with, honor.""

Honorand

Speakers' receptions (wordplay)

Guest speaker fees, say

Payments to speakers, say

Western sound effect.

Sound from moving horses

The Lone Ranger sound effects

Youths up to no good

The unacceptable faces of football

Violent troublemakers

Exultation from priest poet at gathering

An activity of Joe College

HORIZON the line where earth and sky seem to meet

Hornbeam

Horntail

Godiva's locale

E's ROH for a ride

The way the rider has returned (wordplay)

Fodder plant

Old-time transportation

Street sights in gaslight era.

Vehicles circa 1900.

Brush makeup, maybe

Mane or tail fibres

It's used in furniture for padding

Messing about (as a steed?)

Boisterous antics in Equus (wordplay)

Drama about Trigger (wordplay)

It swishes on the racetrack

It swishes in the parade ring

Flyswatter on a farm

Urging.

Surprise in mid thirties for a British politician giving advice

Hosanna

Curing businesses (wordplay)

Life-saving institutions.

Lost aphis found in health centres

Hospodar

Impetuous like Stromboli (wordplay)

Fiery, like Harry and Henry (wordplay)

Having a volcanic temper (wordplay)

Sands of time (wordplay)

Shapely timekeeper's gauge (wordplay)

Time capsule (wordplay)

Where one lives only on water (wordplay)

Mobile home on the river!

*Mobile home, perhaps

""A household servant; also, one of the bodyguard of King Canute.""

Something to wear.

Domestic pet consuming old garment

Bathrobe's cousin

One of the help

Domestic mouse had one shattered

Woman who does work in homes

Sue at home messy person to live with

One sharing accommodation

Resident's final check on bingo call

Low-heeled sandals

Saltillo sandals

Painful sandals

Huaracho

""A kind of linen cloth with raised figures, used for towelings.""

Huisache

Hulloa

Humanise

Humanise

Humanism

Classical scholars

Nontheistic type

Gave sympathetic qualities to, say

One who renders humane.

Humanize

Sort of nice, like you and me

People, collectively

People collectively

Resembling a human.

Characteristic of earthlings

Humanoid

Diluent.

Deprive of dignity, make to feel ashamed

Humble and shame an opponent

I hit a mule cruelly? Shame

Humpback

Quasimodo was the ... of Notre Dame

Quasimodo was one

Quasimodo, for example

Hurrah

Hurray

Great depression (wordplay)

Hazel, for one

Alex Higgins raunchier perhaps (wordplay)

He had to get American group restricted and managed thriftily

HUSBAND to be a thrifty manager

Frugal; thrifty.

The business of farming

Thrift makes old man cut drink

Economical management or thrift

Huzzah

Last of money on account invested in reminder to put on his evacuated bloomers

Hyalogen

Body harm I'll do (wordplay)

Modified pore, especially on a leaf, that exudes drops of water

Hydracid

Hydragog

Garden flower - garden hay (anagram)

Shrub - garden hay (anagram)

Handy gear (anagram) - shrub

Hydranth

Hydrate

Tiny hoard (anagram)

Marathon runner's concern

Hydrator

Operated by liquid (water or oil)

Relating to liquids under pressure

Operated by water under pressure

An acyl derivative of hydrazine.

Rocket fuel liquid

An enzyme which causes the splitting of a chemical bond with the addition of the elements of water; a hydrolytic enzyme. Formerly called a hydrolytic ferment.hydrolytic ferment.

""Of, relating to, or belonging to the class Hydrozoa.""

Hymeneal

Hymnary

""A figure consisting of a transference of attributes from their proper subjects to other. Thus Virgil says, "dare classibus austros," to give the winds to the fleets, instead of dare classibus austris, to give the fleets to the winds. dare classibus austros," to give the winds to the fleets, instead of dare classibus austris, to give the fleets to the winds.""

""Pl. hypanthia (-th - ) The ringlike, cup-shaped, or tubular structure of a flower on which the sepals, petals, and stamens are borne, as in the flowers of the rose or cherry.""

ACID a type of chemical compound

ARID {dry=adj}

y=1/x, say

Par hole by playing for curve

Certain curve in math

Blood and Blood Vessels

""GAMY plucky, also GAMEY""

Hypermetropia.

Abnormally deep or rapid breathing.

Hyphemia

Cut a dash (wordplay)

Break one's word (wordplay)

Join two words using common sign

HYPNOID pertaining to hypnosis or sleep

""The inner or lower layer of the blastoderm; called also endoderm, entoderm, and sometimes hypoderm. See Illust. of Blastoderm, Delamination, and Ectoderm. endoderm, entoderm, and sometimes hypoderm. See Illust. of Blastoderm, Delamination, and Ectoderm.""

Hut as new, keeping back copy of 'How to heat your villa'

Condition marked by overexcitability

MANIC one who is affected with mania

Hyponoia

Hypopnea

TAXES tax

TAXIS taxi

English word

Insufficient oxygenation of the blood

Sign of severe altitude sickness

Hyracoid

Fits

Habergeon

A garment; an article of clothing.

Equip or outfit.

Living quarters

Dwelling

Occupancy

As a general rule

Accustomed.

Accustoms

Hacendado

Pl. haciendados Variant of hacendado .

Halters used during breaking in of foals

Juniper.

Hackney

Hadrosaur

Haematite

Hagberry

Haggadist

Saints

It views the altar without altering the view

Heavy rain (wordplay)

A few drops of the hard stuff (wordplay)

Fall that might hurt you

Frozen waterfalls (wordplay)

Weather prediction.

Pelting tempests

Haircloth

Boat for stylists (wordplay)

Trimmer, perhaps

Barber.

Top secrets (wordplay)

Rugs, of sorts

Locks out of a store (wordplay)

Watch piece broadcast after hard season

Regulator in a watch

Watch component

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