2-Letter Words Starting with H

Hermitage

Herniate

HERNIATE to {rupture=v}

With valor

Hesitance

Stanley hit out with some doubt

Showing indecision he is the one colonist with only half

Waverers

Male with saying about one liable to lose

Male announcing about one about to lose (wordplay)

I don't have it, I'm sure!

What might precede a parachute jump

Doubt when he gets a non-U situation

""Pl. hesperidia (- - ) A berry having a thickened leathery rind and juicy pulp divided into segments, as an orange or other citrus fruit.""

An atom other than carbon in the structure of a heterocyclic compound.

The process of fertilization in plants by an indirect or circuitous method; opposed to orthogamy. orthogamy.

""A mineral of the Zeolite family, often occurring in amygdaloid, in foliated masses, and also in monoclinic crystals with pearly luster on the cleavage face. It is a hydrous silicate of alumina and lime.""

Hexachord

Six-sided solid

Solid with six sides or faces

Die, for example

Certain verse lines

Lines of verse in six feet

Hexaploid

HEXAPLOID

Hexapody

Hexarchy

""An enzyme catalyzing the transfer of a phosphate residue from ATP to a hexose, as in the formation of glucose-6-phosphate from glucose.""

Wintered, in a way.

Lay dormant till spring in bad earth, in bed

Remained dormant in Ireland after one's left with Edward

Takes a long sleep.

Sleeps during winter

Sleeps through winter

Animal with a winter home

Pertaining to a chief priest

According to ranking, hire, we hear, shrewd man

Arranged in order of rank

Classified according to various criteria

Rich Archie upset about order of importance

Insect interpreting sacred mysteries?

Interpreter of sacred mysteries

Insect interpreting sacred mysteries (wordplay)

Highball

Drunk with two men who had been taken along the way

Native of north or west Scotland, a Gael

Scot's exam covering state of Germany

Classy boat for a mountain sailor (wordplay)

Scrammed, with "it"

DOT worker (wordplay)

Alfred Noyes subject.

Subject of a famous Alfred Noyes poem.

Certain robbers

They may have been responsible for early road hold-ups

Hilarity

Hindbrain

They get in the way

Things that get in the way

Remote inland areas

Remote area of a country

Remote areas of a country

Pl. hippocampi (-p ) A ridge in the floor of each lateral ventricle of the brain that consists mainly of gray matter and has a central role in memory processes.

English word

Hispanism

They're released by the immune system

So this is refined and weighted for statistical displays

Herodotus and Thucydides, for two

Toynbee, Beard, Motley, et al.

Commager and Durant

Like Sabatini's Nights

Popular form of fiction.

Like "Hamilton" and "1776"

Whirred hat (anagram) - in this direction

HOACTZIN a tropical bird

Hoarfrost

Rough, harsh quality (of voice)

Harshness of voice

Roughness of voice

Hoarsen

Hobnail

Holidayer

Not working

Holloware

Silver dishes.

Gift for a 16th anniversary that'll bowl you over (wordplay)

Holocaust

Hologamy

Holograph

3-D image-making process

Three D laser imagery

Producing hard copy for the 'Spectator' (wordplay)

""Having all the planes required by complete symmetry, in opposition to hemihedral. hemihedral.""

Unemployed persons with full-time jobs

Stay-at-home spouses

Housewives and househusbands

Magazine production (wordplay)

Course in some schools

Course in some schools.

Homeopath

Study of cozy places (wordplay)

Nontraditional branch of medicine

Hospital may hope to offset treatment

Tracts acquired via an 1862 act

Free Soil Party issue

Family dwellings

""Having the tail nearly or quite symmetrical, the vertebral column terminating near its base; opposed to heterocercal. heterocercal.""

Homogamy

""Having all the flowers alike; said of such composite plants as Eupatorium, and the thistels.""

Uniform liquid suspension

Substance produced by the breaking up of eg fat globules

Homograft

Lead and lead, for example

""To approve; to allow; to confirm; as, the court homologates a proceeding. as, the court homologates a proceeding.""

""One of those, in the 4th century, who accepted the Nicene creed, and maintained that the Son had the same essence or substance with the Father; opposed to homoiousian. homoiousian.""

Theme in "Philadelphia"

An homopter.

*Like many pride parade participants

Term of endearment by one consuming bird

Bird with a long, protrusible tongue

Bird of the South Pacific

Honorary

Adverb

Monetary element (wordplay)

Payment to a guest speaker

Nominal payment for professional services

Perhaps Jack will get fit and famous

Title given to MPs

Entitled to high esteem

Folk-singing gathering

Musical get-together.

In America, thingummy's folk music party

""A loosely woven coarse fabric of cotton or linen, used in clothing.""

What this answer isn't!

Gymnast's type of bar.

How this entry appears in the grid

Pl. hormogonia (-n - ) A part of a filament of a cyanobacterium that detaches and grows by cell division into a new filament.

HORMONAL relating to hormones

Horseback

Horsebean

Trigger's tresses

Stiff fabrics.

Stable joke response (wordplay)

Cowboy's guffaw (wordplay)

Heard on a funny farm (wordplay)

Horseplay

They swat flies (2 words)

Marsh plants

*Fly flickers

Miss in a derby (wordplay)

Lady Godiva, for one

Rider somehow ran amok

Hosanna

Clinic admitting bishop, English kind

Welcoming to guests

Keeping open house.

In a hospitable manner.

Water sheds (wordplay)

Kin of arks

Crafty residences for snaky type having time in theatrical venues

Recess in D.C. (wordplay)

Train, in a way

Housecarl

Remove the undesirables

Tidy up the abode

Fort Wayne's Congressman Dan R.

Casual garments

___ knee

Cable splitters (wordplay)

Family, friends and cohabitants

Aspidistra, for one

Leaves inside (wordplay)

Potted palm, for one

Kitchen utensils, teacups, etc.

Husband's past skill in an ACV

Air-cushion vehicle

Channel crosser's transportation

Huckaback

Loud confused noise usually of protest

1960s musical variety show

Fuss caused by city with a bear

HUMANE compassionate

Humanise

Cultural

College courses (with "the").

Languages, literature, etc.

Non-scientific studies

Humanizer

Humanize

Humectant

Device used in climate control

Moisture measure

Embarrassed

Mortified

Humiliate

PM, uh (wordplay)

Some Notre Dame figures (wordplay)

Quasimodo et al.

Carol, Hugo and others

Miami football players.

U. of Miami team

Husbander

Husband

Society group entertained by genial farmer

Not a single one like him on land, it seems

Farmer

Bygone farmowners (and no, it has nothing to do with marital status!)

The clear fluid portion of cytoplasm as distinguished from the granular and netlike components. Also called ground substance .

Hybridoma

Hydathode

Flowering plants; ashy garden (anagram)

Large-bloomed bushes

Cover up QPR broadcast bloomers

Hydration

Science of pipe and channel flow

Science of fluids

Fluid mechanics

Hydrazide

Hydrazine

English word

Hydrolase

""Divination by means of water, practiced by the ancients.""

""The water cure; a mode of treating diseases by the copious and frequent use of pure water, both internally and externally.""

A semitranslucent variety of opal that becomes translucent or transparent on immersion in water.

Motorboat with foils

Skim across water at high speed

Skim on a wet road

""The regions beneath the ocean's surface, especially when considered as an area to be studied.""

Hydrozoan

An instrument for recording automatically the variations of the humidity of the atmosphere.

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

Hyperemia

MANIA an excessive or unreasonable desire; a craze

MANIC one who is affected with mania

Hyperopia

PLANE to make smooth and even

Hyperpnea

A helluva keyboard key (wordplay)

(In sci-fi) the fourth dimension

Four-dimensional realm

Pathology The state of being hypertonic.

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)

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

Hypoblast

Hypocaust

DERMAL relating to the derm

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

Hypomania

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

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

TACTIC a manoeuvre for gaining an objective

Hypotonia

Hypoxemia

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