2-Letter Words Starting with H

Harbor

Retained, as of a grudge

Sheltered bower he would go around

Going around the old city Deborah somehow gets entertained

Tough defenders booked (wordplay)

Book these tough defenders!

They're bound not to be like penguins

Hardball

DIY material

Sheet made from compressed sawdust and resin

Stiff sheet(s) of compressed wood pulp etc

Hardboot

; Hardcover.

Describing a paperback's dearer relative

First printing, often

Paperback alternative

Hardedge

Substances in paint.

Paint additives

Setting

Hardhack

Stubborn ones

Mules

Comic partner told of gangster's resilience

Hard for one to be near gangster with old-fashioned daring

Courage.

Hardihood; boldness; courage; energetic action.

Quality of desert flora

Robust quality

Able to endure, I'd turn up in what is tough

Uncompromising folks

Privations

Travails

Trials

Paved area for parking

Hardtack

Hardware

Warder hid criminal unable to be changed

Given job around sick ward, being determined

Technology magazine that's difficult to follow (wordplay)

Hardwire

Lumber for floors

Beech and hickory

Sell a herb, possibly, or some plants

Blue perennials

Sound like tresses with ringlets till all is blue

Harkener

Harken

A stooped one (wordplay)

Clown in RU team, second to be dismissed

Commedia dell'arte buffoon

Dry, dusty W African desert wind

Dry north-east wind from the desert in West Africa

Dry dusty wind from the Sahara blowing towards the West African coast

HARMFUL capable of harming

Blues player, maybe

Benjamin Franklin invented one

Small wind instrument

Notes Cornish ma getting agitated

The study of musical sound

Musical science

Arranger's concerns

Barbershop quartet productions

Hotel hosts old and new boring music

Sing as one

Combine notes to make chords

Sing a pleasing combination of notes

Pedalled-bellows instrument

Keyboard instrument

Keyboard instrument - a minor hum (anagram)

Sing barbershop-style

Make a pleasing visual combination

Agree minor changes in film

Used to dress a hen quite differently

Geared, as draft animals.

Put to use

Auto wiring assemblies (pl.)

Puts controlling straps on a horse

Controls runs round headland

Speared, as a whale

Stuck in the sea

Queequeg, in "Moby-Dick"

Queequeg, for example

Captain Ahab, ultimately

Old firearm.

Alternative spelling for an old-fashioned handgun

Hags and nags

Bad-tempered old women

Scolds.

Harrower

Breaking up soil or distressing greatly

Very distressing fieldwork

Very painful work for the farmer

Clears one's throat disapprovingly

Openly expresses disapproval

Expresses grumpily

Here hands become coarsened and tough

Became unpleasantly stern

Acerbity

Severity

Deer's antler

Red-deer's antler

Heartless oriental deprived of smelling salts

Harumph

Dealt with the outcrop (wordplay)

Farmed the runs (wordplay)

Gathered the crops

Spider that reaps (wordplay)

Gleanings of its use (wordplay)

Gene Stratton Porter's 1911 hero.

Hashhead

Hashish

Hastener

Wasting no time

Hurrying, rushing

Hurrying along

Waste making trait (wordplay)

Waste-making trait (wordplay)

Got a can to begin with in a hurry

HATCH to bring forth young from an egg

A certain auto body type (5,4)

Utah senator s mid-sized car (wordplay)

Shade second car

HATCHEL to separate flax fibres with a comb

Ugly old woman's concealing part of face after time's drawn fine lines

Baby bird

Mercury crosses a temperature (cold/hot) line in early 22 (wordplay)

Heraldic poultry breeding (wordplay)

The birth of heraldry (wordplay)

Heraldic fowl production (wordplay)

Ship passages

In a malicious manner

How some letters to the editor may be written

Many Danbury citizens.

Milliners

Hatteria

Haughty

In a haughty manner; arrogantly.

Haulmy

Haulyard

Hausfrau

English word

English word

Havdalah

Havelock

Affirms horse on the outside had the bag

Strong bag slung over the shoulder

Hiker's burden.

Havocker

Devastating, laying waste

Hawkbill

HAWKISH {warlike=adj}

Hawkmoth

Hawknose

Tropical turtle with hooked jaws

Turtle type

Detectives

Sleuths

Hawkweed

English word

Has thrown away more than one of those from Rose's family

Farmer's specialty.

Source of fodder.

Hid safely disguised where grasses grow

My! A Shaker swinging wild blows!

Harvest punches (wordplay)

Farmers' favorite punches (wordplay)

Needle covers in the ring (wordplay)

Frequent Monet subjects

One of the Lakeland fells

Gambling

Like a live wire (wordplay)

Carrying risk, dangerous

Very risky, dangerous

Hazelhen

Basil picks fruit while...

Basil picks fruit while ...

Filberts

Pa in on top (wordplay)

The principal longs to have problems

Major nuisances

Do loops (wordplay)

Accessories for sweaters (wordplay)

Tennis accessories

Pillow backing, perhaps

What the chairman does on the bed!

*Place to prop a pillow

Topping speech at stag do (wordplay)

Hat or tiara, say

Bean covering (wordplay)

Beauty spot (wordplay)

One way to dive

Without thinking, race around dead trees

Headgate

Parts of harnesses

Recruits, in the lingo

Recruits, in a way

Attempts to recruit personnel from other companies

Thrill one found between promontories

State of intoxication

Intoxicating quality

Dome lights (wordplay)

Lights at the front of a vehicle

Nothing that's light on the side

They run head first into the water

Ground on top out into the sea

Promontories

Halo for a late motorist (wordplay)

Bright lamp on front of car etc

Part of a car.

Old man with wrinkles given publicity

Had the top billing

Was the star indeed almost half destroyed (wordplay)

Star inside of a hat (wordplay)

Cast her in lead (wordplay)

Inside of a hat (wordplay)

Facial wrinkles (wordplay)

Furrows in one's brow (wordplay)

*Furrowed brows (wordplay)

Holds preceding noogies, maybe

Full nelsons, for example

Wrestling holds

Headnote

Deejay's equipment

Radio operator's gear

Onion ring helps hearing

Item of armour wasn't disturbed, we hear

Ice heaped over protective wear

Perhaps this might have crossed your mind illustratively opening a chapter

Headrace

Props for beans

Pillows for bosses about to sleep

Parts of barbers' chairs

Headroom

Headsail

Headship

State of mind

Seems the top's right up in the bridle

Head is high in harness

Part of a bridle.

Yoga practitioner's shirshasana

Acrobat's stunt

Upside-down posture

Headstay

A part (usually separate from the bed or frame) for supporting some of the principal working parts of a machine

Monument of leader's character

Memorial on a grave

Slab marking a grave

Source of a river

Source of a stream

Beginning of a river~~Bed part

Concerns for sailors and pilots

Yachting challenges

His Excellency says more about victory blows

Headword

Headwork

Salubrious

More wholesome cure by Doctor Reith

More in the pink

In better condition

Ill with the hay fever - hardly living thus

Salutarily

Gave heed (to)

Got it, by the sound of it,

Gave ear to

Lovelorn doctor's diagnosis (wordplay)

Extreme emotional pain

Listen to army rebel's sorrow

Maybe one's skipped with excitement

Physical sound (wordplay)

Sound heard by a stethoscope

Jalapeno product, for some (wordplay)

Indigestion of cardiac origin (wordplay)

Spicy-meal follower, maybe

Encouraged in cardiac way (wordplay)

Encouraged to listen to Edward X

Listen to Edward X; that'll buck you up

Male flattery almost could be sincere

Man with skill believed to be sincere

Courage perceived to be genuine

Most vigorous and cheerful

Most robust

Most sincere

Vital region for a worm (wordplay)

*Vital central section of a country

Strategic central region

Cold about right (wordplay)

How cruel to be without your suit!

Cruel Kanye song from '08 (wordplay)

Unhappy in cardiac way (wordplay)

Sad, as a jilted lover

More than blue

Lively, especially in Scotland

Others are awfully distressed

Full of grief

Beyond blue

""The hard, central part of the trunk of a tree, consisting of the old and matured wood, and usually differing in color from the outer layers. It is technically known as duramen, and distinguished from the softer sapwood or alburnum. duramen, and distinguished from the softer sapwood or alburnum.""

English word

Most free from infirmity or disease

English word

HEATH an evergreen shrub

Adjective meaning resembling

English word

May not make light of it

Wait for the sound of it

Almost lift one head, despite weight

Hebdomad

Made dull

Hebetate

Hebraize

Hebraize

Public sacrifices so Macbeth may be seen

Weight displacing the cargo mark

Match-goer dissolving in the mass

Metric unit

Sounds like a mule he heard with fruit making gin

Heelball

HELICAL shaped like a helix

Device that generates solar power

Sunbeam reflector

English word

Helotage

The Beatles, in a 1965 movie (wordplay)

SOS to your colleagues or spouses

Do they give Mother assistance to set up what SPO uses (wordplay)

Hematein

Hematine

""Any substance, such as an iron salt or organic compound containing iron, which when ingested tends to increase the hemoglobin contents of the blood.""

Hematite

""Of or pertaining to hematite, or resembling it.""

Hematoma

Passage of urine mingled with blood.

English word

Hemiolia

Surgeons' devices

Figure of speech had Sidney bewildered

Sidney had curled up nice and warm, maybe

English word

Hepatica

Virus with A, B and C strains

Disease affecting liver

This may be A or B

Hepatize

Hepatize

Hepatoma

Some geometric figures

Seven-sided figures

Geometric figures.

Heptarch

""A government by seven persons; also, a country under seven rulers.""

Film trailer's task

Announcing with fanfare.

Proclaiming

Practitioner of folk medicine

A simple manufacturer

Medicinal-plants adept

The woman's element (wordplay)

Collection of dried plants

Plant museum.

Enormously demanding (task)

Strong as Poirot (wordplay)

Requiring very great effort

In this vicinity

In this region

In the vicinity

Heaven, perhaps, with 'the'

In subsequent parts of legal document

From now on.

HEREAWAY in this vicinity

Unorthodox (in religion)

Worthy of beheadment (wordplay)

Like a misbeliever

That can be passed on to those succeeding with their bats on the ball

Traditions; legacies

Birthrights.

Patrimonies

For one alone of all the Romanovs

Andrew Jackson's home, with "The"

Famed Leningrad museum

Herniate

Herniate

Uncertainty teaches information

Reservation at Chinese buffet

Fence-sitter's attribute

Slowness to act

Indecisiveness.

Indecision