2-Letter Words Starting with H

""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.""

Over the top

Type of geometry

Like some geometric curves

Hypercube

HYPERGOL a rocket fuel

MANIC one who is affected with mania

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

""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.""

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

Variant of hypnagogic .

Hypocaust

CENTER to place at the middle point

Baby talk spoken by adults

Hypocotyl

Terrible ropy ethics of types like Moliere's Tartuffe

Like a flu shot

Type of syringe

Kind of needle

STATIC random noise produced in a radio or television receiver

TACTIC a manoeuvre for gaining an objective

Of or pertaining to hysteresis.

Uncontrollably laughing or crying

Affected by wildly uncontrolled emotion

More than funny

Haciendado

Hackberry

Hackmatack

HAGGADIST

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.""

Haircutter

Salon worker's job

See what isn't there

Have strange visions

Experience unreal things

Halocarbon

Adjective (-ic)

Wrestling holds

Wrestling maneuvers

Some holds

Made without machinery

Manually made

Fancy end with hard fact, not out of factory

Prelude to a "stretch."

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

Handpick

HARMONIC an {overtone=n}

Instrument rich and sharp, do play!

Member of Set 2

Old keyboard instrument

Hatchel

Headachy

Jellied loaves of hog parts

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

Hectograph

Hectoliter

Some metric units of length

Hectoring

HEDONIC pertaining to pleasure

Pilot cheers whirling aircraft

Smothery parents' analogues

Hovercraft pilot cheers wildly

Helicopt

A telescope equipped to measure small angular distances between celestial bodies.

Responding to sunlight

(Of plant) moving in response to sunlight

Hematocrit

The science encompassing the medical study of the blood and blood-producing organs.

Hemiacetal

Having the two ends modified with unlike planes; said of a crystal.

Hemiplegic

""HEMISPHERE A half sphere; one half of a sphere or globe, when divided by a plane passing through its center.""

Hemocyanin

(used with a sing. verb) The study of the forces involved in the circulation of blood.

Alexis, son of Nicholas II, was one

Hemophilic

Variant of hematopoiesis .

""Pertaining or tending to a flux o<?/ blood; consisting in, or accompanied by, hemorrhage.""

Hemostatic

""Having a broad hem separated from the body of the article by a line of open work; as, a hemistitched handkerchief. as, a hemistitched handkerchief.""

Hemstitch

Hemstitch

Pl. hepatectomies Surgical removal of all or part of the liver.

Hepatocyte

The quality or condition of being toxic or destructive to the liver.

Heptachlor

Heptarchy

Heresiarch

In an heretical manner.

Interpretive; explanatory.

Occult sciences, collectively

Hesitancy

Deviating from ordinary forms or rules; irregular; anomalous; abnormal.

Containing more than one kind of atom joined in a ring.

Heterocyst

""Spending different stages of a life cycle on different, usually unrelated hosts. Used of parasites such as rust fungi and tapeworms.""

Adjective (-ic)

Biology ()

Medicine a. Occurring in an abnormal anatomic location: heterotopic bone formation.

""Biology Of, relating to, or being the reduction division of meiosis.""

Magic counting system (wordplay)

*Like a MAC address

*Base 16

""Pl. hibernacula (-l ) Biology A protective case, covering, or structure, such as a plant bud, in which an organism remains dormant for the winter.""

Hiccough

Hierarchy

HIERARCH a religious leader

Monster truck driver changes flat tire, gets charged with ...

Monster truck driver changes flat tire, gets charged with...

Of or pertaining to the hippocampus.

Bit of a brain in a beastly university!

Hangout for Hyacinth in "Fantasia" (wordplay)

Fish-tailed horse-like mythical sea monster

Hippocras

Histiocyte

HISTIOCYTE

HISTORIC important in history

Believer that all sociological phenomena are determined by the course of events

HISTORIC important in history

To record or narrate in the manner of a history; to chronicle.

Insist choir deployed staginess

Overly dramatic behaviour

Attention-grabbing behaviour

They're all thumbs-up

Roadside sights

"Audience" for Douglas Adams' . . . "Guide to the Galaxy"

Seeking free transportation

Thumbing for rides

Free transportation

""Undergoing complete segmentation; composed entirely of germinal matter, the whole of the yolk undergoing fission; opposed to meroblastic. meroblastic.""

Involving 3-D photography

When some kings and queens are crowned

Saturn owners' Tennessee gatherings

Some big high-school football games

In work at hospital in charge of alternative medicine

Of or pertaining to homeostasis; exhibiting homeostasis.

Homeschool

Parlor exercise (wordplay)

... to finish a race (wordplay)

Last part of race(course)

Homicidal

Of or pertaining to familiar intercourse; social; affable; conversable; companionable.

Producing gametes that contain only one type of sex chromosome.

Employing a single and separate character to represent each sound; said of certain methods of spelling words.

""Pertaining to homology; having a structural affinity proceeding from, or base upon, that kind of relation termed homology. homology.""

Similar in form

English word

""Of or pertaining to homoplasty; as, homoplasticorgans; homoplastic forms. as, homoplasticorgans; homoplastic forms.""

""Having male and female reproductive structures on the same thallus, as in some fungi and algae.""

Formed or perforated like a honeycomb.

Fragrant flowering climber

Bell-shaped flower that smells lovely

Fragrant bell-shaped flower

Hopsacking

Played a child's game

Plays a child's game

Composed largely of hornblende; resembling or relating to hornblende.

Rational support for listening to terrible fear of a clockmaker

Minds one's place (wordplay)

Sets in order

They move on cushions of air

Air-cushion vehicles

- Finn (Mark Twain)

North American fruit

Finn of fiction

Huckster

HUCKSTER to {peddle=v}

Like a noted Notre Damer

Intuition supported by Richard III, for example (wordplay)

Belonging to the hyacinth; resemblingthe hyacinth; in color like the hyacinth.

Chief component of petroleum

Propane or polyethylene

Compound such as found in petroleum

Hydrocrack

""An instrument used to determine specific gravity, especially a sealed, graduated tube, weighted at one end, that sinks in a fluid to a depth used as a measure of the fluid's specific gravity.""

HYDROPATH A hydropathist.

HYDROPHILE

""Of or pertaining to hydrophobia; producing or caused by rabies; as, hydrophobic symptoms; the hydrophobic poison. as, hydrophobic symptoms; the hydrophobic poison.""

HYDROPHYTE An aquatic plant; an alga.

The growing of plants without soil

Technique of growing plants in water without soil

Cultivation of plants in liquid nutrient solutions rather than in soil

Hydrospace

Relating to pressure in still fluids

Relating to water pressure

Relating to pressures in liquids at rest

""Turning or bending towards moisture, as roots.""

Any of several instruments that measure atmospheric humidity.

HYGROPHYTE

Absorbing moisture from the air

HYLOZOIST A believer in hylozoism.

""An alkaloid found in henbane (Hyoscyamus niger), and regarded as its active principle. It is also found with other alkaloids in the thorn apple and deadly nightshade. It is extracted as a white crystalline substance, with a sharp, offensive taste. Hyoscyamine is isomeric with atropine, is very poisonous, and is used as a medicine for neuralgia, like belladonna. Called also hyoscyamia, duboisine, etc. Hyoscyamus niger), and regarded as its active principle. It is also found with other alkaloids in the thorn apple and deadly nightshade. It is extracted as a white crystalline substance, with a sharp, offensive taste. Hyoscyamine is isomeric with atropine, is very poisonous, and is used as a medicine for neuralgia, like belladonna. Called also hyoscyamia, duboisine, etc.""

Abnormally busy or lively

Unusually energetic

Abnormally energetic

ACUITY sharpness

A condition marked by an unusually high concentration of carbon dioxide in the blood as a result of hypoventilation.

Adjective (-ic)

CHARGE to make an attack

One who is critical beyond measure or reason; a carping critic; a captious censor.

METRIC a standard of measurement

""Exceptionally exact or vivid memory, especially as associated with certain mental illnesses.""

Adjective (-ic)

Hyperspace

STATIC random noise produced in a radio or television receiver

Of or relating to the partially conscious state that precedes complete awakening from sleep.

Hypocenter

CENTRAL a telephone exchange

Pet names.

Hypocrisy

""A curve traced by a point in the circumference of a circle which rolls on the concave side in the fixed circle. Cf. Epicycloid, and Trochoid. Epicycloid, and Trochoid.""

Some injections

Of or pertaining to the hypogastrium or the hypogastric region.

Adjective (-ic)

MORPHIC pertaining to form

PLASTIC a synthetic mouldable substance

Pledge by photo-fixer, Felix East

THERMIC pertaining to heat

The measurement of elevation relative to sea level.

Pl. hagiographies Biography of saints.

HAGIOLOGIC

Haircutting

Thought I used this clue before but I hadn't dreamt it up

Hallucinate

One whose judgment and acts are affected by hallucinations; one who errs on account of his hallucinations.

Enough! Nearly calling off trip on this

Mind-affecting drug

Drug inducing unreal perceptions

Plural or third person singular

An abnormal condition or mental state characterized by hallucination.

Ethnic triangular treats

Handcraft

Handicapper

Putting at a disadvantage

Horse racing activity

Handicraft

Suit pocket accessory

Thing to sneeze into

Sneeze catcher

A happenstance.

Chance expression of disgust about change involving co-star of Oliver!

Fellow writer getting caught out by attitude that wasn't planned

Writer bumping into ten chaps, a peculiar coincidence

Yielding little for much toil

Demanding and unrewarding

Board game played with no vowels (wordplay)

Harmonical

Harmonicist

Instruments for Scarlatti

Ridiculous extremes disco and rap: doubly hard to play instruments

Abstract noun (-ity)

Hebephrenic