2-Letter Words Starting with H

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

Used to dress a hen quite differently

Geared, as draft animals.

Put to use

Speared, as a whale

Stuck in the sea

Hags and nags

Bad-tempered old women

Scolds.

Here hands become coarsened and tough

Became unpleasantly stern

Harumph

Dealt with the outcrop (wordplay)

Farmed the runs (wordplay)

Gathered the crops

Hashhead

HATCHEL to separate flax fibres with a comb

Haulyard

Havdalah

Hawkweed

Farmer's specialty.

Source of fodder.

Hid safely disguised where grasses grow

Gambling

Like a live wire (wordplay)

Carrying risk, dangerous

Very risky, dangerous

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

Gave heed (to)

Got it, by the sound of it,

Gave ear to

Encouraged in cardiac way (wordplay)

Encouraged to listen to Edward X

Listen to Edward X; that'll buck you up

Vital region for a worm (wordplay)

*Vital central section of a country

Strategic central region

""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

Hebdomad

Made dull

Hebetude

Hebraize

Large prickly rodents

Sega's Sonic et al.

They're anything but spineless

Flies close to the ground

Flies very close to the ground

Flies low, while spraying

Hedgepig

Lines of shrubs

Here flourished hogweeds, right (wordplay)

HEDGING the work of a hedger

Hedonism

Good-time Charlies

Pursuers of pleasure.

Direly dishonest sybarites

HEEDFUL paying close attention

Helicoid

A fiendish person.

Devilish sort

Mythical watchdog

Hemolyze

Hempseed

Hempweed

Figure of speech had Sidney bewildered

Sidney had curled up nice and warm, maybe

Of husband, bullied as by domestic fowl

What most comic strip husbands are.

Submissive, in a way

Hepatize

Film trailer's task

Announcing with fanfare.

Proclaiming

Substance toxic to plants

Substance for killing weeds

Chemical agent that destroys plants

As covered by this contract

In accordance with this document...

Herniate

Waited as the tide turned

Showed uncertainty as the tide went out

He said I was included but dithered

Inclining toward heresy.

Against accepted dogma

Unconventional

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

English word

English word

Hiccup

""An emeraldgreen variety of spodumene found in North Carolina; lithia emerald, used as a gem.""

Treehouses and such

Places with no telephones.

Relatives of ivory towers.

Splash (with liquid)

Kid perhaps destined to be conventional

Restricted like cattle

Abstract noun (-ity)

House idly refurbished in a frightful way

Nearly retreat, knowing how ugly sisters behave (wordplay)

Horribly

Hidrotic

Ancient Greek temple slave

Go here for indigenous games

Where to go for the games

Part of Scotland.

Highroad

What kids might roll down

They meet at a summit

Sites for ski bunnies

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

Progress preventers

They obstruct retired NHS doctor, wasting time

Retarders

So to get a deer to Ireland? Gee, that's no help!

Back to Ireland? Gee, that'll be no help to you!

'Not sounding for Ireland? Gee, that's no help! (9)'

Nicer hand (anagram)

CNN hired a drunk with an impediment

Exotic dancer seen by husband in bar

Perfect vantage point (wordplay)

Why one sat on one's glasses (wordplay)

Moon (wordplay)

HIPPIE a nonconformist

Hirsel

Constituent of many proteins

Histidin

Billboards, in Britain

Got raspy, as a voice

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

Like loggers' boots

Schmoozed (with)

Spent time together, socialised

Was palsy-walsy

Hodaddy

Tracer for ionizing particles

LARGE CASKS

Hoiden

Adjective (-ic)

Holdback

Holdfast

Ones remaining in office: Colloq.

Ones remaining in office Colloq.

Passport indeed put in storage compartment, as went on leave

HOLIDAY to take a vacation

Holytide

Going back to base in spring

Homebred

Pilgrims leave them

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

Homicide

Hominize

Gibbons, chimps and Neanderthals

Great apes

Breakfast items often eaten with spoons

Honorand

Hoodoo

""Voodoo, a form of religion practiced chiefly in Caribbean countries (esp. Haiti); it involves witchcraft and animistic deities.Haiti); it involves witchcraft and animistic deities.""

Cavalier con jobs (wordplay)

Variable wind blows around bluffs

Deceives or, archaically, blindfolds

Aromatic mint

Coughdrop ingredient.

Herbaceous plant used to make throat lozenges

Rid of her? I am shocked

Mean to smother a cry of disapproval, being shocked

Shocked

Old baseball coverage (wordplay)

Baseball heroes hid, unfortunately

Baseball, in slang

English word

Strong-smelling plant of the mint family.

Hosanna

Hospodar

Hostel

Hostess

Hotblood

Showed off

Ski show-off

Showoff on the slopes

Showoff

Hoteldom

Moved fast

Left hastily

Impetuous like Stromboli (wordplay)

Fiery, like Harry and Henry (wordplay)

Having a volcanic temper (wordplay)

Domestic novelist (wordplay)

Do hush Leo (anagram)

Big family's place, say

Housel

One of the help

Domestic mouse had one shattered

Woman who does work in homes

Hoyden

Like a tomboy

Boisterously unladylike.

Humanise

Gave sympathetic qualities to, say

Sort of nice, like you and me

People, collectively

People collectively

Humanoid

Flimflammed

Sound a bell - for a knockout (wordplay)

Excellent person or thing (colloq)

Something really good

Hummock

One per cent

Barbarian doctor botched the D & C

Red-hot Hindu nuts, withdrawing 10%

In haste

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

The state or quality of being hybrid.

Hybridism.

To render hybrid; to produce by mixture of stocks.

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.