2-Letter Words Starting with H

Hurriedness

Hurtfulness

""An enzyme that catalyzes the breakdown of hyaluronic acid in the body, thereby increasing tissue permeability to fluids. Also called spreading factor .""

""Relating to, or connected with, hydrocephalus, or dropsy of the brain.""

""An accumulation of liquid within the cavity of the cranium, especially within the ventricles of the brain; dropsy of the brain. It is due usually to tubercular meningitis. When it occurs in infancy, it often enlarges the head enormously.""

""A compound of hydrochloric acid with a base; distinguished from a chloride, where only chlorine unites with the base. chloride, where only chlorine unites with the base.""

HYDROCRACKER hydrocrack

Like water-driven power stations

Run using water, as a plant

Colder city, her cooking supplied by natural power

HYDROGENATE To hydrogenize.

""The act of combining with hydrogen, or the state of being so combined.""

""HYDROGRAPHER One skilled in the hydrography; one who surveys, or draws maps or charts of, the sea, lakes, or other waters, with the adjacent shores; one who describes the sea or other waters.""

Hydrography

(used with a sing. verb) See magnetohydrodynamics .

English word

Hydroquinone

Plural or third person singular

Hydrothorax

""A nitrogenous, organic base, NH2.OH, resembling ammonia, and produced by a modified reduction of nitric acid. It is usually obtained as a volatile, unstable solution in water. It acts as a strong reducing agent. NH2.OH, resembling ammonia, and produced by a modified reduction of nitric acid. It is usually obtained as a volatile, unstable solution in water. It acts as a strong reducing agent.""

Hymenopteran

Hymenopteron

""Like, or characteristic of, the Hymenoptera; pertaining to the Hymenoptera.""

Behavior some kids may exhibit today

Hyperacuity

Hyperarousal

HYPERBOLIZE To speak or write with exaggeration.

""HYPERBOLOID A surface of the second order, which is cut by certain planes in hyperbolas; also, the solid, bounded in part by such a surface.""

An abnormally high concentration of calcium in the blood.

Adjective (-ic)

CAUTIOUS exercising prudence

Inclined to judge too severely

Pedantic phoney's love dismissed by the Queen

Same as Hyper\'91sthesia. Hyper\'91sthesia.

ESTHETIC appreciative of the beautiful

EUTECTIC a mixture with a low melting point

Hyperextend

FUNCTION to perform or act

""GLYCEMIA glucose in the blood, also GLYCAEMIA""

""GLYCEMIC having glucose in the blood, also GLYCAEMIC""

HIDROSES hidrosis

HIDROSIS abnormal perspiration

""IMMUNIZE to render immune from infection, also IMMUNISE""

INFLATED inflate

Hyperkinesia

Hyperlipemia

Having a redundant syllable; exceeding the common measure.

It affects view from new Tipperary home

Long-sightedness

See hyperopia .

MOBILITY the ability to move

PARASITE an organism that lives and feeds on another

Above or transcending physical laws; supernatural.

Hyperploidy

""POLARIZE to give polarity to, also POLARISE""

PRODUCER one that {produces=v}

Hyperpyrexia

RATIONAL a number that can be expressed as a quotient of integers

REACTIVE tending to react

Hyperreactor

Hyperrealism

ROMANTIC a fanciful person

SALINITY a concentration of salt

Hypersurface

Hypertension

Hypertensive

Hyperthermia

""TONICITY normal, healthy bodily condition""

Excessively developed; characterized by hypertrophy.

Hypertrophy

Off-ten for "often."

"Off-ten" for "often."

""Excess uric acid in the blood, as in gout.""

VELOCITY rapidity of motion

VIGILANT {watchful=adj}

VIRULENT extremely poisonous

Hypocalcemia

Hypochlorite

EUTECTOID

Hypoglycemia

PHARYNGES pharynx

Hypopharynx

""SENSITIZE To render sensitive, or susceptible of being easily acted on by the actinic rays of the sun; as, sensitized paper or plate. as, sensitized paper or plate.""

Hypospadias

Hypothecate

""The act or contract by which property is hypothecated; a right which a creditor has in or to the property of his debtor, in virtue of which he may cause it to be sold and the price appropriated in payment of his debt. This is a right in the thing, or jus in re. jus in re.""

Hypothecator

HYPOTHESIZE

Hypoxanthine

Hysterotomy

Shopping stops for pops and fops

Habitability

Habitualness

Hairlessness

Causing mental visions

Causing unreal perceptions

Causing perception without objective reality

Plural or third person singular

Halterbreak

HANDICRAFTS handicraft

""Pl. handkerchiefs also handkerchieves (-ch vz, -ch vz ) A small square of cloth used especially for wiping the nose or mouth.""

Handsomeness

Hardhanded

Hardheaded

Hardinggrass

Harmlessness

Harmonious

Hatchability

Headlessness

English word

Women in charge

With training, she made Sisters leading teachers

Headquarter

Heading into hospital too soon, in agonising way

Heavenliness

Heavyhearted

""HEDONISTIC Same as Hedonic, 2. Hedonic, 2.""

Heedlessness

Hellenization

Helplessness

Hemacytometer

HEMAGGLUTINATE

Hemagglutinin

Hemerocallis

Hemicellulose

Undergoing a metamorphosis that lacks a pupal stage. Used of certain insects.

Hemocytometer

HEMOFLAGELLATE

The presence of hemoglobin in the urine.

""HEMOGLOBIN The normal coloring matter of the red blood corpuscles of vertebrate animals. It is composed of hematin and globulin, and is also called h\'91matoglobulin. In arterial blood, it is always combined with oxygen, and is then called oxyhemoglobin. It crystallizes under different forms from different animals, and when crystallized, is called h\'91matocrystallin. See Blood crystal, under Blood. h\'91matoglobulin. In arterial blood, it is always combined with oxygen, and is then called oxyhemoglobin. It crystallizes under different forms from different animals, and when crystallized, is called h\'91matocrystallin. See Blood crystal, under Blood.""

Past tense or past participle

English word

Hepatomegaly

""A digestive gland in Crustacea, Mollusca, etc., usually called the liver, but different from the liver of vertebrates.""

HEPATOTOXIC

Heritability

Men and women both locate it in ruins of Rhodes following the ship's chart

""HERMAPHRODITE An individual which has the attributes of both male and female, or which unites in itself the two sexes; an animal or plant having the parts of generation of both sexes, as when a flower contains both the stamens and pistil within the same calyx, or on the same receptacle. In some cases reproduction may take place without the union of the distinct individuals. In the animal kingdom true hermaphrodites are found only among the invertebrates. See Illust. in Appendix, under Helminths. Illust. in Appendix, under Helminths.""

Pertaining to herpetology.

Herpetologist

Heteroduplex

Heterogamety

Plural or third person singular

Plural noun or verb form

A cell having two or more genetically different nuclei.

Heterologous

""Having different forms at different periods of the life cycle, as in stages of insect metamorphosis.""

Heterophylly

Having leaves of more than one shape on the same plant.

Heteroploidy

Heterosexual

""Producing male and female gametangia in different structures or plants, as in some algae and fungi.""

Heterotrophy

Having different alleles at one or more corresponding chromosomal loci.

Hexamethonium

English word

Head first (wordplay)

HIEROGLYPHIC

Ones that like to wallow in mud

Funky river vessel tickles giants of the Zambezi, say (wordplay)

Trendy river vessel diverts semiaquatic animals

Branch of science reduces him to hysterics

""Pl. histoplasmoses (-s z) A disease caused by the inhalation of spores of the fungus Histoplasma capsulatum, most often asymptomatic but occasionally producing acute pneumonia or an influenzalike illness and spreading to other organs and systems in the body.""

Historical

See complete metamorphosis .

See complete metamorphosis .

Homelessness

Homeomorphism

Homesickness

Homoeroticism

HOMOGENISE

""HOMOGENIZE To blend (a collection of unlike elements) together so as to make the whole uniform in character, composition, or function.""

Homozygosity

Honorability

Hopelessness

Hornlessness

Horribleness

""HOUSEBREAKING The act of breaking open and entering, with a felonious purpose, the dwelling house of another, whether done by day or night. See Burglary, and To break a house, under Break. Burglary, and To break a house, under Break.""

HOUSECLEANING houseclean

Humorousness

Hundredweight

Hyaluronidase

Hydrobiology

Hydrocephalic

Hydrocephaly

Hydrochloride

""A steroid hormone, C 21 H 30 O 5 , produced by the adrenal cortex, that regulates carbohydrate metabolism and maintains blood pressure. Also called cortisol .""

Hydrogenation

""That branch of physics which treats of the mechanics of liquids, or of their laws of equilibrium and of motion.""

Hydroperoxide

Hydrotherapy

Hydrothermal

""The principal bone salt, Ca 5 (PO 4 ) 3 OH, which provides the compressional strength of vertebrate bone.""

Hydroxylamine

""A crystalline amino acid (C5H9NO3), a hydroxylated proline, obtained by hydrolysis of gelatin or collagen. Chemically it is 4-hydroxy-L-proline. It is classified as nonessential for growth in rats.C5H9NO3), a hydroxylated proline, obtained by hydrolysis of gelatin or collagen. Chemically it is 4-hydroxy-L-proline. It is classified as nonessential for growth in rats.""

Hyperacidity

AESTHESIA

Inflected form of AESTHETIC Inflected form of AESTHETE a person who affects an extravagant love of art

Hyperaware

""HYPERBARIC 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.""

In the form of an hyperbola.

Hypercalcemia

CATALEXES

CATALEXIS

CIVILIZED civilize

CONSCIOUS Possessing the faculty of knowing one's own thoughts or mental operations.

Hypercorrect

""Excessive criticism, or unjust severity or rigor of criticism; zoilism.""

""EFFICIENT Causing effects; producing results; that makes the effect to be what it is; actively operative; not inactive, slack, or incapable; characterized by energetic and useful activity; as, an efficient officer, power. as, an efficient officer, power.""

""EMOTIONAL Pertaining to, or characterized by, emotion; excitable; easily moved; sensational; as, an emotional nature. as, an emotional nature.""