2-Letter Words Starting with H

Monetary element (wordplay)

Payment to a guest speaker

Nominal payment for professional services

Honorific

HOODLUM a {thug=n}

HOODLUM a {thug=n}

Hoodooism

Showed complicity after outlaw misled

Pulled a scam on

Did Robin bat an eyelid, being deceived (wordplay)

Con artist

Deceptive one

Hoofprint

Hoopskirt

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

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Gymnast's type of bar.

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

Horology

Maker of timepieces

Watchmaker.

Watchmaker

The quality of being horrid.

Shocking, disgusting

Nagging insects (wordplay)

Jockey-aviator union result (wordplay)

Pegasus on the move.

Trigger's tresses

Stiff fabrics.

Horsehide

Horsemint

Horseshit

They swat flies (2 words)

Marsh plants

*Fly flickers

Horsewhip

Hosanna

Clinic admitting bishop, English kind

Welcoming to guests

Keeping open house.

In a hospitable manner.

Hostel

Hostelry

Greeting at the door, serving the hors d'oeuvres, etc.

Showing off on skis

Showing off

Hurrying, with 'it'

Hurrying, with "it"

Swatters' targets

Buzzers

Housel

___ knee

HOUSEWIFE The wife of a householder; the mistress of a family; the female head of a household.

Desperate group in a 2004 TV series

Women in queenly residences accepting open place to learn to use a needle

Humanise

Cultural

College courses (with "the").

Languages, literature, etc.

Non-scientific studies

Humanizer

Humanize

HUMBLING the act of {abasing=v}

Humbug

Lulus

Corkers.

Corkers

Humidify

Heating system attachment.

Mister in the bedroom

Humidify

Device used in climate control

Moisture measure

Summertime percentages

Embarrassed

Mortified

Humiliate

Humility

Hummock

""Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a humorist.""

The state of being hungry; a need for food.

Carol, Hugo and others

Miami football players.

U. of Miami team

Husband

Hybridism

HYBRIDIZE To render hybrid; to produce by mixture of stocks.

One who hybridizes.

Hybridize

Hybridoma

Hydration

Science of pipe and channel flow

Science of fluids

Fluid mechanics

Hydrazide

Hydrazine

Some commercial ferries

Boats with winglike blades

They fly on water

Water

Chemical decomposition caused by water

Chemical breakdown in reaction with water

Chemical breakdown due to reaction with water

Tending to remove or separate water; eliminating water.

Hydronium

Growing without soil

Hydropsy

HYDROSOL an aqueous solution of a colloid

Cover up music outfit's rumoured chemical cocktails (wordplay)

HYDROXYL the group containing oxygen and hydrogen

Hygienist

Hylozoism

Hylozoist

""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.""

""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

Hyperemia

HYPERGOL a rocket fuel

MANIA an excessive or unreasonable desire; a craze

MANIC one who is affected with mania

Hyperopia

Having a chromosome number greater than but not an exact multiple of the normal euploid number.

Abnormally deep or rapid breathing.

Faster than Mach 5

Very much faster than sound

Why person ice-skating circles very fast (wordplay)

Pathology The state of being hypertonic.

""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 .

Hypnotism

People are entranced by their performances

Open to suggestions, say

Bewitched, in a way.

Spellbound

Puts into a trance

Baby talk spoken by adults

Terrible ropy ethics of types like Moliere's Tartuffe

Like a flu shot

Type of syringe

Kind of needle

Same as Hypoblast. Hypoblast.

Hypogyny

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

Hypomania

""See Pituitary body, under Pituitary. Pituitary body, under Pituitary.""

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

Hypoploid

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

It's tested using the scientific method

A tentative theory

Injection before the son is 21

Hypotonia

Hypoxemia

(In physics) a lag between cause and effect

Of or pertaining to hysteresis.

Uncontrollably laughing or crying

Affected by wildly uncontrolled emotion

More than funny

Habiliment

Made fit, as for functioning in society

Fits out.

Living places.

HABITUATE To make accustomed; to accustom; to familiarize.

Addiction

Haciendado

Hackberry

HAGGADIST

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

HAIRSTYLE

Entourage member, sometimes

Barber, modern style.

One doing dos

Halfpenny

Hallmark

See what isn't there

Have strange visions

Experience unreal things

Adjective (-ic)

""A tranquilizer, C 21 H 23 ClFNO 2 , used especially in the treatment of psychotic disorders, including schizophrenia, and also in the management of Tourette's syndrome.""

Hamminess

Prelude to a "stretch."

Handfast

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

Handiness

Handmaiden

Handpick

Handsel

Things done in the gym

Floor routine components

Acrobatic feats

""Clasping and squeezing of the hands, often in distress.""

Biblical wall decor

That which is studied by a calligrapher

Passing around legal document or script

Scribbled, for example

Holographic

Haplology

Happiness

A plasma protein that is a normal constituent of blood serum and functions in the binding of free hemoglobin in the bloodstream.

Harbinger

Hardiness

Like many an office aide

Industrious

Organically foolish (wordplay)

Hire IRA band (anagram) - rash

Like some schemes

HARMONIC an {overtone=n}

HARMONISE

Harmonizer

Activity of choir members

Instrument rich and sharp, do play!

Member of Set 2

Old keyboard instrument

Harrumph

Fall, and this puzzle's theme

Fall of the year

Busy period on the farm

Hastiness

Hatchel

Yellow sunflower

Proud quality

Arrogance

Advocacy of war

Headachy

Headhunt

Headiness

Headspring

Service chiefs (wordplay)

Dictators of a sort

Some restaurant VIPS

The state of being healthy or healthful; freedom from disease.

Lothario's list of lasses?

Lothario's list of lasses (wordplay)

It's not real, but it's still tugged on

Heathenism

HEATHENIZE To render heathen or heathenish.

Heathenize

Most celestial

Heaviness

Anthony Joshua's current boxing division

Person of import - boxer

Boxing division

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

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

Hebetation

Hectoliter

Hectoring

HEDONIC pertaining to pleasure

Heftiness

Heighten

The quality of being shockingly cruel and inhumane.

Pilot cheers whirling aircraft

Smothery parents' analogues

Hovercraft pilot cheers wildly