2-Letter Words Starting with H

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

""An antihypertensive drug, C 8 H 8 N 4 .""

Hydrology

One skilled in hydrology.

Decomposing, chemically

""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

Fear of rinsing (wordplay)

A symptom of rabies

Rabies; aversion to water

""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

Relating to pressure in still fluids

Relating to water pressure

Relating to pressures in liquids at rest

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

Antihistaminic drug

Any of several instruments that measure atmospheric humidity.

HYGROPHYTE

Absorbing moisture from the air

HYLOZOIST A believer in hylozoism.

Hymnology

""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

Person prone to exaggeration

To speak or write with exaggeration.

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

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

Adjective (-ic)

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

Hypergamy

IMMUNE one who is exempt from disease or danger

Hypermania

METRIC a standard of measurement

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

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

""Abnormally increased appetite for and consumption of food, thought to be associated with a lesion or injury in the hypothalamus.""

Adjective (-ic)

""An increase in, or excessive growth of, the normal elements of any part.""

Hyperploid

PLOIDY the number of chromosomes in a cell

SALINE a salt solution

STATIC random noise produced in a radio or television receiver

Hypertonia

HYPHENATE

The process of writing a very short line

Act of joining with a dash

Feature of 14 publicity around hard people

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

HYPNOTIZE To induce hypnotism in; to place in a state of hypnotism.

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

DIPLOID a cell with double chromosomes

Of or pertaining to the hypogastrium or the hypogastric region.

An abnormally low concentration of potassium ions in the blood.

Adjective (-ic)

Lowest layer of a thermally stratified lake

MORPHIC pertaining to form

Of or pertaining to the hypophysis; pituitary.

Hypoplasia

PLASTIC a synthetic mouldable substance

""A deformity of the penis, in which the urethra opens upon its under surface.""

""To make into, or regarded as, a separate and distinct substance.""

TENSION to make strained

TENSIVE causing tensity

THALAMI thalamus

Abnormally low body temperature

Body condition caused by extreme cold

Condition with abnormally low body temperature

THERMIC pertaining to heat

Make a tentative assumption

Believe on uncertain grounds

Propose, in a way

""THYROID a ductless gland in the neck, also THYREOID""

The measurement of elevation relative to sea level.

HABILITATE Qualified or entitled.

Qualification obtained by learner, one in residence

Habitableness.

HABITUAL someone who has a habit

Habituation

One of the writers of the hagiographa; a writer of lives of the saints.

Pl. hagiographies Biography of saints.

HAGIOLOGIC

Hairbreadth

Haircutting

Shears, driers (anagram)

Beauty parlor employes.

Locksmiths (wordplay)

Putting clothes on after musical going over the top

HAIRLESS without hair

A minute distance

Habits harder to change in small measure

Tiny margin of safety for Damocles

Quibbler (2 words)

One disputing cowboy shirt retail price, at first

Quibbler

Hairstyling

They give some people a clip around the ears for cutting staff

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.

HALOGENATE

HALOGENATE HALOGEN a non metallic element

Haloperidol

Thwarting

Handcraft

Handicapper

Putting at a disadvantage

Horse racing activity

Handicraft

Suit pocket accessory

Thing to sneeze into

Sneeze catcher

Handwringer

Handwriting

Haptoglobin

Harbinger

English word

Parking area for aeroplanes

Surfaced area for parking vehicles

Play by Terence Rattigan

Traditional pantomime episode

Pantomime; buffoonery

Harmonical

Harmonicist

Harmonious

Instruments for Scarlatti

Ridiculous extremes disco and rap: doubly hard to play instruments

Harquebusie

Harvesttime

Abstract noun (-ity)

Mind adulterous woman on top of her form

Person in charge of a school

Female school leader

Sigmund Freud to some (wordplay)

Sigmund Freud to some (wordplay)

Certain analyst, slangily

Causing discontent.

Heartening

Heartiness

Try being fashionable and moving

Deeply sad tendency in an audience

Direction in trial causing great sadness

They may be tugged at

The human violin section.

They can be tugged at

Rock group around the fire (wordplay)

Gratifying resolution of nightmare war

Making one feel good

In a heathenish manner.

HEATHENIZE To render heathen or heathenish.

The state or quality of being heavenly.

Heavyweight

Hebephrenia

Hebephrenic

Dull or lifeless, from the Latin for 'blunt'

""HEBRAIZE to make Hebrew, also HEBRAISE""

Hedgehop

Helicopter

Revolving around the sun

Revolving round the sun

Heliograph

Of or pertaining to heliography or a heliograph; made by heliography.

Heliolatry

Adjective (-ous)

""The phenomenon of turning toward the light, seen in many leaves and flowers.""

Hellacious

""The large brownish aquatic larva of the dobsonfly, often used as fishing bait. Also called dobson , snake doctor .""

A person who steers a ship.

""Pl. hemangiomas also hemangiomata (-m -t ) A benign skin lesion consisting of dense, usually elevated masses of dilated blood vessels.""

Hematology

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

Hematoxylin

Hero takes me aboard - decision is made by Lily

Hemerythrin

HEMICHORDATE

HEMIHYDRATE

Hemihydrate

Noun denoting doctrine or practice

Pl -ses [-ˌsiːz] (Medicine) Med the filtering of circulating blood through a semipermeable membrane in an apparatus ( haemodialyser or artificial kidney ) to remove waste products: performed in cases of kidney failure Also called extracorporeal dialysis See also dialysis [from haemo- + dialysis ]

Pl. hemodialyses (-s z ) A procedure for removing metabolic waste products or toxic substances from the bloodstream by dialysis.

Noun (-tion)

Hemodynamic

Hemophiliac

Hemoprotein

HEMORRHAGE Any discharge of blood from the blood vessels.

""Of or pertaining to, or of the nature of, hemorrhoids.""

Hemosiderin

HEMSTITCHER hemstitch

Hemstitch

HENOTHEIST

In an heraldic manner; according to the rules of heraldry.

Herbicidal

Passable property of woman to change, possessing boring name

Relating to or based on hereditarianism.

By inheritance; in an hereditary manner.

""In the preceding part of this (writing, document, book, etc.).""

The state of being heritable.

""The science of interpretation and explanation; exegesis; esp., that branch of theology which defines the laws whereby the meaning of the Scriptures is to be ascertained.""

A way to be sealed

Completely (sealed)

Hermeticism

""Combining the heroic and the ludicrous; denoting high burlesque; as, a heroicomic poem.as, a heroicomic poem.""

""HERRINGBONE Pertaining to, or like, the spine of a herring; especially, characterized by an arrangement of work in rows of parallel lines, which in the alternate rows slope in different directions.""

Herringbone

(Done) with wavering or indecision

(Done) with indecisive pauses

Homeless dental hygienist working in indecisive manner

Heteroauxin

Heteroclite

HETEROCYCLE

Heterodoxy

HETERODYNE

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

Heteroecism

Heterogamy

Heterogeny

Heterogony

Heteronomy

Heteroploid

HETEROPLOID

Hexadecimal

Hexaploidy

Adjective (-al)

""A winter bud, in which the rudimentary foliage or flower, as of most trees and shrubs in the temperate zone, is protected by closely overlapping scales.""

Hibernation

Hiddenness

Arranged in order of rank

Classified by rank

HIERARCHIZE