2-Letter Words Starting with H

Past tense or past participle

Hepatomegaly

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

Heterogamety

Plural noun or verb form

A cell having two or more genetically different nuclei.

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

Heterophylly

Heteroploidy

""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

Histological

The study of the microscopic anatomical changes in diseased tissue.

""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.""

""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

The recording of past events

Histrionical

See complete metamorphosis .

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

Horribleness

One whose learning is growing

Garden expert

""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

""HUMANISTIC Of or pertaining to humanity; as, humanistic devotion. as, humanistic devotion.""

""The act or process of increasing the moisture content; -- usually used of gases, especially air.""

Hundredweight

Hyaluronidase

Hybridization

Hydrobiology

One who studies aquatic plants and animals

Hydrocephalic

Hydrocephaly

Hydrochloride

HYDROCOLLOID

""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 .""

HYDROCRACKING hydrocrack

""Pertaining to, or derived from, the dynamical action of water of a liquid; of or pertaining to water power.""

Hydrogenation

Hydrological

HYDROLYTIC Tending to remove or separate water; eliminating water.

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

Hydroperoxide

HYDROPHILIC

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

HYDROPONIC

Hydrotherapy

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

Hydroxylamine

Hydroxylation

""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.""

The property possessed by vegetable tissues of absorbing or discharging moisture according to circumstances.

Hyperacidity

AESTHESIA

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

""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

CATALEXIS

CIVILIZED civilize

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

""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.""

ENERGETIC

Hyperesthesia

EUTECTOID

""EXCITABLE Capable of being excited, or roused into action; susceptible of excitement; easily stirred up, or stimulated.""

EXCRETION The act of excreting.

Hyperextend

EXTENSION The act of extending or the state of being extended; a stretching out; enlargement in breadth or continuation of length; increase; augmentation; expansion.

Hyperfunction

Hyperglycemia

HYPERGOLIC

IMMUNIZED immunize

Hyperimmunize

The increasing cost due to a burst tyre (wordplay)

Economic woe

IRRITABLE Capable of being irriated.

Inflected form of KERATOSIS Inflected form of KERATOSE resembling horny tissue

KERATOTIC

An excess of fats or lipids in the blood. Also called hyperlipemia .

MASCULINE Of the male sex; not female.

""METABOLIC Of or pertaining to metamorphosis; pertaining to, or involving, change.""

Hypermetropia

""MODERNIST One who admires the moderns, or their ways and fashions.""

Hyperparasite

Inflected form of PARASITIC Inflected form of PARASITE an organism that lives and feeds on another

PIGMENTED pigment

""PITUITARY Secreting mucus or phlegm; as, the pituitary membrane, or the mucous membrane which lines the nasal cavities. as, the pituitary membrane, or the mucous membrane which lines the nasal cavities.""

POLARIZED polarize

Hyperpolarize

REALISTIC Of or pertaining to the realists; in the manner of the realists; characterized by realism rather than by imagination.

""Morbid or excessive secretion, as in catarrh.""

Abnormally quick to react

""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.""

SEXUALITY The quality or state of being distinguished by sex.

Inflected form of SONICALLY Inflected form of SONIC pertaining to sound

""STIMULATE To excite as if with a goad; to excite, rouse, or animate, to action or more vigorous exertion by some pungent motive or by persuasion; as, to stimulate one by the hope of reward, or by the prospect of glory. as, to stimulate one by the hope of reward, or by the prospect of glory.""

Hypertrophy

Hyperurbanism

Hyperuricemia

Experience a lack of oxygen, perhaps

Breath abnormally rapidly

Show stress

VIGILANCE The quality or state of being vigilant; forbearance of sleep; wakefulness.

VISCOSITY The quality or state of being viscous.

Hypnotherapy

""→ hypnothérapeute mf hc_En_Fr() HYPOMAGNESEMIA (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Veterinary Science) Vet science too little magnesium in the blood, particularly in cattle, in which it is also known as lactation tetany INTERVALOMETER (Miscellaneous Technologies / Photography) an automatic device used to trigger an operation at regular intervals, esp such a device operating the shutter of a camera""

adj. afraid of being injected

adj. afraid of being injected

Hypochondriac

""HYPOCORISTIC Endearing; diminutive; as, the hypocoristic form of a name. as, the hypocoristic form of a name.""

With a false sense of piety, needle judge and friend

HYPODERMIC Of or pertaining to the parts under the skin.

Hypodiploidy

""(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Veterinary Science) Vet science too little magnesium in the blood, particularly in cattle, in which it is also known as lactation tetany""

""Inflected form of SENSITIZED Inflected form of 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.""

Hyposensitize

In a hypostatic manner.

""HYPOTHECATION 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.""

Said to be on drugs in a pitiful state, though not proven

HYPOTHYROID

Hypotonicity

Hysterectomy

HABITABLENESS habitable

Hallucinogenic

Musicians such as Wanda Landowska

Headmastership

HEARTBREAKING Causing overpowering sorrow.

HEARTSICKNESS heartsick

Heliometrical

Helminthology

HEMAGGLUTINATE

Hemagglutinate

English word

""A hereditary disorder affecting iron metabolism in which excessive amounts of iron accumulate in the body tissues. The disorder is characterized by diabetes mellitus, liver dysfunction, and a bronze pigmentation of the skin.""

HEMODYNAMIC

Hemoglobinuria

Pertaining to a line of eleven syllables.

It's Rod/Pam, him/her mixed up in this (wordplay)

""According to the principles of interpretation; as, a verse of Scripture was examined hermeneutically. as, a verse of Scripture was examined hermeneutically.""

Like Joseph's coat

Tightly coiled chromosomal material that stains deeply during interphase and is believed to be genetically inactive.

Heterogeneity

Heteromorphism

Straightness of 4s? You hear incorrectly

Kinsey report topic

Heterothallism

Hexosaminidase

""A yellowish-white crystalline phenol, C 6 H 13 C 6 H 3 (OH) 2 , used as an antiseptic and anthelmintic.""

HILARIOUSNESS hilarious

Histochemical

The study of the microscopic anatomical changes in diseased tissue.

The branch of physiology that deals with the structure and function of tissues.

""An historian; a writer of history; especially, one appointed or designated to write a history; also, a title bestowed by some governments upon historians of distinction.""

Related to secondhand sources

HOLOGRAPHIC Of the nature of a holograph; pertaining to holographs.

Holometabolism

Following Dr. Hahnemann's medical system

Homogenisation

Homogenization

Homosexuality

Horizontality

Horticultural

Gardeners

Type of insurance

Housewifey

Ideal of man's welfare

I am an Irish nut and am troubled by a principle of benevolence

Benevolent philosophy in this UN aim? Drama without director unfolded

Humidification

The biological study of bodies of water.

Hydrobiologist

Hydrocortisone

HYDRODYNAMIC

Physics ()

""According to hydrostatics, or to hydrostatic principles.""

Hydroxyapatite

English word

Hydroxyproline

Hyperactivity

Hyperaesthesia

""AGGRESSIVE Tending or disposed to aggress; having or showing determination and energetic pursuit of one's own ends at the expense of others or mindless of others' needs or desires; characterized by aggression; making assaults; unjustly attacking; as, an aggressive policy, war, person, nation; an aggressive businessman; an aggressive basketball player; he was aggressive and imperious in his convictions; aggressive drivers. Opposite of unaggressive.as, an aggressive policy, war, person, nation; an aggressive businessman; an aggressive basketball player; he was aggressive and imperious in his convictions; aggressive drivers. Opposite of unaggressive.""

""CATABOLISM the breakdown of more complex substances into simpler ones with release of energy, in living organisms; destructive or downward metabolism; -- a form of metabolism, opposed to anabolism. See also Disassimilation.metabolism, opposed to anabolism. See also Disassimilation.""

""Having a syllable or two beyond measure; as, a hypercatalectic verse. as, a hypercatalectic verse.""

Hypercorrect

In a hypercritical manner.