2-Letter Words Starting with H

Marquee names

Celebrities

Stars

Appearing as the star at (a concert)

Gear for telephone operators.

Gymnastics flip

Service chief (wordplay)

Restaurant employee, perhaps

He orders those who take orders

Leading the "in-the-pink" group

He takes his latte out. It does him most good

Hearken

Encouraging 'X' to interrupt trial

Encouraging a number to take part in an audition

Encouraging a number to join in judicial inquiry

Backslapper's quality.

Boniface's bonhomie

Jollity - in a way she earns it

Lacking culture or religious principles

Impious characters in Arimathea then? I shudder!

Irreligiousness

To render heathen or heathenish.

Heavenly

Hebetate

Increasingly dull state

Hebraize

HECTICAL {hectic=adj}

It's about 26.4 gallons

Concerned with self-gratification

Devoted to pleasure

Pleasure-seeking

Heelpiece

Hegemony

Hegumeny

Heeding the tremors, climbed further

Raised in quality, degree or intensity

Balls on chicken, number eaten, brought up

In a heliacal manner.

Helicity

Spiral

Helicopt

Cheer pilot going off in this (wordplay)

Igor Ivan Sikorsky's 1939 good idea

Sikorsky's brainchild

Helilift

Device signalling by reflected sunlight

Sun worship. See Sabianism. Sabianism.

An instrument devised originally for measuring the diameter of the sun; now employed for delicate measurements of the distance and relative direction of two stars too far apart to be easily measured in the field of view of an ordinary telescope.

Heliostat

Reddish-purple color that's also a shrub

Pink-purple flower

Serf I engaged to secure plant

Heliozoan

Distasteful and repellant: hellacious smog.

HELLENIZE To use the Greek language; to play the Greek; to Grecize.

Hellenize

Adjective meaning resembling

""Of or relating to worms, or Helminthes; expelling worms.""

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

Hematinic

The percentage by volume of packed red blood cells in a given sample of blood after centrifugation.

Hematuria

Adjective (-al)

Hemicycle

""Having half of the similar parts of a crystals, instead of all; consisting of half the planes which full symmetry would require, as when a cube has planes only on half of its eight solid angles, or one plane out of a pair on each of its edges; or as in the case of a tetrahedron, which is hemihedral to an octahedron, it being contained under four of the planes of an octahedron. half of its eight solid angles, or one plane out of a pair on each of its edges; or as in the case of a tetrahedron, which is hemihedral to an octahedron, it being contained under four of the planes of an octahedron.""

A palsy that affects one side only of the body.

Paralysis affecting only one side of the body.

One of the Hemiptera; an hemipter.

West world, say (wordplay)

Southern, for one

New World, for one

Hemistich

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Genetics) Genetics (of a chromosome or gene) not having a homologue; not paired in a diploid cell

""A bluish, copper-containing protein with an oxygen-carrying function similar to that of hemoglobin, present in the blood of certain mollusks and arthropods.""

It makes blood red

Hemolysin

Hemolyze

Genetic disorder carried by Queen Victoria

""Of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or afflicted with hemophilia; hemophiliac.""

""The expectoration of blood, due usually to hemorrhage from the mucous membrane of the lungs.""

An itching or painful mass of dilated veins in swollen anal tissue.

The stoppage of bleeding or hemorrhage.

Styptic

""Primitive religion in which each of several divinities is regarded as independent, and is worshiped reference to the rest.""

Belief in one god without denying the existence of others.

Henpeck

Hepatize

Heraldry

Herbalist

As a selective killer, Charlie bid for change

Weedkillers

Food chain group

Mountain gorillas, for example

Friendly dinosaurs

Passed on by parents

Passed down from father to son

Passed on genetically

Heredity

A leader in heresy; the chief of a sect of heretics.

Heritrix

Heretrix

Plural or third person singular

Heritrix

HERMAE herma

Cracked the miracle? Shut up!

Hermetism

Hermetist

Hermitage

Hermitism

Hermitry

Herniate

HERNIATE to {rupture=v}

With valor

HEROIC an epic verse

Heroinism

Past occurrences, to feminists

Feminist lessons

Hesitance

Stanley hit out with some doubt

Showing indecision he is the one colonist with only half

Waverers

Male with saying about one liable to lose

Male announcing about one about to lose (wordplay)

I don't have it, I'm sure!

What might precede a parachute jump

Doubt when he gets a non-U situation

""Pl. hesperidia (- - ) A berry having a thickened leathery rind and juicy pulp divided into segments, as an orange or other citrus fruit.""

""A glucoside found in ripe and unripe fruit (as the orange), and extracted as a white crystalline substance.""

Hessonite

English word

""A mineral of the Zeolite family, often occurring in amygdaloid, in foliated masses, and also in monoclinic crystals with pearly luster on the cleavage face. It is a hydrous silicate of alumina and lime.""

The use of trial and error to reach solutions

Method for solving problems when all possibilities cannot be explored

Hexaploid

HEXAPLOID

Hexapody

Hexarchy

""An enzyme catalyzing the transfer of a phosphate residue from ATP to a hexose, as in the formation of glucose-6-phosphate from glucose.""

Wintered, in a way.

Lay dormant till spring in bad earth, in bed

Remained dormant in Ireland after one's left with Edward

Takes a long sleep.

Sleeps during winter

Sleeps through winter

Animal with a winter home

Hibiscus

Hiccough

Hiccup

Hiddenite

HIDDEN concealed

Pertaining to a chief priest

According to ranking, hire, we hear, shrewd man

Arranged in order of rank

Classified according to various criteria

Rich Archie upset about order of importance

Hierodule

A character in symbolic writing

Character in Egyptian writing

Egyptian written symbol

Insect interpreting sacred mysteries?

Interpreter of sacred mysteries

Insect interpreting sacred mysteries (wordplay)

Highball

Confidence man

HIGHBROW an intellectual

Lofty Wright Brothers?

Lofty Wright Brothers (wordplay)

Jet-setters

Highflyer

Drunk with two men who had been taken along the way

Native of north or west Scotland, a Gael

Scot's exam covering state of Germany

Classy boat for a mountain sailor (wordplay)

Calls attention to moons (wordplay)

Most important or exciting parts

Memorable parts of an event

Highness

Scrammed, with "it"

DOT worker (wordplay)

Alfred Noyes subject.

Subject of a famous Alfred Noyes poem.

Certain robbers

They may have been responsible for early road hold-ups

Hilarity

Hillcrest

Hindbrain

They get in the way

Things that get in the way

Deer spots direction-finders at rear

Remote inland areas

Remote area of a country

Remote areas of a country

Hippiedom

HIPPIE a nonconformist

Pl. hippocampi (-p ) A ridge in the floor of each lateral ventricle of the brain that consists mainly of gray matter and has a central role in memory processes.

Theatre (originally for horse racing)

Arena of a sort

Stadium for horse shows

Half-horse, half-monster

Mythical winged horselike creature

Fabulous gryphon-headed winged horse

HIPSTER done that is hip

Hirsel

Hirsutism

English word

Hispanism

They're released by the immune system

Histidine

""A relatively inactive, immobile macrophage found in normal connective tissue. Also called fixed macrophage .""

So this is refined and weighted for statistical displays

Pl. histologies The anatomical study of the microscopic structure of animal and plant tissues.

Plural or third person singular

The decay and dissolution of the organic tissues and of the blood.

Herodotus and Thucydides, for two

Toynbee, Beard, Motley, et al.

Commager and Durant

Like Sabatini's Nights

Popular form of fiction.

Like "Hamilton" and "1776"

This ironic novel is melodramatic

Of acting; dramatic

Like a ham's performance

""HITCHHIKE To travel by getting free rides from passing vehicles; as, to hitchhike across the country.as, to hitchhike across the country.""

One with a pick-up line (wordplay)

One looking for a free ride (wordplay)

Thumbs up for a seeker of cheap travel

Thumbs

Nearest on this side

During strike, warm flask can be no closer to my side

Whirred hat (anagram) - in this direction

HOACTZIN a tropical bird

Hoarsen

Certain trick-or-treaters.

Hobo's besotted with bling and spirits

Halloween visitors

Hobnail

Hanging out together

Schmoozing

Hokiness

Hokypoky

Holidayer

Not working

Holiness

Hologamy

Hologyny

Wholly or distinctively vegetable.

Not party animals

Pipe-and-slipper people

They prefer not to go out

Round-tripper wind-up (wordplay)

Return (of wanderer)

Big high school or college event

Simplicity

Magazine production (wordplay)

Course in some schools

Course in some schools.

Art of preaching house goes a long way before marks of approval are mentioned

Hominess

Hominize

Like John Singer Sargent's "Male Nudes Wrestling"

Like much of Shakespeare's and Sappho's love poetry

Homogamy

Homogeny

Make all the same, to a Brit

Make uniform by blending

Do a dairy job

Homogony

Homology

To determine the homologies or structural relations of.

Homonymy

""One of those, in the 4th century, who accepted the Nicene creed, and maintained that the Son had the same essence or substance with the Father; opposed to homoiousian. homoiousian.""

Theme in "Philadelphia"

Disliking or fearing homosexuals to an unreasonable degree.

HOMOPHONE A letter or character which expresses a like sound with another.

""Any of various tropical Old World birds of the family Indicatoridae, some species of which lead people or animals to the nests of wild honeybees. The birds eat the wax and larvae that remain after the nest has been destroyed for its honey.""

Honorary

Adverb