2-Letter Words Starting with H

Helilift

Heliograph

Heliometer

A telescope equipped to measure small angular distances between celestial bodies.

Heliotrope

Responding to sunlight

(Of plant) moving in response to sunlight

Hellbender

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

Child's behavior at times

HELPFUL giving help

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

H\'91matoxylin.

Hemiacetal

Hemiplegia

Hemiplegic

Hemoglobin

Alexis, son of Nicholas II, was one

Hemophilia

Hemophilic

Heptachlor

English word

In an heretical manner.

""The natural history of reptiles; that branch of zo\'94logy which relates to reptiles, including their structure, classification, and habits.""

Herrenvolk

Deviating from ordinary forms or rules; irregular; anomalous; abnormal.

Containing more than one kind of atom joined in a ring.

Biology ()

Biology ()

Biology ()

English word

Having a chromosome number that is not a whole-number multiple of the haploid chromosome number for that species.

Heulandite

Magic counting system (wordplay)

*Like a MAC address

*Base 16

In an hexagonal manner.

""Pl. hibernacula (-l ) Biology A protective case, covering, or structure, such as a plant bud, in which an organism remains dormant for the winter.""

Characters in Egyptian mythology

Highball

Affected sound of port bell out east

Hoity-toity

Pretentious: Colloq.

Battling hard with English soldiers

Highlight

Hightail

In a side-splitting way

Extremely amusingly

Some backwoods folks

Tobacco Road residents.

People from the backwoods

Where a native will clue you in

Clue: 'Antelopes get right in the backwoods'

Frontiers.

Of or pertaining to the hippocampus.

Histology

Studier of tissue structure

The chap's to behold heart, being an anatomical specialist

Gawky adolescent

Awkward youth.

Sauce in salad tossed into jam

Sauce used with fish

Sauce, eg for asparagus

Hollowware

""Undergoing complete segmentation; composed entirely of germinal matter, the whole of the yolk undergoing fission; opposed to meroblastic. meroblastic.""

Holoenzyme

Holograph

Holograph

Involving 3-D photography

(<?/) Belonging to the Holothurioidea.

HOLYSTONE A stone used by seamen for scrubbing the decks of ships.

Homeschool

Homicidal

Of or pertaining to familiar intercourse; social; affable; conversable; companionable.

""HOMOLOGATE To approve; to allow; to confirm; as, the court homologates a proceeding. as, the court homologates a proceeding.""

Homologate

""Pertaining to homology; having a structural affinity proceeding from, or base upon, that kind of relation termed homology. homology.""

HOMOLOGIZE To determine the homologies or structural relations of.

HOMOLOGIZE To determine the homologies or structural relations of.

Homologize

English word

Homoplasy

""Of or pertaining to homoplasty; as, homoplasticorgans; homoplastic forms. as, homoplasticorgans; homoplastic forms.""

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Hay people, more formally

""Having male and female reproductive structures on the same thallus, as in some fungi and algae.""

Fragrant flowering climber

Bell-shaped flower that smells lovely

Fragrant bell-shaped flower

Hoodlumism

Violence by young troublemakers

Rowdy behavior.

Rowdy behavior

Anticipation

Optimism

HORIZON the line where earth and sky seem to meet

Levels

Adjective meaning resembling

Hornblende

Composed largely of hornblende; resembling or relating to hornblende.

Swindle, to a rube

Swindle, rustic style.

Deceive, per the list

Rational support for listening to terrible fear of a clockmaker

Horologist

Horselaugh

Equus actor (wordplay)

Masochist of a sort

Hortative

I steal one posh mobile to put in an 'H'

Kindness in welcoming guests

Cordial entertainment of guests

Readiness to welcome guests

""To render (a building) unfit for habitation, by long continued use as a hospital.""

Acts of war

Acts of warfare

Fighting

In an impetuous way

Like one in a rage

Timers for ostrich eggs (wordplay)

They show the passage of time

What we nearsighted folks need when watching movies (wordplay)

Minds one's place (wordplay)

Sets in order

Head of family.

Census taker's target

Resident champion follows the crowd

Features of movie theaters

Illumination provided for auditorium

Theater features

Houseplant

Pertaining or appropriate to a housewife; domestic; economical; prudent.

- Finn (Mark Twain)

North American fruit

Finn of fiction

Rowdydows.

Extremely embarrassing

Loss of dignity

Loss of dignity at the hands of another

Humorless

100 copies to pleat? How many (wordplay)

By a factor of 10 X 10

HURTFUL {harmful=adj}

Hyaloplasm

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

Hydrology

One skilled in hydrology.

HYDROLYSE

HYDROLYZE

Decomposing, chemically

HYDROPHILE

Extremely heavy fall over inland Spain that skimmed water

Hydroplane

English word

HYDROXYL the group containing oxygen and hydrogen

HYLOZOIST A believer in hylozoism.

Hymnology

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.""

Hyperplane

""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

SEXUAL pertaining to sex

CENTRAL a telephone exchange

""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.""

DIPLOID a cell with double chromosomes

""Under the tongue; applied esp., in the higher vertebrates, to the twelfth or last pair of cranial nerves, which are distributed to the base of the tongue.""

An abnormally low concentration of potassium ions in the blood.

Adjective (-ic)

Lowest layer of a thermally stratified lake

Pl. hypophyses (-s z ) See pituitary gland .

Of or pertaining to the hypophysis; pituitary.

Hypoplasia

PLASTIC a synthetic mouldable substance

THALAMI thalamus

THERMAL a rising mass of warm air

HABILITATE Qualified or entitled.

Qualification obtained by learner, one in residence

Habitableness.

HABITUAL someone who has a habit

HAGIOLOGIC

HAIRLESS without hair

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

Halterbreak

HALTERBROKE

Haptoglobin

Hardheaded

Yielding little for much toil

Demanding and unrewarding

Board game played with no vowels (wordplay)

Play by Terence Rattigan

Traditional pantomime episode

Pantomime; buffoonery

HARMLESS not harmful

Harmonical

Harmonious

Abstract noun (-ity)

HEADLESS without a head

Heartening

In a heathenish manner.

The state or quality of being heavenly.

In periods of seven days; weekly.

HEEDLESS paying little of no attention

Heldentenor

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.

Feeling of being unable to manage

Inability to defend oneself

Hematology

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

Hematoxylin

Hero takes me aboard - decision is made by Lily

Pl -ses [-&#x2cc;si&#x2d0;z] (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)

Hemophiliac

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

Abnormal enlargement of the liver.

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

Herbicidal

By inheritance; in an hereditary manner.