2-Letter Words Starting with H

Give an edge to (wordplay)

Give the edge to (wordplay)

Perfect Polish (wordplay)

Small arch: Arch.

Type of arch

... don't stop now

Medieval guild variable

Medieval merchants' guild

Medieval trading guild.

So that's what it means!

Beginning of a conclusion (wordplay)

In the future; begone!

Swinger's type of joint (wordplay)

Joint for swinger (wordplay)

Turning point (wordplay)

Name that's on the door (wordplay)

Deal with; name (colloq.)

Person's name (slang)

Crying need (wordplay)

Cloth for tearing up (var.)

Cloth with tears in it (wordplay)

A large amount

Something to fall back on (wordplay)

Fanny, to some

German man's nickname.

Hydrocarbon; axe hen (anagram)

Spell a neon compound

Hydrocarbon obtained from petroleum

Lysine, for example

Chemical solvent

To {haggle=v}

Society for animals (wordplay)

Benevolent chap taken in by Hugh, say

Kind individual put in the shade by

Remnant from Christmas dinner, perhaps

Flavoring for pea soup.

Ingredient of pea soup.

""A substance similar to an antigen, also HAPTEN""

""An alkaloid used as a stimulant, also HARMALIN, HARMIN""

Border height that's worn (wordplay)

Height of fashion (wordplay)

End of a shift (wordplay)

Plant of the nightshade family

Source of hyoscyamine

Ill-smelling herb

Resembling a bird

Biddyish

Ingredient in solvents

Solvent from petroleum

Chemical explosive that's initially sealed in glass

Hernia

Play girl, perhaps

Scarlett O'Hara, for one

Jane Eyre, for one

Part of the pelvis

Stylish swipe that gives body support

One half of the pelvis

Tailor's measurement

Goatlike

Goatlike.

Water-soluble protein

Basic protein.

""A Scottish celebration, also HOGMANAY, HOGMENAY""

Snake with an upturned snout

Having a rounded cutting edge, as a tool

Having a smushed up face, in some animal names

One hero, perhaps!

One hero, possibly!

Employee of the month, say

Estrogen, for one

Insulin, for one

Internal secretion - moorhen (anagram)

Direct link with the equator (wordplay)

Wooer's words (wordplay)

Direct phone access (for presidents?)

Transparent as glass

What sounds like loftier policy, that's clear

Superior-sounding business that's clear, like glass

Pertaining to a {hyena=n}

Hullo, sound, healthy girl!

Good health habits

Hotel eyeing reform of sanitation

Type of crack that's parting (wordplay)

It recedes with a crack of sorts

Victim of recession (wordplay)

A disinfectant for drinking water

BC, for example, in US (wordplay)

Shades-of-gray photo

Interval between mi and fa

Resembling a hand

Like many Etsy items

Not from a factory

Not created in a factory

Good-looking, as a male say

Like some devils (wordplay)

It will look good to pass things around

Good for displaying on a wall

Delay taking action

Delay in explosion

Remain unresolved

Speak loudly (at)

Stood during former Tory leader's rant

Diatribe organised in city

Rigid, in a way

Uncompromising but mostly unlucky

Unyielding in one's political position

Tough, practical, and unsentimental one

Tough, unsentimental type

Uncompromising person

Reason for cosmetic surgery, maybe

Prominent feature

Top (a concert bill)

It's on top of the World (wordplay)

A banner's principal business (wordplay)

The tone of a memo from the principal

Introductory mark on a chapter

Article-preceding summary

The head of a nunnery

""A compound of hemoglobin, also HEMATIN""

Sitting room (wordplay)

Abode with many layers (wordplay)

Bonanza for a fox (note the first word)

Experience therein a rupture

Protrude, in a way

Cause therein a protrusion

A chemical compound

Characteristic of man

""To alter the environment to conform with evolving man, also HOMINISE""

Queen or her subject (wordplay)

Darling buzzes around colony dweller

Queen or drone.

Plastic surgeon's target

Feature of some pliers

*Reason for rhinoplasty

Like horn

Perhaps blow that caper for tar

Measure of tar (wordplay)

British folk dance

Make sociable - use in ham (anagram)

How to make aliens like you

5 across pinching a 5 across from behind - that's tame!

Refine; make gentle

Make gentle

Make compassionate

Able to be hunted

Like a hymn

A {sedative=n}

Formed underground

Summon actress Sharon (wordplay)

What a chilly welcome to rock!

Golf-ball comparison (wordplay)

Coins withdrawn in 1985

Fen chapel gives old money for some ...

Former small coins

A vertical gradient in ocean salinity.

""A colorless nonflammable liquid, C 2 HBrClF 3 , used as an inhalant anesthetic.""

Nervous greeting (wordplay)

Deal clincher, perhaps

Comical greeting (wordplay)

""A bar or lever, generally of wood, used in a windlass or capstan, for heaving anchor, and, in modified forms, for various purposes.""

Eschew the word processor

Manually print

English word

Sing as one

Combine notes to make chords

Sing a pleasing combination of notes

Sing barbershop-style

Make a pleasing visual combination

Agree minor changes in film

Deejay's equipment

Radio operator's gear

Onion ring helps hearing

Monument of leader's character

Memorial on a grave

Slab marking a grave

Make Greek

Uncertainty teaches information

Reservation at Chinese buffet

Fence-sitter's attribute

English word

Take a long nap, maybe

Burn off fat, perhaps

Sleep like a bear

""An emeraldgreen variety of spodumene found in North Carolina; lithia emerald, used as a gem.""

Nicer hand (anagram)

CNN hired a drunk with an impediment

Exotic dancer seen by husband in bar

I name this compound an irritant

Allergy-medicine target

Chemical in Thames I dissipated

Constituent of many proteins

English word

Devout good man is a figure needing deck scrubber

Cache for cash, say

Punster's instrument

Yew to you

Title for a Congressman.

Mayor's title

Worthy of high respect

""A siliceous stone, a variety of quartz, closely resembling flint, but more brittle; called also chert. chert.""

Resembling a human.

Great depression (wordplay)

Hazel, for one

Alex Higgins raunchier perhaps (wordplay)

Rocket fuel liquid

FINE to incur a monetary penalty

Cut a dash (wordplay)

Break one's word (wordplay)

Join two words using common sign

Put under a spell

Put under

HALOGEN a non metallic element

Capable of being handled.

To render heathen or heathenish.

""Having alternating currents of two different frequencies that are combined to produce two new frequencies, the sum and difference of the original frequencies, either of which may be used in radio or television receivers by proper tuning or filtering.""

""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.""

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

""An active, complex enzyme consisting of an apoenzyme and a coenzyme.""

Uniform liquid suspension

Substance produced by the breaking up of eg fat globules

Make all the same, to a Brit

Make uniform by blending

Do a dairy job

""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.""

Perhaps Jack will get fit and famous

Title given to MPs

Entitled to high esteem

Green to black mineral

Mineral present in many rocks

Aluminous mineral

A semitranslucent variety of opal that becomes translucent or transparent on immersion in water.

Submarine detecting device

Motorboat with foils

Skim across water at high speed

Skim on a wet road

PLANE to make smooth and even

TENSE to make {taut=adj}

Side facing a corner (wordplay)

Longest side of a right-angled triangle

Longest side of right-angled triangle

See what isn't there

Have strange visions

Experience unreal things

Fireplace part, sometimes

Part of an open fireplace, often

Material forming a fireplace

Hereinbefore.

Pattern (inspired by fish skeleton?)

Ski-trail pattern

V-shaped twill pattern

An enzyme that catalyzes the inactivation of histamine and is found in the digestive system.

Sauce in salad tossed into jam

Sauce used with fish

Sauce, eg for asparagus

Fragrant flowering climber

Bell-shaped flower that smells lovely

Fragrant bell-shaped flower

Adjective meaning resembling

Swindle, to a rube

Swindle, rustic style.

Deceive, per the list

Belonging to the hyacinth; resemblingthe hyacinth; in color like the hyacinth.

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

An enzyme in certain microorganisms that catalyzes the hydrolysis or reduction of a substrate by molecular hydrogen.

To hydrogenize.

Antihistaminic drug

""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.""

IMMUNE one who is exempt from disease or danger

SALINE a salt solution

""An orthorhombic mineral of the pyroxene group, of a grayish or greenish black color, often with a peculiar bronzelike luster (schiller) on the cleavage surface.""

TENSIVE causing tensity

Same as Hypotenuse. Hypotenuse.

A happenstance.

Chance expression of disgust about change involving co-star of Oliver!

Fellow writer getting caught out by attitude that wasn't planned

Writer bumping into ten chaps, a peculiar coincidence

Play by Terence Rattigan

Traditional pantomime episode

Pantomime; buffoonery

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

""A white crystalline substance, C6H4(OH)2, obtained by the reduction of quinone. It is a diacid phenol, resembling, and metameric with, pyrocatechin and resorcin. Called also dihydroxy benzene. C6H4(OH)2, obtained by the reduction of quinone. It is a diacid phenol, resembling, and metameric with, pyrocatechin and resorcin. Called also dihydroxy benzene.""

INTENSE existing in a high degree

Having abnormally high blood pressure.

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

XANTHINE a chemical compound

""An enzyme that catalyzes the breakdown of hyaluronic acid in the body, thereby increasing tissue permeability to fluids. Also called spreading factor .""

""A nitrogenous, organic base, NH2.OH, resembling ammonia, and produced by a modified reduction of nitric acid. It is usually obtained as a volatile, unstable solution in water. It acts as a strong reducing agent. NH2.OH, resembling ammonia, and produced by a modified reduction of nitric acid. It is usually obtained as a volatile, unstable solution in water. It acts as a strong reducing agent.""

""IMMUNIZE to render immune from infection, also IMMUNISE""

""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.""

HEMAGGLUTINATE

English word

""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 .""

""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.""

MASCULINE Of the male sex; not female.

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.""

Experience a lack of oxygen, perhaps

Breath abnormally rapidly

Show stress

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

A metrical line of eleven syllables.

""A colorless crystalline compound, Cl 3 CCCl 3 , that is used as a camphor substitute and in pyrotechnics, explosives, and veterinary medicine.""

""An almost odorless white powder, (C 6 HCl 3 OH) 2 CH 2 , used as a disinfectant and as an antibacterial agent in soaps.""

RESPONSIVE That responds; ready or inclined to respond.

SOMNOLENCE