2-Letter Words Starting with H

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

Heteroecism

""Either of two conjugating gametes that differ in structure or behavior, such as the small motile male spermatozoon and the larger nonmotile female ovum. Also called anisogamete .""

HETEROGAMETE

Heterogamy

""The condition of having two or more kinds of flowers which differ in regard to stamens and pistils, as in the aster.""

Heterogeny

Not from the same source

Heterogony

Heterograft

A cell having two or more genetically different nuclei.

""Characterized by heterology; consisting of different elements, or of like elements in different proportions; different; opposed to homologous; as, heterologous organs. homologous; as, heterologous organs.""

Heteronomy

Subject to external controls

Having dissimilar leaves on one plant.

Heteroploid

HETEROPLOID

Straight as an arrow, perhaps (wordplay)

Straight

Heterotroph

HETEROTROPH

An organism that has different alleles at a particular gene locus on homologous chromosomes.

Having different alleles at one or more corresponding chromosomal loci.

Hexaploidy

Adjective (-al)

Hibernation

Type of writing

Of or relating to hierophants or their teachings.

Highbrowism

Oppo hams it up (anagram)

Large semi-aquatic mammal

Large African mammal frequenting rivers

HISTOGEN inferior plant tissue

The formation and development of organic tissues; histogeny; the opposite of histolysis histolysis

Tissueproducing; connected with the formation and development of the organic tissues.

""Pertaining to histology, or to the microscopic structure of the tissues of living organisms.""

Histologist

Memorable friend over time

Historicism

Historicist

HISTORICIZE To record or narrate in the manner of a history; to chronicle.

Historicize

Hoarseness

Hobblebush

Hobbledehoy

Travel agent perhaps is taking a break

Tourist in rank beset by wild blow

Feast day for God and tourist

HOLISTIC pertaining to {holism=n}

Hollandaise

Hollowness

HOLOGRAPHER holograph

Holography

Holograph

""Expressing a phrase or sentence in a single word, as is the case in the aboriginal languages of America.""

Holothurian

State of having no fixed abode

Homeliness

HOMEOMORPH

Homeopathy

HOMEOTHERM A homoiothermal animal.

Homeschool

Kid with no commute

Nest ache (wordplay)

Sadness when away

Summer camper's nostalgia

Farmers made the roses hybrid

Homestead

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

HOMOGENISE

Homogenizer

""HOMOGENIZE To blend (a collection of unlike elements) together so as to make the whole uniform in character, composition, or function.""

Homoiotherm

Homoiousian

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

Process to certify race car's "production" status

Homologizer

HOMOLOGIZE To determine the homologies or structural relations of.

Same as Homomorphy. Homomorphy.

In an homonymous manner; so as to have the same name or relation.

Homopolymer

Homosexual

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

Having the same alleles at a particular gene locus on homologous chromosomes.

Homozygous

Honeycomb

Nectar-feeding bird

Dear Ralph and Alice (wordplay)

Beloved Ralph and Alice (wordplay)

Classic '50s sitcom (with "The")

On trip with mate, one stops Henry showing too much cheek

Honeysuckle

Abstract noun (-ity)

Hoodedness

Hooliganism

Country songfests

Sing-alongs

Rural shindigs

Feeling of despair

Despondency

Despair

Hopscotch

At a right angle to the vertical

In relation to ground level

Mete out

Hornedness

HORNLESS without horns

I bought a trumpet, but I was...

'I bought a trumpet, but I was...'

Defrauded

Hornswoggle

Or only rushed (anagram)

The state or quality of being horrible; dreadfulness; hideousness.

Horridness

HORRIFIC causing horror

Horrifying

Horseflesh

Skill in riding

Well up with it

Hampshire son trained in skilled riding

HORSEPLAYER horseplay

The act or employment of shoeing horses.

Flogged by a stock-holder (wordplay)

Thrashed

HORSEWHIP A whip for horses.

Science of gardening

The cultivation of plants

Pronounced lordly customs, such as those at Kew engage in (wordplay)

In where they tend to get you out

Hospitalise

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

Hospitalize

Hotchpotch

HOUSEBOATER houseboat

Demolition worker who shows criminal intent

Burglar

Houseclean

Housedress

Housefather

HOUSEHOLDER The master or head of a family; one who occupies a house with his family.

Male with an iron and a feather duster (wordplay)

To save on accommodation, he works at home

What Mr. Incredible becomes in "Incredibles 2"

They clean up after clerics and footballer in bars

They clean up after clerics in family castle on riverside at the centre

Accommodate the last lines of defence for those cleaning up after the clergy

Maid's profession

Oikologist's study

Money set aside for domestic costs

They keep an eye on the school children for the Ceann Comhairles perhaps

Housemother

Take in rope for craftsman

Job that involves ladder climbing

Man with a ladder

Houseparent

Houseperson

Politicians at work maintaining domestic security

Keeping an eye on the flat? That's why the politicians are all there!

Moving tribute (wordplay)

Party for those on the move

Party for the new neighbors

The act of humanizing.

The formation of humus.

Humiliation

Moodiness; capriciousness.

The biological study of bodies of water.

Hydrocarbon

""A usually congenital condition in which an abnormal accumulation of fluid in the cerebral ventricles causes enlargement of the skull and compression of the brain, destroying much of the neural tissue.""

A substance that forms a gel with water.

Hydrocrack

Hydrocrack

Of or relating to hydrodynamics.

Hydrogenase

HYDROGENATE To hydrogenize.

Hydrogenate

""One skilled in the hydrography; one who surveys, or draws maps or charts of, the sea, lakes, or other waters, with the adjacent shores; one who describes the sea or other waters.""

HYDROGRAPH

""Of or pertaining to the motions of fluids, or the forces which produce or affect such motions; opposed to hydrostatic. hydrostatic.""

Of or pertaining to hydrology.

Hydrologist

Hydrolysate

HYDROLYZE

Hydrolyzate

Hydromancy

Pl. hydromedusas or hydromedusae (-s ) A hydrozoan in the medusoid stage of its life cycle.

Hydrometeor

Adjective (-ic)

HYDRONIC pertaining to heating and cooling by water

Hydropathy

Hydrophobia

""HYDROPLANE A plane, or any of a number of planes, projecting from the hull of a submarine boat, which by being elevated or depressed cause the boat, when going ahead, to sink or rise, after the manner of an a\'89roplane.""

""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.""

Hydrosphere

HYDROSPHERE The aqueous vapor of the entire atmosphere.

""The branch of science which relates to the pressure and equilibrium of nonelastic fluids, as water, mercury, etc.; the principles of statics applied to water and other liquids.""

Use of water in a medical treatment

New trophy ready, supporting hospital's remedial treatment

""Of or pertaining to hot water; used esp. with reference to the action of heated waters in dissolving, redepositing, and otherwise producing mineral changes within the crust of the globe.""

A tendency towards moisture.

Hydroxylase

HYDROXYLATE

Hydroxylate

Hydroxyurea

Hydroxyzine

HYGROPHILE

One of the Hymenoptera.

Same as hymenopteran.hymenopteran.

Hyoscyamine

AROUSAL the act of {arousing=v}

Belonging to the hyperbola; having the nature of the hyperbola.

Hyperbolist

HYPERBOLIZE To speak or write with exaggeration.

Hyperbolize

Hyperboloid

Hyperborean

COMPLEX to make complicated

CORRECT to make {right=adj}

OSTOSES ostosis

OSTOSIS the formation of bone

Pl. hyperostoses (-s z) Excessive or abnormal thickening or growth of bone tissue.

REACTOR one who {reacts=v}

High blood pressure

Increased pressure to overstate numbers in crime genre comeback

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

TROPHIC pertaining to nutrition

Hyphenation

Under treatment (wordplay)

Treatment aimed at recovering suppressed memories

Happy then, or poorly, youth's beginning course of treatment

HYPNOTIC a sleep-inducing drug

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

An abnormally low concentration of calcium in the blood.

Adjective (-ic)

""A salt of hypochlorous acid; as, a calcium hypochloride. as, a calcium hypochloride.""

Feeling sick in the head (wordplay)

Feeling virtually sick (wordplay)

Thinking ill of oneself (wordplay)

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

Professing virtues one does not have

Insincere pachyderm said to be seriously ill

Two-faced

Hypocycloid