2-Letter Words Starting with H

Holotype

HOLOTYPE the original type specimen of an animal or plant

In no way a quack, some might say

Therapist's in work, at hospital

Practitioner of nontraditional medicine

Docking stations (wordplay)

Loosely woven fabrics

Bass the fish, to "bass" the singing voice, for example

Word spelled the same as another but with a different meaning

Gay or lesbian.

Unlikely pride parade participant

Cache for cash, say

Punster's instrument

Yew to you

Sameness of sound.

See Homogeny. Homogeny.

(Chemistry) Chem of uniform charge; not ionic; covalent a homopolar bond homopolarity   [ˌhəʊməʊpəʊˈlærɪtɪ ˌhɒm-] n

HOMOS homo

Impression created by bay (wordplay)

Equine identifier

Dance on the paper and get horsey type to leave

Garment for Elizabeth Browning

Relic of crinoline days.

Dress that makes a slow dance difficult

Basketball players, in slang

Basketball players, in many crossword clues

If all goes well

Part 2 of the quotation

In a promising way

Game that's bound to stop (wordplay)

Booze for a 50's bash (wordplay)

Short-jump event!

Hearty dances (wordplay)

Lively dances.

Sailors in dance, ones taking exercise in their dances (wordplay)

Hornpout

An all-star cast (wordplay)

Signs up for this (wordplay)

Daily reading for many

Messing about (as a steed?)

Boisterous antics in Equus (wordplay)

Drama about Trigger (wordplay)

Pie topping for equestrians (wordplay)

Lash stallion perhaps and move rapidly

Flog hospital before men suture joint

Tubes destined for Green Park (wordplay)

Curing businesses (wordplay)

Life-saving institutions.

Lost aphis found in health centres

A nursing home for the terminally ill

Hospodar

Hotchpot

Performance or management of household tasks.

One who is employed to perform or direct the domestic tasks in a household.

Pilot's view

Sight just before a touchdown

Use photos to restore position of chimneys

Humpback

Hydrops

""A figure consisting of a transference of attributes from their proper subjects to other. Thus Virgil says, "dare classibus austros," to give the winds to the fleets, instead of dare classibus austris, to give the fleets to the winds. dare classibus austros," to give the winds to the fleets, instead of dare classibus austris, to give the fleets to the winds.""

""Pl. hypanthia (-th - ) The ringlike, cup-shaped, or tubular structure of a flower on which the sepals, petals, and stamens are borne, as in the flowers of the rose or cherry.""

ACID a type of chemical compound

ARID {dry=adj}

y=1/x, say

Par hole by playing for curve

Certain curve in math

Paul Bunyan device

Exaggerated talk from boy helper

I could eat a horse, for example

Four-dimensional figure

Blood and Blood Vessels

EMIC analysed linguistically by internal structure

FINE to incur a monetary penalty

""GAMY plucky, also GAMEY""

Hypergol

Hyperope

Hypermetropia.

HYPEROPE a farsighted person

Abnormally deep or rapid breathing.

PURE to {refine=v}

Web connection means

It connects two pages

Over-excited by matter, linking words

Hyphemia

Cut a dash (wordplay)

Break one's word (wordplay)

Join two words using common sign

Hyphen

HYPNOID pertaining to hypnosis or sleep

Synthetic drugs are perhaps not physic

Sleeping pills

Liberal phony and jerks - they could easily go under

I spy month (anagram)

Production of sleep-like state in person

Practice of inducing trance-like state

One may be entranced by his performance

One who mesmerises

He may take control when people fall asleep

Put under a spell

Put under

""The inner or lower layer of the blastoderm; called also endoderm, entoderm, and sometimes hypoderm. See Illust. of Blastoderm, Delamination, and Ectoderm. endoderm, entoderm, and sometimes hypoderm. See Illust. of Blastoderm, Delamination, and Ectoderm.""

Hut as new, keeping back copy of 'How to heat your villa'

The part of the axis of a plant embryo or seedling plant that is below the cotyledons.

Pretense of virtue

Dishonesty of hard copy reflecting most of the risk on unknown quantity

The only vice that cannot be forgiven, per William Hazlitt

One who doesn't walk the talk

Insincere person

Insincere type

Hypoderm

Growing under ground; remaining under ground; ripening its fruit under ground.

Condition marked by overexcitability

MANIC one who is affected with mania

""MORPH to gradually change shape and features, especially with computer graphics""

Hyponoia

Having a chromosome number lower by only a few chromosomes than the normal diploid number.

Hypopnea

Hypopyon

English word

Resting upon columns; constructed by means of columns; especially applied to the great hall at Karnak.

TAXES tax

TAXIS taxi

Hypothec

English word

Low in tension, as muscles

Fixer to note: this is lacking muscle tone

Insufficient oxygenation of the blood

Sign of severe altitude sickness

Adjective (-ic)

It views the altar without altering the view

Top secrets (wordplay)

Rugs, of sorts

Locks out of a store (wordplay)

Watch piece broadcast after hard season

Regulator in a watch

Watch component

Halophile

HALOPHILE

Halophyte

""HALOPHYTE A plant found growing in salt marshes, or in the sea.""

Worker embraces American's greetings

Welcome gestures

Passed over tool specially chosen

Chosen with care

Personally selected.

Basis of turkey art

Kids may use them to make turkeys

Handspike

Feat in tumbling

Worker bound to produce gymnastic feat

Relative of a cartwheel.

Haphazard

Haphtara

Haploidy

Haplotype

Central Park events

Youth assemblies

Modern theatrics

Queequeg et al

Queequeg et al.

Queequeg, and others

Job for Ahab's crew

Harrumph

Harumph

Haruspex

Audiophile's above-the-neckwear

Radio receivers

Hearing devices

Gear for telephone operators.

Headspace

Gymnastics flip

Duplicating device

Reproducer of Trojan holding note at a pub

Heelpiece

Helicopt

Cheer pilot going off in this (wordplay)

Igor Ivan Sikorsky's 1939 good idea

Sikorsky's brainchild

Device signalling by reflected sunlight

Reddish-purple color that's also a shrub

Pink-purple flower

Serf I engaged to secure plant

(Laugh) uncontrollably

Impotently

In a vulnerable manner, ill sheep slaughtered without one knowing

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

Hemolymph

Genetic disorder carried by Queen Victoria

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

""The expectoration of blood or of blood-streaked sputum from the larynx, trachea, bronchi, or lungs.""

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

Henpeck

Hepatize

A parenchymal cell of the liver.

Hepatoma

""A white or tan powder, C 10 H 5 Cl 7 , formerly used as a pesticide, that is highly toxic to humans and is a suspected carcinogen.""

Seven-sided

Seven-foot line

7-foot line

A bit lucky, perhaps, for Half a Sixpence

HERMAE herma

""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.""

English word

Hexaploid

HEXAPLOID

Hexapody

Hiccup

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)

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

English word

Hispanism

Mixed collection of items

Mixture of almost anything.

Everything but the kitchen sink.

Hodoscope

Maudlin jail (wordplay)

Prison for corny humorists (wordplay)

Turnaround time (wordplay)

Hokypoky

Holograph

3-D image-making process

Three D laser imagery

Producing hard copy for the 'Spectator' (wordplay)

Wholly or distinctively vegetable.

Homeopath

Study of cozy places (wordplay)

Nontraditional branch of medicine

Hospital may hope to offset treatment

Homeport

Lead and lead, for example

Homophobe

Theme in "Philadelphia"

Disliking or fearing homosexuals to an unreasonable degree.

Perhaps I eye hemp on Soho trip (wordplay)

Knight and night, for example

Chute and sHOot, for example

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

An homopter.

Hoofprint

Hoopskirt

In an incompetent manner

Rick Astley's follow-up hit to "Cry for Help"

Incompetently

""A loosely woven coarse fabric of cotton or linen, used in clothing.""

Cancer prognoses (wordplay)

All-star casts (wordplay)

Co-star contents

Horseplay

Equine political demand?

Hack's capacity for work (wordplay)

Engine's stable capacity (wordplay)

Horsepox

Horsewhip

Clinic admitting bishop, English kind

Welcoming to guests

Keeping open house.

In a hospitable manner.

Stolen drug found among churches' jumble

Confused medley

OTC market for mixed-up people (wordplay)

Hotpress

Hotpress

Does domestic work

Aspidistra, for one

Leaves inside (wordplay)

Potted palm, for one

PM, uh (wordplay)

The clear fluid portion of cytoplasm as distinguished from the granular and netlike components. Also called ground substance .

""The water cure; a mode of treating diseases by the copious and frequent use of pure water, both internally and externally.""

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

Submarine detecting device

An aquatic plant; an alga.

Motorboat with foils

Skim across water at high speed

Skim on a wet road

Growing without soil

Hydroelectric power.

Hydropsy

""The regions beneath the ocean's surface, especially when considered as an area to be studied.""

An instrument for recording automatically the variations of the humidity of the atmosphere.

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Botany) any plant that grows in wet or waterlogged soil hygrophytic   [ˌhaɪgrəˈfɪtɪk] adj HYPALGESIA (Medicine / Pathology) Pathol diminished sensitivity to pain hypalgesic   adj HYPEROSMIA (Medicine / Pathology) an abnormally acute sense of smell [from hyper- + Greek osmē odour]

""Geology Solidifying chiefly as a minor intrusion, especially as a dike or sill, before reaching the earth's surface. Used of rocks.""

Wholly or partly open to the sky: an ancient hypaethral temple.

Hypallage

""A fruit consisting in large part of a receptacle, enlarged below the calyx, as in the alycanthus, the rose hip, and the pear. alycanthus, the rose hip, and the pear.""

ACUTE a type of accent mark