2-Letter Words Starting with H

ALERT to {warn=v}

AWARE knowing and alert

""Of, pertaining to, or using a pressure that is greater than normal atmospheric pressure; as, a hyperbaric chamber, where divers may decompress slowly to avoid the bends.as, a hyperbaric chamber, where divers may decompress slowly to avoid the bends.""

""Pl. hyperbolas or hyperbolae (-l ) A plane curve having two branches, formed by the intersection of a plane with both halves of a right circular cone at an angle parallel to the axis of the cone. It is the locus of points for which the difference of the distances from two given points is a constant.""

Hyperbola

Extravagant exaggerations

Over the top

Type of geometry

Like some geometric curves

Hypercube

Hyperemia

HYPERGOL a rocket fuel

MANIA an excessive or unreasonable desire; a craze

MANIC one who is affected with mania

A verse which has a redundant syllable or foot; a hypercatalectic verse.

Hyperopia

PLANE to make smooth and even

Having a chromosome number greater than but not an exact multiple of the normal euploid number.

Hyperpnea

Abnormally deep or rapid breathing.

Faster than Mach 5

Very much faster than sound

Why person ice-skating circles very fast (wordplay)

A helluva keyboard key (wordplay)

(In sci-fi) the fourth dimension

Four-dimensional realm

TENSE to make {taut=adj}

Hypertext

Pathology The state of being hypertonic.

""Having a higher osmotic pressure than a comparison solution; -- of an aqueous solution. Increasing the concentration of dissolved solids increases the osmotic pressure, and thus the tonicity of a solution. Opposite of hypotonic and contrasting with isotonic.hypotonic and contrasting with isotonic.""

Broken, in a way

Like well-connected characters

Having bars, like well-known watering-holes

Strings two words together

Turns section of poultry farm into co-op (wordplay)

HYPHEN to connect words with a punctuation mark

Leading to sleep; applied to the illusions of one who is half asleep.

Variant of hypnagogic .

Hypnotism

People are entranced by their performances

Open to suggestions, say

Bewitched, in a way.

Spellbound

Puts into a trance

Hypoblast

Hypocaust

CENTER to place at the middle point

Baby talk spoken by adults

Hypocotyl

Terrible ropy ethics of types like Moliere's Tartuffe

DERMAL relating to the derm

Like a flu shot

Type of syringe

Kind of needle

Same as Hypoblast. Hypoblast.

Hypogyny

""Inserted below the pistil or pistils; said of sepals, petals, and stamens; having the sepals, petals, and stamens inserted below the pistil; said of a flower or a plant.""

""The layer of water in a thermally stratified lake that lies below the thermocline, is noncirculating, and remains perpetually cold.""

Hypomania

Hypomorph

PHYSES physis

""See Pituitary body, under Pituitary. Pituitary body, under Pituitary.""

""Size a condition in which tissue or an organ of the body fails to grow to normal size. Cf. hypertrophy . ; hypoplastic ,""

Hypoploid

STASES stasis

That which forms the basis of anything; underlying principle; a concept or mental entity conceived or treated as an existing being or thing.

STATIC random noise produced in a radio or television receiver

Hypostome

Hypostyle

TACTIC a manoeuvre for gaining an objective

Side facing a corner (wordplay)

Longest side of a right-angled triangle

Longest side of right-angled triangle

Scientists' formulations

Assumptions

It's tested using the scientific method

A tentative theory

Injection before the son is 21

Hypotonia

Hypoxemia

""An instrument for measuring heights by observation of barometric pressure; esp., one for determining heights by ascertaining the boiling point of water. It consists of a vessel for water, with a lamp for heating it, and an inclosed thermometer for showing the temperature of ebullition.""

Study of saints

Biography of saintly person

Seminary study

Hagioscope

""HAGIOSCOPE An opening made in the interior walls of a cruciform church to afford a view of the altar to those in the transepts; called, in architecture, a squint. squint.""

Hairspring

Halfpenny

Adjective (-ic)

""A tranquilizer, C 21 H 23 ClFNO 2 , used especially in the treatment of psychotic disorders, including schizophrenia, and also in the management of Tourette's syndrome.""

Disadvantaged, or given an advantage

Wasn't up to scratch, suffering from some disability

Disabled

One who deals with books

Job involving prediction

Race-track habitue

Handpick

Handpress

Things done in the gym

Floor routine components

Acrobatic feats

English word

Willy-nilly

At random

HAPHAZARD Extra hazard; chance; accident; random.

HAPLESS {luckless=adj}

Haplology

Happiness

A plasma protein that is a normal constituent of blood serum and functions in the binding of free hemoglobin in the bloodstream.

Instrument rich and sharp, do play!

Member of Set 2

Old keyboard instrument

Harrumph

Headspring

""A type of schizophrenia characterized by foolish mannerisms, senseless laughter, delusions, hallucinations, and regressive behavior.""

""A type of schizophrenia characterized by foolish mannerisms, senseless laughter, delusions, hallucinations, and regressive behavior.""

Hectograph

Hedgehop

Low-flying plane

Crop-dusting plane

Crop sprayer

Pilot cheers whirling aircraft

Smothery parents' analogues

Hovercraft pilot cheers wildly

Helicopt

Heliograph

Heliotrope

Responding to sunlight

(Of plant) moving in response to sunlight

HELPFUL giving help

Having the two ends modified with unlike planes; said of a crystal.

Hemiplegia

Hemiplegic

Hemipteran

Of or pertaining to the Hemiptera.

The cerebrum and cerebellum are divided into two of these

""HEMISPHERE A half sphere; one half of a sphere or globe, when divided by a plane passing through its center.""

Alexis, son of Nicholas II, was one

Hemophilia

Hemophilic

Plural or third person singular

Variant of hematopoiesis .

Variant of hematopoiesis .

English word

HEPARIN a biochemical

Pl. hepatectomies Surgical removal of all or part of the liver.

""HEPATITE a mineral,a variety of barytes""

Hepatocyte

The quality or condition of being toxic or destructive to the liver.

Heptachlor

Lines of seven metrical feet

Heptarchy

""Any of several dozen DNA-containing virus of the family Herpetoviridae, including among them such human-disease-causing agents as Herpes simplex virus causing oral and genital herpes, varicella-zoster virus (Herpes zoster virus) causing shingles and chickenpox (varicella), Epstein-Barr virus (EB virus) causing infectious mononucleosis, and Cytomegalovirus.Herpetoviridae, including among them such human-disease-causing agents as Herpes simplex virus causing oral and genital herpes, varicella-zoster virus (Herpes zoster virus) causing shingles and chickenpox (varicella), Epstein-Barr virus (EB virus) causing infectious mononucleosis, and Cytomegalovirus.""

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

Hesperidin

""A large berry with a thick rind, as a lemon or an orange.""

English word

An abnormal state of the voice.

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

HETEROS hetero

Medicine a. Occurring in an abnormal anatomic location: heterotopic bone formation.

An organism that cannot synthesize its own food and is dependent on complex organic substances for nutrition.

""Biology Of, relating to, or being the reduction division of meiosis.""

Characters in Egyptian mythology

Hierophant

Hippiness

Of or pertaining to the hippocampus.

Bit of a brain in a beastly university!

Hangout for Hyacinth in "Fantasia" (wordplay)

Fish-tailed horse-like mythical sea monster

Hippocras

Hippodrome

Hippogriff

Large semi-aquatic mammals

Aquatic Afr. mammals

Semi-aquatic mammals

Hipsterism

Hispanidad

Motley assortments

Hokeypokey

Holograph

Holograph

Involving 3-D photography

In work at hospital in charge of alternative medicine

Homeport

Employing a single and separate character to represent each sound; said of certain methods of spelling words.

Similar in form

Homophobia

Homophony

""Originally, sounding alike; of the same pitch; unisonous; monodic.""

Homoplasy

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

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Homopteran

Of or pertaining to the Homoptera.

Homospory

Producing spores of one kind only.

Anticipation

Optimism

Hopsacking

Played a child's game

Plays a child's game

Equus actor (wordplay)

Masochist of a sort

Horsepower

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.""

Hotpress

Perfect job for Dustin (wordplay)

Part 2 of the quote

I run home

""A person who supervises a residence, such as a dormitory, for young people.""

""A person employed to perform housekeeping tasks, as in a hotel.""

Houseplant

Hyaloplasm

""The art of measuring and describing the sea, lakes, rivers, and other waters, with their phenomena.""

HYDROPATH A hydropathist.

Hydrophane

HYDROPHILE

Fear of rinsing (wordplay)

A symptom of rabies

Rabies; aversion to water

""Of or pertaining to hydrophobia; producing or caused by rabies; as, hydrophobic symptoms; the hydrophobic poison. as, hydrophobic symptoms; the hydrophobic poison.""

Hydrophone

Hydrophyte

HYDROPHYTE An aquatic plant; an alga.

Extremely heavy fall over inland Spain that skimmed water

Hydroplane

The growing of plants without soil

Technique of growing plants in water without soil

Cultivation of plants in liquid nutrient solutions rather than in soil

Hydropower

Hydrospace

The aqueous vapor of the entire atmosphere.

""Turning or bending towards moisture, as roots.""

Hygrograph

Hygrophyte

HYGROPHYTE

Absorbing moisture from the air

Order of ants

Order of four-winged insects

Order of insects with four transparent wings

Abnormally busy or lively

Unusually energetic

Abnormally energetic

ACUITY sharpness

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.""