2-Letter Words Starting with H

""The condition of having two or more kinds of flowers, different as to the length of their stamens and pistils.""

Subordination or subjection to the law of another; political subjection of a community or state; opposed to autonomy. autonomy.

Polish and polish, e.g

Polish and polish, for example

Row and row, for example

English word

""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.""

The use of trial and error to reach solutions

Method for solving problems when all possibilities cannot be explored

Certain verse lines

Lines of verse in six feet

Wintered, in a way.

Lay dormant till spring in bad earth, in bed

Remained dormant in Ireland after one's left with Edward

Takes a long sleep.

Sleeps during winter

Sleeps through winter

Animal with a winter home

Hiddenite

Insect interpreting sacred mysteries?

Interpreter of sacred mysteries

Insect interpreting sacred mysteries (wordplay)

Calls attention to moons (wordplay)

Most important or exciting parts

Memorable parts of an event

Scrammed, with "it"

Hilarity

Hillcrest

Deer spots direction-finders at rear

Remote inland areas

Remote area of a country

Remote areas of a country

HIPSTER done that is hip

Hirsutism

They're released by the immune system

Histidine

""A relatively inactive, immobile macrophage found in normal connective tissue. Also called fixed macrophage .""

So this is refined and weighted for statistical displays

Pl. histologies The anatomical study of the microscopic structure of animal and plant tissues.

Plural or third person singular

The decay and dissolution of the organic tissues and of the blood.

Herodotus and Thucydides, for two

Toynbee, Beard, Motley, et al.

Commager and Durant

Like Sabatini's Nights

Popular form of fiction.

Like "Hamilton" and "1776"

This ironic novel is melodramatic

Of acting; dramatic

Like a ham's performance

""HITCHHIKE To travel by getting free rides from passing vehicles; as, to hitchhike across the country.as, to hitchhike across the country.""

One with a pick-up line (wordplay)

One looking for a free ride (wordplay)

Thumbs up for a seeker of cheap travel

Thumbs

Nearest on this side

During strike, warm flask can be no closer to my side

Whirred hat (anagram) - in this direction

HOACTZIN a tropical bird

Hoarfrost

Holocaust

Wholly or distinctively vegetable.

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

They're used to polish wooden decks

Homeopath

Study of cozy places (wordplay)

Nontraditional branch of medicine

Hospital may hope to offset treatment

A homoiothermal animal.

Homeport

Tracts acquired via an 1862 act

Free Soil Party issue

Family dwellings

Art of preaching house goes a long way before marks of approval are mentioned

Like John Singer Sargent's "Male Nudes Wrestling"

Like much of Shakespeare's and Sappho's love poetry

Uniform liquid suspension

Substance produced by the breaking up of eg fat globules

Homograft

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

An homopter.

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

Term of endearment by one consuming bird

Bird with a long, protrusible tongue

Bird of the South Pacific

Hoofprint

Hoopskirt

Folk-singing gathering

Musical get-together.

In America, thingummy's folk music party

What this answer isn't!

Gymnast's type of bar.

How this entry appears in the grid

Hornstone

Maker of timepieces

Watchmaker.

Watchmaker

Horsemint

Horseshit

They swat flies (2 words)

Marsh plants

*Fly flickers

Clinic admitting bishop, English kind

Welcoming to guests

Keeping open house.

In a hospitable manner.

People hiking, often, left in shelter so arranged

Hostel

Hostelry

Greeting at the door, serving the hors d'oeuvres, etc.

Stolen drug found among churches' jumble

Confused medley

OTC market for mixed-up people (wordplay)

Showoffs on the slopes

Showboaters

Showing off on skis

Showing off

Hurrying, with 'it'

Hurrying, with "it"

Hotpress

Hotpress

Water sheds (wordplay)

Kin of arks

Crafty residences for snaky type having time in theatrical venues

Fort Wayne's Congressman Dan R.

Casual garments

English word

Extra mouth to feed, maybe

Trundle bed user, perhaps

Resident of 55A

Cable splitters (wordplay)

Family, friends and cohabitants

Aspidistra, for one

Leaves inside (wordplay)

Potted palm, for one

Husband's past skill in an ACV

Air-cushion vehicle

Channel crosser's transportation

Advertised aggressively or questionably

Cultural

College courses (with "the").

Languages, literature, etc.

Non-scientific studies

Humectant

Device used in climate control

Moisture measure

Summertime percentages

Embarrassed

Mortified

Humiliate

Humility

""Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a humorist.""

Cents, dollarwise

Small pieces, half of them in old parts of county

Artemis and Diana

Hydathode

Hydration

Tending to remove or separate water; eliminating water.

Health spa putting limit on rule for lab equipment

Radiator-coolant & battery-electrolyte tester

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

An aquatic plant; an alga.

Hygienist

Instrument for measuring humidity

The merry-go-round instrument

Instrument of geometry replaced in short time

(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]

Hylozoist

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

""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

ALERT to {warn=v}

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

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)

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

Hypocotyl

Terrible ropy ethics of types like Moliere's Tartuffe

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

""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.""

""Pl. hystereses (-s z) The lagging of an effect behind its cause, as when the change in magnetism of a body lags behind changes in the magnetic field.""

(In physics) a lag between cause and effect

Of or pertaining to hysteresis.

Uncontrollably laughing or crying

Affected by wildly uncontrolled emotion

More than funny

Habiliment

Made fit, as for functioning in society

Fits out.

Living places.

HABITUATE To make accustomed; to accustom; to familiarize.

Addiction

Hackmatack

HAGGADIST

Very small distance.

Haircutter

Salon worker's job

Hairstreak

HAIRSTYLE

Entourage member, sometimes

Barber, modern style.

One doing dos

With a shrug, perhaps

Without enthusiasm or energy

Lacking in zeal

See what isn't there

Have strange visions

Experience unreal things

HALOGENATE

Halogenate

English word

English word

Handbasket

A space equal to the breadth of the hand; a palm.

Made without machinery

Manually made

Fancy end with hard fact, not out of factory

Handfast

Baskets, for example

Manually-made decorative items

Decorative skills

Biblical wall decor

That which is studied by a calligrapher

Passing around legal document or script

Scribbled, for example

Holographic

English word

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

Causes of "headaches."

""Not sensible to the bit; not easily governed; as, a hardmouthed horse. as, a hardmouthed horse.""

HARMONIC an {overtone=n}

Hartebeest

""HARVEST to gather in a crop, also HAIRST""

Fall, and this puzzle's theme

Fall of the year

Busy period on the farm

Hastiness

Hatchel

MALICE

Yellow sunflower

Proud quality

Arrogance

Headachy

Jobs that lice are well qualified for (wordplay)

Murderous types moving with a tender hush

Headhunt

Rest ashamed (anagram)

V.I.P.'s at prep schools

Scholastic titles great artists held no doubt

Informal chiefly US to place in or establish as headquarters

Headstream

Service chiefs (wordplay)

Dictators of a sort

Some restaurant VIPS

The state of being healthy or healthful; freedom from disease.

Shaw's "House" et al.

Major disappointments many, blackjack (nonverbal)

Emotional traumas

2 conceivably sad (wordplay)

Akin to Ruth "amid the alien corn."

Like one just jilted

Fireplace part, sometimes

Part of an open fireplace, often

Material forming a fireplace

In callous fashion, she tells Ray off

Man naturally showing no compassion

With cruelty

Heartsease

Heartsome

Lothario's list of lasses?

Lothario's list of lasses (wordplay)

It's not real, but it's still tugged on

Objects of infatuation

Matinee idols

Certain idols

Heathendom

Heathenism

HEATHENIZE To render heathen or heathenish.

Heathenize

Heatstroke

Most celestial