2-Letter Words Starting with H

""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)

Hyracoid

Fits

Playing chess I try frenzied attacks

Fit of uncontrollable laughter or crying

Wildly emotional behaviour

Resembling a state of extreme emotion

As a general rule

Hackney

Beehive, page boy, etc.

Coiffures

Halophyte

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

King cobras

Smoothly and moderately, nautical style

How good tippers tip

In an attractive manner

Haplotype

In a benign manner

In a nonthreatening manner

HAUNTING the act of returning to memory

HECTICAL {hectic=adj}

Without paying attention

Shelley's novel about education without thought

In a heliacal manner.

Sun worship. See Sabianism. Sabianism.

(Laugh) uncontrollably

Impotently

In a vulnerable manner, ill sheep slaughtered without one knowing

Blood work (wordplay)

Study of blood

""∨, Hemelytrum One of the partially thickened anterior wings of certain insects, as of many Hemiptera, the earwigs, etc.""

Hemicycle

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Genetics) Genetics (of a chromosome or gene) not having a homologue; not paired in a diploid cell

""A bluish, copper-containing protein with an oxygen-carrying function similar to that of hemoglobin, present in the blood of certain mollusks and arthropods.""

Hemolymph

Hemolysin

Hemolyze

""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.""

A parenchymal cell of the liver.

Passed on by parents

Passed down from father to son

Passed on genetically

HERMAE herma

With valor

Stanley hit out with some doubt

Showing indecision he is the one colonist with only half

""A cell larger than the others, and of different appearance, occurring in certain alg\'91 related to nostoc.""

Non-traditional beliefs

Unconventional ideas

Non-conformism

""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.""

The process of fertilization in plants by an indirect or circuitous method; opposed to orthogamy. orthogamy.

Heterogenesis.

""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

HEXAPLOID

A character in symbolic writing

Character in Egyptian writing

Egyptian written symbol

Highflyer

DOT worker (wordplay)

Alfred Noyes subject.

Subject of a famous Alfred Noyes poem.

Certain robbers

They may have been responsible for early road hold-ups

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

Plural or third person singular

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

Child's toy - favourite topic

Morris dance accessory

It rocks, but goes nowhere

Maudlin jail (wordplay)

Prison for corny humorists (wordplay)

Turnaround time (wordplay)

Hokypoky

Holidayer

Not working

Actress Hunter visits a pawn shop (wordplay)

Flowers

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

3-D image-making process

Three D laser imagery

Producing hard copy for the 'Spectator' (wordplay)

Hologyny

Wholly or distinctively vegetable.

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

They're used to polish wooden decks

Study of cozy places (wordplay)

Nontraditional branch of medicine

Hospital may hope to offset treatment

Homonymy

Having the same name or designation; standing in the same relation; opposed to heteronymous. heteronymous.

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

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

Apian storage sites

Beeswax structures

Darling brushes up what Queen saw in The Maze perhaps

Term of endearment by one consuming bird

Bird with a long, protrusible tongue

Bird of the South Pacific

""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.""

Visits Niagara Falls (wordplay)

Postnuptial holidays

Happy days

Adverb

Folk-singing gathering

Musical get-together.

In America, thingummy's folk music party

In an incompetent manner

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

Incompetently

HORMONAL relating to hormones

Shocking, disgusting

Horseplay

In a hospitable manner.

HOUSEWIFE The wife of a householder; the mistress of a family; the female head of a household.

HUMBLING the act of {abasing=v}

Trickery

With wit

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

Hybridism

HYBRIDIZE To render hybrid; to produce by mixture of stocks.

One who hybridizes.

Hybridize

Hybridoma

Hydathode

Flowering plants; ashy garden (anagram)

Large-bloomed bushes

Cover up QPR broadcast bloomers

Hydration

Science of pipe and channel flow

Science of fluids

Fluid mechanics

Hydrazide

Hydrazine

Hydrocele

English word

Some commercial ferries

Boats with winglike blades

They fly on water

Hydrolase

Water

Hydrolyse

Chemical decomposition caused by water

Chemical breakdown in reaction with water

Chemical breakdown due to reaction with water

Tending to remove or separate water; eliminating water.

HYDROLYZE

Hydrolyze

""Divination by means of water, practiced by the ancients.""

Health spa putting limit on rule for lab equipment

Radiator-coolant & battery-electrolyte tester

Hydronium

""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

Hydrosere

HYDROSOL an aqueous solution of a colloid

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

Cover up music outfit's rumoured chemical cocktails (wordplay)

HYDROXYL the group containing oxygen and hydrogen

Hydrozoan

Hygienist

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

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]

Hylozoism

Hylozoist

HYMENEAL a wedding song or poem

""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

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.