2-Letter Words Starting with H

Deviating from ordinary forms or rules; irregular; anomalous; abnormal.

Containing more than one kind of atom joined in a ring.

English word

HEXAHYDRATE

HIERARCH a religious leader

An enzyme that catalyzes the inactivation of histamine and is found in the digestive system.

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

Sauce in salad tossed into jam

Sauce used with fish

Sauce, eg for asparagus

Fragrant flowering climber

Bell-shaped flower that smells lovely

Fragrant bell-shaped flower

Adjective meaning resembling

Swindle, to a rube

Swindle, rustic style.

Deceive, per the list

I steal one posh mobile to put in an 'H'

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

Belonging to the hyacinth; resemblingthe hyacinth; in color like the hyacinth.

""An antihypertensive drug, C 8 H 8 N 4 .""

An enzyme in certain microorganisms that catalyzes the hydrolysis or reduction of a substrate by molecular hydrogen.

To hydrogenize.

HYDROLYSE

HYDROLYZE

The aqueous vapor of the entire atmosphere.

English word

HYDROXYL the group containing oxygen and hydrogen

Antihistaminic drug

""An alkaloid found in henbane (Hyoscyamus niger), and regarded as its active principle. It is also found with other alkaloids in the thorn apple and deadly nightshade. It is extracted as a white crystalline substance, with a sharp, offensive taste. Hyoscyamine is isomeric with atropine, is very poisonous, and is used as a medicine for neuralgia, like belladonna. Called also hyoscyamia, duboisine, etc. Hyoscyamus niger), and regarded as its active principle. It is also found with other alkaloids in the thorn apple and deadly nightshade. It is extracted as a white crystalline substance, with a sharp, offensive taste. Hyoscyamine is isomeric with atropine, is very poisonous, and is used as a medicine for neuralgia, like belladonna. Called also hyoscyamia, duboisine, etc.""

Abnormally busy or lively

Unusually energetic

Abnormally energetic

To speak or write with exaggeration.

CHARGE to make an attack

IMMUNE one who is exempt from disease or danger

SALINE a salt solution

""An orthorhombic mineral of the pyroxene group, of a grayish or greenish black color, often with a peculiar bronzelike luster (schiller) on the cleavage surface.""

""To make into, or regarded as, a separate and distinct substance.""

TENSIVE causing tensity

Pledge by photo-fixer, Felix East

Same as Hypotenuse. Hypotenuse.

Make a tentative assumption

Believe on uncertain grounds

Propose, in a way

A happenstance.

Chance expression of disgust about change involving co-star of Oliver!

Fellow writer getting caught out by attitude that wasn't planned

Writer bumping into ten chaps, a peculiar coincidence

Yielding little for much toil

Demanding and unrewarding

Board game played with no vowels (wordplay)

Play by Terence Rattigan

Traditional pantomime episode

Pantomime; buffoonery

""The large brownish aquatic larva of the dobsonfly, often used as fishing bait. Also called dobson , snake doctor .""

HEMICHORDATE

""In the preceding part of this (writing, document, book, etc.).""

""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 .""

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

Science of gardening

The cultivation of plants

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

HYDROLYZE

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

""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.""

INTENSE existing in a high degree

MUTABLE capable of change

SURFACE to apply an outer layer to

Having abnormally high blood pressure.

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

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

XANTHINE a chemical compound

""Any of several polysaccharides that are more complex than a sugar and less complex than cellulose, found in plant cell walls and produced commercially from corn grain hulls.""

One could be adept: him or her (wordplay)

Person having both male and female characteristics

Female and male goddess joins together as this (wordplay)

""An enzyme that catalyzes the breakdown of hyaluronic acid in the body, thereby increasing tissue permeability to fluids. Also called spreading factor .""

""A compound of hydrochloric acid with a base; distinguished from a chloride, where only chlorine unites with the base. chloride, where only chlorine unites with the base.""

English word

""A nitrogenous, organic base, NH2.OH, resembling ammonia, and produced by a modified reduction of nitric acid. It is usually obtained as a volatile, unstable solution in water. It acts as a strong reducing agent. NH2.OH, resembling ammonia, and produced by a modified reduction of nitric acid. It is usually obtained as a volatile, unstable solution in water. It acts as a strong reducing agent.""

""IMMUNIZE to render immune from infection, also IMMUNISE""

PARASITE an organism that lives and feeds on another

""POLARIZE to give polarity to, also POLARISE""

REACTIVE tending to react

""SENSITIZE To render sensitive, or susceptible of being easily acted on by the actinic rays of the sun; as, sensitized paper or plate. as, sensitized paper or plate.""

HEMAGGLUTINATE

HEMOFLAGELLATE

English word

""A steroid hormone, C 21 H 30 O 5 , produced by the adrenal cortex, that regulates carbohydrate metabolism and maintains blood pressure. Also called cortisol .""

""The principal bone salt, Ca 5 (PO 4 ) 3 OH, which provides the compressional strength of vertebrate bone.""

""A crystalline amino acid (C5H9NO3), a hydroxylated proline, obtained by hydrolysis of gelatin or collagen. Chemically it is 4-hydroxy-L-proline. It is classified as nonessential for growth in rats.C5H9NO3), a hydroxylated proline, obtained by hydrolysis of gelatin or collagen. Chemically it is 4-hydroxy-L-proline. It is classified as nonessential for growth in rats.""

""EXCITABLE Capable of being excited, or roused into action; susceptible of excitement; easily stirred up, or stimulated.""

IRRITABLE Capable of being irriated.

MASCULINE Of the male sex; not female.

Abnormally quick to react

""SENSITIZE To render sensitive, or susceptible of being easily acted on by the actinic rays of the sun; as, sensitized paper or plate. as, sensitized paper or plate.""

""STIMULATE To excite as if with a goad; to excite, rouse, or animate, to action or more vigorous exertion by some pungent motive or by persuasion; as, to stimulate one by the hope of reward, or by the prospect of glory. as, to stimulate one by the hope of reward, or by the prospect of glory.""

Experience a lack of oxygen, perhaps

Breath abnormally rapidly

Show stress

VIGILANCE The quality or state of being vigilant; forbearance of sleep; wakefulness.

A metrical line of eleven syllables.

""A colorless crystalline compound, Cl 3 CCCl 3 , that is used as a camphor substitute and in pyrotechnics, explosives, and veterinary medicine.""

""An almost odorless white powder, (C 6 HCl 3 OH) 2 CH 2 , used as a disinfectant and as an antibacterial agent in soaps.""

English word

""AGGRESSIVE Tending or disposed to aggress; having or showing determination and energetic pursuit of one's own ends at the expense of others or mindless of others' needs or desires; characterized by aggression; making assaults; unjustly attacking; as, an aggressive policy, war, person, nation; an aggressive businessman; an aggressive basketball player; he was aggressive and imperious in his convictions; aggressive drivers. Opposite of unaggressive.as, an aggressive policy, war, person, nation; an aggressive businessman; an aggressive basketball player; he was aggressive and imperious in his convictions; aggressive drivers. Opposite of unaggressive.""

COAGULABLE Capable of being coagulated.

RESPONSIVE That responds; ready or inclined to respond.

SOMNOLENCE