2-Letter Words Starting with H

HEEDFUL paying close attention

In a wicked and odious manner

Outrageously wickedly

Boatman saved from abuse in holy order, shockingly

HELICAL shaped like a helix

HELLISH horrible

HELPFUL giving help

""A government by seven persons; also, a country under seven rulers.""

HERBIVORE One of the Herbivora.

Slowness to act

Indecisiveness.

Indecision

Abstract noun (-ity)

House idly refurbished in a frightful way

Nearly retreat, knowing how ugly sisters behave (wordplay)

Horribly

Status ranking system

System arranged in graded ranks

Governing levels of organisation

Clampett with two pairs (wordplay)

Jed Clampett, for one

Unsophisticated country person in USA

Branch of biology, studies the structure of tissue

Microscopic study of plant and animal tissues

Branch of biology that studies the microscopic structure of tissue

""HOGGISH coarsely selfish, also HOGLIKE""

Sameness of sound.

See Homogeny. Homogeny.

HOMOS homo

""In an honorable manner; in a manner showing, or consistent with, honor.""

If all goes well

Part 2 of the quotation

In a promising way

Messing about (as a steed?)

Boisterous antics in Equus (wordplay)

Drama about Trigger (wordplay)

Surprise in mid thirties for a British politician giving advice

Steps through church so described with enmity

A state of deep-seated ill-will

The wrong attitude if you're being an entertainer, perhaps

Aggression

HOWLING a mournful cry

HUGEOUS {huge=adj}

In haste

Within jury (wordplay)

Frugal; thrifty.

The business of farming

Thrift makes old man cut drink

Economical management or thrift

Hybridism.

""The science of water, its properties, phenomena, and distribution over the earth's surface.""

Music of a special form.

""GAMY plucky, also GAMEY""

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

As a general rule

Smoothly and moderately, nautical style

How good tippers tip

In an attractive manner

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

Passed on by parents

Passed down from father to son

Passed on genetically

With valor

Stanley hit out with some doubt

Showing indecision he is the one colonist with only half

Non-traditional beliefs

Unconventional ideas

Non-conformism

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.

HEXAPLOID

Maudlin jail (wordplay)

Prison for corny humorists (wordplay)

Turnaround time (wordplay)

3-D image-making process

Three D laser imagery

Producing hard copy for the 'Spectator' (wordplay)

Study of cozy places (wordplay)

Nontraditional branch of medicine

Hospital may hope to offset treatment

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

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

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

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

HYMENEAL a wedding song or poem

Study of saints

Biography of saintly person

Seminary study

Willy-nilly

At random

HAPHAZARD Extra hazard; chance; accident; random.

With great risk.

Dangerously

In callous fashion, she tells Ray off

Man naturally showing no compassion

With cruelty

Heartsome

Hectoring

HEDONIC pertaining to pleasure

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

In an heretical manner.

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

An abnormal state of the voice.

HETEROS hetero

In an hexagonal manner.

In a side-splitting way

Extremely amusingly

HISTORIC important in history

Gawky adolescent

Awkward youth.

HOMEOTHERM A homoiothermal animal.

Homicidal

Identicalness

Hortative

Kindness in welcoming guests

Cordial entertainment of guests

Readiness to welcome guests

In an impetuous way

Like one in a rage

Pertaining or appropriate to a housewife; domestic; economical; prudent.

Job of running home

- Finn (Mark Twain)

North American fruit

Finn of fiction

Humorless

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

ACUITY sharpness

PLOIDY the number of chromosomes in a cell

Enlargement of an organ or tissue

The C\'91sarean section. See under C\'91sarean. C\'91sarean.

Buttons, thread, etc.

Place to buy a tie

Buttons and bows etc

Habitableness.

Hardheaded

Harmonical

Harmonious

Abstract noun (-ity)

Heartening

In a heathenish manner.

In periods of seven days; weekly.

Hellacious

Abnormal enlargement of the liver.

In an heraldic manner; according to the rules of heraldry.

Herbicidal

By inheritance; in an hereditary manner.

The state of being heritable.

A way to be sealed

Completely (sealed)

(Done) with wavering or indecision

(Done) with indecisive pauses

Homeless dental hygienist working in indecisive manner

HETEROGAMETE

Having dissimilar leaves on one plant.

HETEROPLOID

HETEROTROPH

Hieratical

Memorable friend over time

HOLISTIC pertaining to {holism=n}

In an homonymous manner; so as to have the same name or relation.

Homosexual

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

Homozygous

Abstract noun (-ity)

At a right angle to the vertical

In relation to ground level

Mete out

Or only rushed (anagram)

HORRIFIC causing horror

Horrifying

The biological study of bodies of water.

""A usually congenital condition in which an abnormal accumulation of fluid in the cerebral ventricles causes enlargement of the skull and compression of the brain, destroying much of the neural tissue.""

HYDRONIC pertaining to heating and cooling by water

Use of water in a medical treatment

New trophy ready, supporting hospital's remedial treatment

In sanitary fashion

Hypabyssal

Minute edited from chirpy daytime broadcast is source of internal discomfort

They pray corruptly to frame detectives with one internal complaint

Under treatment (wordplay)

Treatment aimed at recovering suppressed memories

Happy then, or poorly, youth's beginning course of treatment

HYPNOTIC a sleep-inducing drug

DIPLOIDY the condition of being a diploid

""TONICITY normal, healthy bodily condition""

Pl. hysterectomies Surgical removal of part or all of the uterus.

In a wildly uncontrolled fashion

Without full effort (2 words)

Without enthusiasm

How copper might become coper, without much enthusiasm

Can holy ritual somehow be producing visions (wordplay)

""The natural history, or study, of worms, esp. parasitic worms.""

The state of being heterogeneous; contrariety.

""In a heuristic manner; by using a heuristic method; by serving as a heuristic method; as, a heuristically guided search technique; a heuristically valuable theory.as, a heuristically guided search technique; a heuristically valuable theory.""

Homogeneous

Homological

HOMOSEXUAL

Honorifical

The state or quality of being horizontal.

Humiliating

""HYDRAULIC Of or pertaining to hydraulics, or to fluids in motion; conveying, or acting by, water; as, an hydraulic clock, crane, or dock. as, an hydraulic clock, crane, or dock.""

Behavior some kids may exhibit today

MOBILITY the ability to move

SALINITY a concentration of salt

""TONICITY normal, healthy bodily condition""

VELOCITY rapidity of motion

""PITUITARY Secreting mucus or phlegm; as, the pituitary membrane, or the mucous membrane which lines the nasal cavities. as, the pituitary membrane, or the mucous membrane which lines the nasal cavities.""

Heading into hospital too soon, in agonising way

Heavyhearted

""HEDONISTIC Same as Hedonic, 2. Hedonic, 2.""

HEPATOTOXIC

Heterologous

Heterosexual

Having different alleles at one or more corresponding chromosomal loci.

Head first (wordplay)

Branch of science reduces him to hysterics

Histological

The study of the microscopic anatomical changes in diseased tissue.

The recording of past events

Histrionical

""HUMANISTIC Of or pertaining to humanity; as, humanistic devotion. as, humanistic devotion.""

Hydrological

HYDROLYTIC Tending to remove or separate water; eliminating water.

HYDROPHILIC

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

HYDROPONIC

Hydrothermal

The property possessed by vegetable tissues of absorbing or discharging moisture according to circumstances.

""HYPERBARIC 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.""

In the form of an hyperbola.

Hypercorrect

HYPERGOLIC

""PITUITARY Secreting mucus or phlegm; as, the pituitary membrane, or the mucous membrane which lines the nasal cavities. as, the pituitary membrane, or the mucous membrane which lines the nasal cavities.""

SEXUALITY The quality or state of being distinguished by sex.

Inflected form of SONICALLY Inflected form of SONIC pertaining to sound

VISCOSITY The quality or state of being viscous.

With a false sense of piety, needle judge and friend

HYPODERMIC Of or pertaining to the parts under the skin.

English word

In a hypostatic manner.

Said to be on drugs in a pitiful state, though not proven

HEARTBREAKING Causing overpowering sorrow.

Heliometrical