| headcheese | (noun) sausage or jellied loaf made of chopped parts of the head meat and sometimes feet and tongue of a calf or pig | - |
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| headcount | (noun) number of people in a particular group | Synonyms: head count |
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| headcounter | (noun) someone who conducts surveys of public opinion | Synonyms: canvasser, poll taker, pollster |
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| headdress | (noun) clothing for the head | Synonyms: headgear |
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| header | (noun) (soccer) the act of hitting the ball with your head | - |
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| (noun) a headlong jump (or fall) | - |
| (noun) a machine that cuts the heads off grain and moves them into a wagon | - |
| (noun) a framing member crossing and supporting the ends of joists, studs, or rafters so as to transfer their weight to parallel joists, studs, or rafters | - |
| (noun) brick that is laid sideways at the top of a wall | Synonyms: cope, coping |
| (noun) horizontal beam used as a finishing piece over a door or window | Synonyms: lintel |
| (noun) a line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about | Synonyms: head, heading |
| headfast | (noun) a mooring line that secures the bow of a boat or ship to a wharf | - |
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| headfish | (noun) among the largest bony fish; pelagic fish having an oval compressed body with high dorsal and anal fins and caudal fin reduced to a rudder-like lobe; worldwide in warm waters | Synonyms: mola, ocean sunfish, sunfish |
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| headful | (noun) a covering over the surface of your head | - |
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| (noun) the quantity of information that a head will hold | - |
| headgear | (noun) clothing for the head | Synonyms: headdress |
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| (noun) stable gear consisting of any part of a harness that fits about the horse's head | - |
| (noun) the hoist at the pithead of a mine | - |
| headhunter | (noun) a savage who cuts off and preserves the heads of enemies as trophies | Synonyms: head-shrinker |
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| (noun) a recruiter of personnel (especially for corporations) | - |
| headiness | (noun) The characteristic of being intoxicating or stupefying. | - |
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| (noun) The characteristic of being exhilarating, tending to upset the mind or senses. | - |
| heading | (noun) a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine | Synonyms: drift, gallery |
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| (noun) a line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about | Synonyms: head, header |
| (noun) the direction or path along which something moves or along which it lies | Synonyms: aim, bearing |
| headlamp | (noun) a powerful light with reflector; attached to the front of an automobile or locomotive | Synonyms: headlight |
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| headland | (noun) a natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out into the sea) | Synonyms: foreland, head, promontory |
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| headlight | (noun) a powerful light with reflector; attached to the front of an automobile or locomotive | Synonyms: headlamp |
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| headline | (noun) the heading or caption of a newspaper article | Synonyms: newspaper headline |
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| headliner | (noun) a performer who receives prominent billing | Synonyms: star |
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| headlinese | (noun) using the abbreviated style of headline writers | - |
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| headlock | (noun) a wrestling hold in which the opponent's head is locked between the crook of your elbow and the side of your body | - |
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| headman | (noun) the head of a tribe or clan | Synonyms: chief, chieftain, tribal chief |
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| (noun) an executioner who beheads the condemned person | Synonyms: headsman |
| headmaster | (noun) presiding officer of a school | Synonyms: master, schoolmaster |
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| headmastership | (noun) the position of headmaster | - |
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| headmistress | (noun) a woman headmaster | - |
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| headmistressship | (noun) the position of headmistress | - |
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| headphone | (noun) electro-acoustic transducer for converting electric signals into sounds; it is held over or inserted into the ear | Synonyms: earphone, earpiece, phone |
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| headpiece | (noun) a protective helmet for the head | - |
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| (noun) the band that is the part of a bridle that fits around a horse's head | Synonyms: headstall |
| headpin | (noun) the front bowling pin in the triangular arrangement of ten pins | Synonyms: kingpin |
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| headquarters | (noun) the military installation from which a commander performs the functions of command | Synonyms: HQ, military headquarters |
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| (noun) (usually plural) the office that serves as the administrative center of an enterprise | Synonyms: central office, home base, home office, main office |
| (noun) (plural) a military unit consisting of a commander and the headquarters staff | - |
| headrace | (noun) a waterway that feeds water to a mill or water wheel or turbine | - |
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| headrest | (noun) a rest for the head | - |
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| (noun) a cushion attached to the top of the back of an automobile's seat to prevent whiplash | Synonyms: head restraint |
| headroom | (noun) the capacity of a system to reproduce loud sounds without distortion | Synonyms: dynamic headroom |
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| (noun) vertical space available to allow easy passage under something | Synonyms: clearance, headway |
| headsail | (noun) any sail set forward of the foremast of a vessel | - |
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| headscarf | (noun) a kerchief worn over the head and tied under the chin | - |
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| headset | (noun) receiver consisting of a pair of headphones | - |
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| headshake | (noun) the act of turning your head left and right to signify denial or disbelief or bemusement | Synonyms: headshaking |
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| headshaking | (noun) the act of turning your head left and right to signify denial or disbelief or bemusement | Synonyms: headshake |
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| headship | (noun) the position of head | - |
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| (noun) the position of headmaster or headmistress | - |
| headshot | (noun) a shot aimed at a person's head | - |
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| (noun) an attempt to put the soccer ball into the net by using the head | - |
| (noun) a photograph of a person's head | - |
| headsman | (noun) an executioner who beheads the condemned person | Synonyms: headman |
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| headspace | (noun) the volume left at the top of a filled container (bottle or jar or tin) before sealing | - |
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| headspring | (noun) the source of water from which a stream arises | Synonyms: fountainhead, head |
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| headstall | (noun) the band that is the part of a bridle that fits around a horse's head | Synonyms: headpiece |
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| headstand | (noun) an acrobatic feat in which a person balances on the head (usually with the help of the hands) | - |
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| headstay | (noun) the farthest forward forestay that runs from the bow or bowsprit to the top of the mast. | - |
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| headstock | (noun) the stationary support in a machine or power tool that supports and drives a revolving part (as a chuck or the spindle on a lathe) | - |
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| headstone | (noun) the central building block at the top of an arch or vault | Synonyms: key, keystone |
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| (noun) a stone that is used to mark a grave | Synonyms: gravestone, tombstone |
| headstream | (noun) a stream that forms the source of a river | - |
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| headwaiter | (noun) a dining-room attendant who is in charge of the waiters and the seating of customers | Synonyms: captain, maitre d', maitre d'hotel |
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| headwater | (noun) the source of a river | - |
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| headway | (noun) forward movement | Synonyms: head |
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| (noun) vertical space available to allow easy passage under something | Synonyms: clearance, headroom |
| headwind | (noun) wind blowing opposite to the path of a ship or aircraft | - |
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| headword | (noun) a word placed at the beginning of a line or paragraph (as in a dictionary entry) | - |
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| (noun) a content word that can be qualified by a modifier | Synonyms: head word |
| hogshead | (noun) a large cask especially one holding 63 gals | - |
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| (noun) a British unit of capacity for alcoholic beverages | - |
| homestead | (noun) dwelling that is usually a farmhouse and adjoining land | - |
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| (noun) the home and adjacent grounds occupied by a family | - |
| (noun) land acquired from the United States public lands by filing a record and living on and cultivating it under the homestead law | - |
| homesteader | (noun) someone who settles lawfully on government land with the intent to acquire title to it | Synonyms: nester, squatter |
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| horsehead | (noun) any of several silvery marine fishes with very flat bodies | Synonyms: Atlantic moonfish, dollarfish, horse-head, horsefish, moonfish, Selene setapinnis |
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| hothead | (noun) a reckless impetuous irresponsible person | Synonyms: daredevil, harum-scarum, lunatic, madcap, swashbuckler |
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| (noun) a belligerent grouch | Synonyms: fire-eater |
| knucklehead | (noun) a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence | Synonyms: blockhead, bonehead, dumbass, dunce, dunderhead, fuckhead, hammerhead, loggerhead, lunkhead, muttonhead, numskull, shithead |
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| lead | (noun) the playing of a card to start a trick in bridge | - |
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| (noun) a position of being the initiator of something and an example that others will follow (especially in the phrase `take the lead') | - |
| (noun) a jumper that consists of a short piece of wire | Synonyms: booster cable, jumper cable, jumper lead |
| (noun) thin strip of metal used to separate lines of type in printing | Synonyms: leading |
| (noun) restraint consisting of a rope (or light chain) used to restrain an animal | Synonyms: leash, tether |
| (noun) the timing of ignition relative to the position of the piston in an internal-combustion engine | Synonyms: spark advance |
| (noun) an advantage held by a competitor in a race | - |
| (noun) evidence pointing to a possible solution | Synonyms: track, trail |
| (noun) a news story of major importance | Synonyms: lead story |
| (noun) the introductory section of a story | Synonyms: lead-in, lede |
| (noun) an indication of potential opportunity | Synonyms: confidential information, hint, steer, tip, wind |
| (noun) (baseball) the position taken by a base runner preparing to advance to the next base | - |
| (noun) an actor who plays a principal role | Synonyms: principal, star |
| (noun) (sports) the score by which a team or individual is winning | - |
| (noun) the angle between the direction a gun is aimed and the position of a moving target (correcting for the flight time of the missile) | - |
| (noun) mixture of graphite with clay in different degrees of hardness; the marking substance in a pencil | Synonyms: pencil lead |
| (noun) a soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element; bluish white when freshly cut but tarnishes readily to dull grey | Synonyms: atomic number 82, Pb |
| leader | (noun) a featured article of merchandise sold at a loss in order to draw customers | Synonyms: drawing card, loss leader |
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| (noun) a person who rules or guides or inspires others | - |
| leaders | (noun) the body of people who lead a group | Synonyms: leadership |
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| leadership | (noun) the activity of leading | Synonyms: leading |
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| (noun) the ability to lead | - |
| (noun) the body of people who lead a group | Synonyms: leaders |
| (noun) the status of a leader | - |
| leading | (noun) thin strip of metal used to separate lines of type in printing | Synonyms: lead |
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| (noun) the activity of leading | Synonyms: leadership |
| leadplant | (noun) shrub of sandy woodlands and stream banks of western United States having hoary pinnate flowers and dull-colored racemose flowers; thought to indicate the presence of lead ore | Synonyms: Amorpha canescens, lead plant |
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| leadwort | (noun) a plant of the genus Plumbago with blue flowers | Synonyms: Plumbago europaea |
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| letterhead | (noun) a sheet of stationery with name and address of the organization printed at the top | - |
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| levelheadedness | (noun) the property of having or showing sound judgment. | - |
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| lightheadedness | (noun) a frivolous lack of prudence | - |
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| (noun) a reeling sensation; a feeling that you are about to fall | Synonyms: dizziness, giddiness, vertigo |
| limeade | (noun) sweetened beverage of lime juice and water | - |
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| lipreading | (noun) perceiving what a person is saying by observing the movements of the lips | - |
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| loggerhead | (noun) very large carnivorous sea turtle; wide-ranging in warm open seas | Synonyms: Caretta caretta, loggerhead turtle |
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| (noun) a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence | Synonyms: blockhead, bonehead, dumbass, dunce, dunderhead, fuckhead, hammerhead, knucklehead, lunkhead, muttonhead, numskull, shithead |
| lunkhead | (noun) a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence | Synonyms: blockhead, bonehead, dumbass, dunce, dunderhead, fuckhead, hammerhead, knucklehead, loggerhead, muttonhead, numskull, shithead |
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| maidenhead | (noun) a fold of tissue that partly covers the entrance to the vagina of a virgin | Synonyms: hymen, virginal membrane |
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| makeready | (noun) final preparation and adjustments | - |
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| masthead | (noun) the head or top of a mast | - |
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| (noun) the title of a newspaper or magazine; usually printed on the front page and on the editorial page | - |
| (noun) a listing printed in all issues of a newspaper or magazine (usually on the editorial page) that gives the name of the publication and the names of the editorial staff, etc. | Synonyms: flag |
| mead | (noun) made of fermented honey and water | - |
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| meadow | (noun) a piece of land covered or mostly covered with grass; a field where grass or alfalfa are grown to be made into hay | Synonyms: hayfield |
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| meadowgrass | (noun) any of various grasses that thrive in the presence of abundant moisture | Synonyms: meadow grass |
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| meadowlark | (noun) North American songbirds having a yellow breast | Synonyms: lark |
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| metalhead | (noun) a fan of heavy metal music | - |
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| midspread | (noun) a measure of statistical dispersion, being equal to the difference between the upper and lower quartiles. | Synonyms: interquartile range, middle fifty |
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| misleader | (noun) someone who leads astray (often deliberately) | - |
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| misleadingness | (noun) The quality of being deceptive or tending to mislead or create a false impression. | - |
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| misreading | (noun) misinterpretation caused by inaccurate reading | - |
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| muttonhead | (noun) a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence | Synonyms: blockhead, bonehead, dumbass, dunce, dunderhead, fuckhead, hammerhead, knucklehead, loggerhead, lunkhead, numskull, shithead |
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| nailhead | (noun) flattened boss on the end of nail opposite to the point | - |
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| (noun) something resembling the head of a nail that is used as an ornamental device | - |
| newsreader | (noun) someone who reads out broadcast news bulletin | Synonyms: news reader |
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| nonreader | (noun) a student who is very slow in learning to read | - |
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| (noun) a person unable to read | Synonyms: illiterate, illiterate person |
| orangeade | (noun) sweetened beverage of diluted orange juice | - |
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| overhead | (noun) a hard return hitting the tennis ball above your head | Synonyms: smash |
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| (noun) (nautical) the top surface of an enclosed space on a ship | - |
| (noun) a transparency for use with an overhead projector | Synonyms: viewgraph |
| (noun) (computer science) the disk space required for information that is not data but is used for location and timing | Synonyms: disk overhead |
| (noun) the expense of maintaining property (e.g., paying property taxes and utilities and insurance); it does not include depreciation or the cost of financing or income taxes | Synonyms: budget items, operating cost, operating expense |
| (noun) (computer science) the processing time required by a device prior to the execution of a command | Synonyms: command overhead, command processing overhead, command processing overhead time |
| packthread | (noun) a strong three-ply twine used to sew or tie packages | - |
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| pigheadedness | (noun) resolute adherence to your own ideas or desires | Synonyms: bullheadedness, obstinacy, obstinance, self-will, stubbornness |
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| pinhead | (noun) the head of a pin | - |
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| (noun) an ignorant or foolish person | Synonyms: boob, booby, dope, dumbbell, dummy |
| pithead | (noun) the entrance to a coal mine | - |
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| pleader | (noun) a lawyer who pleads cases in court | Synonyms: advocate, counsel, counsellor, counselor-at-law, counselor |
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| pleading | (noun) (law) a statement in legal and logical form stating something on behalf of a party to a legal proceeding | - |
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| pothead | (noun) someone who smokes marijuana habitually | - |
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| proofreader | (noun) someone who reads proof in order to find errors and mark corrections | Synonyms: reader |
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| railhead | (noun) a railroad depot in a theater of operations where military supplies are unloaded for distribution | - |
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| (noun) the end of the completed track on an unfinished railway | - |
| read | (noun) something that is read | - |
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