| abfarad | (noun) a capacitance unit equal to one billion farads | - |
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| ad | (noun) a public promotion of some product or service | Synonyms: advert, advertisement, advertising, advertizement, advertizing |
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| addlehead | (noun) a person with confused ideas; incapable of serious thought | Synonyms: addle-head, birdbrain, loon |
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| airhead | (noun) a bridgehead seized by airborne troops | - |
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| (noun) a flighty scatterbrained simpleton | - |
| alidad | (noun) surveying instrument used with a plane table for drawing lines of sight on a distant object and for measuring angles | Synonyms: alidade |
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| (noun) surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments | Synonyms: alidade |
| aoudad | (noun) wild sheep of northern Africa | Synonyms: Ammotragus lervia, arui, audad, Barbary sheep, maned sheep |
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| arrowhead | (noun) the pointed head or striking tip of an arrow | - |
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| asclepiad | (noun) any plant of the family Asclepiadaceae | - |
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| audad | (noun) wild sheep of northern Africa | Synonyms: Ammotragus lervia, aoudad, arui, Barbary sheep, maned sheep |
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| bad | (noun) that which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency | Synonyms: badness |
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| baldhead | (noun) a person whose head is bald or shaved | Synonyms: baldpate, baldy, skin, skinhead |
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| ballad | (noun) a narrative poem of popular origin | Synonyms: lay |
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| (noun) a narrative song with a recurrent refrain | Synonyms: lay |
| beachhead | (noun) an initial accomplishment that opens the way for further developments | Synonyms: foothold |
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| (noun) a bridgehead on the enemy's shoreline seized by an amphibious operation | - |
| bead | (noun) a small ball with a hole through the middle | - |
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| (noun) a beaded molding for edging or decorating furniture | Synonyms: astragal, beading, beadwork |
| (noun) a shape that is spherical and small | Synonyms: drop, pearl |
| bedspread | (noun) decorative cover for a bed | Synonyms: bed cover, bed covering, bedcover, counterpane, spread |
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| bedstead | (noun) the framework of a bed | Synonyms: bedframe |
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| beebread | (noun) a mixture of nectar and pollen prepared by worker bees and fed to larvae | Synonyms: ambrosia |
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| bighead | (noun) any of various diseases of animals characterized by edema of the head and neck | - |
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| bignoniad | (noun) any woody plant of the family Bignoniaceae | - |
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| bitthead | (noun) the upper end of a bitt | - |
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| blackhead | (noun) a black-tipped plug clogging a pore of the skin | Synonyms: comedo |
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| blockhead | (noun) a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence | Synonyms: bonehead, dumbass, dunce, dunderhead, fuckhead, hammerhead, knucklehead, loggerhead, lunkhead, muttonhead, numskull, shithead |
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| bluehead | (noun) small Atlantic wrasse the male of which has a brilliant blue head | Synonyms: Thalassoma bifasciatum |
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| boatload | (noun) the amount of cargo that can be held by a boat or ship or a freight car | Synonyms: carload, shipload |
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| bonehead | (noun) a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence | Synonyms: blockhead, dumbass, dunce, dunderhead, fuckhead, hammerhead, knucklehead, loggerhead, lunkhead, muttonhead, numskull, shithead |
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| bonnethead | (noun) small harmless hammerhead having a spade-shaped head; abundant in bays and estuaries | Synonyms: bonnet shark, shovelhead, Sphyrna tiburo |
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| bowhead | (noun) large-mouthed Arctic whale | Synonyms: Balaena mysticetus, bowhead whale, Greenland whale |
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| brad | (noun) a small nail | - |
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| bread | (noun) food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked | Synonyms: breadstuff, staff of life |
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| (noun) informal terms for money | Synonyms: boodle, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, loot, lucre, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum |
| bridgehead | (noun) an area in hostile territory that has been captured and is held awaiting further troops and supplies | Synonyms: foothold |
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| (noun) a defensive post at the end of a bridge nearest to the enemy | - |
| broad | (noun) slang term for a woman | - |
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| bufflehead | (noun) small North American diving duck; males have bushy head plumage | Synonyms: Bucephela albeola, butterball, dipper |
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| bulkhead | (noun) a partition that divides a ship or plane into compartments | - |
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| bullethead | (noun) a head shaped like a bullet | - |
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| bullhead | (noun) freshwater sculpin with a large flattened bony-plated head with hornlike spines | - |
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| (noun) any of several common freshwater catfishes of the United States | Synonyms: bullhead catfish |
| busload | (noun) the quantity of cargo or the number of passengers that a bus can carry | - |
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| byroad | (noun) a side road little traveled (as in the countryside) | Synonyms: bypath, byway |
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| cad | (noun) someone who is morally reprehensible | Synonyms: blackguard, bounder, dog, heel, hound |
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| carload | (noun) a gathering of passengers sufficient to fill an automobile | - |
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| (noun) the amount of cargo that can be held by a boat or ship or a freight car | Synonyms: boatload, shipload |
| cartload | (noun) the quantity that a cart holds | - |
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| cartroad | (noun) any road or path affording passage especially a rough one | Synonyms: cart track, track |
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| chad | (noun) a small piece of paper that is supposed to be removed when a hole is punched in a card or paper tape | - |
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| chiliad | (noun) the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100 | Synonyms: 1000, G, grand, K, M, one thousand, thou, thousand, yard |
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| clubhead | (noun) (golf) the head of the club which strikes the ball | Synonyms: club-head, club head, golf-club head |
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| copperhead | (noun) common coppery brown pit viper of upland eastern United States | Synonyms: Agkistrodon contortrix |
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| (noun) venomous but sluggish reddish-brown snake of Australia | Synonyms: Denisonia superba |
| cornbread | (noun) bread made primarily of cornmeal | - |
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| crawdad | (noun) small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster | Synonyms: crawdaddy, crawfish, crayfish |
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| (noun) tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly | Synonyms: crawfish, crayfish, ecrevisse |
| crosshead | (noun) metal block that connects to a piston; it slides on parallel guides and moves a connecting rod back and forth | - |
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| (noun) a heading of a subsection printed within the body of the text | Synonyms: crossheading |
| crossroad | (noun) a junction where one street or road crosses another | Synonyms: carrefour, crossing, crossway, intersection |
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| cryptomonad | (noun) common in fresh and salt water appearing along the shore as algal blooms | Synonyms: cryptophyte |
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| cycad | (noun) any tropical gymnosperm of the order Cycadales; having unbranched stems with a crown of fernlike leaves | - |
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| dad | (noun) an informal term for a father; probably derived from baby talk | Synonyms: dada, daddy, pa, papa, pappa, pop |
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| dead | (noun) people who are no longer living | - |
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| (noun) a time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense | - |
| deadhead | (noun) a train or bus or taxi traveling empty | - |
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| (noun) a nonenterprising person who is not paying his way | - |
| dickhead | (noun) insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or irritating or ridiculous | Synonyms: asshole, bastard, cocksucker, mother fucker, motherfucker, prick, shit, SOB, son of a bitch, whoreson |
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| doodad | (noun) something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known | Synonyms: dojigger, doohickey, gimmick, gismo, gizmo, gubbins, thingamabob, thingamajig, thingmabob, thingmajig, thingumabob, thingumajig, thingummy, whatchamacallit, whatchamacallum, whatsis, widget |
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| dragonhead | (noun) American herb having sharply serrate lanceolate leaves and spikes of blue to violet flowers | Synonyms: Dracocephalum parviflorum, dragon's head |
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| dread | (noun) fearful expectation or anticipation | Synonyms: apprehension, apprehensiveness |
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| drumhead | (noun) a membrane that is stretched taut over a drum | Synonyms: head |
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| dryad | (noun) a deity or nymph of the woods | Synonyms: wood nymph |
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| duad | (noun) two items of the same kind | Synonyms: brace, couple, couplet, distich, duet, duo, dyad, pair, span, twain, twosome, yoke |
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| dunderhead | (noun) a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence | Synonyms: blockhead, bonehead, dumbass, dunce, fuckhead, hammerhead, knucklehead, loggerhead, lunkhead, muttonhead, numskull, shithead |
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| dyad | (noun) two items of the same kind | Synonyms: brace, couple, couplet, distich, duad, duet, duo, pair, span, twain, twosome, yoke |
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| egghead | (noun) an intellectual; a very studious and academic person | - |
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| ennead | (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of eight and one | Synonyms: 9, IX, Nina from Carolina, nine, niner |
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| fad | (noun) an interest followed with exaggerated zeal | Synonyms: craze, cult, furor, furore, rage |
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| fairlead | (noun) a pulley-block used to guide a rope forming part of a ship's rigging to avoid chafing | - |
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| farad | (noun) the capacitance of a capacitor that has an equal and opposite charge of 1 coulomb on each plate and a voltage difference of 1 volt between the plates | Synonyms: F |
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| farmstead | (noun) a farm together with its buildings | Synonyms: farm-place, farmplace |
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| (noun) the buildings and adjacent grounds of a farm | - |
| fathead | (noun) a man who is a stupid incompetent fool | Synonyms: bozo, cuckoo, goof, goofball, goose, jackass, twat, zany |
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| fiddlehead | (noun) New World fern having woolly cinnamon-colored spore-bearing fronds in early spring later surrounded by green fronds; the early uncurling fronds are edible | Synonyms: cinnamon fern, fiddlehead fern, Osmunda cinnamonea |
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| (noun) tall fern of northern temperate regions having graceful arched fronds and sporophylls resembling ostrich plumes | Synonyms: Matteuccia struthiopteris, Onoclea struthiopteris, ostrich fern, Pteretis struthiopteris, shuttlecock fern |
| figurehead | (noun) figure on the bow of some sailing vessels | - |
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| (noun) a person used as a cover for some questionable activity | Synonyms: front, front man, nominal head, straw man, strawman |
| flatbread | (noun) any of various breads made from usually unleavened dough | - |
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| flathead | (noun) food fish of the Indonesian region of the Pacific; resembles gurnards | - |
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| (noun) pallid bottom-dwelling flat-headed fish with large eyes and a duck-like snout | - |
| flinthead | (noun) an American stork that resembles the true ibises in having a downward-curved bill; inhabits wooded swamps of New World tropics | Synonyms: Mycteria americana, wood ibis, wood stork |
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| floodhead | (noun) a wall of water rushing ahead of the flood | - |
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| footpad | (noun) a highwayman who robs on foot | Synonyms: padder |
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| forehead | (noun) the part of the face above the eyes | Synonyms: brow |
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| (noun) the large cranial bone forming the front part of the cranium: includes the upper part of the orbits | Synonyms: frontal bone, os frontale |
| fountainhead | (noun) an abundant source | Synonyms: well, wellspring |
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| (noun) the source of water from which a stream arises | Synonyms: head, headspring |
| fuckhead | (noun) a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence | Synonyms: blockhead, bonehead, dumbass, dunce, dunderhead, hammerhead, knucklehead, loggerhead, lunkhead, muttonhead, numskull, shithead |
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| gad | (noun) a sharp prod fixed to a rider's heel and used to urge a horse onward | Synonyms: spur |
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| gesneriad | (noun) any of numerous tropical or subtropical small shrubs or treelets or epiphytic vines of the family Gesneriaceae: African violet; Cape primroses; gloxinia | - |
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| gingerbread | (noun) cake flavored with ginger | - |
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| glad | (noun) any of numerous plants of the genus Gladiolus native chiefly to tropical and South Africa having sword-shaped leaves and one-sided spikes of brightly colored funnel-shaped flowers; widely cultivated | Synonyms: gladiola, gladiolus, sword lily |
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| goad | (noun) a pointed instrument that is used to prod into a state of motion | Synonyms: prod |
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| (noun) a verbalization that encourages you to attempt something | Synonyms: goading, prod, prodding, spur, spurring, urging |
| goldthread | (noun) low-growing perennial of North America woodlands having trifoliate leaves and yellow rootstock and white flowers | Synonyms: Coptis groenlandica, Coptis trifolia groenlandica, golden thread |
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| gonad | (noun) a gland in which gametes (sex cells) are produced | Synonyms: sex gland |
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| grad | (noun) a person who has received a degree from a school (high school or college or university) | Synonyms: alum, graduate |
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| (noun) one-hundredth of a right angle | Synonyms: grade |
| grandad | (noun) the father of your father or mother | Synonyms: gramps, granddad, granddaddy, grandfather, grandpa |
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| granddad | (noun) the father of your father or mother | Synonyms: gramps, grandad, granddaddy, grandfather, grandpa |
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| hamadryad | (noun) large cobra of southeastern Asia and the East Indies; the largest venomous snake; sometimes placed in genus Naja | Synonyms: king cobra, Naja hannah, Ophiophagus hannah |
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| (noun) the nymph or spirit of a particular tree | - |
| hammerhead | (noun) medium-sized live-bearing shark with eyes at either end of a flattened hammer-shaped head; worldwide in warm waters; can be dangerous | Synonyms: hammerhead shark |
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| (noun) the striking part of a hammer | - |
| (noun) a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence | Synonyms: blockhead, bonehead, dumbass, dunce, dunderhead, fuckhead, knucklehead, loggerhead, lunkhead, muttonhead, numskull, shithead |
| head | (noun) oral stimulation of the genitals | Synonyms: oral sex |
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| (noun) a single domestic animal | - |
| (noun) a projection out from one end | - |
| (noun) a membrane that is stretched taut over a drum | Synonyms: drumhead |
| (noun) (nautical) a toilet on board a boat or ship | - |
| (noun) the striking part of a tool | - |
| (noun) (usually plural) the obverse side of a coin that usually bears the representation of a person's head | - |
| (noun) (computer science) a tiny electromagnetic coil and metal pole used to write and read magnetic patterns on a disk | Synonyms: read/write head |
| (noun) the upper part of the human body or the front part of the body in animals; contains the face and brains | Synonyms: caput |
| (noun) the rounded end of a bone that fits into a rounded cavity in another bone to form a joint | - |
| (noun) that part of a skeletal muscle that is away from the bone that it moves | - |
| (noun) that which is responsible for one's thoughts, feelings, and conscious brain functions; the seat of the faculty of reason | Synonyms: brain, mind, nous, psyche |
| (noun) a line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about | Synonyms: header, heading |
| (noun) a V-shaped mark at one end of an arrow pointer | Synonyms: point |
| (noun) the subject matter at issue | Synonyms: question |
| (noun) (grammar) the word in a grammatical constituent that plays the same grammatical role as the whole constituent | Synonyms: head word |
| (noun) forward movement | Synonyms: headway |
| (noun) a difficult juncture | Synonyms: pass, straits |
| (noun) the front of a military formation or procession | - |
| (noun) the top of something | - |
| (noun) the source of water from which a stream arises | Synonyms: fountainhead, headspring |
| (noun) the part in the front or nearest the viewer | Synonyms: forefront |
| (noun) the foam or froth that accumulates at the top when you pour an effervescent liquid into a container | - |
| (noun) a rounded compact mass | - |
| (noun) a natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out into the sea) | Synonyms: foreland, headland, promontory |
| (noun) a person who is in charge | Synonyms: chief, top dog |
| (noun) the educator who has executive authority for a school | Synonyms: head teacher, principal, school principal |
| (noun) a user of (usually soft) drugs | - |
| (noun) an individual person | - |
| (noun) the pressure exerted by a fluid | - |
| (noun) a dense cluster of flowers or foliage | Synonyms: capitulum |
| (noun) the length or height based on the size of a human or animal head | - |
| (noun) the tip of an abscess (where the pus accumulates) | - |
| hebdomad | (noun) any period of seven consecutive days | Synonyms: week |
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| heptad | (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of six and one | Synonyms: 7, septenary, septet, seven, sevener, VII |
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| hexad | (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of five and one | Synonyms: 6, Captain Hicks, half a dozen, sestet, sextet, sextuplet, sise, six, sixer, VI |
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| highroad | (noun) a highway | Synonyms: trunk road |
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| 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 | - |
| 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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