| 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 |
| ijtihad | (noun) the endeavor of a Muslim scholar to derive a rule of divine law from the Koran and Hadith without relying on the views of other scholars; by the end of the 10th century theologians decided that debate on such matters would be closed and Muslim theology and law were frozen | - |
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| inkpad | (noun) a block of absorbent material saturated with ink; used to transfer ink evenly to a rubber stamp | Synonyms: inking pad, pad, stamp pad |
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| inroad | (noun) an invasion or hostile attack | - |
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| (noun) an encroachment or intrusion | - |
| ironclad | (noun) a wooden warship of the 19th century that is plated with iron or steel armor | - |
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| jehad | (noun) a holy struggle or striving by a Muslim for a moral or spiritual or political goal | Synonyms: jihad |
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| jeremiad | (noun) a long and mournful complaint | - |
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| jihad | (noun) a holy struggle or striving by a Muslim for a moral or spiritual or political goal | Synonyms: jehad |
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| keypad | (noun) a keyboard that is a data input device for computers; arrangement of keys is modelled after the typewriter keyboard | Synonyms: computer keyboard |
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| 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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| lad | (noun) a male child (a familiar term of address to a boy) | Synonyms: cub, laddie, sonny, sonny boy |
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| (noun) a boy or man | Synonyms: blighter, bloke, chap, cuss, fella, feller, fellow, gent |
| launchpad | (noun) a platform from which rockets or space craft are launched | Synonyms: launch area, launch pad, launching pad, pad |
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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 |
| letterhead | (noun) a sheet of stationery with name and address of the organization printed at the top | - |
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| load | (noun) weight to be borne or conveyed | Synonyms: burden, loading |
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| (noun) the front part of a guided missile or rocket or torpedo that carries the nuclear or explosive charge or the chemical or biological agents | Synonyms: payload, warhead |
| (noun) goods carried by a large vehicle | Synonyms: cargo, consignment, freight, lading, loading, payload, shipment |
| (noun) electrical device to which electrical power is delivered | - |
| (noun) an onerous or difficult concern | Synonyms: burden, encumbrance, incumbrance, onus |
| (noun) a deposit of valuable ore occurring within definite boundaries separating it from surrounding rocks | Synonyms: lode |
| (noun) the power output of a generator or power plant | - |
| (noun) a quantity that can be processed or transported at one time | Synonyms: loading |
| (noun) an amount of alcohol sufficient to intoxicate | - |
| 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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| maenad | (noun) (Greek mythology) a woman participant in the orgiastic rites of Dionysus | - |
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| (noun) an unnaturally frenzied or distraught woman | - |
| 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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| 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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| metalhead | (noun) a fan of heavy metal music | - |
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| microfarad | (noun) a unit of capacitance equal to one millionth of a farad | - |
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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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| millifarad | (noun) a unit of capacitance equal to one thousandth of a farad | - |
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| monad | (noun) (biology) a single-celled microorganism (especially a flagellate protozoan) | - |
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| (noun) a singular metaphysical entity from which material properties are said to derive | Synonyms: monas |
| (noun) (chemistry) an atom having a valence of one | - |
| mousepad | (noun) a small portable pad that provides traction for the ball of a computer mouse | Synonyms: mouse mat |
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| mujtihad | (noun) an Islamic scholar who engages in ijtihad, the effort to derive rules of divine law from Muslim sacred texts | - |
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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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| myriad | (noun) the cardinal number that is the product of ten and one thousand | Synonyms: 10000, ten thousand |
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| (noun) a large indefinite number | - |
| naiad | (noun) (Greek mythology) a nymph of lakes and springs and rivers and fountains | - |
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| (noun) submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers; of fresh or brackish water | Synonyms: water nymph |
| 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 | - |
| nammad | (noun) an embroidered rug made from a coarse Indian felt | Synonyms: numdah, numdah rug |
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| nicad | (noun) a rechargeable battery with a nickel cathode and a cadmium anode; often used in emergency systems because of its low discharge rate when not in use | Synonyms: nickel-cadmium accumulator |
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| nomad | (noun) a member of a people who have no permanent home but move about according to the seasons | - |
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| notepad | (noun) a pad of paper for keeping notes | - |
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| octad | (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one | Synonyms: 8, eight, eighter, eighter from Decatur, octet, octonary, ogdoad, VIII |
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| ogdoad | (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one | Synonyms: 8, eight, eighter, eighter from Decatur, octad, octet, octonary, VIII |
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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 |
| overload | (noun) an excessive burden | Synonyms: overburden |
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| (noun) an electrical load that exceeds the available electrical power | - |
| packthread | (noun) a strong three-ply twine used to sew or tie packages | - |
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| pad | (noun) the fleshy cushion-like underside of an animal's foot or of a human's finger | - |
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| (noun) a flat mass of soft material used for protection, stuffing, or comfort | - |
| (noun) a platform from which rockets or space craft are launched | Synonyms: launch area, launch pad, launching pad, launchpad |
| (noun) temporary living quarters | Synonyms: diggings, digs, domiciliation, lodgings |
| (noun) a block of absorbent material saturated with ink; used to transfer ink evenly to a rubber stamp | Synonyms: inking pad, inkpad, stamp pad |
| (noun) the large floating leaf of an aquatic plant (as the water lily) | - |
| (noun) a number of sheets of paper fastened together along one edge | Synonyms: pad of paper, tablet |
| payload | (noun) goods carried by a large vehicle | Synonyms: cargo, consignment, freight, lading, load, loading, shipment |
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| (noun) the front part of a guided missile or rocket or torpedo that carries the nuclear or explosive charge or the chemical or biological agents | Synonyms: load, warhead |
| pentad | (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one | Synonyms: 5, cinque, fin, five, fivesome, Little Phoebe, Phoebe, quint, quintet, quintuplet, V |
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| phylloclad | (noun) a flattened stem resembling and functioning as a leaf | Synonyms: cladode, cladophyll, phylloclade |
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| picofarad | (noun) a unit of capacitance equal to one trillionth of a farad | - |
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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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| pothead | (noun) someone who smokes marijuana habitually | - |
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| pseudomonad | (noun) bacteria usually producing greenish fluorescent water-soluble pigment; some pathogenic for plants and animals | - |
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| quad | (noun) a rectangular area surrounded on all sides by buildings | Synonyms: quadrangle |
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| (noun) (printing) a block of type without a raised letter; used for spacing between words or sentences | Synonyms: space |
| (noun) a muscle of the thigh that extends the leg | Synonyms: musculus quadriceps femoris, quadriceps, quadriceps femoris |
| (noun) one of four children born at the same time from the same pregnancy | Synonyms: quadruplet |
| rad | (noun) a unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material | - |
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| (noun) the unit of plane angle adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites; equal to the angle at the center of a circle subtended by an arc equal in length to the radius (approximately 57.295 degrees) | Synonyms: radian |
| 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 | - |
| railroad | (noun) line that is the commercial organization responsible for operating a system of transportation for trains that pull passengers or freight | Synonyms: railroad line, railway, railway line, railway system |
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| (noun) a line of track providing a runway for wheels | Synonyms: railroad track, railway |
| read | (noun) something that is read | - |
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| redhead | (noun) black-and-white North American woodpecker having a red head and neck | Synonyms: Melanerpes erythrocephalus, redheaded woodpecker |
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| (noun) North American diving duck with a grey-and-black body and reddish-brown head | Synonyms: Aythya americana |
| (noun) someone who has red hair | Synonyms: carrottop, red-header, redheader |
| retread | (noun) a used automobile tire that has been remolded to give it new treads | Synonyms: recap |
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| road | (noun) a way or means to achieve something | - |
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| (noun) an open way (generally public) for travel or transportation | Synonyms: route |
| roadstead | (noun) a partly sheltered anchorage | Synonyms: roads |
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| roundhead | (noun) a brachycephalic person | - |
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| salad | (noun) food mixtures either arranged on a plate or tossed and served with a moist dressing; usually consisting of or including greens | - |
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| saphead | (noun) a person who lacks good judgment | Synonyms: fool, muggins, sap, tomfool |
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| scad | (noun) any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae | - |
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| scratchpad | (noun) (computer science) a high-speed internal memory used for temporary storage of preliminary information | - |
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| shad | (noun) herring-like food fishes that migrate from the sea to fresh water to spawn | - |
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| (noun) bony flesh of herring-like fish usually caught during their migration to fresh water for spawning; especially of Atlantic coast | - |
| sheepshead | (noun) large (up to 20 lbs) food fish of the eastern coast of the United States and Mexico | Synonyms: Archosargus probatocephalus |
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| shinpad | (noun) a stiff protective garment worn by hockey players or a catcher in baseball to protect the shins | Synonyms: shin guard |
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| shipload | (noun) the amount of cargo that can be held by a boat or ship or a freight car | Synonyms: boatload, carload |
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| shithead | (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, muttonhead, numskull |
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| shortbread | (noun) very rich thick butter cookie | Synonyms: shortbread cookie |
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| shovelhead | (noun) small harmless hammerhead having a spade-shaped head; abundant in bays and estuaries | Synonyms: bonnet shark, bonnethead, Sphyrna tiburo |
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| showerhead | (noun) a perforated nozzle that showers water on a bather | - |
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| skinhead | (noun) a member of any of several British or American groups consisting predominantly of young people who shave their heads; some engage in white supremacist and anti-immigrant activities and this leads to the perception that all skinheads are racist and violent | Synonyms: skin |
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| (noun) a person whose head is bald or shaved | Synonyms: baldhead, baldpate, baldy, skin |
| sleepyhead | (noun) a sleepy person | - |
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| snakehead | (noun) showy perennial of marshlands of eastern and central North America having waxy lanceolate leaves and flower with lower part creamy white and upper parts pale pink to deep purple | Synonyms: Chelone glabra, shell-flower, shellflower, snake-head, turtlehead |
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| sorehead | (noun) someone who is peevish or disgruntled | - |
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| sowbread | (noun) common wild European cyclamen with pink flowers | Synonyms: Cyclamen hederifolium, Cyclamen neopolitanum |
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| spearhead | (noun) the head and sharpened point of a spear | Synonyms: spear-point, spearpoint |
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| (noun) the leading military unit in an attack | - |
| (noun) someone who leads or initiates an activity (attack or campaign etc.) | - |
| spread | (noun) act of extending over a wider scope or expanse of space or time | Synonyms: spreading |
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| (noun) decorative cover for a bed | Synonyms: bed cover, bed covering, bedcover, bedspread, counterpane |
| (noun) farm consisting of a large tract of land along with facilities needed to raise livestock (especially cattle) | Synonyms: cattle farm, cattle ranch, ranch |
| (noun) a haphazard distribution in all directions | Synonyms: scatter |
| (noun) the expansion of a person's girth (especially at middle age) | - |
| (noun) a conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures | Synonyms: gap |
| (noun) two facing pages of a book or other publication | Synonyms: facing pages, spread head, spreadhead |
| (noun) process or result of distributing or extending over a wide expanse of space | Synonyms: spreading |
| (noun) a tasty mixture to be spread on bread or crackers or used in preparing other dishes | Synonyms: paste |
| (noun) a meal that is well prepared and greatly enjoyed | Synonyms: banquet, feast |
| spreadhead | (noun) two facing pages of a book or other publication | Synonyms: facing pages, spread, spread head |
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| squad | (noun) a cooperative unit (especially in sports) | Synonyms: team |
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| (noun) a smallest army unit | - |
| (noun) a small squad of policemen trained to deal with a particular kind of crime | Synonyms: police squad |
| staghead | (noun) an abnormal tufted growth of small branches on a tree or shrub caused by fungi or insects or other physiological disturbance | Synonyms: hexenbesen, witch broom, witches' broom |
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| stairhead | (noun) platform at the top of a staircase | - |
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| stead | (noun) the post or function properly or customarily occupied or served by another | Synonyms: lieu, place, position |
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| stephead | (noun) a headline with the top line flush left and succeeding lines indented to the right | Synonyms: drop line, dropline, stagger head, staggered head, stepped line |
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| subhead | (noun) a heading of a subdivision of a text | Synonyms: subheading |
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| superdad | (noun) an informal term for a father who can combine childcare and full-time employment | - |
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| superload | (noun) a variable load on a structure (e.g. a bridge) such as moving traffic | Synonyms: live load |
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| swad | (noun) a bunch | - |
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| sweetbread | (noun) edible glands of an animal | Synonyms: sweetbreads |
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| swellhead | (noun) a conceited and self-centered person | Synonyms: egoist, egotist |
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| tad | (noun) a slight amount or degree of difference | Synonyms: shade |
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| tetrad | (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one | Synonyms: 4, four, foursome, IV, Little Joe, quadruplet, quartet, quatern, quaternary, quaternion, quaternity |
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| thickhead | (noun) Australian and southeastern Asian birds with a melodious whistling call | Synonyms: whistler |
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| thread | (noun) a fine cord of twisted fibers (of cotton or silk or wool or nylon etc.) used in sewing and weaving | Synonyms: yarn |
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| (noun) the raised helical rib going around a screw | Synonyms: screw thread |
| (noun) the connections that link the various parts of an event or argument together | Synonyms: train of thought |
| (noun) any long object resembling a thin line | Synonyms: ribbon |
| thunderhead | (noun) a rounded projecting mass of a cumulus cloud with shining edges; often appears before a thunderstorm | - |
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| tightwad | (noun) a miserly person | Synonyms: cheapskate |
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| toad | (noun) any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping; semiaquatic and terrestrial species | Synonyms: anuran, batrachian, frog, salientian, toad frog |
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| towhead | (noun) a person with light blond hair | - |
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| trad | (noun) traditional jazz as revived in the 1950s | - |
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