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 | - |
arrowhead | (noun) the pointed head or striking tip of an arrow | - |
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baldhead | (noun) a person whose head is bald or shaved | Synonyms: baldpate, baldy, skin, skinhead |
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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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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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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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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 | - |
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 |
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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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 |
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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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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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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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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fairlead | (noun) a pulley-block used to guide a rope forming part of a ship's rigging to avoid chafing | - |
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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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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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gingerbread | (noun) cake flavored with ginger | - |
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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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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) | - |
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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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 |
letterhead | (noun) a sheet of stationery with name and address of the organization printed at the top | - |
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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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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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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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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 | - |
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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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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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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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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roadstead | (noun) a partly sheltered anchorage | Synonyms: roads |
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roundhead | (noun) a brachycephalic person | - |
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saphead | (noun) a person who lacks good judgment | Synonyms: fool, muggins, sap, tomfool |
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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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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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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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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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