| 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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| fatheaded | (adjective) (used informally) stupid | Synonyms: blockheaded, boneheaded, duncical, duncish, loggerheaded, thick-skulled, thick, thickheaded, wooden-headed |
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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 |
| fingerbreadth | (noun) the length of breadth of a finger used as a linear measure | Synonyms: digit, finger's breadth, finger |
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| 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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| hairsbreadth | (noun) a very small distance or space | Synonyms: hair's-breadth, hair, whisker |
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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 |
| handbreadth | (noun) any unit of length based on the breadth of the human hand | Synonyms: handsbreadth |
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| handsbreadth | (noun) any unit of length based on the breadth of the human hand | Synonyms: handbreadth |
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| hardheaded | (adjective) guided by practical experience and observation rather than theory | Synonyms: hard-nosed, practical, pragmatic |
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| (adjective) unreasonably rigid in the face of argument or entreaty or attack | Synonyms: mulish |
| hardheadedness | (noun) The characteristic of being stubborn or wilful. | - |
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| hardheads | (noun) a weedy perennial with tough wiry stems and purple flowers; native to Europe but widely naturalized | Synonyms: black knapweed, Centaurea nigra, lesser knapweed |
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| 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) | - |
| (verb) remove the head of | - |
| (verb) to go or travel towards | - |
| (verb) direct the course; determine the direction of travelling | Synonyms: channelise, channelize, direct, guide, maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre, point, steer |
| (verb) travel in front of; go in advance of others | Synonyms: lead |
| (verb) be in charge of | Synonyms: lead |
| (verb) be in the front of or on top of | - |
| (verb) be the first or leading member of (a group) and excel | Synonyms: head up |
| (verb) form a head or come or grow to a head | - |
| (verb) take its rise | - |
| headache | (noun) something or someone that causes anxiety; a source of unhappiness | Synonyms: concern, vexation, worry |
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| (noun) pain in the head caused by dilation of cerebral arteries or muscle contractions or a reaction to drugs | Synonyms: cephalalgia, head ache |
| headband | (noun) a band worn around or over the head | - |
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| headboard | (noun) a vertical board or panel forming the head of a bedstead | - |
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| headbutt | (verb) butt with the head | - |
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| headcanon | (noun) A personal version of the fantasy world from popular media | - |
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| 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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| headed | (adjective) having a head of a specified kind or anything that serves as a head; often used in combination | - |
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| (adjective) having a heading or caption | - |
| (adjective) of leafy vegetables; having formed into a head | - |
| (adjective) having a heading or course in a certain direction | - |
| 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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| headfirst | (adjective) with the head foremost | Synonyms: headlong |
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| (adverb) with the head before the body | Synonyms: headlong |
| 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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| headless | (adjective) not having a head or formed without a head | - |
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| (adjective) not using intelligence | Synonyms: brainless |
| headlight | (noun) a powerful light with reflector; attached to the front of an automobile or locomotive | Synonyms: headlamp |
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| headlike | (adjective) having a protuberance that resembles a head | - |
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| headline | (noun) the heading or caption of a newspaper article | Synonyms: newspaper headline |
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| (verb) publicize widely or highly, as if with a headline | - |
| (verb) provide (a newspaper page or a story) with a headline | - |
| 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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| headlong | (adjective) with the head foremost | Synonyms: headfirst |
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| (adjective) excessively quick | Synonyms: hasty |
| (adverb) with the head before the body | Synonyms: headfirst |
| (adverb) in a hasty and foolhardy manner | Synonyms: rashly |
| (adverb) at breakneck speed | Synonyms: precipitately |
| 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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| headquarter | (verb) provide with headquarters | - |
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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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| headstrong | (adjective) habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition | Synonyms: froward, self-willed, wilful, willful |
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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 |
| heady | (adjective) marked by defiant disregard for danger or consequences | Synonyms: foolhardy, rash, reckless |
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| (adjective) extremely exciting as if by alcohol or a narcotic | Synonyms: intoxicating |
| (adjective) marked by the exercise of good judgment or common sense in practical matters | Synonyms: judicious, wise |
| 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 | - |
| (verb) settle land given by the government and occupy it as a homestead | - |
| 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 |
| hotheaded | (adjective) quickly aroused to anger | Synonyms: choleric, hot-tempered, irascible, quick-tempered, short-tempered |
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| (adjective) characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation | Synonyms: brainish, impetuous, impulsive, madcap, tearaway |
| instead | (adverb) in place of, or as an alternative to | Synonyms: alternatively, or else |
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| (adverb) on the contrary | Synonyms: rather |
| knead | (verb) to mix into a homogeneous mass | Synonyms: work |
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| (verb) manually manipulate (someone's body), usually for medicinal or relaxation purposes | Synonyms: massage, rub down |