| addlehead | (noun) a person with confused ideas; incapable of serious thought | Synonyms: addle-head, birdbrain, loon |
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| ahead | (adjective) having the leading position or higher score in a contest | Synonyms: in the lead, leading |
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| (adverb) at or in the front | Synonyms: before, in front |
| (adverb) ahead of time; in anticipation | Synonyms: beforehand, in advance |
| (adverb) in a forward direction | Synonyms: forrader, forward, forwards, onward, onwards |
| (adverb) leading or ahead in a competition | Synonyms: in the lead, out front |
| (adverb) to a different or a more advanced time (meaning advanced either toward the present or toward the future) | - |
| (adverb) to a more advanced or advantageous position | - |
| (adverb) toward the future; forward in time | Synonyms: forward |
| airhead | (noun) a bridgehead seized by airborne troops | - |
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| (noun) a flighty scatterbrained simpleton | - |
| airheaded | (adjective) lacking seriousness; given to frivolity | Synonyms: dizzy, empty-headed, featherbrained, giddy, light-headed, lightheaded, silly |
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| althea | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Althaea; similar to but having smaller flowers than genus Alcea | Synonyms: althaea, hollyhock |
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| amenorrhea | (noun) absence or suppression of normal menstrual flow | Synonyms: amenia, amenorrhoea |
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| amenorrheal | (adjective) related to the suppression of normal menstrual flow for any reason other than pregnancy | Synonyms: amenorrheic, amenorrhoeal, amenorrhoeic |
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| amphitheater | (noun) an oval large stadium with tiers of seats; an arena in which contests and spectacles are held | Synonyms: amphitheatre, coliseum |
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| (noun) a sloping gallery with seats for spectators (as in an operating room or theater) | Synonyms: amphitheatre |
| amphitheatre | (noun) an oval large stadium with tiers of seats; an arena in which contests and spectacles are held | Synonyms: amphitheater, coliseum |
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| (noun) a sloping gallery with seats for spectators (as in an operating room or theater) | Synonyms: amphitheater |
| amphitheatric | (adjective) of or related to an amphitheater | Synonyms: amphitheatrical |
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| amphitheatrical | (adjective) of or related to an amphitheater | Synonyms: amphitheatric |
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| antidiarrheal | (noun) a drug used to control or stop diarrhea | Synonyms: antidiarrheal drug |
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| archean | (adjective) of or relating to the earliest known rocks formed during the Precambrian Eon | Synonyms: archaean |
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| 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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| bareheaded | (adjective) having the head uncovered | Synonyms: bared |
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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 | - |
| behead | (verb) cut the head of | Synonyms: decapitate, decollate |
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| beheaded | (adjective) having had the head cut off | Synonyms: decapitated |
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| beheading | (noun) killing by cutting off the head | Synonyms: decapitation |
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| (noun) execution by cutting off the victim's head | Synonyms: decapitation |
| bighead | (noun) any of various diseases of animals characterized by edema of the head and neck | - |
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| bigheaded | (adjective) (used colloquially) overly conceited or arrogant | Synonyms: persnickety, snooty, snot-nosed, snotty, stuck-up, too big for one's breeches, uppish |
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| bighearted | (adjective) given or giving freely | Synonyms: big, bounteous, bountiful, freehanded, giving, handsome, liberal, openhanded |
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| bigheartedness | (noun) the quality of being kind and generous | - |
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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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| blackheart | (noun) heart cherry with dark flesh and skin | Synonyms: blackheart cherry |
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| (noun) any of various diseases in which the central tissues blacken | - |
| 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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| blockheaded | (adjective) (used informally) stupid | Synonyms: boneheaded, duncical, duncish, fatheaded, loggerheaded, thick-skulled, thick, thickheaded, wooden-headed |
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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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| boneheaded | (adjective) (used informally) stupid | Synonyms: blockheaded, duncical, duncish, fatheaded, loggerheaded, thick-skulled, thick, thickheaded, wooden-headed |
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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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| 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 | - |
| brokenhearted | (adjective) full of sorrow | Synonyms: heartbroken, heartsick |
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| brokenheartedness | (noun) intense sorrow caused by loss of a loved one (especially by death) | Synonyms: grief, heartache, heartbreak |
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| buckwheat | (noun) grain ground into flour | - |
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| (noun) a member of the genus Fagopyrum; annual Asian plant with clusters of small pinkish white flowers and small edible triangular seeds which are used whole or ground into flour | Synonyms: Fagopyrum esculentum, Polygonum fagopyrum |
| 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 |
| bullheaded | (adjective) obstinate and stupid | Synonyms: bullet-headed, pigheaded |
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| bullheadedness | (noun) resolute adherence to your own ideas or desires | Synonyms: obstinacy, obstinance, pigheadedness, self-will, stubbornness |
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| cheap | (adjective) relatively low in price or charging low prices | Synonyms: inexpensive |
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| (adjective) of very poor quality; flimsy | Synonyms: bum, cheesy, chintzy, crummy, punk, sleazy, tinny |
| (adjective) embarrassingly stingy | Synonyms: chinchy, chintzy |
| (adjective) tastelessly showy | Synonyms: brassy, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy |
| cheapen | (verb) lower the grade of something; reduce its worth | Synonyms: degrade |
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| cheapjack | (adjective) made of inferior workmanship and materials | Synonyms: shoddy, tawdry |
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| (noun) a peddler of inferior goods | - |
| cheaply | (adverb) with little expenditure of money | Synonyms: inexpensively |
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| (adverb) in a cheap manner | Synonyms: inexpensively, tattily |
| (adverb) in a stingy manner | Synonyms: chintzily, stingily |
| cheapness | (noun) a price below the standard price | Synonyms: bargain rate, cut price, cut rate |
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| (noun) tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and vulgar | Synonyms: sleaze, tackiness, tat |
| cheapskate | (noun) a miserly person | Synonyms: tightwad |
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| cheat | (noun) a deception for profit to yourself | Synonyms: cheating |
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| (noun) the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme | Synonyms: fraud, rig, swindle |
| (noun) someone who leads you to believe something that is not true | Synonyms: beguiler, cheater, deceiver, slicker, trickster |
| (noun) weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous | Synonyms: bearded darnel, darnel, Lolium temulentum, tare |
| (noun) weedy annual native to Europe but widely distributed as a weed especially in wheat | Synonyms: Bromus secalinus, chess |
| (verb) defeat someone through trickery or deceit | Synonyms: chicane, chouse, jockey, screw, shaft |
| (verb) deprive somebody of something by deceit | Synonyms: chisel, rip off |
| (verb) engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud | Synonyms: chisel |
| (verb) be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage | Synonyms: betray, cheat on, cuckold, wander |
| cheater | (noun) someone who leads you to believe something that is not true | Synonyms: beguiler, cheat, deceiver, slicker, trickster |
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| cheatgrass | (noun) annual or winter annual grass with softly hairy leaves of the Mediterranean | Synonyms: Bromus tectorum, downy brome, downy bromegrass, downy cheat, downy chess, drooping brome |
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| cheating | (adjective) violating accepted standards or rules | Synonyms: dirty, foul, unsporting, unsportsmanlike |
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| (adjective) not faithful to a spouse or lover | Synonyms: adulterous, two-timing |
| (noun) a deception for profit to yourself | Synonyms: cheat |
| chickenhearted | (adjective) easily frightened | Synonyms: chicken, lily-livered, white-livered, yellow-bellied, yellow |
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| clearheaded | (adjective) not mentally confused; able to think clearly and act intelligently | Synonyms: clear-thinking |
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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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| coldhearted | (adjective) lacking in sympathy or feeling | - |
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| coldheartedness | (noun) an absence of concern for the welfare of others | Synonyms: hardheartedness, heartlessness |
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| coolheaded | (adjective) marked by calm self-control (especially in trying circumstances); unemotional | Synonyms: cool, nerveless |
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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 |
| 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 |
| crossheading | (noun) a heading of a subsection printed within the body of the text | Synonyms: crosshead |
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| deadhead | (noun) a train or bus or taxi traveling empty | - |
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| (noun) a nonenterprising person who is not paying his way | - |
| diarrhea | (noun) frequent and watery bowel movements; can be a symptom of infection or food poisoning or colitis or a gastrointestinal tumor | Synonyms: diarrhoea, looseness, looseness of the bowels |
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| diarrheal | (adjective) of or relating to diarrhea | Synonyms: diarrheic, diarrhetic, diarrhoeal, diarrhoeic, diarrhoetic |
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| 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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| dishearten | (verb) take away the enthusiasm of | Synonyms: put off |
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| disheartened | (adjective) made less hopeful or enthusiastic | Synonyms: demoralised, demoralized, discouraged |
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| disheartening | (adjective) destructive of morale and self-reliance | Synonyms: demoralising, demoralizing, dispiriting |
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| disheartenment | (noun) a communication that leaves you disheartened or daunted | - |
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| (noun) the feeling of despair in the face of obstacles | Synonyms: discouragement, dismay |
| doubleheader | (noun) two games instead of one (especially in baseball when the same two teams play two games on the same day) | Synonyms: double feature, twin bill |
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| downhearted | (adjective) filled with melancholy and despondency | Synonyms: blue, depressed, dispirited, down, down in the mouth, downcast, gloomy, grim, low-spirited, low |
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| downheartedness | (noun) a feeling of low spirits | Synonyms: dejectedness, dispiritedness, low-spiritedness, lowness |
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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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| drumhead | (adjective) performed speedily and without formality | Synonyms: summary |
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| (noun) a membrane that is stretched taut over a drum | Synonyms: head |
| 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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| dysmenorrhea | (noun) painful menstruation | - |
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| egghead | (noun) an intellectual; a very studious and academic person | - |
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| escheat | (noun) a reversion to the state (as the ultimate owner of property) in the absence of legal heirs | - |
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| (noun) the property that reverts to the state | - |
| fainthearted | (adjective) lacking conviction or boldness or courage | Synonyms: faint-hearted, faint, timid |
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| faintheartedness | (noun) the trait of lacking boldness and courage | Synonyms: faintness |
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| 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 |
| 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 |
| freehearted | (adjective) generous in providing aid to others | Synonyms: benevolent |
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| 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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| gonorrhea | (noun) a common venereal disease caused by the bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae; symptoms are painful urination and pain around the urethra | Synonyms: clap, gonorrhoea |
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| greathearted | (adjective) noble and generous in spirit | Synonyms: magnanimous |
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| halfhearted | (adjective) feeling or showing little interest or enthusiasm | Synonyms: half-hearted, lukewarm, tepid |
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| halfheartedness | (noun) the characteristic of being half-hearted; not sincere; lacking full energy, effort, commitment, or resolve. | - |
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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 |
| 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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