| overhear | (verb) hear, usually without the knowledge of the speakers | Synonyms: catch, take in |
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| overheat | (verb) get excessively and undesirably hot | - |
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| (verb) make excessively or undesirably hot | - |
| overheated | (adjective) heated beyond a safe or desirable point | - |
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| overheating | (noun) excessive heating | - |
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| oxheart | (noun) large heart-shaped sweet cherry with soft flesh | Synonyms: heart cherry, oxheart cherry |
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| (noun) any of several cultivated sweet cherries having sweet juicy heart-shaped fruits | Synonyms: heart cherry, oxheart cherry |
| pheasant | (noun) large long-tailed gallinaceous bird native to the Old World but introduced elsewhere | - |
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| (noun) flesh of a pheasant; usually braised | - |
| pigheaded | (adjective) obstinate and stupid | Synonyms: bullet-headed, bullheaded |
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| pigheadedness | (noun) resolute adherence to your own ideas or desires | Synonyms: bullheadedness, obstinacy, obstinance, self-will, stubbornness |
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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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| preheat | (verb) heat beforehand | - |
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| puddingheaded | (adjective) stupid and confused | Synonyms: addlebrained, addlepated, muddleheaded |
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| pyorrhea | (noun) discharge of pus | Synonyms: pyorrhoea |
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| (noun) chronic periodontitis; purulent inflammation of the teeth sockets | Synonyms: pyorrhea alveolaris, pyorrhoea, Riggs' disease |
| 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 | - |
| 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 |
| redheaded | (adjective) having red hair and usually fair skin | - |
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| redheader | (noun) someone who has red hair | Synonyms: carrottop, red-header, redhead |
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| rehear | (verb) hear or try a court case anew | Synonyms: retry |
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| rehearing | (noun) the act of hearing again | Synonyms: relistening |
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| rehearsal | (noun) (psychology) a form of practice; repetition of information (silently or aloud) in order to keep it in short-term memory | - |
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| (noun) a practice session in preparation for a public performance (as of a play or speech or concert) | Synonyms: dry run |
| rehearse | (verb) engage in a rehearsal (of) | Synonyms: practice, practise |
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| reheat | (verb) heat again | - |
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| rhea | (noun) larger of two tall fast-running flightless birds similar to ostriches but three-toed; found from Brazil to Patagonia | Synonyms: Rhea americana |
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| (noun) smaller of two tall fast-running flightless birds similar to ostriches but three-toed; found from Peru to Strait of Magellan | Synonyms: nandu, Pterocnemia pennata |
| rhinorrhea | (noun) persistent watery mucus discharge from the nose (as in the common cold) | - |
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| roundhead | (noun) a brachycephalic person | - |
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| roundheaded | (adjective) having a brachycephalic head | Synonyms: broad-headed, short-headed |
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| saphead | (noun) a person who lacks good judgment | Synonyms: fool, muggins, sap, tomfool |
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| scrapheap | (noun) pile of discarded metal | - |
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| (noun) an accumulation of refuse and discarded matter | Synonyms: garbage heap, junk heap, junk pile, refuse heap, rubbish heap, trash heap, trash pile |
| seborrhea | (noun) a condition in which overactivity of the sebaceous glands causes the skin to become oily | - |
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| sheaf | (noun) a package of several things tied together for carrying or storing | Synonyms: bundle |
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| shear | (noun) a large edge tool that cuts sheet metal by passing a blade through it | - |
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| (noun) (physics) a deformation of an object in which parallel planes remain parallel but are shifted in a direction parallel to themselves | - |
| (verb) become deformed by forces tending to produce a shearing strain | - |
| (verb) cut with shears | - |
| (verb) cut or cut through with shears | - |
| (verb) shear the wool from | Synonyms: fleece |
| sheared | (adjective) having the hair or wool cut or clipped off as if with shears or clippers | Synonyms: shorn |
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| (adjective) (used especially of fur or wool) shaped or finished by cutting or trimming to a uniform length | - |
| shearer | (noun) a skilled worker who shears the wool off of sheep or other animals | - |
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| (noun) a workman who uses shears to cut leather or metal or textiles | - |
| shearing | (noun) removing by cutting off or clipping | - |
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| shears | (noun) large scissors with strong blades | - |
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| shearwater | (noun) long-winged oceanic bird that in flight skims close to the waves | - |
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| sheatfish | (noun) large elongated catfish of central and eastern Europe | Synonyms: European catfish, Silurus glanis |
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| sheath | (noun) a protective covering (as for a knife or sword) | - |
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| (noun) a dress suitable for formal occasions | Synonyms: cocktail dress |
| (noun) an enveloping structure or covering enclosing an animal or plant organ or part | Synonyms: case |
| sheathe | (verb) enclose with a sheath | - |
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| (verb) cover with a protective sheathing | - |
| (verb) plunge or bury (a knife or sword) in flesh | - |
| sheathed | (adjective) enclosed in a protective covering; sometimes used in combination | - |
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| sheathing | (noun) protective covering consisting, for example, of a layer of boards applied to the studs and joists of a building to strengthen it and serve as a foundation for a weatherproof exterior | Synonyms: overlay, overlayer |
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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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| sheepshearing | (noun) act of shearing sheep | - |
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| (noun) a festival held at the time sheep are normally sheared | - |
| (noun) the time or season when sheep are sheared | - |
| 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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| 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 |
| skinheads | (noun) a youth subculture that appeared first in England in the late 1960s as a working-class reaction to the hippies; hair was cropped close to the scalp; wore work-shirts and short jeans (supported by suspenders) and heavy red boots; involved in attacks against Asians and football hooliganism | Synonyms: bootboys |
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| slagheap | (noun) pile of waste matter from coal mining etc | - |
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| sleepyhead | (noun) a sleepy person | - |
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| sleepyheaded | (adjective) ready to fall asleep | Synonyms: sleepy-eyed, sleepy |
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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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| softheaded | (adjective) foolish; totally unsound | Synonyms: crazy, half-baked, screwball |
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| softhearted | (adjective) easily moved to pity or sorrow | Synonyms: soft-boiled |
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| softheartedness | (noun) a feeling of concern for the welfare of someone (especially someone defenseless) | Synonyms: tenderness |
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| sorehead | (noun) someone who is peevish or disgruntled | - |
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| southeast | (adjective) situated in or oriented toward the southeast | Synonyms: southeasterly, southeastern |
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| (adjective) coming from the southeast | Synonyms: southeasterly |
| (noun) a location in the southeastern part of a country, region, or city | - |
| (noun) the compass point midway between south and east; at 135 degrees | Synonyms: SE, sou'-east, southeastward |
| (noun) the direction corresponding to the southeastward compass point | - |
| (adverb) to, toward, or in the southeast | Synonyms: sou'-east, south-east |
| southeaster | (noun) a strong wind from the southeast | Synonyms: sou'easter |
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| southeasterly | (adjective) situated in or oriented toward the southeast | Synonyms: southeast, southeastern |
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| (adjective) coming from the southeast | Synonyms: southeast |
| southeastern | (adjective) of a region of the United States generally including Alabama; Georgia; Florida; Tennessee; South Carolina; North Carolina | - |
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| (adjective) situated in or oriented toward the southeast | Synonyms: southeast, southeasterly |
| southeastward | (adjective) toward the southeast | - |
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| (noun) the compass point midway between south and east; at 135 degrees | Synonyms: SE, sou'-east, southeast |
| (adverb) in a southeastward direction | Synonyms: southeastwardly |
| southeastwardly | (adverb) in a southeastward direction | Synonyms: southeastward |
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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.) | - |
| (verb) be the leader of | - |
| 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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| steatorrhea | (noun) the presence of greater than normal amounts of fat in the feces which are frothy and foul smelling and floating; a symptom of disorders of fat metabolism and malabsorption syndrome | - |
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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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| stonyhearted | (adjective) devoid of feeling for others | Synonyms: hardhearted, unfeeling |
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| stouthearted | (adjective) used especially of persons | Synonyms: stalwart |
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| stoutheartedness | (noun) the trait of having a courageous spirit | - |
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| subhead | (noun) a heading of a subdivision of a text | Synonyms: subheading |
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| subheading | (noun) a heading of a subdivision of a text | Synonyms: subhead |
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| sweetheart | (adjective) privileged treatment of a favored person or corporation (sometimes unethically) | - |
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| (noun) a person loved by another person | Synonyms: steady, sweetie, truelove |
| (noun) a very attractive or seductive looking woman | Synonyms: beauty, dish, knockout, looker, lulu, mantrap, peach, ravisher, smasher, stunner |
| (noun) any well-liked individual | - |
| (noun) a beloved person; used as terms of endearment | Synonyms: baby, beloved, darling, dear, dearest, dearie, deary, honey, love, sweetie |
| swellhead | (noun) a conceited and self-centered person | Synonyms: egoist, egotist |
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| tenderhearted | (adjective) easily moved by another's distress | - |
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| (adjective) easily moved to love | - |
| tenderheartedness | (noun) warm compassionate feelings | Synonyms: tenderness |
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| theanthropism | (noun) (theology) the doctrine that Jesus was a union of the human and the divine | - |
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| (noun) the representation of objects (especially a god) as having human form or traits | Synonyms: anthropomorphism |
| theater | (noun) a building where theatrical performances or motion-picture shows can be presented | Synonyms: house, theatre |
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| (noun) the art of writing and producing plays | Synonyms: dramatic art, dramatics, dramaturgy, theatre |
| (noun) a region in which active military operations are in progress | Synonyms: field, field of operations, theater of operations, theatre, theatre of operations |
| theatergoer | (noun) someone who attends the theater | Synonyms: playgoer, theatregoer |
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| theatre | (noun) a building where theatrical performances or motion-picture shows can be presented | Synonyms: house, theater |
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| (noun) the art of writing and producing plays | Synonyms: dramatic art, dramatics, dramaturgy, theater |
| (noun) a region in which active military operations are in progress | Synonyms: field, field of operations, theater, theater of operations, theatre of operations |
| theatregoer | (noun) someone who attends the theater | Synonyms: playgoer, theatergoer |
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| theatrical | (adjective) suited to or characteristic of the stage or theater | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the theater | - |
| (noun) a performance of a play | Synonyms: histrionics, representation, theatrical performance |
| theatricality | (noun) an artificial and mannered quality | Synonyms: staginess |
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| theatrically | (adverb) in a stagy and theatrical manner | Synonyms: stagily |
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| (adverb) in a theatrical manner | - |
| theatrology | (noun) the study of theatrical performance in relation to its literary, physical, psycho-biological, sociological, and historical contexts. | Synonyms: theatre studies |
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| thickhead | (noun) Australian and southeastern Asian birds with a melodious whistling call | Synonyms: whistler |
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| thickheaded | (adjective) (used informally) stupid | Synonyms: blockheaded, boneheaded, duncical, duncish, fatheaded, loggerheaded, thick-skulled, thick, wooden-headed |
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| thunderhead | (noun) a rounded projecting mass of a cumulus cloud with shining edges; often appears before a thunderstorm | - |
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| towhead | (noun) a person with light blond hair | - |
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| towheaded | (adjective) of hair color; whitish | Synonyms: ash-blonde, platinum-blonde |
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| trachea | (noun) membranous tube with cartilaginous rings that conveys inhaled air from the larynx to the bronchi | Synonyms: windpipe |
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| (noun) one of the tubules forming the respiratory system of most insects and many arachnids | - |
| tracheal | (adjective) relating to or resembling or functioning like a trachea | - |
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| trailhead | (noun) the beginning of a trail | Synonyms: trail head |
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| truehearted | (adjective) unwavering in devotion to friend or vow or cause | Synonyms: fast, firm, loyal |
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| turtlehead | (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, snakehead |
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| unheaded | (adjective) not having a heading or caption | - |
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| unhealed | (adjective) not healed | - |
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| unhealthful | (adjective) detrimental to good health | - |
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| (adjective) not sanitary or healthful | Synonyms: insanitary, unsanitary |
| (adjective) detrimental to health | Synonyms: insalubrious, unhealthy |