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 | - |
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 |
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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letterhead | (noun) a sheet of stationery with name and address of the organization printed at the top | - |
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levelheaded | (adjective) exercising or showing good judgment | Synonyms: healthy, intelligent, level-headed, sound |
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levelheadedness | (noun) the property of having or showing sound judgment. | - |
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lightheaded | (adjective) lacking seriousness; given to frivolity | Synonyms: airheaded, dizzy, empty-headed, featherbrained, giddy, light-headed, silly |
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(adjective) weak and likely to lose consciousness | Synonyms: faint, light-headed, light, swooning |
lightheadedness | (noun) a frivolous lack of prudence | - |
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(noun) a reeling sensation; a feeling that you are about to fall | Synonyms: dizziness, giddiness, vertigo |
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 |
loggerheaded | (adjective) (used informally) stupid | Synonyms: blockheaded, boneheaded, duncical, duncish, fatheaded, thick-skulled, thick, thickheaded, wooden-headed |
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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 |
metalhead | (noun) a fan of heavy metal music | - |
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muddleheaded | (adjective) stupid and confused | Synonyms: addlebrained, addlepated, puddingheaded |
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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 | (adjective) located or originating from above | - |
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(noun) a hard return hitting the tennis ball above your head | Synonyms: smash |
(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 |
(adverb) above the head; over the head | - |
(adverb) above your head; in the sky | - |
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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puddingheaded | (adjective) stupid and confused | Synonyms: addlebrained, addlepated, muddleheaded |
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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 | - |
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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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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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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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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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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sorehead | (noun) someone who is peevish or disgruntled | - |
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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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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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subheading | (noun) a heading of a subdivision of a text | Synonyms: subhead |
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swellhead | (noun) a conceited and self-centered person | Synonyms: egoist, egotist |
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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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trailhead | (noun) the beginning of a trail | Synonyms: trail head |
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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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warhead | (noun) the front part of a guided missile or rocket or torpedo that carries the nuclear or explosive charge or the chemical or biological agents | Synonyms: load, payload |
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wellhead | (noun) a structure built over a well | - |
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(noun) the source of water for a well | Synonyms: wellspring |
whitehead | (noun) a small whitish lump in the skin due to a clogged sebaceous gland | Synonyms: milium |
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wrongheaded | (adjective) obstinately perverse in judgment or opinion | - |
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wrongheadedly | (adverb) in a wrongheaded manner | - |
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