| 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.) | - |
| (verb) be the leader of | - |
| spread | (adjective) distributed or spread over a considerable extent | Synonyms: dispersed |
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| (adjective) fully extended in width | Synonyms: outspread |
| (adjective) prepared or arranged for a meal; especially having food set out | - |
| (noun) act of extending over a wider scope or expanse of space or time | Synonyms: spreading |
| (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 |
| (verb) cause to become widely known | Synonyms: broadcast, circularise, circularize, circulate, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, distribute, pass around, propagate |
| (verb) become widely known and passed on | Synonyms: circulate, go around |
| (verb) distribute or disperse widely | Synonyms: distribute |
| (verb) spread out or open from a closed or folded state | Synonyms: open, spread out, unfold |
| (verb) become distributed or widespread | Synonyms: propagate |
| (verb) cover by spreading something over | - |
| (verb) distribute over a surface in a layer | - |
| (verb) strew or distribute over an area | Synonyms: scatter, spread out |
| (verb) move outward | Synonyms: diffuse, fan out, spread out |
| (verb) spread across or over | Synonyms: overspread |
| spreadhead | (noun) two facing pages of a book or other publication | Synonyms: facing pages, spread, spread head |
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| squad | (noun) a cooperative unit (especially in sports) | Synonyms: team |
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| (noun) a smallest army unit | - |
| (noun) a small squad of policemen trained to deal with a particular kind of crime | Synonyms: police squad |
| 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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| superdad | (noun) an informal term for a father who can combine childcare and full-time employment | - |
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| superload | (noun) a variable load on a structure (e.g. a bridge) such as moving traffic | Synonyms: live load |
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| swad | (noun) a bunch | - |
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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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| tad | (noun) a slight amount or degree of difference | Synonyms: shade |
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| tetrad | (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one | Synonyms: 4, four, foursome, IV, Little Joe, quadruplet, quartet, quatern, quaternary, quaternion, quaternity |
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| thickhead | (noun) Australian and southeastern Asian birds with a melodious whistling call | Synonyms: whistler |
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| thickspread | (adjective) covered thickly | - |
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| thread | (noun) a fine cord of twisted fibers (of cotton or silk or wool or nylon etc.) used in sewing and weaving | Synonyms: yarn |
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| (noun) the raised helical rib going around a screw | Synonyms: screw thread |
| (noun) the connections that link the various parts of an event or argument together | Synonyms: train of thought |
| (noun) any long object resembling a thin line | Synonyms: ribbon |
| (verb) pass a thread through | - |
| (verb) thread on or as if on a string | Synonyms: draw, string |
| (verb) remove facial hair by tying a fine string around it and pulling at the string | - |
| (verb) pass through or into | - |
| (verb) to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course | Synonyms: meander, wander, weave, wind |
| thunderhead | (noun) a rounded projecting mass of a cumulus cloud with shining edges; often appears before a thunderstorm | - |
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| tightwad | (noun) a miserly person | Synonyms: cheapskate |
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| toad | (noun) any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping; semiaquatic and terrestrial species | Synonyms: anuran, batrachian, frog, salientian, toad frog |
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| towhead | (noun) a person with light blond hair | - |
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| trad | (noun) traditional jazz as revived in the 1950s | - |
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| trailhead | (noun) the beginning of a trail | Synonyms: trail head |
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| trainload | (noun) quantity that can be carried by a train | - |
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| tread | (noun) a step in walking or running | Synonyms: pace, stride |
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| (noun) structural member consisting of the horizontal part of a stair or step | - |
| (noun) the part (as of a wheel or shoe) that makes contact with the ground | - |
| (noun) the grooved surface of a pneumatic tire | - |
| (verb) crush as if by treading on | - |
| (verb) brace (an archer's bow) by pressing the foot against the center | - |
| (verb) mate with (used of male birds) | - |
| (verb) tread or stomp heavily or roughly | Synonyms: trample |
| (verb) put down or press the foot, place the foot | Synonyms: step |
| (verb) apply (the tread) to a tire | - |
| triad | (noun) a three-note major or minor chord; a note and its third and fifth tones | Synonyms: common chord |
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| (noun) three people considered as a unit | Synonyms: threesome, trinity, trio |
| (noun) a set of three similar things considered as a unit | Synonyms: trio, triple, triplet |
| (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one | Synonyms: 3, deuce-ace, III, leash, tercet, ternary, ternion, terzetto, three, threesome, tierce, trey, trine, trinity, trio, triplet, troika |
| trichomonad | (noun) cause of trichomoniasis in women and cattle and birds | - |
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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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| unclad | (adjective) having removed clothing | Synonyms: unappareled, unattired, undressed, ungarbed, ungarmented |
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| undergrad | (noun) a university student who has not yet received a first degree | Synonyms: undergraduate |
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| unload | (verb) remove the load from (a container or vehicle) | Synonyms: offload, unlade |
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| (verb) remove (cargo, people, etc.) from and leave | Synonyms: discharge, drop, drop off, put down, set down |
| unread | (adjective) not informed through reading | - |
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| upload | (verb) transfer a file or program to a central computer from a smaller computer or a computer at a remote location | - |
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| wad | (noun) a wad of something chewable as tobacco | Synonyms: chaw, chew, cud, plug, quid |
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| (noun) (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent | Synonyms: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum |
| (noun) a small mass of soft material | - |
| (verb) crowd or pack to capacity | Synonyms: chock up, cram, jam, jampack, ram |
| (verb) compress into a wad | Synonyms: bundle, compact, pack |
| 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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| widespread | (adjective) distributed over a considerable extent | Synonyms: far-flung |
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| (adjective) widely circulated or diffused | - |
| wingspread | (noun) distance between the tips of the wings (as of a bird or insect) when fully extended | - |
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| (noun) linear distance between the extremities of an airfoil | Synonyms: wingspan |
| woad | (noun) any of several herbs of the genus Isatis | - |
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| (noun) a blue dyestuff obtained from the woad plant | - |
| workload | (noun) work that a person is expected to do in a specified time | Synonyms: work load |
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| xanthomonad | (noun) bacteria producing yellow non-water-soluble pigments; some pathogenic for plants | - |
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