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 | - |
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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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 | - |
bead | (noun) a small ball with a hole through the middle | - |
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(noun) a beaded molding for edging or decorating furniture | Synonyms: astragal, beading, beadwork |
(noun) a shape that is spherical and small | Synonyms: drop, pearl |
(verb) string together like beads | - |
(verb) decorate by sewing beads onto | - |
(verb) form into beads, as of water or sweat, for example | - |
bedspread | (noun) decorative cover for a bed | Synonyms: bed cover, bed covering, bedcover, counterpane, spread |
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bedstead | (noun) the framework of a bed | Synonyms: bedframe |
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beebread | (noun) a mixture of nectar and pollen prepared by worker bees and fed to larvae | Synonyms: ambrosia |
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behead | (verb) cut the head of | Synonyms: decapitate, decollate |
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bighead | (noun) any of various diseases of animals characterized by edema of the head and neck | - |
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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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blacklead | (verb) cover with graphite | - |
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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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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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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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bread | (noun) food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked | Synonyms: breadstuff, staff of life |
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(noun) informal terms for money | Synonyms: boodle, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, loot, lucre, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum |
(verb) cover with bread crumbs | - |
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 | - |
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 |
cheerlead | (verb) act as a cheerleader in a sports event | - |
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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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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 |
copyread | (verb) edit and correct (written or printed material) | Synonyms: copyedit, subedit |
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cornbread | (noun) bread made primarily of cornmeal | - |
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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 |
dead | (adjective) no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life | - |
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(adjective) not showing characteristics of life especially the capacity to sustain life; no longer exerting force or having energy or heat | - |
(adjective) the complete stoppage of an action | - |
(adjective) not surviving in active use | - |
(adjective) physically inactive | - |
(adjective) devoid of activity | - |
(adjective) lacking resilience or bounce | - |
(adjective) out of use or operation because of a fault or breakdown | - |
(adjective) devoid of physical sensation; numb | Synonyms: deadened |
(adjective) (followed by `to') not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive | Synonyms: numb |
(adjective) no longer having force or relevance | - |
(adjective) unerringly accurate | - |
(adjective) not circulating or flowing | Synonyms: stagnant |
(adjective) very tired | Synonyms: all in, beat, bushed |
(adjective) drained of electric charge; discharged | Synonyms: drained |
(adjective) not yielding a return | Synonyms: idle |
(adjective) lacking acoustic resonance | - |
(noun) people who are no longer living | - |
(noun) a time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense | - |
(adverb) completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers | Synonyms: absolutely, perfectly, utterly |
(adverb) quickly and without warning; happening unexpectedly; on impulse; without premeditation | Synonyms: abruptly, all of a sudden, of a sudden, on the spur of the moment, short, suddenly |
deadhead | (noun) a train or bus or taxi traveling empty | - |
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(noun) a nonenterprising person who is not paying his way | - |
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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dispread | (verb) spread abroad or out | - |
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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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dread | (adjective) causing fear or dread or terror | Synonyms: awful, dire, direful, dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible |
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(noun) fearful expectation or anticipation | Synonyms: apprehension, apprehensiveness |
(verb) be afraid or scared of; be frightened of | Synonyms: fear |
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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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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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 |
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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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 |
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 | - |
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 | - |
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 |
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 |
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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lead | (noun) the playing of a card to start a trick in bridge | - |
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(noun) a position of being the initiator of something and an example that others will follow (especially in the phrase `take the lead') | - |
(noun) a jumper that consists of a short piece of wire | Synonyms: booster cable, jumper cable, jumper lead |
(noun) thin strip of metal used to separate lines of type in printing | Synonyms: leading |
(noun) restraint consisting of a rope (or light chain) used to restrain an animal | Synonyms: leash, tether |
(noun) the timing of ignition relative to the position of the piston in an internal-combustion engine | Synonyms: spark advance |
(noun) an advantage held by a competitor in a race | - |
(noun) evidence pointing to a possible solution | Synonyms: track, trail |
(noun) a news story of major importance | Synonyms: lead story |
(noun) the introductory section of a story | Synonyms: lead-in, lede |
(noun) an indication of potential opportunity | Synonyms: confidential information, hint, steer, tip, wind |
(noun) (baseball) the position taken by a base runner preparing to advance to the next base | - |
(noun) an actor who plays a principal role | Synonyms: principal, star |
(noun) (sports) the score by which a team or individual is winning | - |
(noun) the angle between the direction a gun is aimed and the position of a moving target (correcting for the flight time of the missile) | - |
(noun) mixture of graphite with clay in different degrees of hardness; the marking substance in a pencil | Synonyms: pencil lead |
(noun) a soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element; bluish white when freshly cut but tarnishes readily to dull grey | Synonyms: atomic number 82, Pb |
(verb) cause to undertake a certain action | - |
(verb) preside over | Synonyms: chair, moderate |
(verb) lead, as in the performance of a composition | Synonyms: conduct, direct |
(verb) travel in front of; go in advance of others | Synonyms: head |
(verb) take somebody somewhere | Synonyms: conduct, direct, guide, take |
(verb) move ahead (of others) in time or space | Synonyms: precede |
(verb) be in charge of | Synonyms: head |
(verb) be conducive to | Synonyms: conduce, contribute |
(verb) stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point | Synonyms: extend, go, pass, run |
(verb) be ahead of others; be the first | Synonyms: top |
(verb) cause something to pass or lead somewhere | Synonyms: run |
(verb) lead, extend, or afford access | Synonyms: go |
(verb) produce as a result or residue | Synonyms: leave, result |
(verb) tend to or result in | - |
letterhead | (noun) a sheet of stationery with name and address of the organization printed at the top | - |
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lipread | (verb) interpret by lipreading; of deaf people | Synonyms: lip-read, speech-read |
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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 |
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 |
mead | (noun) made of fermented honey and water | - |
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metalhead | (noun) a fan of heavy metal music | - |
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midspread | (noun) a measure of statistical dispersion, being equal to the difference between the upper and lower quartiles. | Synonyms: interquartile range, middle fifty |
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mislead | (verb) give false or misleading information to | Synonyms: misinform |
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(verb) lead someone in the wrong direction or give someone wrong directions | Synonyms: lead astray, misdirect, misguide |
misread | (verb) interpret wrongly | Synonyms: misinterpret |
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(verb) read or interpret wrongly | - |
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 | - |
outspread | (adjective) fully extended in width | Synonyms: spread |
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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 | - |
overspread | (verb) spread across or over | Synonyms: spread |
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packthread | (noun) a strong three-ply twine used to sew or tie packages | - |
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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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plead | (verb) appeal or request earnestly | - |
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(verb) enter a plea, as in courts of law | - |
(verb) offer as an excuse or plea | - |
(verb) make an allegation in an action or other legal proceeding, especially answer the previous pleading of the other party by denying facts therein stated or by alleging new facts | - |
pothead | (noun) someone who smokes marijuana habitually | - |
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proofread | (verb) read for errors | Synonyms: proof |
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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 | - |
read | (noun) something that is read | - |
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(verb) interpret something that is written or printed | - |
(verb) look at, interpret, and say out loud something that is written or printed | - |
(verb) interpret the significance of, as of palms, tea leaves, intestines, the sky; also of human behavior | - |
(verb) make sense of a language | Synonyms: interpret, translate, understand |
(verb) be a student of a certain subject | Synonyms: learn, study, take |
(verb) obtain data from magnetic tapes or other digital sources | Synonyms: scan |
(verb) to hear and understand | - |
(verb) interpret something in a certain way; convey a particular meaning or impression | Synonyms: take |
(verb) indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments | Synonyms: record, register, show |
(verb) audition for a stage role by reading parts of a role | - |
(verb) have or contain a certain wording or form | Synonyms: say |
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 |
reread | (verb) read anew; read again | - |
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retread | (noun) a used automobile tire that has been remolded to give it new treads | Synonyms: recap |
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(verb) give new treads to (a tire) | Synonyms: remold, remould |
(verb) use again in altered form | Synonyms: make over, rework |
roadstead | (noun) a partly sheltered anchorage | Synonyms: roads |
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roundhead | (noun) a brachycephalic person | - |
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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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shortbread | (noun) very rich thick butter cookie | Synonyms: shortbread cookie |
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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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