showerhead | (noun) a perforated nozzle that showers water on a bather | - |
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sightread | (verb) perform music from a score without having seen the score before | Synonyms: sight-read |
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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 |
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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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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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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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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towhead | (noun) a person with light blond hair | - |
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trailhead | (noun) the beginning of a trail | Synonyms: trail head |
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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 | - |
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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unread | (adjective) not informed through reading | - |
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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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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 |