Addle-head (n.) Alt. of Addle-pate |
Cittern-head (n.) Blockhead |
Cubbridge-head (n.) A bulkhead on the forecastle and half deck of a ship. |
Death's-head (n.) A naked human skull as the emblem of death |
Double-lock (v. t.) To lock with two bolts |
Dragon's head () Alt. of Dragon's tail |
Feather-head (n.) A frivolous or featherbrained person. |
Giddy-head (n.) A person without thought fulness, prudence, or judgment. |
-head (suffix.) A variant of -hood. |
Head (n.) The anterior or superior part of an animal, containing the brain, or chief ganglia of the nervous system, the mouth, and in the higher animals, the chief sensory organs |
Head (n.) The uppermost, foremost, or most important part of an inanimate object |
Head (n.) The place where the head should go |
Head (n.) The most prominent or important member of any organized body |
Head (n.) The place or honor, or of command |
Head (n.) Each one among many |
Head (n.) The seat of the intellect |
Head (n.) The source, fountain, spring, or beginning, as of a stream or river |
Head (n.) A headland |
Head (n.) A separate part, or topic, of a discourse |
Head (n.) Culminating point or crisis |
Head (n.) Power |
Head (n.) A headdress |
Head (n.) An ear of wheat, barley, or of one of the other small cereals. |
Head (n.) A dense cluster of flowers, as in clover, daisies, thistles |
Head (n.) A dense, compact mass of leaves, as in a cabbage or a lettuce plant. |
Head (n.) The antlers of a deer. |
Head (n.) A rounded mass of foam which rises on a pot of beer or other effervescing liquor. |
Head (n.) Tiles laid at the eaves of a house. |
Head (a.) Principal |
Head (v. t.) To be at the head of |
Head (v. t.) To form a head to |
Head (v. t.) To behead |
Head (v. t.) To cut off the top of |
Head (v. t.) To go in front of |
Head (v. t.) To set on the head |
Head (v. i.) To originate |
Head (v. i.) To go or point in a certain direction |
Head (v. i.) To form a head |
Head-cheese (n.) A dish made of portions of the head, or head and feet, of swine, cut up fine, seasoned, and pressed into a cheeselike mass. |
Head gear (n.) Alt. of Headgear |
Head-hunter (n.) A member of any tribe or race of savages who have the custom of decapitating human beings and preserving their heads as trophies. The Dyaks of Borneo are the most noted head-hunters. |
Head-lugged (a.) Lugged or dragged by the head. |
Hot-head (n.) A violent, passionate person |
Lock (n.) A tuft of hair |
Lock (n.) Anything that fastens |
Lock (n.) A fastening together or interlacing |
Lock (n.) A place from which egress is prevented, as by a lock. |
Lock (n.) The barrier or works which confine the water of a stream or canal. |
Lock (n.) An inclosure in a canal with gates at each end, used in raising or lowering boats as they pass from one level to another |
Lock (n.) That part or apparatus of a firearm by which the charge is exploded |
delusion illusion head game | the act of deluding, deception by creating illusory ideas |
lock | any wrestling hold in which some part of the opponent's body is twisted or pressured |
oral sex head | oral stimulation of the genitals, they say he gives good head |
self-gratification head trip | the act of satisfying your own desires and giving yourself pleasure |
head | a single domestic animal, head of cattle |
head louse Pediculus capitis | infests the head and body of humans |
death's-head moth Acherontia atropos | European hawkmoth with markings on the back resembling a human skull |
moonfish Atlantic moonfish horsefish horsehead horse-head dollarfish Selene setapinnis | any of several silvery marine fishes with very flat bodies |
airlock air lock | a chamber that provides access to space where air is under pressure |
ax head axe head | the cutting head of an ax |
combination lock | lock that can be opened only by turning dials in a special sequence |
cylinder head | a detachable plate that covers the closed end of a cylinder chamber in a reciprocating engine or pump |
cylinder lock | a lock in which a cylinder rotates to move a bolt, tumblers are pins, inserting the key lifts and aligns the pins to free the cylinder to rotate |
drumhead head | a membrane that is stretched taut over a drum |
golflub head club head club-head clubhead | (golf) the head of the club which strikes the ball |
head | a projection out from one end, the head of the nail, a pinhead is the head of a pin |
head | (nautical) a toilet on board a boat or ship |
head | the striking part of a tool, the head of the hammer |
head | (usually plural) the obverse side of a coin that usually bears the representation of a person's head, call heads or tails! |
head covering veil | a garment that covers the head and face |
head gasket | a gasket to seal a cylinder head |
head gate | a gate upstream from a lock or canal that is used to control the flow of water at the upper end |
headrest head restraint | a cushion attached to the top of the back of an automobile's seat to prevent whiplash |
head shop | a shop specializing in articles of interest to drug users, he bought some roach clips and hashish pipes at the head shop |
lever lock | a lock whose tumblers are levers that must be raised to a given position so that the bolt can move |
lock | a fastener fitted to a door or drawer to keep it firmly closed |
lock ignition lock | a restraint incorporated into the ignition switch to prevent the use of a vehicle by persons who do not have the key |
lock lock chamber | enclosure consisting of a section of canal that can be closed to control the water level, used to raise or lower vessels that pass through it |
lock | a mechanism that detonates the charge of a gun |
lock-gate | a gate that can be locked |
lockring lock ring lock washer | washer that prevents a nut from loosening |
magnetic head | an electromagnet (as on a tape recorder) that converts electrical variations into magnetic variations that can be stored on a surface and later retrieved |
Pitot-static tube Pitot head Pitot tube | measuring instrument consisting of a combined Pitot tube and static tube that measures total and static pressure, used in aircraft to measure airspeed |
read write head head | (computer science) a tiny electromagnetic coil and metal pole used to write and read magnetic patterns on a disk |
rotor head rotor shaft | the axis around which the major rotor of a helicopter turns |
safety bolt safety lock | a bolt that cannot be moved from outside the door or gate |
safety catch safety lock | guard consisting of a locking device that prevents a weapon from being fired |
sash fastener sash lock window lock | a lock attached to the sashes of a double hung window that can fix both in the shut position |
sluicegate sluice valve floodgate penstock head gate water gate | regulator consisting of a valve or gate that controls the rate of water flow through a sluice |
Turk's head | an ornamental knot that resembles a small turban |
valve-in-head engine | internalombustion engine having both inlet and exhaust valves located in the cylinder head |
vapor lock vapour lock | a stoppage in a pipeline caused by gas bubbles (especially a stoppage that develops in hot weather in an internalombustion engine when fuel in the gas line boils and forms bubbles that block the flow of gasoline to the carburetor) |
wheel lock | an obsolete gunlock using flint and a revolving wheel |
egotism self-importance swelled head | an exaggerated opinion of your own importance |
head register head voice head tone | the higher ranges of the voice in speaking or singing, the vibrations of sung notes are felt in the head |
start head start | the advantage gained by beginning early (as in a race), with an hour's start he will be hard to catch |
mane head of hair | growth of hair covering the scalp of a human being |
lock curl ringlet whorl | a strand or cluster of hair |
scalp lock | a long tuft of hair left on top of the shaven head |
head | that part of a skeletal muscle that is away from the bone that it moves |