Addle-head (n.) Alt. of Addle-pate |
Cittern-head (n.) Blockhead |
Crookes tube () A vacuum tube in which the exhaustion is carried to a very high degree, with the production of a distinct class of effects |
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 |
Dragon's head () Alt. of Dragon's tail |
Feather-head (n.) A frivolous or featherbrained person. |
Geissler tube () A glass tube provided with platinum electrodes, and containing some gas under very low tension, which becomes luminous when an electrical discharge is passed through it |
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 |
Pitot's tube () A bent tube used to determine the velocity of running water, by placing the curved end under water, and observing the height to which the fluid rises in the tube |
Shock-head (a.) Shock-headed. |
Snake's-head (n.) The Guinea-hen flower |
Steering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Steer |
Steering () a. & n. from Steer, v. |
Tough-head (n.) The ruddy duck. |
delusion illusion head game | the act of deluding, deception by creating illusory ideas |
steering steerage | the act of steering a ship |
steering guidance direction | the act of setting and holding a course, a new council was installed under the direction of the king |
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 |
guidance steering | the act of guiding or showing the way |
head | a single domestic animal, head of cattle |
neural tube | a tube of ectodermal tissue in the embryo from which the brain and spinal cord develop |
harpy harpy bat tube-nosed bat tube-nosed fruit bat | any of various fruit bats of the genus Nyctimene distinguished by nostrils drawn out into diverging tubes |
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 |
tube foot | tentacular tubular process of most echinoderms (starfish and sea urchins and holothurians) having a sucker at the end and used for e.g. locomotion and respiration |
moonfish Atlantic moonfish horsefish horsehead horse-head dollarfish Selene setapinnis | any of several silvery marine fishes with very flat bodies |
acorn tube | a small vacuum tube, used at high frequencies |
ax head axe head | the cutting head of an ax |
blowgun blowpipe blowtube blow tube | a tube through which darts can be shot by blowing |
blowtube blow tube blowpipe | a tube that directs air or gas into a flame to concentrate heat |
boron counter tube | a proportional counter tube for counting neutrons |
breech rear of barrel rear of tube | opening in the rear of the barrel of a gun where bullets can be loaded |
capillary capillary tube capillary tubing | a tube of small internal diameter, holds liquid by capillary action |
cathodeay tube CRT | a vacuum tube in which a hot cathode emits a beam of electrons that pass through a high voltage anode and are focused or deflected before hitting a phosphorescent screen |
color tube colour tube color television tube colour television tube color TV tube colour TV tube | a television tube that displays images in full color |
counter tube | a measuring instrument for counting individual ionizing events |
Crookes tube | the original gas-discharge cathodeay tube |
cylinder head | a detachable plate that covers the closed end of a cylinder chamber in a reciprocating engine or pump |
diode rectifying tube rectifying valve | a thermionic tube having two electrodes, used as a rectifier |
driven well tube well | a well made by driving a tube into the earth to a stratum that bears water |
drumhead head | a membrane that is stretched taut over a drum |
endotracheal tube | a catheter that is inserted into the trachea through the mouth or nose in order to maintain an open air passage or to deliver oxygen or to permit the suctioning of mucus or to prevent aspiration of the stomach contents |
gas-discharge tube | a tube in which an electric discharge takes place through a gas |
Geiger tube Geiger-Muller tube | an ionization chamber contained in a tube in a Geiger counter |
glow tube | a gas-discharge tube consisting of a cold cathode and a diode in a tube filled with gas, the color of the glow depends on the particular gas |
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 |
inner tube | an inflatable rubber tube that fits inside the casing of a pneumatic tire |
ionization chamber ionization tube | a measuring instrument that measures the amount of ionizing radiation |
kinescope picture tube television tube | a cathodeay tube in a television receiver, translates the received signal into a picture on a luminescent screen |
Kundt's tube | a measuring instrument used to measure the speed of sound |
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 |
metro tube underground subway system subway | an electric railway operating below the surface of the ground (usually in a city), in Paris the subway system is called the `metro' and in London it is called the `tube' or the `underground' |
nasotracheal tube | a tube inserted into the trachea through the nose and pharynx, used to deliver oxygen |
neon lamp neon induction lamp neon tube | a lamp consisting of a small gas-discharge tube containing neon at low pressure, luminescence is produced by the action of currents at high frequencies that are wrapped a few turns around the tube |