hair care
haircare
hairdressing | care for the hair: the activity of washing or cutting or curling or arranging the hair |
| hair coloring | the act of dyeing or tinting one's hair |
brewer's mole
hair-tailed mole
Parascalops breweri | mole of eastern North America |
| guard hair | coarse hairs that form the outer fur and protect the underfur of certain mammals |
| hair | a filamentous projection or process on an organism |
whisker
vibrissa
sensory hair | a long stiff hair growing from the snout or brow of most mammals as e.g. a cat |
earless seal
true seal
hair seal | any of several seals lacking external ear flaps and having a stiff hairlike coat with hind limbs reduced to swimming flippers |
kitty kittyat
puss
pussy
pussycat | informal terms referring to a domestic cat |
skunk
polecat wood pussy | American musteline mammal typically ejecting an intensely malodorous fluid when startled, in some classifications put in a separate subfamily Mephitinae |
camel's hair
camelhair | a soft tan cloth made with the hair of a camel |
cross hair
cross wire | either of two fine mutually perpendicular lines that cross in the focus plane of an optical instrument and are use for sighting or calibration, he had the target in his cross hairs |
curler
hair curler
roller crimper | a mechanical device consisting of a cylindrical tube around which the hair is wound to curl it, a woman with her head full of curlers is not a pretty sight |
haircloth
hair | cloth woven from horsehair or camelhair, used for upholstery or stiffening in garments |
hairdressing
hair tonic
hair oil
hair grease | a toiletry for the hair |
hairpiece
false hair
postiche | a covering or bunch of human or artificial hair used for disguise or adornment |
| hair shirt | an uncomfortable shirt made of coarse animal hair, worn next to the skin as a penance |
| hair slide | a decorative hinged clip that girls and women put in their hair to hold it in place |
| hair space | (printing) the narrowest of the spaces used to separate words or letters |
| hair spray | toiletry consisting of a commercial preparation that is sprayed on the hair to hold it in place |
| hair trigger | a gun trigger that responds with little pressure |
hand blower
blow dryer
blow drier
hair dryer
hair drier | a hand-held electric blower that can blow warm air onto the hair, used for styling hair |
mousse
hair mousse
hair gel | toiletry consisting of an aerosol foam used in hair styling |
sable sable brush
sable's hair pencil | an artist's brush made of sable hairs |
| hair coloring | coloring of the hair, her hairoloring was unusual: a very pale gold |
| hair cell | a sensory epithelial cell present in the organ of Corti |
| hair pilus | any of the cylindrical filaments characteristically growing from the epidermis of a mammal, there is a hair in my soup |
| ingrown hair | a hair that does not emerge from the follicle but remains embedded in the skin (usually causing inflammation) |
| hair | a covering for the body (or parts of it) consisting of a dense growth of threadlike structures (as on the human head), helps to prevent heat loss, he combed his hair, each hair consists of layers of dead keratinized cells |
| body hair | short hair growing over a person's body |
| mane head of hair | growth of hair covering the scalp of a human being |
hairdo
hairstyle
hair style
coiffure
coif | the arrangement of the hair (especially a woman's hair) |
| facial hair | hair on the face (especially on the face of a man) |
pubic hair
bush
crotch hair | hair growing in the pubic area |
| hair follicle | a small tubular cavity containing the root of a hair, small muscles and sebaceous glands are associated with them |
cunt
puss
pussy
slit
snatch
twat | obscene terms for female genitals |
| hair stroke | a very fine line in writing or printing |
| hair of the dog | an alcoholic drink supposed to cure a hangover |
hairball
hair ball
trichobezoar | a compact mass of hair that forms in the alimentary canal (especially in the stomach of animals as a result of licking fur) |
pussy-paw
pussy-paws
pussy's-paw
Spraguea umbellatum
Calyptridium umbellatum | pink clusters of densely packed flowers on prostrate stems resemble upturned pads of cats' feet, grow in coniferous forests of western North America |
needle spike rush
needle rush
slender spike rush
hair grass
Eleocharis acicularis | fine-leaved aquatic spike rush, popular as aerator for aquariums |
| pussy willow Salix discolor | small willow of eastern North America having greyish leaves and silky catkins that come before the leaves |
goat willow
florist's willow
pussy willow Salix caprea | much-branched Old World willow having large catkins and relatively large broad leaves |
hair
fuzz
tomentum | filamentous hairlike growth on a plant, peach fuzz |
| stinging hair | a multicellular hair in plants like the stinging nettle that expels an irritating fluid |
| root hair | thin hairlike outgrowth of an epidermal cell just behind the tip, absorbs nutrients from the soil |
common maidenhair
Venushair
Venus'-hair fern
southern maidenhair
Venus maidenhair
Adiantum capillus-veneris | delicate maidenhair fern with slender shining black leaf stalks, cosmopolitan |
hair's-breadth
hairsbreadth
hair
whisker | a very small distance or space, they escaped by a hair's-breadth, they lost the election by a whisker |
hair dye
hair coloring | a dye or tint for the hair |
hang by a thread
hang by a hair | depend on a small thing or be at risk, His life now hangs by a thread |
bloodcurdling
hair-raising
nightmarish | extremely alarming |