Addle-head
(n.) Alt. of Addle-pate |
Building
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Build |
Building
(n.) The act of constructing, erecting, or establishing. |
Building
(n.) The art of constructing edifices, or the practice of civil architecture. |
Building
(n.) That which is built |
Cittern-head
(n.) Blockhead |
Conning tower
(n.) The shot-proof pilot house of a war vessel. |
Crane
(n.) A measure for fresh herrings, -- as many as will fill a barrel. |
Crane
(n.) A wading bird of the genus Grus, and allied genera, of various species, having a long, straight bill, and long legs and neck. |
Crane
(n.) A machine for raising and lowering heavy weights, and, while holding them suspended, transporting them through a limited lateral distance. In one form it consists of a projecting arm or jib of timber or iron, a rotating post or base, and the necessary tackle, windlass, etc. |
Crane
(n.) An iron arm with horizontal motion, attached to the side or back of a fireplace, for supporting kettles, etc., over a fire. |
Crane
(n.) A siphon, or bent pipe, for drawing liquors out of a cask. |
Crane
(n.) A forked post or projecting bracket to support spars, etc., -- generally used in pairs. See Crotch, 2. |
Crane
(v. t.) To cause to rise |
Crane
(v. t.) To stretch, as a crane stretches its neck |
Crane
(v. i.) to reach forward with head and neck, in order to see better |
Crane's-bill
(n.) The geranium |
Crane's-bill
(n.) A pair of long-beaked forceps. |
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 |
Erecting
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Erect |
Feather-head
(n.) A frivolous or featherbrained person. |
Giddy-head
(n.) A person without thought fulness, prudence, or judgment. |
Gold-hammer
(n.) The yellow-hammer. |
Hammer
(n.) An instrument for driving nails, beating metals, and the like, consisting of a head, usually of steel or iron, fixed crosswise to a handle. |
Hammer
(n.) Something which in firm or action resembles the common hammer |
Hammer
(n.) That part of a clock which strikes upon the bell to indicate the hour. |
Hammer
(n.) The padded mallet of a piano, which strikes the wires, to produce the tones. |
Hammer
(n.) The malleus. |
Hammer
(n.) That part of a gunlock which strikes the percussion cap, or firing pin |
Hammer
(n.) Also, a person of thing that smites or shatters |
Hammer
(v. t.) To beat with a hammer |
Hammer
(v. t.) To form or forge with a hammer |
Hammer
(v. t.) To form in the mind |
Hammer
(v. i.) To be busy forming anything |
Hammer
(v. i.) To strike repeated blows, literally or figuratively. |
Hammer-beam
(n.) A member of one description of roof truss, called hammer-beam truss, which is so framed as not to have a tiebeam at the top of the wall. Each principal has two hammer-beams, which occupy the situation, and to some extent serve the purpose, of a tiebeam. |
Hammer-dressed
(a.) Having the surface roughly shaped or faced with the stonecutter's hammer |
Hammer-harden
(v. t.) To harden, as a metal, by hammering it in the cold state. |
Hammer-less
(a.) Without a visible hammer |
-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 |
bodybuilding
anaerobic exercise
muscle building
musclebuilding | exercise that builds muscles through tension |
delusion
illusion
head game | the act of deluding, deception by creating illusory ideas |
oral sex
head | oral stimulation of the genitals, they say he gives good head |
construction
building | the act of constructing something, during the construction we had to take a detour, his hobby was the building of boats |
erecting
erection | the act of building or putting up |
shipbuilding
ship building | the construction of ships |
self-gratification
head trip | the act of satisfying your own desires and giving yourself pleasure |
| construction building | the commercial activity involved in repairing old structures or constructing new ones, their main business is home construction, workers in the building trades |
| jerry-building | construction of inferior buildings for a quick profit |
hammer
pound
hammering
pounding | the act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows), the sudden hammer of fists caught him off guard, the pounding of feet on the hallway |
morale building
morale booster | anything that serves to increase morale, the sight of flowers every morning was my morale builder |
| head | a single domestic animal, head of cattle |
| crane | large long-necked wading bird of marshes and plains in many parts of the world |
whooping crane
whooper Grus americana | rare North American crane having black-and-white plumage and a trumpeting call |
head louse
Pediculus capitis | infests the head and body of humans |
crane fly
daddy longlegs | long-legged slender flies that resemble large mosquitoes but do not bite |
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 |
air hammer
jackhammer
pneumatic hammer | a hammer driven by compressed air |
apartment building
apartment house | a building that is divided into apartments |
ax head
axe head | the cutting head of an ax |
| ball-peen hammer | a hammer with one round and one flat end, used in working metal |
bank
bank building | a building in which the business of banking transacted, the bank is on the corner of Nassau and Witherspoon |
| bell tower | a tower that supports or shelters a bell |
| bricklayer's hammer | a hammer used in laying bricks |
building
edifice | a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place, there was a three-story building on the corner, it was an imposing edifice |
| building block | a block of material used in construction work |
building complex
complex | a whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures |
building supply store
building supply house | a store where builders can purchase materials for building houses and related structures |
Capitol
Capitol Building | the government building in Washington where the United States Senate and the House of Representatives meet |
carpenter's hammer
claw hammer
clawhammer | a hammer with a cleft at one end for pulling nails |
church
church building | a place for public (especially Christian) worship, the church was empty |
| church tower | the tower of a church |
| clock tower | a tower with a large clock visible high up on an outside face |
| CN Tower | a tower in Toronto, feet tall for broadcasting widely |
| conning tower | a raised bridge on a submarine, often used for entering and exiting |
| conning tower | an armored pilothouse on a warship |
| control tower | a tower with an elevated workspace enclosed in glass for the visual observation of aircraft around an airport |
| cooling tower | a cooling system used in industry to cool hot water (by partial evaporation) before reusing it as a coolant |
| crane | lifts and moves heavy objects, lifting tackle is suspended from a pivoted boom that rotates around a vertical axis |
| cylinder head | a detachable plate that covers the closed end of a cylinder chamber in a reciprocating engine or pump |
| diplomatic building | government building in which diplomats live or work |
drop forge
drop hammer
drop press | device for making large forgings |
drumhead
head | a membrane that is stretched taut over a drum |
| Eiffel Tower | a wrought iron tower meters high that was constructed in Paris in , for many years it was the tallest man-made structure |
| electric hammer | a hammer driven by electric motor |
| Empire State Building | a skyscraper built in New York City in ,feet tall |
| erecting prism | a right-angled optical prism used to turn an inverted image upright |
| farm building | a building on a farm |
| fire tower | a watchtower where a lookout is posted to watch for fires |