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 |
Dragon's head
() Alt. of Dragon's tail |
Feather-head
(n.) A frivolous or featherbrained person. |
Fill
(n.) One of the thills or shafts of a carriage. |
Fill
(a.) To make full |
Fill
(a.) To furnish an abudant supply to |
Fill
(a.) To fill or supply fully with food |
Fill
(a.) To possess and perform the duties of |
Fill
(a.) To supply with an incumbent |
Fill
(a.) To press and dilate, as a sail |
Fill
(a.) To trim (a yard) so that the wind shall blow on the after side of the sails. |
Fill
(a.) To make an embankment in, or raise the level of (a low place), with earth or gravel. |
Fill
(v. i.) To become full |
Fill
(v. i.) To fill a cup or glass for drinking. |
Fill
(v. t.) A full supply, as much as supplies want |
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. |
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 |
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 |
ax head
axe head | the cutting head of an ax |
| cylinder head | a detachable plate that covers the closed end of a cylinder chamber in a reciprocating engine or pump |
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 |
| 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 |
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 |
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 |
| head | that part of a skeletal muscle that is away from the bone that it moves |
head
caput | the upper part of the human body or the front part of the body in animals, contains the face and brains, he stuck his head out the window |
| human head | the head of a human being |
| head | the rounded end of a bone that fits into a rounded cavity in another bone to form a joint, the head of the humerus |
mind
head
brain psyche
nous | that which is responsible for one's thoughts and feelings, the seat of the faculty of reason, his mind wandered, I couldn't get his words out of my head |
spread
spread head
spreadhead
facing pages | two facing pages of a book or other publication |
| head head word | (grammar) the word in a grammatical constituent that plays the same grammatical role as the whole constituent |
| headword head word | a content word that can be qualified by a modifier |
heading
header
head | a line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about, the heading seemed to have little to do with the text |
running head
running headline | a heading printed at the top of every page (or every other page) of a book |
dropline
drop line
stepped line
stagger head
staggered head
stephead | a headline with the top line flush left and succeeding lines indented to the right |
| question head | the subject matter at issue, the question of disease merits serious discussion, under the head of minor Roman poets |
| death's head | a human skull (or a representation of a human skull) used as a symbol of death |
| point head | a V-shaped mark at one end of an arrow pointer, the point of the arrow was due north |
alliteration
initial rhyme
beginning rhyme
head rhyme | use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse, around the rock the ragged rascal ran |
| trip head trip | an exciting or stimulating experience |
headway
head | forward movement, the ship made little headway against the gale |
pass
head straits | a difficult juncture, a pretty pass, matters came to a head yesterday |
| head crash | (computer science) a crash of a read
write head in a hard disk drive (usually caused by contact of the head with the surface of the magnetic disk) |