blue-headed vireo
Vireo solitarius solitarius | common vireo of northeastern North America with bluish slaty-grey head |
lowland burrowing treefrog
northern casque-headed frog
Pternohyla fodiens | terrestrial burrowing nocturnal frog of grassy terrain and scrub forests having very hard upper surface of head, of the United States southwest |
| bone-headed dinosaur | bipedal herbivorous dinosaurs with bony crowns |
| black-headed snake | small secretive ground-living snake, found from central United States to Argentina |
rubber boa
tow-headed snake
Charina bottae | boa of grasslands and woodlands of western North America, looks and feels like rubber with tail and head of similar shape |
acanthocephalan
spiny-headed worm | any of various worms living parasitically in intestines of vertebrates having a retractile proboscis covered with many hooked spines |
white-headed stilt
Himantopus himantopus leucocephalus | stilt of the southwest Pacific including Australia and New Zealand having mostly white plumage but with black wings and nape of neck |
gaffsail
gaff-headed sail | a quadrilateral fore-and-aft sail suspended from a gaff |
| slate | (formerly) a writing tablet made of slate |
| slate pencil | a pencil of soft slate (or soapstone) used for writing on a slate |
| slate roof | a roof covered with slate |
| slate ticket | a list of candidates nominated by a political party to run for election to public offices |
| slate club | a group of people who save money in a common fund for a specific purpose (usually distributed at Christmas) |
round-headed leek
Allium sphaerocephalum | Old World leek with a spherical bulb |
fresh start
clean slate
tabula rasa | an opportunity to start over without prejudice |
| slate | a fine-grained metamorphic rock that can be split into thin layers |
| slate slating | thin layers of rock used for roofing |
| slate | designate or schedule, He slated his talk for AM, She was slated to be his successor |
| slate | cover with slate, slate the roof |
| slate | enter on a list or slate for an election, He was slated for borough president |
bald
bald-headed
bald-pated | lacking hair on all or most of the scalp, a bald pate, a bald-headed gentleman |
| shock-headed | having a shock (or untidy mass) of hair, shock-headed teenagers |
broad-headed
roundheaded
short-headed | having a brachycephalic head |
| bullet-headed | having a small round head |
| long-headed | having a dolichocephalic head |
| slate-black | of a black tinged with slate-grey |
slate-grey
slate-gray
slaty-grey
slaty-gray
slaty
slatey
stone-grey
stone-gray | of the color of slate or granite, the slaty sky of dawn |
addled
befuddled muddled
muzzy
woolly
wooly
woolly-headed
wooly-minded | confused and vague, used especially of thinking, muddleheaded ideas, your addled little brain, woolly thinking, woolly-headed ideas |
a blockheaded
boneheaded
duncical
duncish
fatheaded
loggerheaded
thick
thickheaded
thick-skulled
wooden-headed | (used informally) stupid |
| mop-headed | (of trees) having a bushy top without a leader, mop-headed cabbage palms |
| headed | having a head of a specified kind or anything that serves as a head, often used in combination, headed bolts, three-headed Cerberus, a cool-headed fighter pilot |
| burr-headed | having a head of straight hair cut very short (hence bristly) |
| large-headed | having a large head |
| headed | having a heading or caption, a headed column, headed notepaper |
| headed | of leafy vegetables, having formed into a head, headed cabbages |
a grey
gray
grey-haired
gray-haired
grey-headed
gray-headed
grizzly
hoar
hoary
white-haired | showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair, whose beard with age is hoar-Coleridge, nodded his hoary head |
| headed | having a heading or course in a certain direction, westward headed wagons |
conceited
egotistic
egotistical
self-conceited
swollen
swollen-headed
vain | characteristic of false pride, having an exaggerated sense of self-importance, a conceited fool, an attitude of self-conceited arrogance, an egotistical disregard of others, so swollen by victory that he was unfit for normal duty, growing ever more swollen-headed and arbitrary, vain about her clothes |
healthy
intelligent
levelheaded
level-headed
sound | exercising or showing good judgment, healthy scepticism, a healthy fear of rattlesnakes, the healthy attitude of French laws, healthy relations between labor and management, an intelligent solution, a sound approach to the problem, sound advice, no sound explanation for his decision |
airheaded
dizzy
empty-headed
featherbrained
giddy
light-headed
lightheaded
silly | lacking seriousness, given to frivolity, a dizzy blonde, light-headed teenagers, silly giggles |
bullheaded
bullet-headed
pigheaded | obstinate and stupid |
faint
light
swooning
light-headed
lightheaded | weak and likely to lose consciousness, suddenly felt faint from the pain, was sick and faint from hunger, felt light in the head, a swooning fit, light-headed with wine, light-headed from lack of sleep |