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 |
| bare bone | bone stripped of flesh |
| bare bones | (plural) the most basic facts or elements, he told us only the bare bones of the story |
round-headed leek
Allium sphaerocephalum | Old World leek with a spherical bulb |
denude
bare
denudate
strip | lay bare, denude a forest |
publicize
publicise
air
bare | make public, She aired her opinions on welfare |
| bare | lay bare, bare your breasts, bare your feelings |
plain
bare
spare
unembellished
unornamented | lacking embellishment or ornamentation, a plain hair style, unembellished white walls, functional architecture featuring stark unornamented concrete |
bare(a)
scanty
spare | lacking in amplitude or quantity, a bare livelihood, a scanty harvest, a spare diet |
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 |
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 |
bare
au naturel(p)
naked
nude | completely unclothed, bare bodies, naked from the waist up, a nude model |
bare-assed
bare-ass
in the altogether
in the buff
in the raw
raw
peeled
naked as a jaybird
stark naked | (used informally) completely unclothed |
bare-breasted
braless
toples | having the breasts uncovered or featuring such nudity, topless waitresses, a topless cabaret |
| mop-headed | (of trees) having a bushy top without a leader, mop-headed cabbage palms |
bare
stripped | having everything extraneous removed including contents, the bare walls, the cupboard was bare |
| 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 |
bare
barren
bleak
desolate
stark | providing no shelter or sustenance, bare rocky hills, barren lands, the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes, the desolate surface of the moon, a stark landscape |
| 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 |
rough-and-tumble
bare-knuckle
bare-knuckled | characterized by disorderly action and disregard for rules, a rough-and-tumble fight, rough-and-tumble politics, undisguised bare-knuckle capitalism |
| headed | having a heading or course in a certain direction, westward headed wagons |
| bare | lacking its natural or customary covering, a bare hill, bare feet |
bare
unfinished | lacking a surface finish such as paint, bare wood, unfinished furniture |
bare(a)
mere(a)
simple(a) | apart from anything else, without additions or modifications, only the bare facts, shocked by the mere idea, the simple passage of time was enough, the simple truth |
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 |
unsheathed
bare | not having a protective covering, unsheathed cables, a bare blade |
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 |
bare(a)
marginal | just barely adequate or within a lower limit, a bare majority, a marginal victory |