Addle-head
(n.) Alt. of Addle-pate |
Anti
() A prefix meaning against, opposite or opposed to, contrary, or in place of |
Anti-American
(a.) Opposed to the Americans, their aims, or interests, or to the genius of American institutions. |
Anti-federalist
(n.) One of party opposed to a federative government |
Anti-Gallican
(a.) Opposed to what is Gallic or French. |
Anti-trade
(n.) A tropical wind blowing steadily in a direction opposite to the trade wind. |
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. |
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. |
Head gear
(n.) Alt. of Headgear |
Head-hunter
(n.) A member of any tribe or race of savages who have the custom of decapitating human beings and preserving their heads as trophies. The Dyaks of Borneo are the most noted head-hunters. |
Head-lugged
(a.) Lugged or dragged by the head. |
Hot-head
(n.) A violent, passionate person |
Position
(n.) The state of being posited, or placed |
Position
(n.) The spot where a person or thing is placed or takes a place |
Position
(n.) Hence: The ground which any one takes in an argument or controversy |
| position | the act of positing, an assumption taken as a postulate or axiom |
reversion reverse reversal turnabout
turnaround | turning in the opposite direction |
| reverse hang | a hang with the arms extended in back |
| piked reverse hang | a reverse hang performed on the rings |
reverse split
reverse stock split
split down | a decrease in the number of outstanding shares of a corporation without changing the shareholders' equity |
| reverse | (American football) a running play in which a back running in one direction hands the ball to a back running in the opposite direction |
| double reverse | (American football) a running play in which a first reverse is followed by a second reverse |
position post
berth
office spot billet
place
situation | a job in an organization, he occupied a post in the treasury |
stead
position place lieu | the post or function properly or customarily occupied or served by another, can you go in my stead?, took his place, in lieu of |
| position | (in team sports) the role assigned to an individual player, what position does he play? |
delusion
illusion
head game | the act of deluding, deception by creating illusory ideas |
| anti-takeover defense | resistance to or defense against a hostile takeover |
| anti-war movement | a campaign against entering or continuing a war |
oral sex
head | oral stimulation of the genitals, they say he gives good head |
placement
location locating
position
positioning
emplacement | the act of putting something in a certain place |
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 |
anti-G suit
G suit | worn by fliers and astronauts to counteract the forces of gravity and acceleration |
anti-inflammatory
anti-inflammatory drug | a medicine intended to reduce inflammation |
| anti-submarine rocket | a shipboard system to fire rockets at submarines |
| anti-TNF compound | a class of drugs that block the action of tumor necrosis factor (TNF), used in cases of rheumatoid arthritis because TNF instigates inflammation of the joints |
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 |
fragmentation bomb
antipersonnel bomb
anti-personnel bomb
daisy cutter | a bomb with onlytoper cent explosive and the remainder consisting of casings designed to break into many small high-velocity fragments, most effective against troops and vehicles |
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 |
non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor
NNRTI | an antiviral drug used against HIV, binds directly to reverse transcriptase and prevents RNA conversion to DNA, often used in combination with other drugs |
nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory
nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug
NSAID | an anti-inflammatory drug that does not contain steroids, NSAIDs inhibit the activity of both Cox- and Cox- enzymes |
nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor
NRTI | an antiviral drug used against HIV, is incorporated into the DNA of the virus and stops the building process, results in incomplete DNA that cannot create a new virus, often used in combination with other drugs |
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 |
reverse
reverse gear | the gears by which the motion of a machine can be reversed |
| reverse verso | the side of a coin or medal that does not bear the principal design |
| reverse transcriptase inhibitor | an antiviral drug that inhibits the action of reverse transcriptase in retroviruses such as HIV |
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 |
stabilizer bar
anti-sway bar | a rigid metal bar between the front suspensions and between the rear suspensions of cars and trucks, serves to stabilize the chassis |