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. |
Giddy-head (n.) A person without thought fulness, prudence, or judgment. |
Granite State () New Hampshire |
-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 |
Shock-head (a.) Shock-headed. |
Snake's-head (n.) The Guinea-hen flower |
State (n.) The circumstances or condition of a being or thing at any given time. |
State (n.) Rank |
State (n.) Condition of prosperity or grandeur |
State (n.) Appearance of grandeur or dignity |
State (n.) A chair with a canopy above it, often standing on a dais |
state | the way something is with respect to its main attributes, the current state of knowledge, his state of health, in a weak financial state |
change of state | the act of changing something into something different in essential characteristics |
Secretary of State | the position of the head of the State Department, the position of Secretary of State was established in |
delusion illusion head game | the act of deluding, deception by creating illusory ideas |
state-sponsored terrorism | terrorism practiced by a government against its own people or in support of international terrorism |
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 |
chair of state | a ceremonial chair for an exalted or powerful person |
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 |
Empire State Building | a skyscraper built in New York City in ,feet tall |
expressway freeway motorway pike state highway superhighway throughway thruway | a broad highway designed for high-speed traffic |
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 |
Ohio State University | a university in Columbus, Ohio |
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 |
state prison | a prison maintained by a state of the U.S. |
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 |
cognitive state state of mind | the state of a person's cognitive processes |
religious trance ecstatic state | a trance induced by intense religious devotion, does not show reduced bodily functions that are typical of other trances |
steady state theory continuous creation theory | (cosmology) the theory that the universe maintains a constant average density with matter created to fill the void left by galaxies that are receding from each other, the steady state theory has been abandoned in favor of the big bang theory |
solid-state physics | the branch of physics that studies the properties of materials in the solid state: electrical conduction in crystals of semiconductors and metals, superconductivity, photoconductivity |
spread spread head spreadhead facing pages | two facing pages of a book or other publication |