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- head start — an advantage given or acquired in any competition, endeavor, etc., as allowing one or more competitors in a race to start before the others.
- head table — the principal table, as at a banquet or conference, often at the head of a row of tables or raised on a dais, where the presiding officer, chief speaker, guests of honor, etc., are seated.
- head voice — the high register of the human voice, in which the vibrations of sung notes are felt in the head
- head wound — a wound to the head
- head-first — If you move head-first in a particular direction, your head is the part of your body that is furthest forward as you are moving.
- head-right — Law. a beneficial interest for each member of an Indian tribe in the tribal trust fund accruing from the lease of tribal oil, gas, and mineral rights, the sale of tribal lands, etc.
- headbanged — Simple past tense and past participle of headbang.
- headbanger — metalhead.
- headboards — Plural form of headboard.
- headcheese — a seasoned loaf made of the head meat, sometimes including the tongue or brains, of a calf or pig and molded in the natural aspic of the head.
- headcollar — A bitless headpiece for leading or tying up a horse.
- headedness — The state or quality of having a particular type of head.
- headframes — Plural form of headframe.
- headhunted — Simple past tense and past participle of headhunt.
- headhunter — a person who engages in headhunting.
- headlessly — In a headless way.
- headlights — a light or lamp, usually equipped with a reflector, on the front of an automobile, locomotive, etc.
- headliners — Plural form of headliner.
- headlining — a heading in a newspaper for any written material, sometimes for an illustration, to indicate subject matter, set in larger type than that of the copy and containing one or more words and lines and often several banks.
- headmaster — the person in charge of a private school.
- headphones — Audio. a headset designed for use with a stereo system.
- headpieces — Plural form of headpiece.
- heads down — [Sun] Concentrating, usually so heavily and for so long that everything outside the focus area is missed. See also hack mode and larval stage, although this mode is hardly confined to fledgling hackers.
- headsheets — the sheet of a foresail; foresheet
- headspring — the fountainhead or source of a stream.
- headsquare — a scarf worn on the head
- headstalls — (British) Plural form of headstall.
- headstands — Plural form of headstand.
- headstocks — Plural form of headstock.
- headstones — Plural form of headstone.
- headstream — a stream that is the source, or one of the sources, of a river.
- headstripe — A stripe of colored feathers on the head of a bird.
- headstrong — determined to have one's own way; willful; stubborn; obstinate: a headstrong young man.
- headwaiter — a person in charge of waiters, busboys, etc., in a restaurant or dining car.
- headwaters — The source of a river, the set of streams that feed into the river's beginning.
- hebdomadal — taking place, coming together, or published once every seven days; weekly: hebdomadal meetings; hebdomadal groups; hebdomadal journals.
- hebdomadar — (in Scottish universities and grammar schools) a name given to the member of staff whose weekly turn it is to supervise the behaviour of students
- high-grade — of excellent or superior quality.
- hispanidad — hispanism, especially as directed toward political objectives.
- hit parade — a listing or category of popular songs ranked according to their popularity with listeners, usually as shown by sales of records.
- hofstadter — Richard, 1916–70, U.S. historian.
- hog badger — a SE Asian badger, Arctonyx collaris, with a piglike mobile snout
- holy bread — bread used in a Eucharistic service, both before and after consecration.
- homesteads — Plural form of homestead.
- hot-headed — hot or fiery in spirit or temper; impetuous; rash: Hotheaded people shouldn't drive cars.
- hypoadenia — a deficiency of glandular activity.
- imparadise — to enrapture.
- impleading — to sue in a court of law.
- in advance — to move or bring forward: The general advanced his troops to the new position.
- inadaptive — characterized by the failure to adapt