8-letter words containing hea
- dumbhead — blockhead.
- dungheap — pile of dung
- dustheap — a heap or pile of rubbish, refuse, or the like.
- eggheads — Plural form of egghead.
- enhearse — to put into a hearse, to bury
- escheats — Plural form of escheat.
- fatheads — Plural form of fathead.
- flathead — any of several scorpaenoid fishes of the family Platycephalidae, chiefly inhabiting waters of the Indo-Pacific region and used for food.
- forehead — the part of the face above the eyebrows; brow.
- forkhead — the head of an arrow
- fuckhead — a stupid or obnoxious person.
- gearhead — A mechanical device used to increase the torque of gears.
- gilthead — any of several marine fishes having gold markings, as a sparid, Sparus auratus, of the Mediterranean Sea.
- go ahead — permission or a signal to proceed: They got the go-ahead on the construction work.
- go-ahead — permission or a signal to proceed: They got the go-ahead on the construction work.
- godheads — Plural form of godhead.
- greyhead — a person with grey hair
- hardhead — an alloyed silver coin of Scotland, issued in the 16th and 17th centuries, equal to one and one-half pence and later to twopence.
- hashhead — a hashish addict.
- head boy — The head boy of a school is the boy who is the leader of the prefects and who often represents the school on public occasions.
- head dip — a maneuver in which a surfer, by squatting and leaning forward on the surfboard, partially dips his or her head into the wall of a wave.
- head for — go towards, go to
- head lad — a man who is in charge of a racing stable
- head off — the upper part of the body in humans, joined to the trunk by the neck, containing the brain, eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.
- head out — leave, start a journey
- head sea — a formation of waves running in a direction opposite to that of a vessel.
- head tax — a uniform tax or surcharge imposed upon every person or every adult in a specific group, as on those entering or leaving a country or using a particular service or conveyance.
- headache — a pain located in the head, as over the eyes, at the temples, or at the base of the skull.
- headachy — having a headache.
- headband — a band worn around the head; fillet.
- headbang — To engage in headbanging, the vigorous movement of the head in time to music.
- headbutt — A sharp blow delivered by driving the head into the opponent, generally by lowering the head and charging forward or by rapidly tilting the head backward and then forward.
- headcase — (informal) A mentally unbalanced, unpredictable person, especially one who displays aggressive behavior.
- headdesk — An expression of frustration or irritated disbelief, from the tendency of annoyed or irritated people to want to repeatedly bang their heads against their desk.
- headedly — (in combination) In the specified headed manner.
- headfast — a mooring rope at the bows of a ship
- headfish — ocean sunfish.
- headfuck — an experience that is wildly exciting or impressive
- headgate — a gate that is used to control the flow of water at the upper end of a lock or conduit
- headgear — any covering for the head, especially a hat, cap, bonnet, etc.
- headhunt — a headhunting expedition: The men left the village to go on a headhunt.
- headings — Plural form of heading.
- headlamp — headlight.
- headland — a promontory extending into a large body of water.
- headless — without a head.
- headlice — Alternative form of head lice.
- headlike — Having the form of a head or a skull.
- headline — 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.
- headling — (obsolete) An equal; a fellow; mate.
- headlock — a hold in which a wrestler locks an arm around the opponent's head.