11-letter words containing head
- header bond — a brickwork bond composed entirely of overlapping headers.
- header tank — a reservoir, tank, or hopper that maintains a gravity feed or a static fluid pressure in an apparatus
- headhunters — Plural form of headhunter.
- headhunting — a headhunting expedition: The men left the village to go on a headhunt.
- heading dog — a dog that heads off a flock of sheep or a single sheep
- headmasters — Plural form of headmaster.
- headquarter — to situate in headquarters.
- headscarves — Plural form of headscarf.
- headshaking — The act of shaking one's head, in disagreement or disapproval.
- headstander — A small deep-bodied freshwater fish of the Amazon region, popular in aquaria. It swims and feeds at an oblique angle with the head down.
- headstreams — Plural form of headstream.
- headstripes — Plural form of headstripe.
- headteacher — The most senior teacher in a school.
- headwaiters — Plural form of headwaiter.
- hotheadedly — In a hotheaded manner.
- knightheads — Plural form of knighthead.
- knucklehead — a stupid, bumbling, inept person.
- leader head — a boxlike head of a downspout connected to a gutter.
- leatherhead — any of various Australasian honeyeaters, especially of the genus Philemon.
- letterheads — Plural form of letterhead.
- levelheaded — having common sense and sound judgment; sensible.
- lightheaded — giddy, dizzy, or delirious: After two drinks Pat began to feel lightheaded.
- lizard head — a promontory in SW Cornwall, in SW England: the southernmost point in England.
- loggerheads — a thick-headed or stupid person; blockhead.
- long-headed — Anthropology. dolichocephalic.
- maidenheads — Plural form of maidenhead.
- mouse ahead — The point-and-click analog of "type ahead". To manipulate a computer's pointing device (almost always a mouse in this usage, but not necessarily) and its selection or command buttons before a computer program is ready to accept such input, in anticipation of the program accepting the input. Handling this properly is rare, but it can help make a WIMP environment much more usable, assuming the users are familiar with the behaviour of the user interface.
- mule-headed — stubborn; intractable.
- multiheaded — having more than one head
- mushyheaded — inadequately thought out: mushyheaded ideas.
- muttonheads — Plural form of muttonhead.
- niggerheads — Plural form of niggerhead.
- pointy-head — stupid; idiotic.
- poppet head — the framework above a mining shaft that supports the winding mechanism
- power ahead — If an economy or company powers ahead, it becomes stronger and more successful.
- preheadache — occurring before a headache
- pumpkinhead — a slow or dim-witted person; dunce.
- roundheaded — (of a person) possessing a round head; brachycephalic.
- shockheaded — having a shock or thick mass of hair on the head.
- shower head — nozzle of a shower attachment
- soft-headed — foolish; stupid.
- spearheaded — the sharp-pointed head that forms the piercing end of a spear.
- static head — Static head is the pressure resulting from a column of liquid acting under gravity.
- steam ahead — If an economy or company steams ahead, it becomes stronger and more successful.
- sub-heading — a title or heading of a subdivision, as in a chapter, essay, or newspaper article.
- swivel head — A swivel head is a bearing between the traveling block and the kelly.
- the godhead — God
- thickheaded — (of a person) dull-witted; stupid.
- thunderhead — incus (def 2).
- tuning head — the part of a stringed instrument where the tension of the strings is adjusted by means of screwed pegs.