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10-letter words that end in ead

  • marblehead — a resort in NE Massachusetts: yachting.
  • medusahead — A type of bristly grass native to Europe.
  • muckspread — to muckrake
  • muddlehead — a stupid person; blunderer.
  • musclehead — a muscular man, esp. one who is involved in bodybuilding, weight lifting, etc.
  • muttonhead — a slow-witted, foolish, or stupid person; dolt.
  • narrowhead — Applied to various kinds of animals with a narrow head.
  • niggerhead — (nautical, dated, now offensive) A bollard made from an old cannon.
  • noodlehead — a fool or simpleton; dolt; blockhead.
  • overspread — to spread or diffuse over: A blush of embarrassment overspread his face.
  • packthread — a strong thread or twine for sewing or tying up packages.
  • petrolhead — a person who is excessively interested in or is devoted to travelling by car
  • ploughhead — the draught iron of a plough
  • poppethead — a tailstock or headstock of a lathe.
  • push ahead — move sth forward
  • rattlehead — a rattlebrain.
  • river head — the source of a river
  • rudderhead — the upper end of a rudderpost, to which a tiller, quadrant, or yoke is attached.
  • rugby head — a male follower of rugby culture
  • scrollhead — billethead.
  • sheepshead — a deep-bodied, black-banded food fish, Archosargus probatocephalus, living along the Atlantic coast of the U.S.
  • ship-bread — hardtack.
  • short head — a distance shorter than the length of a horse's head
  • shortbread — a butter cookie commonly made in thick, pie-shaped wheels or rolled and cut in fancy shapes.
  • shovelhead — bonnethead.
  • showerhead — a brief fall of rain or, sometimes, of hail or snow.
  • shreadhead — jerkinhead.
  • sight-read — Someone who can sight-read can play or sing music from a printed sheet the first time they see it, without practising it beforehand.
  • sleepyhead — a sleepy person.
  • soda bread — an Irish quick bread leavened with baking soda, usually made with buttermilk.
  • sound head — a mechanism through which film passes in a projector for conversion of the soundtrack into audio-frequency signals that can be amplified and reproduced.
  • springhead — a spring or fountainhead from which a stream flows.
  • squarehead — a stupid person.
  • stone dead — undeniably dead; completely lifeless.
  • stone-dead — undeniably dead; completely lifeless.
  • sweetbread — Also called stomach sweetbread. the pancreas of an animal, especially a calf or a lamb, used for food.
  • ted spread — the difference in value between three-month futures contracts for Treasury bills and for Eurodollars, used to gauge the willingness of banks to lend money
  • the undead — such supernatural beings collectively
  • thingstead — the meeting place of a Scandinavian assembly.
  • tight head — the prop on the hooker's right in the front row of a scrum
  • timberhead — the top end of a timber, rising above the deck and serving for belaying ropes.
  • turtlehead — any of several North American plants belonging to the genus Chelone, of the figwort family, having opposite, serrated leaves and spikes of purple or white, two-lipped flowers.
  • weave bead — a small, usually round object of glass, wood, stone, or the like with a hole through it, often strung with others of its kind in necklaces, rosaries, etc.
  • white lead — a white, heavy powder, basic lead carbonate, 2PbCO 3 ⋅Pb(OH) 2 , used as a pigment, in putty, and in medicinal ointments for burns.
  • whitebread — any white or light-colored bread made from finely ground, usually bleached, flour.
  • widespread — spread over or open, or occupying a wide space.
  • wingspread — the distance between the most outward tips of the wings when they are as extended as possible.
  • woodenhead — a stupid person; blockhead.
  • yellowhead — Chaetodon xanthocephalus, the yellowhead butterflyfish.
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