8-letter words that end in ead
- hogshead — a large cask, especially one containing from 63 to 140 gallons (238 to 530 liters).
- holyhead — a seaport on Holy Island in NW Wales.
- jolthead — (archaic) A dunce; a blockhead.
- junkhead — (slang) a junkie, drug addict.
- knobhead — a stupid person
- knothead — (informal) A stupid or stubborn person.
- lakehead — Thunder Bay.
- lionhead — a small breed of rabbit with long fur around the face
- lip-read — to understand spoken words by interpreting the movements of a speaker's lips without hearing the sounds made.
- longhead — a dolichocephalic person.
- lunkhead — a dull or stupid person; blockhead.
- lushhead — lush2 (def 1).
- masthead — Also called flag. a statement printed in all issues of a newspaper, magazine, or the like, usually on the editorial page, giving the publication's name, the names of the owner and staff, etc.
- meathead — blockhead; dunce; fool.
- misdread — a fear or dread of evil
- misplead — To plead amiss or in a wrong manner; err in pleading.
- moorhead — a city in W Minnesota.
- mushhead — a stupid person.
- nailhead — the enlarged top of a nail, usually flattened but sometimes rounded.
- overhead — over one's head; aloft; up in the air or sky, especially near the zenith: There was a cloud overhead.
- overread — to read over or reread
- pan head — a tripod head permitting vertical or horizontal rotation of a camera to any position.
- pierhead — the outermost end of a pier or wharf.
- pig lead — lead molded in pigs.
- pillhead — a person who habitually takes pills, especially amphetamines or barbiturates.
- pisshead — a drunkard
- railhead — the farthest point to which the rails of a railroad have been laid.
- re-tread — to tread or walk over (one's steps) again
- red lead — an orange to red, heavy, earthy, water-insoluble, poisonous powder, Pb 3 O 4 , obtained by heating litharge in the presence of air: used chiefly as a paint pigment, in the manufacture of glass and glazes, and in storage batteries.
- respread — to draw, stretch, or open out, especially over a flat surface, as something rolled or folded (often followed by out).
- rethread — a fine cord of flax, cotton, or other fibrous material spun out to considerable length, especially when composed of two or more filaments twisted together.
- rev-head — a motor-sport enthusiast
- rosemead — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- ryebread — any of various breads made entirely or partly from rye flour, often with caraway seeds
- seedhead — botany: cluster of seeds on a plant
- shithead — a stupid, inept, unlikable, or contemptible person.
- sidehead — a heading or subhead run in the margin of a book or magazine.
- skinhead — a baldheaded man.
- slaphead — a bald person
- softhead — a half-witted or silly person
- sorehead — a disgruntled or vindictive person, especially an unsportsmanlike loser: Don't be such a sorehead, they won fair and square.
- sowbread — any of several species of cyclamen, especially Cyclamen hederifolium, a low-growing Old World plant having mottled leaves and pink or white flowers.
- spithead — a roadstead off the S coast of England between Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight.
- stemhead — the head of the stem of a vessel
- stephead — dropline.
- tea lead — hard, stiff sheet lead, originally used as a lining for tea chests.
- teabread — a loaf-shaped cake that contains dried fruit which has been steeped in cold tea before baking: served sliced and buttered
- the dead — those who have died
- tidehead — the inland limit of the tide.
- toolhead — a toolholder that is attached to a machine tool and can be adjusted to orient the tool in various positions.