Words that rhyme with cathead

  • ahead
    adv 1: at or in the front; "I see the lights of a town ahead"; "the road ahead is foggy"; "staring straight ahead"; "we couldn't see over the heads of the people in front"; "with the cross of Jesus marching on before" [syn: ahead, in front, before] 2: toward the future; forward in time; "I like to look ahead in imagination to what the future may bring"; "I look forward to seeing you" [syn: ahead, forward] [ant: back, backward] 3: in a forward direction; "go ahead"; "the train moved ahead slowly"; "the boat lurched ahead"; "moved onward into the forest"; "they went slowly forward in the mud" [syn: ahead, onward, onwards, forward, forwards, forrader] 4: ahead of time; in anticipation; "when you pay ahead (or in advance) you receive a discount"; "We like to plan ahead"; "should have made reservations beforehand" [syn: ahead, in advance, beforehand] 5: to a more advanced or advantageous position; "a young man sure to get ahead"; "pushing talented students ahead" 6: to a different or a more advanced time (meaning advanced either toward the present or toward the future); "moved the appointment ahead from Tuesday to Monday"; "pushed the deadline ahead from Tuesday to Wednesday" 7: leading or ahead in a competition; "the horse was three lengths ahead going into the home stretch"; "ahead by two pawns"; "our candidate is in the lead in the polls"; "way out front in the race"; "the advertising campaign put them out front in sales" [syn: ahead, out front, in the lead] adj 1: having the leading position or higher score in a contest; "he is ahead by a pawn"; "the leading team in the pennant race" [syn: ahead(p), in the lead, leading]
  • airhead
    n 1: a flighty scatterbrained simpleton; "she's a total airhead"; "every airhead on a big salary rushed out to buy one" 2: a bridgehead seized by airborne troops
  • arrowhead
    n 1: the pointed head or striking tip of an arrow
  • baldhead
    n 1: a person whose head is bald [syn: baldhead, baldpate, baldy]
  • beachhead
    n 1: a bridgehead on the enemy's shoreline seized by an amphibious operation; "the Germans were desperately trying to contain the Anzio beachhead" 2: an initial accomplishment that opens the way for further developments; "the town became a beachhead in the campaign to ban smoking outdoors"; "they are presently attempting to gain a foothold in the Russian market" [syn: beachhead, foothold]
  • behead
    v 1: cut the head of; "the French King was beheaded during the Revolution" [syn: decapitate, behead, decollate]
  • blackhead
    n 1: a black-tipped plug clogging a pore of the skin [syn: blackhead, comedo]
  • blockhead
    n 1: a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence [syn: dunce, dunderhead, numskull, blockhead, bonehead, lunkhead, hammerhead, knucklehead, loggerhead, muttonhead, shithead, dumbass, fuckhead]
  • bonehead
    n 1: a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence [syn: dunce, dunderhead, numskull, blockhead, bonehead, lunkhead, hammerhead, knucklehead, loggerhead, muttonhead, shithead, dumbass, fuckhead]
  • bowhead
    n 1: large-mouthed Arctic whale [syn: bowhead, bowhead whale, Greenland whale, Balaena mysticetus]
  • bridgehead
    n 1: an area in hostile territory that has been captured and is held awaiting further troops and supplies; "an attempt to secure a bridgehead behind enemy lines"; "the only foothold left for British troops in Europe was Gibraltar" [syn: bridgehead, foothold] 2: a defensive post at the end of a bridge nearest to the enemy
  • bufflehead
    n 1: small North American diving duck; males have bushy head plumage [syn: bufflehead, butterball, dipper, Bucephela albeola]
  • bulkhead
    n 1: a partition that divides a ship or plane into compartments
  • bullhead
    n 1: freshwater sculpin with a large flattened bony-plated head with hornlike spines 2: any of several common freshwater catfishes of the United States [syn: bullhead, bullhead catfish]
  • copperhead
    n 1: common coppery brown pit viper of upland eastern United States [syn: copperhead, Agkistrodon contortrix] 2: venomous but sluggish reddish-brown snake of Australia [syn: copperhead, Denisonia superba]
  • deadhead
    n 1: a nonenterprising person who is not paying his way; "the deadheads on the payroll should be eased out as fast as possible" 2: a train or bus or taxi traveling empty
  • drumhead
    adj 1: performed speedily and without formality; "a summary execution"; "summary justice" [syn: drumhead, summary] n 1: a membrane that is stretched taut over a drum [syn: drumhead, head]
  • dunderhead
    n 1: a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence [syn: dunce, dunderhead, numskull, blockhead, bonehead, lunkhead, hammerhead, knucklehead, loggerhead, muttonhead, shithead, dumbass, fuckhead]
  • egghead
    n 1: an intellectual; a very studious and academic person; "in spite of her love of reading she denied being an egghead"
  • fathead
    n 1: a man who is a stupid incompetent fool [syn: fathead, goof, goofball, bozo, jackass, goose, cuckoo, twat, zany]
  • figurehead
    n 1: a person used as a cover for some questionable activity [syn: front man, front, figurehead, nominal head, straw man, strawman] 2: figure on the bow of some sailing vessels
  • flathead
    n 1: food fish of the Indonesian region of the Pacific; resembles gurnards 2: pallid bottom-dwelling flat-headed fish with large eyes and a duck-like snout
  • fountainhead
    n 1: an abundant source; "she was a well of information" [syn: well, wellspring, fountainhead] 2: the source of water from which a stream arises; "they tracked him back toward the head of the stream" [syn: fountainhead, headspring, head]
  • godhead
    n 1: terms referring to the Judeo-Christian God [syn: Godhead, Lord, Creator, Maker, Divine, God Almighty, Almighty, Jehovah]
  • hammerhead
    n 1: a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence [syn: dunce, dunderhead, numskull, blockhead, bonehead, lunkhead, hammerhead, knucklehead, loggerhead, muttonhead, shithead, dumbass, fuckhead] 2: the striking part of a hammer 3: medium-sized live-bearing shark with eyes at either end of a flattened hammer-shaped head; worldwide in warm waters; can be dangerous [syn: hammerhead, hammerhead shark]
  • hogshead
    n 1: a British unit of capacity for alcoholic beverages 2: a large cask especially one holding 63 gals
  • hothead
    n 1: a belligerent grouch [syn: fire-eater, hothead] 2: a reckless impetuous irresponsible person [syn: daredevil, madcap, hothead, swashbuckler, lunatic, harum- scarum]
  • knucklehead
    n 1: a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence [syn: dunce, dunderhead, numskull, blockhead, bonehead, lunkhead, hammerhead, knucklehead, loggerhead, muttonhead, shithead, dumbass, fuckhead]
  • letterhead
    n 1: a sheet of stationery with name and address of the organization printed at the top
  • loggerhead
    n 1: a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence [syn: dunce, dunderhead, numskull, blockhead, bonehead, lunkhead, hammerhead, knucklehead, loggerhead, muttonhead, shithead, dumbass, fuckhead] 2: very large carnivorous sea turtle; wide-ranging in warm open seas [syn: loggerhead, loggerhead turtle, Caretta caretta]
  • maidenhead
    n 1: a fold of tissue that partly covers the entrance to the vagina of a virgin [syn: hymen, maidenhead, virginal membrane]
  • masthead
    n 1: a listing printed in all issues of a newspaper or magazine (usually on the editorial page) that gives the name of the publication and the names of the editorial staff, etc. [syn: masthead, flag] 2: the title of a newspaper or magazine; usually printed on the front page and on the editorial page 3: the head or top of a mast
  • muttonhead
    n 1: a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence [syn: dunce, dunderhead, numskull, blockhead, bonehead, lunkhead, hammerhead, knucklehead, loggerhead, muttonhead, shithead, dumbass, fuckhead]
  • overhead
    adv 1: above your head; in the sky; "planes were flying overhead" 2: above the head; over the head; "bring the legs together overhead" adj 1: located or originating from above; "an overhead crossing" [ant: subsurface, surface] n 1: the expense of maintaining property (e.g., paying property taxes and utilities and insurance); it does not include depreciation or the cost of financing or income taxes [syn: operating expense, operating cost, overhead, budget items] 2: (computer science) the processing time required by a device prior to the execution of a command [syn: command processing overhead time, command processing overhead, command overhead, overhead] 3: (computer science) the disk space required for information that is not data but is used for location and timing [syn: disk overhead, overhead] 4: a transparency for use with an overhead projector [syn: viewgraph, overhead] 5: (nautical) the top surface of an enclosed space on a ship 6: a hard return hitting the tennis ball above your head [syn: overhead, smash]
  • pinhead
    n 1: an ignorant or foolish person [syn: dumbbell, dummy, dope, boob, booby, pinhead] 2: the head of a pin
  • pithead
    n 1: the entrance to a coal mine
  • pothead
    n 1: someone who smokes marijuana habitually
  • railhead
    n 1: a railroad depot in a theater of operations where military supplies are unloaded for distribution 2: the end of the completed track on an unfinished railway
  • redhead
    n 1: someone who has red hair [syn: redhead, redheader, red-header, carrottop] 2: North American diving duck with a grey-and-black body and reddish-brown head [syn: redhead, Aythya americana] 3: black-and-white North American woodpecker having a red head and neck [syn: redheaded woodpecker, redhead, Melanerpes erythrocephalus]
  • roundhead
    n 1: a brachycephalic person 2: a supporter of parliament and Oliver Cromwell during the English Civil War
  • shovelhead
    n 1: small harmless hammerhead having a spade-shaped head; abundant in bays and estuaries [syn: shovelhead, bonnethead, bonnet shark, Sphyrna tiburo]
  • skinhead
    n 1: a young person who belongs to a British or American group that shave their heads and gather at rock concerts or engage in white supremacist demonstrations
  • sleepyhead
    n 1: a sleepy person
  • sorehead
    n 1: someone who is peevish or disgruntled
  • spearhead
    n 1: someone who leads or initiates an activity (attack or campaign etc.) 2: the leading military unit in an attack 3: the head and sharpened point of a spear [syn: spearhead, spearpoint, spear-point] v 1: be the leader of; "She spearheaded the effort to find a cure for the disease"
  • subhead
    n 1: a heading of a subdivision of a text [syn: subheading, subhead]
  • thickhead
    n 1: Australian and southeastern Asian birds with a melodious whistling call [syn: thickhead, whistler]
  • thunderhead
    n 1: a rounded projecting mass of a cumulus cloud with shining edges; often appears before a thunderstorm
  • towhead
    n 1: a person with light blond hair
  • warhead
    n 1: the front part of a guided missile or rocket or torpedo that carries the nuclear or explosive charge or the chemical or biological agents [syn: warhead, payload, load]
  • wellhead
    n 1: the source of water for a well [syn: wellhead, wellspring] 2: a structure built over a well
  • lunkhead
    n 1: a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence [syn: dunce, dunderhead, numskull, blockhead, bonehead, lunkhead, hammerhead, knucklehead, loggerhead, muttonhead, shithead, dumbass, fuckhead]
  • stairhead
    n 1: platform at the top of a staircase
  • whitehead
    n 1: English philosopher and mathematician who collaborated with Bertrand Russell (1861-1947) [syn: Whitehead, Alfred North Whitehead] 2: a small whitish lump in the skin due to a clogged sebaceous gland [syn: whitehead, milium]
  • bonnethead
    n 1: small harmless hammerhead having a spade-shaped head; abundant in bays and estuaries [syn: shovelhead, bonnethead, bonnet shark, Sphyrna tiburo]
  • dickhead
    n 1: insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or irritating or ridiculous [syn: asshole, bastard, cocksucker, dickhead, shit, mother fucker, motherfucker, prick, whoreson, son of a bitch, SOB]
  • chucklehead
  • featherhead
  • greenhead
  • leatherhead
  • woodenhead
  • broadhead
  • dumbhead
  • gateshead
  • meathead
  • muirhead
  • spithead
  • woodhead
  • barrelhead
  • birkenhead
  • holinshed
  • holyhead
  • weatherhead
  • basehead