Words that rhyme with greenhead

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]

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

n 1: the pointed head or striking tip of an arrow

n 1: a person whose head is bald [syn: baldhead, baldpate, baldy]

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]

v 1: cut the head of; "the French King was beheaded during the Revolution" [syn: decapitate, behead, decollate]

n 1: a black-tipped plug clogging a pore of the skin [syn: blackhead, comedo]

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]

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]

n 1: large-mouthed Arctic whale [syn: bowhead, bowhead whale, Greenland whale, Balaena mysticetus]

n 1: food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked [syn: bread, breadstuff, staff of life] 2: informal terms for money [syn: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, lucre, loot, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum] v 1: cover with bread crumbs; "bread the pork chops before frying them"

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

n 1: small North American diving duck; males have bushy head plumage [syn: bufflehead, butterball, dipper, Bucephela albeola]

n 1: a partition that divides a ship or plane into compartments

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]

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]

adv 1: quickly and without warning; "he stopped suddenly" [syn: abruptly, suddenly, short, dead] 2: completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers; "an absolutely magnificent painting"; "a perfectly idiotic idea"; "you're perfectly right"; "utterly miserable"; "you can be dead sure of my innocence"; "was dead tired"; "dead right" [syn: absolutely, perfectly, utterly, dead] adj 1: no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life; "the nerve is dead"; "a dead pallor"; "he was marked as a dead man by the assassin" [ant: alive(p), live] 2: not showing characteristics of life especially the capacity to sustain life; no longer exerting force or having energy or heat; "Mars is a dead planet"; "dead soil"; "dead coals"; "the fire is dead" [ant: live] 3: very tired; "was all in at the end of the day"; "so beat I could flop down and go to sleep anywhere"; "bushed after all that exercise"; "I'm dead after that long trip" [syn: all in(p), beat(p), bushed(p), dead(p)] 4: unerringly accurate; "a dead shot"; "took dead aim" 5: physically inactive; "Crater Lake is in the crater of a dead volcano of the Cascade Range" 6: (followed by `to') not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive; "passersby were dead to our plea for help"; "numb to the cries for mercy" [syn: dead(p), numb(p)] 7: devoid of physical sensation; numb; "his gums were dead from the novocain"; "she felt no discomfort as the dentist drilled her deadened tooth"; "a public desensitized by continuous television coverage of atrocities" [syn: dead, deadened] 8: lacking acoustic resonance; "dead sounds characteristic of some compact discs"; "the dead wall surfaces of a recording studio" 9: not yielding a return; "dead capital"; "idle funds" [syn: dead, idle] 10: not circulating or flowing; "dead air"; "dead water"; "stagnant water" [syn: dead(a), stagnant] 11: not surviving in active use; "Latin is a dead language" 12: lacking resilience or bounce; "a dead tennis ball" 13: out of use or operation because of a fault or breakdown; "a dead telephone line"; "the motor is dead" 14: no longer having force or relevance; "a dead issue" 15: complete; "came to a dead stop"; "utter seriousness" [syn: dead(a), utter] 16: drained of electric charge; discharged; "a dead battery"; "left the lights on and came back to find the battery drained" [syn: dead, drained] 17: devoid of activity; "this is a dead town; nothing ever happens here" n 1: people who are no longer living; "they buried the dead" [ant: living] 2: a time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense; "the dead of winter"

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

adj 1: causing fear or dread or terror; "the awful war"; "an awful risk"; "dire news"; "a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked"; "the dread presence of the headmaster"; "polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was"; "a dreadful storm"; "a fearful howling"; "horrendous explosions shook the city"; "a terrible curse" [syn: awful, dire, direful, dread(a), dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible] n 1: fearful expectation or anticipation; "the student looked around the examination room with apprehension" [syn: apprehension, apprehensiveness, dread] v 1: be afraid or scared of; be frightened of; "I fear the winters in Moscow"; "We should not fear the Communists!" [syn: fear, dread]

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]

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]

n 1: an intellectual; a very studious and academic person; "in spite of her love of reading she denied being an egghead"

v 1: fix or set securely or deeply; "He planted a knee in the back of his opponent"; "The dentist implanted a tooth in the gum" [syn: implant, engraft, embed, imbed, plant] 2: attach to, as a journalist to a military unit when reporting on a war; "The young reporter was embedded with the Third Division"

n 1: a man who is a stupid incompetent fool [syn: fathead, goof, goofball, bozo, jackass, goose, cuckoo, twat, zany]

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

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

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]

n 1: terms referring to the Judeo-Christian God [syn: Godhead, Lord, Creator, Maker, Divine, God Almighty, Almighty, Jehovah]

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]

n 1: the upper part of the human body or the front part of the body in animals; contains the face and brains; "he stuck his head out the window" [syn: head, caput] 2: a single domestic animal; "200 head of cattle" 3: that which is responsible for one's thoughts and feelings; the seat of the faculty of reason; "his mind wandered"; "I couldn't get his words out of my head" [syn: mind, head, brain, psyche, nous] 4: a person who is in charge; "the head of the whole operation" [syn: head, chief, top dog] 5: the front of a military formation or procession; "the head of the column advanced boldly"; "they were at the head of the attack" [ant: rear] 6: the pressure exerted by a fluid; "a head of steam" 7: the top of something; "the head of the stairs"; "the head of the page"; "the head of the list" [ant: foot] 8: the source of water from which a stream arises; "they tracked him back toward the head of the stream" [syn: fountainhead, headspring, head] 9: (grammar) the word in a grammatical constituent that plays the same grammatical role as the whole constituent [syn: head, head word] 10: the tip of an abscess (where the pus accumulates) 11: the length or height based on the size of a human or animal head; "he is two heads taller than his little sister"; "his horse won by a head" 12: a dense cluster of flowers or foliage; "a head of cauliflower"; "a head of lettuce" [syn: capitulum, head] 13: the educator who has executive authority for a school; "she sent unruly pupils to see the principal" [syn: principal, school principal, head teacher, head] 14: an individual person; "tickets are $5 per head" 15: a user of (usually soft) drugs; "the office was full of secret heads" 16: a natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out into the sea) [syn: promontory, headland, head, foreland] 17: a rounded compact mass; "the head of a comet" 18: the foam or froth that accumulates at the top when you pour an effervescent liquid into a container; "the beer had a large head of foam" 19: the part in the front or nearest the viewer; "he was in the forefront"; "he was at the head of the column" [syn: forefront, head] 20: a difficult juncture; "a pretty pass"; "matters came to a head yesterday" [syn: pass, head, straits] 21: forward movement; "the ship made little headway against the gale" [syn: headway, head] 22: a V-shaped mark at one end of an arrow pointer; "the point of the arrow was due north" [syn: point, head] 23: the subject matter at issue; "the question of disease merits serious discussion"; "under the head of minor Roman poets" [syn: question, head] 24: a line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about; "the heading seemed to have little to do with the text" [syn: heading, header, head] 25: the rounded end of a bone that fits into a rounded cavity in another bone to form a joint; "the head of the humerus" 26: that part of a skeletal muscle that is away from the bone that it moves 27: (computer science) a tiny electromagnetic coil and metal pole used to write and read magnetic patterns on a disk [syn: read/write head, head] 28: (usually plural) the obverse side of a coin that usually bears the representation of a person's head; "call heads or tails!" [ant: tail] 29: the striking part of a tool; "the head of the hammer" 30: (nautical) a toilet on board a boat or ship 31: a projection out from one end; "the head of the nail", "a pinhead is the head of a pin" 32: a membrane that is stretched taut over a drum [syn: drumhead, head] 33: oral stimulation of the genitals; "they say he gives good head" [syn: oral sex, head] v 1: to go or travel towards; "where is she heading"; "We were headed for the mountains" 2: be in charge of; "Who is heading this project?" [syn: head, lead] 3: travel in front of; go in advance of others; "The procession was headed by John" [syn: lead, head] 4: be the first or leading member of (a group) and excel; "This student heads the class" [syn: head, head up] 5: direct the course; determine the direction of travelling [syn: steer, maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre, direct, point, head, guide, channelize, channelise] 6: take its rise; "These rivers head from a mountain range in the Himalayas" 7: be in the front of or on top of; "The list was headed by the name of the president" 8: form a head or come or grow to a head; "The wheat headed early this year" 9: remove the head of; "head the fish"

n 1: a British unit of capacity for alcoholic beverages 2: a large cask especially one holding 63 gals

n 1: a belligerent grouch [syn: fire-eater, hothead] 2: a reckless impetuous irresponsible person [syn: daredevil, madcap, hothead, swashbuckler, lunatic, harum- scarum]

v 1: fix or set securely or deeply; "He planted a knee in the back of his opponent"; "The dentist implanted a tooth in the gum" [syn: implant, engraft, embed, imbed, plant]

adv 1: in place of, or as an alternative to; "Felix became a herpetologist instead"; "alternatively we could buy a used car" [syn: alternatively, instead, or else] 2: on the contrary; "rather than disappoint the children, he did two quick tricks before he left"; "he didn't call; rather (or instead), he wrote her a letter"; "used English terms instead of Latin ones" [syn: rather, instead]

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]

n 1: an advantage held by a competitor in a race; "he took the lead at the last turn" 2: a soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element; bluish white when freshly cut but tarnishes readily to dull grey; "the children were playing with lead soldiers" [syn: lead, Pb, atomic number 82] 3: evidence pointing to a possible solution; "the police are following a promising lead"; "the trail led straight to the perpetrator" [syn: lead, track, trail] 4: a position of leadership (especially in the phrase `take the lead'); "he takes the lead in any group"; "we were just waiting for someone to take the lead"; "they didn't follow our lead" 5: the angle between the direction a gun is aimed and the position of a moving target (correcting for the flight time of the missile) 6: the introductory section of a story; "it was an amusing lead- in to a very serious matter" [syn: lead, lead-in, lede] 7: (sports) the score by which a team or individual is winning [ant: deficit] 8: an actor who plays a principal role [syn: star, principal, lead] 9: (baseball) the position taken by a base runner preparing to advance to the next base; "he took a long lead off first" 10: an indication of potential opportunity; "he got a tip on the stock market"; "a good lead for a job" [syn: tip, lead, steer, confidential information, wind, hint] 11: a news story of major importance [syn: lead, lead story] 12: the timing of ignition relative to the position of the piston in an internal-combustion engine [syn: spark advance, lead] 13: restraint consisting of a rope (or light chain) used to restrain an animal [syn: leash, tether, lead] 14: thin strip of metal used to separate lines of type in printing [syn: lead, leading] 15: mixture of graphite with clay in different degrees of hardness; the marking substance in a pencil [syn: lead, pencil lead] 16: a jumper that consists of a short piece of wire; "it was a tangle of jumper cables and clip leads" [syn: jumper cable, jumper lead, lead, booster cable] 17: the playing of a card to start a trick in bridge; "the lead was in the dummy" v 1: take somebody somewhere; "We lead him to our chief"; "can you take me to the main entrance?"; "He conducted us to the palace" [syn: lead, take, direct, conduct, guide] 2: have as a result or residue; "The water left a mark on the silk dress"; "Her blood left a stain on the napkin" [syn: leave, result, lead] 3: tend to or result in; "This remark lead to further arguments among the guests" 4: travel in front of; go in advance of others; "The procession was headed by John" [syn: lead, head] 5: cause to undertake a certain action; "Her greed led her to forge the checks" 6: stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point; "Service runs all the way to Cranbury"; "His knowledge doesn't go very far"; "My memory extends back to my fourth year of life"; "The facts extend beyond a consideration of her personal assets" [syn: run, go, pass, lead, extend] 7: be in charge of; "Who is heading this project?" [syn: head, lead] 8: be ahead of others; be the first; "she topped her class every year" [syn: lead, top] 9: be conducive to; "The use of computers in the classroom lead to better writing" [syn: contribute, lead, conduce] 10: lead, as in the performance of a composition; "conduct an orchestra; Barenboim conducted the Chicago symphony for years" [syn: conduct, lead, direct] 11: lead, extend, or afford access; "This door goes to the basement"; "The road runs South" [syn: go, lead] 12: move ahead (of others) in time or space [syn: precede, lead] [ant: follow] 13: cause something to pass or lead somewhere; "Run the wire behind the cabinet" [syn: run, lead] 14: preside over; "John moderated the discussion" [syn: moderate, chair, lead]

n 1: diode such that light emitted at a p-n junction is proportional to the bias current; color depends on the material used [syn: light-emitting diode, LED]

n 1: a sheet of stationery with name and address of the organization printed at the top

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]

n 1: a fold of tissue that partly covers the entrance to the vagina of a virgin [syn: hymen, maidenhead, virginal membrane]

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

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]

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]

n 1: an ignorant or foolish person [syn: dumbbell, dummy, dope, boob, booby, pinhead] 2: the head of a pin

n 1: the entrance to a coal mine

n 1: someone who smokes marijuana habitually

adj 1: bred for many generations from member of a recognized breed or strain [ant: crossbred] n 1: a pedigreed animal of unmixed lineage; used especially of horses [syn: thoroughbred, purebred, pureblood]

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

n 1: something that is read; "the article was a very good read" v 1: interpret something that is written or printed; "read the advertisement"; "Have you read Salman Rushdie?" 2: have or contain a certain wording or form; "The passage reads as follows"; "What does the law say?" [syn: read, say] 3: look at, interpret, and say out loud something that is written or printed; "The King will read the proclamation at noon" 4: obtain data from magnetic tapes; "This dictionary can be read by the computer" [syn: read, scan] 5: interpret the significance of, as of palms, tea leaves, intestines, the sky; also of human behavior; "She read the sky and predicted rain"; "I can't read his strange behavior"; "The fortune teller read his fate in the crystal ball" 6: interpret something in a certain way; convey a particular meaning or impression; "I read this address as a satire"; "How should I take this message?"; "You can't take credit for this!" [syn: take, read] 7: be a student of a certain subject; "She is reading for the bar exam" [syn: learn, study, read, take] 8: indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments; "The thermometer showed thirteen degrees below zero"; "The gauge read `empty'" [syn: read, register, show, record] 9: audition for a stage role by reading parts of a role; "He is auditioning for `Julius Caesar' at Stratford this year" 10: to hear and understand; "I read you loud and clear!" 11: make sense of a language; "She understands French"; "Can you read Greek?" [syn: understand, read, interpret, translate]

adj 1: of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies [syn: red, reddish, ruddy, blood-red, carmine, cerise, cherry, cherry-red, crimson, ruby, ruby-red, scarlet] 2: characterized by violence or bloodshed; "writes of crimson deeds and barbaric days"- Andrea Parke; "fann'd by Conquest's crimson wing"- Thomas Gray; "convulsed with red rage"- Hudson Strode [syn: crimson, red, violent] 3: (especially of the face) reddened or suffused with or as if with blood from emotion or exertion; "crimson with fury"; "turned red from exertion"; "with puffy reddened eyes"; "red- faced and violent"; "flushed (or crimson) with embarrassment" [syn: crimson, red, reddened, red-faced, flushed] n 1: red color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of blood [syn: red, redness] 2: a tributary of the Mississippi River that flows eastward from Texas along the southern boundary of Oklahoma and through Louisiana [syn: Red, Red River] 3: emotionally charged terms used to refer to extreme radicals or revolutionaries [syn: Bolshevik, Marxist, red, bolshie, bolshy] 4: the amount by which the cost of a business exceeds its revenue; "the company operated at a loss last year"; "the company operated in the red last year" [syn: loss, red ink, red] [ant: gain]

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]

n 1: a used automobile tire that has been remolded to give it new treads [syn: retread, recap] v 1: use again in altered form; "retread an old plot" [syn: rework, make over, retread] 2: give new treads to (a tire) [syn: retread, remold, remould]

n 1: a brachycephalic person 2: a supporter of parliament and Oliver Cromwell during the English Civil War

adj 1: shed at an early stage of development; "most amphibians have caducous gills"; "the caducous calyx of a poppy" [syn: caducous, shed] [ant: lasting, persistent] n 1: an outbuilding with a single story; used for shelter or storage v 1: get rid of; "he shed his image as a pushy boss"; "shed your clothes" [syn: shed, cast, cast off, shake off, throw, throw off, throw away, drop] 2: pour out in drops or small quantities or as if in drops or small quantities; "shed tears"; "spill blood"; "God shed His grace on Thee" [syn: spill, shed, pour forth] 3: cause or allow (a solid substance) to flow or run out or over; "spill the beans all over the table" [syn: spill, shed, disgorge] 4: cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers; "our dog sheds every Spring" [syn: shed, molt, exuviate, moult, slough]

n 1: small harmless hammerhead having a spade-shaped head; abundant in bays and estuaries [syn: shovelhead, bonnethead, bonnet shark, Sphyrna tiburo]

n 1: a tiny or scarcely detectable amount [syn: shred, scintilla, whit, iota, tittle, smidgen, smidgeon, smidgin, smidge] 2: a small piece of cloth or paper [syn: rag, shred, tag, tag end, tatter] v 1: tear into shreds [syn: shred, tear up, rip up]

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

n 1: a vehicle mounted on runners and pulled by horses or dogs; for transportation over snow [syn: sled, sledge, sleigh] v 1: ride (on) a sled [syn: sled, sleigh]

n 1: a sleepy person

n 1: someone who is peevish or disgruntled

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"

adj 1: distributed or spread over a considerable extent; "has ties with many widely dispersed friends"; "eleven million Jews are spread throughout Europe" [syn: dispersed, spread] 2: prepared or arranged for a meal; especially having food set out; "a table spread with food" 3: fully extended in width; "outspread wings"; "with arms spread wide" [syn: outspread, spread] n 1: process or result of distributing or extending over a wide expanse of space [syn: spread, spreading] 2: a conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures; "gap between income and outgo"; "the spread between lending and borrowing costs" [syn: gap, spread] 3: farm consisting of a large tract of land along with facilities needed to raise livestock (especially cattle) [syn: ranch, spread, cattle ranch, cattle farm] 4: a haphazard distribution in all directions [syn: scatter, spread] 5: a tasty mixture to be spread on bread or crackers or used in preparing other dishes [syn: spread, paste] 6: a meal that is well prepared and greatly enjoyed; "a banquet for the graduating seniors"; "the Thanksgiving feast"; "they put out quite a spread" [syn: banquet, feast, spread] 7: two facing pages of a book or other publication [syn: spread, spread head, spreadhead, facing pages] 8: the expansion of a person's girth (especially at middle age); "she exercised to avoid that middle-aged spread" 9: decorative cover for a bed [syn: bedspread, bedcover, bed cover, bed covering, counterpane, spread] 10: act of extending over a wider scope or expanse of space or time [syn: spread, spreading] v 1: distribute or disperse widely; "The invaders spread their language all over the country" [syn: spread, distribute] [ant: collect, garner, gather, pull together] 2: become distributed or widespread; "the infection spread"; "Optimism spread among the population" [syn: spread, propagate] 3: spread across or over; "A big oil spot spread across the water" [syn: spread, overspread] 4: spread out or open from a closed or folded state; "open the map"; "spread your arms" [syn: unfold, spread, spread out, open] [ant: fold, fold up, turn up] 5: cause to become widely known; "spread information"; "circulate a rumor"; "broadcast the news" [syn: circulate, circularize, circularise, distribute, disseminate, propagate, broadcast, spread, diffuse, disperse, pass around] 6: become widely known and passed on; "the rumor spread"; "the story went around in the office" [syn: go around, spread, circulate] 7: strew or distribute over an area; "He spread fertilizer over the lawn"; "scatter cards across the table" [syn: spread, scatter, spread out] 8: move outward; "The soldiers fanned out" [syn: diffuse, spread, spread out, fan out] 9: cover by spreading something over; "spread the bread with cheese" 10: distribute over a surface in a layer; "spread cheese on a piece of bread"

n 1: the post or function properly or customarily occupied or served by another; "can you go in my stead?"; "took his place"; "in lieu of" [syn: stead, position, place, lieu]

n 1: a heading of a subdivision of a text [syn: subheading, subhead]

n 1: Australian and southeastern Asian birds with a melodious whistling call [syn: thickhead, whistler]

n 1: a fine cord of twisted fibers (of cotton or silk or wool or nylon etc.) used in sewing and weaving [syn: thread, yarn] 2: any long object resembling a thin line; "a mere ribbon of land"; "the lighted ribbon of traffic"; "from the air the road was a grey thread"; "a thread of smoke climbed upward" [syn: ribbon, thread] 3: the connections that link the various parts of an event or argument together; "I couldn't follow his train of thought"; "he lost the thread of his argument" [syn: train of thought, thread] 4: the raised helical rib going around a screw [syn: screw thread, thread] v 1: to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course; "the river winds through the hills"; "the path meanders through the vineyards"; "sometimes, the gout wanders through the entire body" [syn: weave, wind, thread, meander, wander] 2: pass a thread through; "thread a needle" 3: remove facial hair by tying a fine string around it and pulling at the string; "She had her eyebrows threaded" 4: pass through or into; "thread tape"; "thread film" 5: thread on or as if on a string; "string pearls on a string"; "the child drew glass beads on a string"; "thread dried cranberries" [syn: string, thread, draw]

n 1: a rounded projecting mass of a cumulus cloud with shining edges; often appears before a thunderstorm

n 1: a person with light blond hair

n 1: a step in walking or running [syn: pace, stride, tread] 2: the grooved surface of a pneumatic tire 3: the part (as of a wheel or shoe) that makes contact with the ground 4: structural member consisting of the horizontal part of a stair or step v 1: put down or press the foot, place the foot; "For fools rush in where angels fear to tread"; "step on the brake" [syn: step, tread] 2: tread or stomp heavily or roughly; "The soldiers trampled across the fields" [syn: tread, trample] 3: crush as if by treading on; "tread grapes to make wine" 4: brace (an archer's bow) by pressing the foot against the center 5: apply (the tread) to a tire 6: mate with; "male birds tread the females"

adj 1: not made explicit; "the unexpressed terms of the agreement"; "things left unsaid"; "some kind of unspoken agreement"; "his action is clear but his reason remains unstated" [syn: unexpressed, unsaid, unstated, unuttered, unverbalized, unverbalised, unvoiced, unspoken]

adj 1: of someone who has not been married; "unwed mother" [syn: unwed, unwedded]

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]

adj 1: having been taken in marriage [syn: wed, wedded] n 1: the fourth day of the week; the third working day [syn: Wednesday, Midweek, Wed] v 1: take in marriage [syn: marry, get married, wed, conjoin, hook up with, get hitched with, espouse] 2: perform a marriage ceremony; "The minister married us on Saturday"; "We were wed the following week"; "The couple got spliced on Hawaii" [syn: marry, wed, tie, splice]

n 1: the source of water for a well [syn: wellhead, wellspring] 2: a structure built over a well

adj 1: widely circulated or diffused; "a widespread doctrine"; "widespread fear of nuclear war" 2: distributed over a considerable extent; "far-flung trading operations"; "the West's far-flung mountain ranges"; "widespread nuclear fallout" [syn: far-flung, widespread]

n 1: the 26th letter of the Roman alphabet; "the British call Z zed and the Scots call it ezed but Americans call it zee"; "he doesn't know A from izzard" [syn: Z, z, zee, zed, ezed, izzard]

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]

n 1: platform at the top of a staircase

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]

n 1: small harmless hammerhead having a spade-shaped head; abundant in bays and estuaries [syn: shovelhead, bonnethead, bonnet shark, Sphyrna tiburo]

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]