One who exercises control and direction over a group of persons.
One who exercises control and direction of a military or naval organization.
A designation or rank in certain non-military organizations such as NASA and various police forces.
A naval officer whose rank is above that of a lieutenant commander and below that of captain.
A rank within an honorary order: e.g. Commander of the Legion of Honour.
Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the Asian genus Moduza.
A heavy beetle or wooden mallet, used in paving, in sail lofts, etc.
An individual person.
A heavy or habitual user of illicit drugs.
The end of a hammer, axe, golf club, or similar implement used for striking other objects.
The end of a pool table opposite the end where the balls have been racked.
A headdress; a covering for the head.
A milling head, a part of a milling machine that houses the spindle.
The end of a rectangular table furthest from the entrance; traditionally considered a seat of honor.
The uppermost part of a valley.
The antlers of a deer.
Mental or emotional aptitude or skill.
A headache; especially one resulting from intoxication.
The part of a disk drive responsible for reading and writing data.
The headstock of a guitar.
The leafy top part of a tree.
The top edge of a sail.
A clump of seeds, leaves or flowers; a capitulum.
The rounded part of a bone fitting into a depression in another bone to form a ball-and-socket joint.
The toilet of a ship.
An ear of wheat, barley, or other small cereal.
A machine element which reads or writes electromagnetic signals to or from a storage medium.
Tiles laid at the eaves of a house.
The end of a nail, screw, bolt, or similar fastener which is opposite the point; usually blunt and relatively wide.
A drum head, the membrane which is hit to produce sound.
Headway; progress.
Mind; one's own thoughts.
Topic; subject.
The end of an abscess where pus collects.
The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
The glans penis.
The top part of a lacrosse stick that holds the ball.
Deposits near the top of a geological succession.
The source of a river; the end of a lake where a river flows into it.
The foam that forms on top of beer or other carbonated beverages.
A headmaster or headmistress.
Denouement; crisis.
The end cap of a cylindrically-shaped pressure vessel.
A person with an extensive knowledge of hip hop.
The end cap of a cask or other barrel.
A buildup of fluid pressure, often quantified as pressure head.
Leader; chief; mastermind.
Fellatio or cunnilingus; oral sex.
The cylinder head, a platform above the cylinders in an internal combustion engine, containing the valves and spark plugs.
The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs.
The bow of a vessel.
A morpheme that determines the category of a compound or the word that determines the syntactic type of the phrase of which it is a member.
The sharp end of an arrow, spear, or pointer.
The difference in elevation between two points in a column of fluid, and the resulting pressure of the fluid at the lower point.
The population of game.
The principal melody or theme of a piece.
A single animal.
The place of honour, or of command; the most important or foremost position; the front.
A headland.
More generally, energy in a mass of fluid divided by its weight.
To be in command of. (See also head up.)
To come at the beginning or front of; to commence.
To form a head.
To form a head to; to fit or furnish with a head.
To strike with the head; as in soccer, to head the ball
To go in front of.
To get in the front of, so as to hinder or stop; to oppose.
To move in a specified direction.
To check or restrain.
To remove the head from a fish.
To originate; to spring; to have its course, as a river.
To cut off the top of; to lop off.
To set on the head.
Of, relating to, or intended for the head.
Coming from in front.
Placed at the top or the front.
Foremost in rank or importance.