head vs tail

The glans penis. 

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 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. 

An individual person. 

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. 

The penis of a person or animal. 

All the last terms of a sequence, from some term on. 

A downy or feathery appendage of certain achens, formed of the permanent elongated style. 

Sexual intercourse. 

Synonym of pigtail (“a short length of twisted electrical wire”) 

A train or company of attendants; a retinue. 

The side of a coin not bearing the head; normally the side on which the monetary value of the coin is indicated; the reverse. 

A portion of an incision, at its beginning or end, which does not go through the whole thickness of the skin, and is more painful than a complete incision; called also tailing. 

The part of a distribution most distant from the mode; as, a long tail. 

A filamentous projection on the tornal section of each hind wing of certain butterflies. 

Limitation of inheritance to certain heirs. 

One of the strips at the end of a bandage formed by splitting the bandage one or more times. 

The feathers attached to the pygostyle of a bird. 

The back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything. 

A tailing. 

The caudal appendage of an animal that is attached to its posterior and near the anus. 

The distal tendon of a muscle. 

The bottom or lower portion of a member or part such as a slate or tile. 

One who surreptitiously follows another. 

The tail-end of an object, e.g. the rear of an aircraft's fuselage, containing the tailfin. 

The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem. 

The lower order of batsmen in the batting order, usually specialist bowlers. 

The lower loop of the letters in the Roman alphabet, as in g, q or y. 

The rear structure of an aircraft, the empennage. 

The stern; the back of the kayak. 

The buttocks or backside. 

An object or part of an object resembling a tail in shape, such as the thongs on a cat-o'-nine-tails. 

The visible stream of dust and gases blown from a comet by the solar wind. 

A rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which it may be lashed to anything. 

The latter part of a time period or event, or (collectively) persons or objects represented in this part. 

To hold by the end; said of a timber when it rests upon a wall or other support; with in or into 

To swing with the stern in a certain direction; said of a vessel at anchor. 

To follow and observe surreptitiously. 

To follow or hang to, like a tail; to be attached closely to, as that which can not be evaded. 

To pull or draw by the tail.