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Head Word

Definitions: Head Word

Head Word

Noun

1. A word that is qualified by a modifier.

2. (linguistics) the word in a grammatical constituent that plays the same grammatical role as the whole constituent.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

Synonyms: Head Word

Synonyms: head (n), headword (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Head Word

English words defined with "head word": head ♦ subordination. (references)

Specialty definitions using "head word": Abracadabra, Abraxas Stones ♦ Heads or Tails ♦ Lord ♦ monarch ♦ Nisroch ♦ REVERENCE ♦ Scythian Defiance ♦ These kind, tortoise. (references)

Modern Translations: Head Word

Language		Translations for "head word"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
French		mot vedette. (various references)

Hungarian		címszó. (various references)

Pig Latin		eadhay ordway

Romanian		cuvânt-titlu (catchword). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: Head Word

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: headword.
	Words within the letters "a-d-d-e-h-o-r-w"
	-1 letter: hoarded.
	-2 letters: adored, deodar, horded, redowa, wadder, warded, whored, woaded, worded.
	-3 letters: adder, adore, dared, dawed, dewar, dowed, dower, dread, haded, hared, hawed, heard, hoard, hodad, horde, oared, odder, oread, readd, rowed, waded, wader, wared, whore.
	-4 letters: aero, awed, dado, dare, dead, dear, dhow, doer, dore, draw, drew, eddo, hade, haed, hard, hare, head, hear, herd, hero, hoar, hoed, hoer, hora, howe, odea, ohed, orad, owed, read, redd, redo, rhea, road, rode, wade, ward, ware, wear, whoa, woad, word, wore.
	-5 letters: add, ado, are, awe, dad, dah, daw, dew, doe, dor, dow, ear, edh, era, had, hae, hao, haw, her, hew, hod, hoe, how, oar, odd, ode, ora, ore, owe, rad, rah, raw, red, rho, rod, roe, row, wad, wae, war, wed, wha, who, woe.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-d-e-h-o-r-w"
	+1 letter: headwords.
	+3 letters: chowderhead, downhearted, wrongheaded.
	+4 letters: chowderheads, foreshadowed, overshadowed.
	+5 letters: chowderheaded, downheartedly, wrongheadedly.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Alternative Orthography: Head Word

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

48 65 61 64 57 6F 72 64

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001000 01100101 01100001 01100100 00100000 01010111 01101111 01110010 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#101 &#97 &#100 &#32 &#87 &#111 &#114 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0065 0061 0064 0057 006F 0072 0064

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

42716770257818470

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Translations: Modern

5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography

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