HEADS

"HEADS" is a plural of: head.

Date "HEADS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Food & Agriculture

Mining

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Advice

Advise with; lay heads together, consult together; compare notes; hold a council, deliberate, be closeted with.

Chance 2

Noun: chance, indetermination, accident, fortune, hazard, hap, haphazard, chance medley, random, luck, raccroc, casualty, contingence, adventure, hit; fate; (necessity); equal chance; lottery; tombola; toss up; turn of the table, turn of the cards; hazard of the die, chapter of accidents, fickle finger of fate; cast of the dice, throw of the dice; heads or tails, flip of a coin, wheel of Fortune; sortes, sortes Virgilianae.

Compendium

Noun: compend, compendium; abstract, precis, epitome, multum in parvo, analysis, pandect, digest, sum and substance, brief, abridgment, summary, apercu, draft, minute, note; excerpt; synopsis, textbook, conspectus, outlines, syllabus, contents, heads, prospectus.

Cooperation

Conduce; combine, unite one;s efforts; keep together, draw together, pull together, club together, hand together, hold together, league together, band together, be banded together; pool; stand shoulder to shoulder, put shoulder to shoulder; act in concert, join forces, fraternize, cling to one another, conspire, concert, lay one;s heads together; confederate, be in league with; collude, understand one another, play into the hands of, hunt in couples.

Improbity

Perfidy; perfidiousness; Adjective: treachery, double dealing; unfairness; Adjective: knavery, roguery, rascality, foul play; jobbing, jobbery; graft, bribery; venality, nepotism; corruption, job, shuffle, fishy transaction; barratry, sharp practice, heads I win tails you lose; mouth honor; (flattery).

Intention

Drawing lots; sortilegy, sortition; sortes, sortes Virgilianae; rouge et noir, hazard, ante, chuck-a-luck, crack-loo, craps, faro, roulette, pitch and toss, chuck, cup tossing, heads or tails cross and pile, poker-dice; wager; bet, betting; gambling; the turf.

Unconformity

Phoenix, chimera, hydra, sphinx, minotaur; griffin, griffon; centaur; saggittary; kraken, wyvern, roc, dragon, sea serpent; mermaid, merman, merfolk; unicorn; Cyclops, "men whose heads do grow beneath their shoulders"; teratology.

Crosswords: HEADS

Jane, what if he worships you? What if he's got a shrine with pictures of you surrounded by dead people's heads and stuff (American Beauty; writing credit: Alan Ball)

Watch your heads! (Sleepy Hollow; writing credit: Kevin Yagher)

Yeah Two heads of cabbage (Men in Black II; writing credit: Lowell Cunningham; Robert Gordon)

It's all in their heads anyway (Harvey; writing credit: Mary Chase;)

You know, I have one simple request, and that is to have sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads. Is that too much to ask (Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery; writing credit: Mike Myers)

Let the heads know we ain't feeling them (That's What I'm Looking For; performing artist: Da Brat)

Then the clouds rolled over our heads (Stay (Wasting Time); performing artist: Dave Matthews Band)

And drive the pretty boys outta their heads (Armageddon It; performing artist: Def Leppard)

You need to look your best cuz your turnin heads (Jumpin', Jumpin' (So So Def Remix); performing artist: Destiny's Child)

Frameless heads on nameless walls (Vincent; performing artist: Don McLean)

Hot heads and cold hearts never solved anything. (references; author: unknown)

1968: Parents begging you to get your hair cut. 1998: Children begging you to get their heads shaved. (references; author: unknown)

The Boy with Two Heads (1974)

Heads or Tails (1973)

The Thing with Two Heads (1972)

Hot Lips for Hot Heads (1970)

Twin Heads Selling Martial Arts (1948)

Double-Talking Heads (performing artist: The Space Negros)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• The World Market for Heads, Tails, Paws, and Other Pieces or Cuttings of Furskins Suitable for Furriers’ Use: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

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Books

• Ellipsis: Functional Heads, Licensing, and Identification (reference)

• Two Heads Are Better Than One (Alien Clones From Outer Space) (reference)

• Crowned Heads (reference)

• Heads, Features and Faces (reference)

• Heeding Heads: Secondary Heads and Educational Commentators in Dialogue (reference)

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Periodicals

• Heads Letter (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• 8 Heads in a Duffel Bag (reference)

• Hi-Performance Cylinder Heads (reference)

• Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense (reference)

• WWE King Of The Ring 1998 - Off With Their Heads (reference)

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Music

• A Maggot in Their Heads (reference)

• Cooler Heads Prevail (reference)

• When Cooler Heads Prevail (reference)

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High Tech

• Clearline CL2042 Compact Laser Pointer with 42 Heads (reference)

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Consumer Goods

• Braun Oral-B EB17-3 Power Toothbrush Replacement Brush Heads, 3 Adult Refills (reference)

• Norelco HQ167 Advantage Tripleheader Replacement Heads (reference)

• Sonicare Standard Brush Heads, Set of 2 (reference)

• Interplak ELB20A i-brush Battery Operated Rotary Tooth Brush with Replacement Heads (reference)

• Braun Oral-B OD17-1Power Toothbrush Replacement Brush Heads, 1 Orthodontic Adult Refill (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

A row of teeth arises from a large sclerotized plate borne laterally on the eighth abdominal segment. Uranotaenia have characteristically shaped heads, longer than wide. All but one Western species have four stout spines on the head. Credit: CDC.

26' plastic pig running shore line in Pillsbury Sound Note man on bow watching out for coral heads and rocks Launch off of WHITING. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Ragged appearing fathogram trace caused by coral heads Record from PEIRCE launch off Eleuthera Island. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Pacific atoll with inner lagoon showing coral heads. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Family and friends waving good-bye's as the PATHFINDER heads north. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

A Gulf of Alaska sunset as the PATHFINDER heads home from a long season. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

A shrimp boat heads out for the fishing grounds. Credit: Fisheries.

A close-up view of the seed heads on a newly planted marsh hay cordgrass, Spartina patens, plant. S patens was planted at the Lake Barre restoration site to stabilize high marsh areas. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

A shellfisherman heads in to weigh the quahogs he harvested for transfer to the spawner sanctuaries. The red bags contain the quahogs, Mercenaria mercenaria. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Divers adjust micromanipulator used to sample close to coral heads. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

And thus in Israel itself, the chief business of their judges, and first kings, seems to have been to be captains in war, and leaders of their armies; which (besides what is signified by going out and in before the people, which was, to march forth to war, and home again in the heads of their forces) appears plainly in the story of lephtha. (Second Treatise of Government)

Clause 2: He shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law: but the Congress may by Law vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of Departments. (reference)

The conclusion from this reasoning is, that where the heads of departments are the political or confidential agents of the executive, merely to execute the will of the President, or rather to act in cases in which the executive possesses a constitutional or legal discretion, nothing can be more perfectly clear than that their acts are only politically examinable. (reference)

Component parts of any of the items under the preceding heads. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Each had an arm round the other, and the setting sun shed a golden halo round their heads, like what one sees in pictures of saints

exclaimed both of Zaphod's heads in chorus

The night was serene and splendid above their heads.

As the fellows in number one were undistinguished dullards Stephen and Heron had been during the year the virtual heads of the school

When Tom here got in trouble we could hold up our heads.

I have too great a veneration for crowned heads to dwell any longer on so nice a subject

There is no stopping to read the riot act, no firing over the heads of the mob, in this case

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Affected children fail to thrive and have abnormally small heads (microcephaly). (references)

Also called Pediculus humanus capitis (peh-DICK-you-lus HUE-man-us CAP-ih-TUS), head lice are parasitic insects found on the heads of people. (references)

However, patients with PSP usually stand straight or occasionally even tilt their heads backward (and tend to fall backward), while those with Parkinson's disease usually bend forward. (references)

Business

For example, harvesting heads should be able to fit the wide variety of carriers in the market. (references)

Hyundai of Korea supplies carriers that fit the harvesting heads manufactured by Scandinavian and U.S. companies. (references)

The end users or lessors of the leasing services offered are heads of households, the main wage earners that are technical professionals, industrialists, executives, owners, managers and entrepreneurs. (references)

Children

China

Deng Pufang, son of the late national leader Deng Xiaoping, is a paraplegic and heads the China Welfare Fund for the Handicapped and the China Disabled Persons' Federation (CDPF), government-affiliated organizations tasked with assisting persons with disabilities. (references)

Civil Liberties

Egypt

The Penal Code stipulates fines or imprisonment for criticism of the President, members of the Government, and foreign heads of state. (references)

Ethiopia

Certain public school teachers in the SNNPR, Addis Ababa, and in the Amhara region objected to Muslim schoolgirls covering their heads with scarves while at school. (references)

Economic History

Belgium

Each minister heads a governmental department. (references)

Georgia

New tax and customs heads were subsequently appointed. (references)

San Marino

Every 6 months, the Council elects two Captains Regent to be the Heads of State. (references)

Human Rights

Uruguay

The Supreme Court heads the judiciary system and supervises the work of the lower courts. (references)

Algeria

Most of the court heads were reassigned to new locations; however, a number were replaced outright. (references)

Ethiopia

Heads of households were taken without warning, detained, and often deported via overland routes within 48 hours. (references)

Minorities

Mauritius

Also in 1999, the heads of the Catholic Diocese and the Hindu House recommended that the President establish an interreligious council; however, such a council had not been established by year's end. (references)

Uganda

On October 19, the heads of various religious denominations in the country including the Anglican, the Orthodox, Roman Catholic, and the Uganda Muslim Supreme Council endorsed the Inter-Religious Council of Uganda Constitution, whose objective is to strengthen inter-religious dialog among the main religious groups and to advocate social topics of concern to all groups. (references)

Political Economy

Ghana

President John A. Kufuor, of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), heads the government. (references)

Political Rights

Bahamas

A woman also heads the Ministry of Public Service and Cultural Affairs. (references)

Uganda

One woman serves as Deputy Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, and another woman heads the CID. (references)

Algeria

A woman heads a workers' party, and all the major political parties except one had women's divisions headed by women. (references)

Trade

Trinidad

The Central Bank exercises competent oversight of the banking system, meeting regularly with the heads of the commercial banks. (references)

Chad

The application of customs regulations between the member nations is determined by CEMAC's/UDEAC's Central Management Committee headed by a conference of heads of states and ministerial council and run by an Executive Secretariat. (references)

Indonesia

An American Senior Commercial Officer heads the office, supported by two Commercial Specialists, one of whom is funded by the US-Asia Environmental Partnership (US-AEP) and focuses on environment projects primarily in South and Southeast Asia. (references)

Travel

West Bank

Most heads of larger companies and many other Palestinians speak good English. (references)

Uzbekistan

Women do not need to cover their heads, as is the case in some Muslim countries. (references)

Women

Indonesia

FGM heads the Action Plan's list of religious teachings requiring investigation and modification. (references)

Worker Rights

Cote d'Ivoire

Several employees were injured seriously, and 18 of them, including several department heads, were arrested. (references)

Nepal

To date, approximately 1,000 heads of household have been provided with up to .335 acres of land and 75 cubic feet of timber to build houses. (references)

Haiti

The Labor Code provides for the right to strike, except for managers, administrators, and other heads of establishments, and public utility service workers. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "HEADS": heads down ♦ heads I win tails you lose ♦ heads or tails ♦ heads or tails? ♦ heads up! ♦ knock the heads together ♦ lay up heads together ♦ To lay heads together ♦ toss heads or tails ♦ two heads are better than one. Additional references.

Beginning with "HEADS": heads-and-bodies-and-tails, heads-down-take-no-nonsense-mindless-boogie, heads-together, heads-up.

Ending with "HEADS": flower-heads, griffin-heads, red-heads, seed-heads, sub-heads, work-heads.

Containing "HEADS": out-of-your-heads-is-the-place-to-be.

Albanian

koka e monedhës. (various references)

Arabic 

‏كتابة أم صورة للقرعة (heads or tails), ‏طرة أو نقش (heads or tails). (various references)

Bulgarian 

внимание (addresses, attention, caution, count, heads up, heed, look out, note, notice, precaution, regard, remark, respect, solicitude, study), ези-тура (heads or tails), дайте път (gangway, heads up). (various references)

Czech

hlava (head, top). (various references)

Danish

hoved (head, pate), forløb (pattern, process), égouttage (first runnings, foreshots). (various references)

Dutch

voorloop (first runnings, foreshots). (various references)

Finnish

esitisle (first runnings, foreshots, phlegm), alkujuoksu (headwaters). (various references)

French

tetes de distillation. (various references)

German

Köpfe (pates). (various references)

Greek 

κεφαλή απόσταξης (first runnings, foreshots). (various references)

Hungarian

gazdag koncentrátum. (various references)

Italian

teste dei distillati (first runnings, foreshots), teste (witness). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

鉢合わせ (bumping of heads, encounter, running into someone), 頭突き (butting heads), 頭つきをする (to butt heads), 穂波 (waving heads), ぺてん師 (crook, flowers heads of beefsteak plant, fluency, fluent, imposter, not soggy, steamy hot food, swindler, to babble, to be pleased with oneself, to brawl, to chuckle to oneself, to grumble, to murmur, to prate, to prattle, to spatter, warm), 三人寄れば文殊の知恵 (two heads are better than one). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ずつきをする (to butt heads), ずつき (a retainer or attendant, attendant, butting heads, escort), さんにんよればもんじゅのちえ (two heads are better than one), ほなみ (rows of grain thrusting upright, waving heads), ほじそ (flowers heads of beefsteak plant), はちあわせ (bumping of heads, encounter, running into someone). (various references)

Manx

king (cerebral). (various references)

Pig Latin

eadshay.(various references)

Portuguese

produtos de cabeça (first runnings, foreshots). (various references)

Romanian

cap sau pajurã? (heads or tails?). (various references)

Russian 

руда (mineral, ore). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

glave. (various references)

Spanish

cabezas (first runnings, foreshots). (various references)

Swedish

huvuden. (various references)

Turkish

yazı-tura (heads or tails), yazı mı tura mı? (heads or tails?), kafa kafaya vermek (knock the heads together), bir elin nesi var iki elin sesi var (two heads are better than one). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "HEADS": headsail, headsails, headset, headsets, headship, headships, headshrinker, headshrinkers, headsman, headsmen, headspace, headspaces, headspring, headsprings, headstall, headstalls, headstand, headstands, headstay, headstays, headstock, headstocks, headstone, headstones, headstream, headstreams, headstrong. (additional references)

Words ending with "HEADS": acidheads, airheads, arrowheads, baldheads, barrelheads, beachheads, beheads, bigheads, billheads, blackheads, blockheads, blueheads, boltheads, boneheads, bowheads, bridgeheads, bubbleheads, buffleheads, bulkheads, bullheads, catheads, chowderheads, chuckleheads, coheads, cokeheads, copperheads, crossheads, deadheads, dopeheads, dragonheads, dropheads, drumheads, dumbheads, dunderheads, eggheads, fatheads, featherheads, fiddleheads, figureheads, flatheads, foreheads, fountainheads, giltheads, godheads, greenheads, hammerheads, hardheads, hashheads, hogsheads, hopheads, hotheads. (additional references)

Misspellings

"HEADS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ehas, Hadas, hads, haedo, Hajadi, heade, headg, heards, heardst, heas, heasy, heates, hebdo, Heddas, hedes, hedex, heds, heide, heids, helds, rhagades. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: ashed, deash, hades, sadhe, shade.

-1 letter: dahs, dash, edhs, hade, haed, haes, head, sade, shad, shea, shed.

-2 letters: ads, ash, dah, edh, eds, had, hae, has, hes, sad, sae, sea, sha, she.

-3 letters: ad, ae, ah, as, de, ed, eh, es, ha, he, sh.

+1 letter: bashed, cashed, chased, dashed, dasher, dashes, deaths, fashed, gashed, hadjes, hashed, hasped, hasted, hexads, jehads, khedas, lashed, mashed, pashed, phased, sadhes, sashed, shaded, shader, shades, shaled, shamed, shaped, shared, shaved, shawed, washed.

+2 letters: abashed, adheres, airshed, aphides, ashamed, beheads, chasmed, chassed, clashed, coheads, crashed, daledhs, daleths, daphnes, dasheen, dashers, dashier, deafish, dearths, deashed, deashes, diphase, echards, flashed, gnashed, haddest, hadjees, halides, handles, handsel, handset, hardens, hardest, hardies, hardset, hassled, hatreds, hayseed, headers, headset, hearsed, heptads, heralds, hexades, heydays, hydrase, keddahs, khedahs, lamedhs, leashed, phrased, plashed, pshawed, quashed, saphead, scathed, shaders, shadier, shafted, shagged, shammed, shanked, sharked, sharped, shauled, shawled, sheafed, sheared, sheaved, shoaled, slashed, smashed, spathed, stashed, subhead, swashed, swathed, threads, trashed.