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adj
- Foremost in rank or importance.
- Of, relating to, or intended for the head.
- Coming from in front.
- Placed at the top or the front.
verb
- 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.
noun
- 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.
- 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.
prep
- Next in importance or rank.
- In pursuit of, seeking.
- In allusion to, in imitation of; following or referencing.
- In spite of.
- Behind.
- Denoting the aim or object; concerning; in relation to.
- Subsequently to; following in time; later than.
- Used to indicate recent completion of an activity
- As a result of.
adv
adj
conj
noun
- the person who is most outstanding or excellent; someone who tops all others
- a worker who makes or adds the top to something
- a worker who cuts tops off (of trees or vegetables etc.)
- an exceedingly good witticism that surpasses all that have gone before
- a woman's short coat
- a man's hat with a tall crown; usually covered with silk or with beaver fur
adj
- First in importance, degree, or rank.
- First in time, order, or sequence.
- Having its complement closed under multiplication: said only of ideals.
- First in excellence, quality, or value.
- Early; blooming; being in the first stage.
- Such that if it divides a product, it divides one of the multiplicands.
- Having exactly two integral factors: itself and unity (1 in the case of integers).
- Marked or distinguished by the prime symbol.
noun
- An inch, as composed of twelve seconds in the duodecimal system.
- Six consecutive blocks, which prevent the opponent's pieces from passing.
- A four-card hand containing one card of each suit in the game of primero; the opposite of a flush in poker.
- The symbol ′ used to indicate feet, minutes, derivation and other measures and mathematical operations.
- The religious service appointed to this hour.
- The most active, thriving, or successful stage or period.
- A prime element of a mathematical structure, particularly a prime number.
- A feather, from the wing of the cock ostrich, that is of the palest possible shade.
- The first defensive position, with the sword hand held at head height, and the tip of the sword at head height.
- The first hour of daylight; the first canonical hour.
- The chief or best individual or part.
- The first note or tone of a musical scale.
- An intermediate sprint within a race, usually offering a prize and/or points.
verb
- To apply priming to (a musket or cannon); to apply a primer to (a metallic cartridge).
- To mark with a prime mark.
- To apply a coat of primer paint to.
- To prepare a mechanism for its main work.
- To serve as priming for the charge of a gun.
- To work so that foaming occurs from too violent ebullition, which causes water to become mixed with, and be carried along with, the steam that is formed.
- To prepare; to make ready; to instruct beforehand; to coach.
adj
- Most eminent or exalted; most excellent; chief; highest.
- Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest.
- Of or belonging to a first family.
noun
- first base
- A first-edition copy of some publication.
- A fraction whose (integer) denominator ends in the digit 1.
- The first gear of an engine.
- Something that has never happened before; a new occurrence.
- A first-class honours degree.
- The person or thing in the first position.
adv
noun
- A list of notable, famous, or upper-class people.
- A celebrity or famous person, someone likely to be in such a publication.
- The identities of specific people, understood in terms of such distinguishing characteristics as their backgrounds, prominence, achievements, jobs, etc., as a basis for comparing them and especially as a basis for ranking them within a social group.
- Collectively, the elite class.
- A publication containing biographies of well-known or important people.
- A person appearing in a Who's Who publication.
verb
- have as a major characteristic
- cause to continue in a certain state, position, or activity
- have or hold in one's hands or grip
- organize or be responsible for
- have or possess, either in a concrete or an abstract sense
- keep in mind or convey as a conviction or view
- maintain (a theory, thoughts, or feelings)
- to close within bounds, or otherwise limit or deprive of free movement
- secure and keep for possible future use or application
- have rightfully; of rights, titles, and offices
- be the physical support of; carry the weight of
- contain or hold; have within
- have room for; hold without crowding
- remain in a certain state, position, or condition
- support or hold in a certain manner
- be valid, applicable, or true
- assert or affirm
- be capable of holding or containing
- arrange for and reserve (something for someone else) in advance
- protect against a challenge or attack
- bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted
- hold the attention of
- remain committed to
- resist or confront with resistance
- be pertinent or relevant or applicable
- stop dealing with
- lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits
- keep from departing
- take and maintain control over, often by violent means
- cause to come to an abrupt stop
- cover as for protection against noise or smell
- drink alcohol without showing ill effects
- aim, point, or direct
- declare to be
- be in accord; be in agreement
- keep from exhaling or expelling
noun
- the act of grasping
- understanding of the nature or meaning or quality or magnitude of something
- power by which something or someone is affected or dominated
- time during which some action is awaited
- a state of being confined (usually for a short time)
- a stronghold
- a cell in a jail or prison
- the appendage to an object that is designed to be held in order to use or move it
- the space in a ship or aircraft for storing cargo
noun
- A powerful or majorly influential person.
- Something that has a preeminent position.
- The central pin or skittle in bowling games.
- A playing card with the letter "K" and the image of a king on it, the thirteenth card in a given suit.
- A male dragonfly; a drake.
- A king skin.
- A male monarch; a man who heads a monarchy. If it is an absolute monarchy, then he is the supreme ruler of his nation.
- The principal chess piece, that players seek to threaten with unavoidable capture to result in a victory by checkmate. It is often the tallest piece, with a symbolic crown with a cross at the top.
- A checker (a piece of checkers/draughts) that reached the farthest row forward, thus becoming crowned (either by turning it upside-down, or by stacking another checker on it) and gaining more freedom of movement.
- A king-sized bed.
- The monarch with the most power and authority in a monarchy, regardless of sex.
- A vertex in a directed graph which can reach every other vertex via a path with a length of at most 2.
verb
- To assume or pretend preeminence (over); to lord it over.
- To rule over as king.
- To promote a piece of draughts/checkers that has traversed the board to the opposite side, that piece subsequently being permitted to move backwards as well as forwards.
- To crown king, to make (a person) king.
- To perform the duties of a king.
- To dress and perform as a drag king.
noun
- A group with common attributes.
- A taxon at this rank.
- A natural number representing any of several related measures of the complexity of a given manifold or graph.
- A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below family (Lat. familia) and above species.
- Within a definition, a broader category of the defined concept.
- A type of tuning or intonation, used within an Ancient Greek tetrachord.
noun
- A special characteristic or quality; prestige, especially via association.
- A sealed envelope containing an item whose price is being negotiated.
- A commemorative stamped design or inscription on an envelope, other than a cancellation or pre-printed postage.
- A capsule containing a pharmaceutical preparation.
- A hidden location from which one can observe birds while remaining unseen.
verb
adj
- Primary; most important; first level in importance.
- Chosen or assumed among a branch of possible values of a multi-valued function so that the function is single-valued.
noun
- The chief administrator of a school.
- A diapason, a type of organ stop on a pipe organ.
- The construction that gives shape and strength to a roof, generally a truss of timber or iron; or, loosely, the most important member of a piece of framing.
- A dancer at the highest rank within a professional dance company, particularly a ballet company.
- The primary participant in a crime.
- The first two long feathers of a hawk's wing.
- A security principal.
- A legal person that authorizes another (the agent) to act on their behalf; or on whose behalf an agent or gestor in a negotiorum gestio acts.
- The chief executive and chief academic officer of a university or college.
- The money originally invested or loaned, on which basis interest and returns are calculated.
- A partner or owner of a business.
- One of the turrets or pinnacles of waxwork and tapers with which the posts and centre of a funeral hearse were formerly crowned
adj
- of lesser importance or stature or rank
- lesser in scope or effect
- inferior in number or size or amount
- (of a scale or mode) having half steps between the second and third degrees, and (usually) the fifth and sixth degrees, and the seventh and eighth degrees
- not of legal age
- of lesser seriousness or danger
- of your secondary field of academic concentration or specialization
noun
verb
adj
adj
- lowest in rank or importance
- immediately past
- occurring at or forming an end or termination
- most unlikely or unsuitable
- occurring at the time of death
- conclusive in a process or progression
- highest in extent or degree
- not to be altered or undone
verb
adv
noun
- the temporal end; the concluding time
- the last or lowest in an ordering or series
- a person's dying act; the final thing a person can do
- the time at which life ends; continuing until dead
- a unit of weight equal to 4,000 pounds
- a unit of capacity for grain equal to 80 bushels
- the final stage or concluding parts of an event or occurrence
- holding device shaped like a human foot that is used to fashion or repair shoes
adj
noun
- Wealth, fame, excellence, importance.
- Money.
- A low curtsey; so called on account of the cheese shape assumed by a woman's dress when she stoops after extending the skirts by a rapid gyration.
- That which is melodramatic, overly emotional, or cliché, i.e. cheesy.
- Any particular variety of cheese.
- In skittles, the roughly ovoid object that is thrown to knock down the skittles.
- Smegma.
- A piece of cheese, especially one moulded into a large round shape during manufacture.
- A dairy product made from curdled or cultured milk.
- A mass of pomace, or ground apples, pressed together in the shape of a cheese.
- Holed pattern of circuitry to decrease pattern density.
- A dangerous mixture of black tar heroin and crushed Tylenol PM tablets. The resulting powder resembles grated cheese and is snorted.
- A thick variety of jam (fruit preserve), as distinguished from a thinner variety (sometimes called jelly)
- A substance resembling cream cheese, such as lemon cheese
- The flat, circular, mucilaginous fruit of dwarf mallow (Malva rotundifolia) or marshmallow (Althaea officinalis).
- A fastball.
intj
verb
- To smile excessively, as for a camera.
- To use a controversial or unsporting tactic to gain an advantage (especially in a game.)
- To use an unconventional, all-in strategy to take one's opponent by surprise early in the game (especially for real-time strategy games).
- To prepare curds for making cheese.
- To make holes in a pattern of circuitry to decrease pattern density.
- To anger or irritate someone, usually in combination with "off".
- To stop; to refrain from.
adj
- Prominent or significant in size, amount, or degree.
- Equivalent to that between the tonic and another note of a major scale, and greater by a semitone than the corresponding minor interval.
- Having a major third above the root.
- Of or relating to a subject of academic study chosen as a field of specialization.
- Bell changes rung on eight bells.
- Containing the major term in a categorical syllogism.
- Greater in dignity, rank, importance, significance, or interest.
- Of full legal age, having attained majority.
- Greater in number, quantity, or extent.
- (of a key) Based on a major scale, tending to produce a bright or joyful effect.
- Involving great risk, serious, life-threatening.
- Occurring as the predicate in the conclusion of a categorical syllogism.
- Notable or conspicuous in effect or scope.
- Having intervals of a semitone between the third and fourth, and seventh and eighth degrees.
verb
noun
- A large, commercially successful company, especially a record label that is bigger than an indie.
- An officer in charge of a section of band instruments, used with a modifier.
- A system of change-ringing using eight bells.
- A touchdown, or major score.
- The principal subject or course of a student working toward a degree at a college or university.
- A student at a college or university specializing on a given area of study.
- A rank of officer in the army and the US air force, between captain and lieutenant colonel.
- A goal.
- A person of legal age.
- A large leaf-cutter ant that acts as a soldier, defending the nest.
noun
- A (male) leader; an important (male) person.
- A member of the Republican Party who declined to support the party's nominee James G. Blaine (1830–1893) during the 1884 United States presidential election, believing him to be corrupt, and instead supported the Democratic Party's candidate Grover Cleveland (1837–1908).
- One who switches from supporting one political party to another, especially for personal benefit.
- A person who stays neutral or non-committal; a fence sitter; also, a person who maintains an aloof and often self-important demeanour.
- A person who purports to stay aloof from party politics.
verb
adj
- Of a role: significant; major; meaty.
- Carrying more fat than usual on one's body; plump; not lean or thin.
- Bountiful.
- Abounding in riches; affluent; fortunate.
- Fertile; productive.
- Thick; large.
- Rich; producing a large income; desirable.
- Oily; greasy; unctuous; rich (said of food).
- Being a shot in which the ground is struck before the ball.
- Bulbous; rotund.
noun
- Such tissue as food: the fatty portion of (or trimmings from) meat cuts.
- A specialized animal tissue with high lipid content, used for long-term storage of energy: fat tissue.
- That part of an organization deemed wasteful.
- A fat person.
- The best or richest productions; the best part.
- A lipid that is solid at room temperature, which fat tissue contains and which is also found in the blood circulation; sometimes, a refined substance chemically resembling such naturally occurring lipids.
- An erection.
- A beef cattle fattened for sale.
- A poorly played shot where the ball is struck by the top part of the club head. (see also thin, shank, toe)
noun
- a group of persons associated by some common tie or occupation and regarded as an entity
- the entire physical structure of an organism (an animal, plant, or human being)
- a natural object consisting of a dead animal or person
- an individual 3-dimensional object that has mass and that is distinguishable from other objects
- the body excluding the head and neck and limbs
- a collection of particulars considered as a system
- the property of holding together and retaining its shape
- the central message of a communication
- the main mass of a thing
- a resonating chamber in a musical instrument (as the body of a violin)
- the external structure of a vehicle
verb
adj
abbrev
adj
- Of prime importance.
- Of or relating to the head.
- Punishable by, or involving punishment by, death.
- used to emphasise greatness or absoluteness
- Chief, in a political sense, as being the seat of the general government of a state or nation.
- Uppercase.
noun
- The chief or most important thing.
- A city designated as a legislative seat by the government or some other authority, often the city in which the government is located; otherwise the most important city within a country or a subdivision of it.
- Money and wealth. The means to acquire goods and services, especially in a non-barter system.
- Already-produced durable goods available for use as a factor of production, such as steam shovels (equipment) and office buildings (structures).
- The most important city in the field specified.
- An uppercase letter.
- The uppermost part of a column.
- Knowledge; awareness; proficiency.
adj
noun
- Someone who is top of a ranking, who is ranked first.
- The main goalkeeper of a team, so-called because they wear the number 1 on the back of their kit.
- The most important person, the one who is in charge.
- Urine; urination.
- A large town where theatrical performances may expect to achieve success.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see number, one.
- Oneself, being considered foremost, as by an egoist.
- The batsman who opens the batting.
- The single that has sold the most in a given period.
- A first lieutenant.
adj
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