12-letter words containing ead
- at the ready — If you have something at the ready, you have it in a position where it can be quickly and easily used.
- basal reader — an elementary-school textbook that teaches reading by combining stories with practice exercises: The Dick and Jane series was the most famous basal reader.
- batter bread — spoon bread.
- bay-head bar — a sand bar at the head of a bay.
- bead molding — bead (def 12).
- beetleheaded — like a beetlehead; stupid
- boghead coal — compact bituminous coal that burns brightly and yields large quantities of tar and oil upon distillation.
- brand leader — The brand leader of a particular product is the brand of it that most people choose to buy.
- bread basket — If an area or region is described as the bread basket of a country, it provides a lot of the food for that country because crops grow very easily there. It therefore produces wealth for the country.
- bread-basket — a basket or similar container for bread or rolls.
- breadwinning — a person who earns a livelihood, especially one who also supports dependents.
- bumbleheaded — clumsy, plodding, or foolish: He stumbled through the talk in his bumbleheaded way.
- camera ready — (publication) A final edition of a document or graphic (e.g. a newspaper advertisement or a technical paper for a journal) that is of suitable quality for mass reproduction by making printing plates from the negatives by photoengraving.
- camera-ready — designating or of copy, artwork, etc. that is ready to be photographed for making into a plate for printing
- centrolinead — a drafting instrument for drawing lines converging on a vanishing point outside the drawing.
- chapter head — printed material appearing before and usually above the text of a chapter, as a title, number, quotation, etc.
- cheerleaders — Plural form of cheerleader.
- cheerleading — the action or skill of a cheerleader.
- chicken head — (graphics, abuse) The Commodore Business Machines logo, which strongly resembles a poultry part. Rendered in ASCII as "C=". With the arguable exception of the Amiga, Commodore's computers are notoriously crocky little bitty boxes (see also PETSCII). Thus, this usage may owe something to Philip K. Dick's novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" (the basis for the movie "Blade Runner"; the novel is now sold under that title), in which a "chickenhead" is a mutant with below-average intelligence.
- chickenheads — Plural form of chickenhead.
- chowderheads — Plural form of chowderhead.
- clear-headed — If you describe someone as clear-headed, you mean that they are sensible and think clearly, especially in difficult situations.
- combat-ready — ready for combat
- copy-reading — to work on (copy) as a copyreader.
- counterplead — to plead the opposite of
- crowned head — a monarch
- dead account — an account that is no longer being used and on which no transactions have taken place for a considerable length of time
- dead fingers — a disease of users of pneumatic drills, characterized by anaesthesia of the fingertips and cyanosis
- dead freight — an amount owed by a contractor who charters space in a ship but fails to occupy it fully.
- dead soldier — an empty beer or spirit bottle
- dead spindle — a rounded rod, usually of wood, tapering toward each end, used in hand-spinning to twist into thread the fibers drawn from the mass on the distaff, and on which the thread is wound as it is spun.
- dead storage — the storage of furniture, files, or other unused or seldom used items in a warehouse or other location for an indefinite period of time.
- dead-end job — a job that has no prospects and will mean that one does the same kind of (low-grade) work for ever
- deadbeat dad — a father who neglects his responsibilities as a parent, esp. one who does not pay child support to his estranged wife.
- death's-head — a human skull or a representation of one
- diamond head — promontory in SE Oahu, Hawaii, near Honolulu, consisting of the rim of an extinct volcanic crater
- doubleheader — Sports. two games, as of baseball, between the same teams on the same day in immediate succession. two games, as of basketball, between two different pairs of teams on the same day in immediate succession.
- dreadfulness — The characteristic of being dreadful.
- dreadnoughts — Plural form of dreadnought.
- dunderheaded — Stupid, foolish.
- empty-headed — If you describe someone as empty-headed, you mean that they are not very intelligent and often do silly things.
- featherheads — Plural form of featherhead.
- first reader — the elected official of a church or society who conducts the services and meetings and reads from the writings of Mary Baker Eddy and the Scriptures.
- floor leader — the majority leader or minority leader in either the Senate or the House of Representatives.
- foreadmonish — (rare, transitive) To admonish beforehand, or before the act or event.
- fountainhead — a fountain or spring from which a stream flows; the head or source of a stream.
- french bread — a yeast-raised bread made of dough containing water and distinguished by its thick, well-browned crust, usually made in long, slender, tapered loaves. Compare baguette (def 3).
- fuzzy-headed — not given to clear thinking; foolish.
- garlic bread — baguette toasted with garlic and butter
- get ahead of — to outdo or excel
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