A knot, or any of various similar kinds of knot, resulting in a ball of rope. / (Caribbean) The melon cactus. / (California) Any of several species of Echinocactus.

Of a sheet of paper: having the sender's name, address, etc. preprinted at the top. / (in combination) Having a head with specified characteristics. / (in combination) Having hair of a specified color.

simple past tense and past participle of head

(in combination) Heading in a certain direction.

The heating of an electrical conductor by eddy currents induced by a varying magnetic field.

(intransitive) To begin moving away. / (transitive) To intercept. / (transitive) To avoid the undesirable consequences of; prevent. / (intransitive) To start out. / (nautical) To turn away from the wind.

An apparatus, usually fuel-burning, electric or solar-powered, in which water is heated to be used directly as domestic hot water or process hot water (but not for supplying space heating, calorifiers etc, for which a boiler or furnace is used).

The thin circle of material attached to the top of a drum shell for the purpose of striking, sometimes made of skin and in such occurrences sometimes referred to as a skin, or drum-skin, but often synthetic.

(anthropology) A person who practises headhunting, the taking and preserving of a person's head after killing them. / One who recruits senior personnel for a company.

An appliance for heating water above its ambient temperature, generally for domestic use.