Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. See milium.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A small and rare oscinine bird, Clitonyx albicilla, peculiar to the North Island, New Zealand, and threatened with extinction.
- n. The white-headed scoter or surf-scoter, a duck, Œdemia perspicillata. See cut under Pelionetta.
- n. A breed of domestic pigeons with the head and tail white; a white-tailed monk.
- n. The blue wavey. or blue-winged snow-goose, Chen cærulescens. See goose.
- n. The broom-bush, Parthenium Hysterophorus. Also called bastard feverfew and West Indian mugwort.
Wiktionary
- n. A pimple formed by a clogged sebaceous gland, usually with a milky-white cap.
- n. The blue-winged snow goose.
- n. The surf scoter.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The blue-winged snow goose.
- n. The surf scoter.
WordNet 3.0
- n. English philosopher and mathematician who collaborated with Bertrand Russell (1861-1947)
- n. a small whitish lump in the skin due to a clogged sebaceous gland
Etymologies
- white + head (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Does he periodically examine you under a bright light or preferably in sunlight, with a thermometer in hand to gauge the level of your softness down there, checking you for any sprouting blackhead, whitehead, or pimple do these even appear down there? or, horror of horrors, imagine an extra out-of-place, unruly, curly hair.”
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“As we made out, I couldn't help noticing a whitehead on his back.”
“But top honors go to 30 Rock, as Jack Donaghy declares NBC "to be the engorged whitehead on the otherwise flawless face of Universal Media.”
“Nothing like an exploded whitehead magnified 7x to scare you into washing your face. doublebanker Says:”
“Another whitehead racist who wants to keep the white house white.”
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“I suggest you vote after you stop being angry, or you will only make things worse. oscar whitehead”
“• Seasonal changes frequently cause changes in combination skin: in the summer it becomes oilier and more prone to blackhead and whitehead formation in the T-zone, while the winter season causes it to become drier, especially in the cheek area.”
“WHAT A DOCTOR CALLS THEM: comedones an open comedone is a blackhead; a closed comedone is a whitehead”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘whitehead’.
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birds
birds with singular names from
at least 9 English dictionariesaasvogel, aberdevine, accentor, accipiter, aepyornis, agami, albatross, alcatras, alcid, alcidine, amadavat, amokura and 1056 more...
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white phrase/words
how white is used
white acajou, white-aproned, white fir, white-armed, white-back, white-arsed, white elm, white-ash breeze, white admiral, white-fly, white ale, white ash and 591 more...
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Real last names that look like compou...
pennywhistle, drinkwater, goodfellow, applejohn, rainwater, goodfriend, stonecipher, snowball, peacemaker, goodman, brownback, hayslip and 25 more...
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Black or White
black and white, snow-white, coal-black, blacksmith, whitesmith, blackball, white-box testing, Blackberry, white pages, black book, white paper, blacklist and 107 more...
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What Keeps Your Ears Apart?
A sort of stuffie of words/phrases that include "head"
head of cattle, out of one's head, head of the stairs, come to a head, head of steam, head of the page, win by a head, head taller, headway, fountainhead, heads or tails, hit the nail on t... and 143 more...
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