| HEADWAY | • headway n. Movement ahead or forward. • headway n. (Nautical) Forward motion, or its rate. • headway n. (Countable, transport) The interval of time or distance between the fronts of two vehicles (e.g. buses)… |
| HEADWALL | • headwall n. (Geography) The highest cliff of a glacial cirque. • headwall n. (Geology) The steep cliff at the back of a cirque. • headwall n. (Civil engineering) A retaining wall at the outlet of a drain or culvert. |
| HEADWARD | • headward adj. (Geology) Cutting backwards or upstream above the original source. • headward adj. Toward the head. • headward adv. In a headward direction. |
| HEADWAYS | • headways n. Plural of headway. • HEADWAY n. forward movement. |
| DEADWATER | • deadwater n. Alternative form of dead water. • dead␣water n. (Nautical) The eddying water under a slow-moving ship’s counter, or a similar area of stationary fluid… • dead␣water n. A region in a body of moving water (or similar body of fluid in motion) where the water (fluid) is relatively… |
| HEADWALLS | • headwalls n. Plural of headwall. • HEADWALL n. a steep rock-face at the end of a cirque. |
| HEADWARDS | • headwards adv. (Anatomy, geology) Toward the head. • HEADWARDS adv. backwards beyond the original source, also HEADWARD. |
| HEADWATER | • headwater n. (Chiefly in the plural) The source (and the initial part) of a stream. • HEADWATER n. the highest part of a stream or river before receiving tributaries. |
| DEADWATERS | • deadwaters n. Plural of deadwater. • dead␣waters n. Plural of dead water. • DEADWATER n. still water without any current. |
| HEADWAITER | • headwaiter n. A waiter who has a supervisory position over the other wait staff; chief waiter. • HEADWAITER n. the head of the dining-room staff of a restaurant or hotel. |
| HEADWATERS | • headwaters n. The source of a river, the set of streams that feed into the river’s beginning. • HEADWATER n. the highest part of a stream or river before receiving tributaries. |
| HEADWAITERS | • headwaiters n. Plural of headwaiter. • HEADWAITER n. the head of the dining-room staff of a restaurant or hotel. |