hammerhead

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
21
Words With Friends
21
Letters
10

Definition of hammerhead

8 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. The portion of a hammer containing the metal striking face (also including the claw or peen if so equipped).
    “Holonym: hammer”
    “Meronym: hammer face”
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noun

  1. The portion of a hammer containing the metal striking face (also including the claw or peen if so equipped).
    “Holonym: hammer”
    “Meronym: hammer face”
  2. Any organism with head shaped like that of a hammer:
  3. Any organism with head shaped like that of a hammer:
  4. Any organism with head shaped like that of a hammer:
  5. Any organism with head shaped like that of a hammer:
  6. (slang)A stupid person, a dunce.
    “[The butler] joined us with a telegram for Bobbie on a salver. From her mother, I presumed, calling me some name which she had forgotten to insert in previous communications. Or, of course, possibly expressing once more her conviction that I was a guffin, which, I thought, having had time to ponder over it, would be something in the nature of a bohunkus or a hammerhead.”
  7. A turn-around; a parking area constructed in a subdivision for initial access and construction.
  8. A kind of ribozyme; hammerhead ribozyme.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From hammer + head.

Words you can make from hammerhead

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7-letter words

1 word

6-letter words

16 words

5-letter words

27 words

4-letter words

44 words

3-letter words

34 words

2-letter words

19 words

Hooks

1 extension · 1 back

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