high head
/ˈhʌɪ hɛd/Now historical
noun
A high headdress, especially of a type fashionable for women in the 18th cent.
Origin
Late 16th century; earliest use found in John Stow (d. 1605), historian. From high + head.
- thermal diffusivity
- thermal efficiency
- thermal imaging
- thermal inversion
- thermalise
- thermalization
- thermalize
- thermally
- thermal neutron
- thermal noise
- thermal paper
- thermal printer
- thermal reactor
- thermal shock
- thermal spring
- thermal unit
- thermic
- thermic lance
- Thermidor
- Thermidorian
- thermion
- thermionic
- thermionic emission
- thermionics
- thermionic tube