| awkward | perverse, inept, wrong-headed |
| bald | bare-headed [as a sign of respect] |
| barren | stupid, empty-headed, dull |
| beef-witted | beef-brained, thick-headed, brainless |
| beetle-headed | thick-headed, doltish |
| bird-bolt, burbolt | short blunt-headed arrow for shooting birds |
| brainsick, brain-sick | foolish, addle-headed |
| brain-sickly | foolishly, in such an addle-headed way |
| burbolt | short blunt-headed arrow for shooting birds |
| butt-shaft | blunt-headed arrow |
| Cerberus | ['sairberus] three-headed dog guarding the entrance to the Underworld, originally 50-headed; charmed to sleep by Orpheus during his quest to rescue Euridice |
| curled-pate | curly-headed |
| headed | having come to a head, full-grown, matured |
| heady-rash | hasty-headed, full of reckless thoughts |
| Hydra | [pron: 'hiydra] many-headed monster, the child of Typhon and Echnida; as each head was cut off, it grew again |
| Hydra-headed | many-headed, multifarious, manifold |
| idle | foolish, stupid, empty-headed |
| idle-headed | ignorant, foolish, superstitious |
| knotty-pated | block-headed, dull-witted |
| loggerheaded, logger-headed | thick-headed, stupid, doltish |
| motley-minded | muddle-headed, foolish-minded |
| muddy | dull-witted, muddle-headed |
| multiplied | many-headed, myriad, multiple |
| not-pated | crop-headed, short-haired |
| rug-headed | shaggy-headed, shock-headed |
| russet-pated | with reddish-brown head; or: grey-headed |
| safe | sound, sensible, level-headed |
| soft-conscienced | soft-headed, easy-going, lacking real convictions |
| spleenative | of angry temperament, hot-headed |
| spleenful | passionate, furious, hot-headed |
| spleeny | hot-headed, over-emotional |
| splenitive, spleenative | of angry temperament, hot-headed |
| unbonneted | bare-headed; with all modesty |
| unbonneted | bare-headed; recklessly |
| uncovered | bare-headed, with hat in hand [in respect] |
| waspish-headed | peevish, irascible, spiteful |