Word Meanings - BLUFF-HEADED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Built with the stem nearly straight up and down.

Related words: (words related to BLUFF-HEADED)

• STRAIGHT-JOINT
  Having straight joints. Specifically: Applied to a floor the boards of which are so laid that the joints form a continued line transverse to the length of the boards themselves. Brandle & C. In the United States, applied to planking or flooring
• STRAIGHT-OUT
  Acting without concealment, obliquity, or compromise; hence, unqualified; thoroughgoing. Straight-out and generous indignation. Mrs. Stowe.
• STRAIGHTENER
  One who, or that which, straightens.
• STRAIGHT-PIGHT
  Straight in form or upright in position; erect. Shak.
• STRAIGHTWAY
  Immediately; without loss of time; without delay. He took the damsel by the hand, and said unto her, Talitha cumi. . . . And straightway the damsel arose. Mark v. 41,42.
• BUILT
  Shape; build; form of structure; as, the built of a ship. Dryden.
• STRAIGHT-LINED
  Having straight lines.
• STRAIGHTFORWARD
  Proceeding in a straight course or manner; not deviating; honest; frank. -- adv.
• STRAIGHTLY
  In a right line; not crookedly.
• NEARLY
  In a near manner; not remotely; closely; intimately; almost.
• STRAIGHTWAYS
  Straightway.
• STRAIGHTFORTH
  Straightway.
• STRAIGHTEN
  1. To make straight; to reduce from a crooked to a straight form. 2. To make right or correct; to reduce to order; as, to straighten one's affairs; to straighten an account. To straighten one's face, to cease laughing or smiling, etc., and compose
• STRAIGHTHORN
  An orthoceras.
• STRAIGHT-SPOKEN
  Speaking with directness; plain-spoken. Lowell.
• STRAIGHTEDGE
  A board, or piece of wood or metal, having one edge perfectly straight, -- used to ascertain whether a line is straight or a surface even, and for drawing straight lines.
• STRAIGHTNESS
  The quality, condition, or state, of being straight; as, the straightness of a path.
• STRAIGHT
  A variant of Strait, a. Egypt is a long country, but it is straight, that is to say, narrow. Sir J. Mandeville.
• JERRY-BUILT
  Built hastily and of bad materials; as, jerry-built houses.
• ICE-BUILT
  1. Composed of ice. 2. Loaded with ice. "Ice-built mountains." Gray.
• OVERBUILT
  Having too many buildings; as, an overbuilt part of a town.
• SEA-BUILT
  Built at, in, or by the sea.
• CLINCHER-BUILT
  See CLINKER-BUILT