Definitions for bowhead

bowhead bow·head

Spelling: [boh-hed]
IPA: /ˈboʊˌhɛd/

Bowhead is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 142 anagrams from letters in bowhead (abdehow).

Definitions for bowhead

noun

  1. a whalebone whale, Balaena mysticetus, of northern seas, having an enormous head and mouth: an endangered species.

Origin of bowhead

First recorded in 1885-90; bow2 + head

Examples for bowhead

From the bowhead the sound comes like the drawn-out "hoo-hoo-oo-oo-oo" of the hoot-owl.

The bowhead whale has within recent years chosen for his summer habitat the pleasant waters off Arctic Canada.

The whaler drawn by oily lure followed the bowhead east and north from Bering Sea.

We have seen them, a pack of hungry sea-wolves, surround a bowhead whale!

It was on the ninth or tenth morning after our arrival on the grounds that a bowhead was raised, And two boats sent after him.

He went up to the bowhead saloon, had a drink, leaned on the end of the bar and thought it over.

A great bulk wallowed just before him, the helpless body of the bowhead whale, the killers darting in a mad mêlée for its head.

McGuffey was willing so they left the bulkhead for the more convivial shelter of the bowhead saloon.

Two years later the Narwhal took out fifteen whales, the Jeanette and bowhead each four.

Somewhat crestfallen, the striking pair repaired to the bowhead saloon to discuss the situation over a glass of beer.

Word Value for bowhead
Scrable

16

Words with friends

16

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