Definitions for headroom

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headroom head·room

Spelling: [hed-room, -roo m]

IPA: /ˈhɛdˌrum, -ˌrʊm/

Headroom is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 263 anagrams from letters in headroom (adehmoor).

Definitions for headroom

noun

1. Nautical. the clear space between two decks.
2. Also called headway. clear vertical space, as between the head and sill of a doorway, the ceiling and floor of a room, or the ceiling of a vehicular passageway and a vehicle roof, as to allow passage or comfortable occupancy: clear vertical space above one’s head, as in a vehicle or room:
3. Audio. dynamic headroom.

Origin of headroom

First recorded in 1850-55; head + room

Examples for headroom

The result was a pleasant airy compartment with headroom even for Roger.

Even given the extraordinary growth off the high base it is putting up, Amazon still has plenty of headroom.

Plenty of headroom has always been my cry; I believe that where it is attended to there is very rarely an accident.

This roof was level with the bank of the hedge and gave about four feet of headroom.

In order to get headroom there is 'trunk' 'rise' on the deck, as shown on the cross-section drawing, 18 in.

Rawson could have stood upright in it with easily another two feet of headroom to spare.

The headroom between the subway roof and the surface of the street was 4.75 feet.

So the Treasury Department did some fancy footwork and found some headroom by halting payments into government pension plans.