Usually means: Pimple with pus, clogged pore.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word whitehead:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. Whitehead, whitehead: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. whitehead: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. whitehead: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Whitehead: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Whitehead, whitehead: Vocabulary.com
  6. Whitehead, whitehead: Wordnik
  7. Whitehead, whitehead: Wiktionary
  8. whitehead: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. whitehead: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. whitehead: Dictionary.com
  11. Whitehead (acne), Whitehead (bird), Whitehead (surname), Whitehead: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Whitehead: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. whitehead: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. whitehead: Rhymezone
  15. Whitehead: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. whitehead: Free Dictionary
  17. whitehead: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. Whitehead: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Whitehead: Health & Beauty Glossary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Whitehead: Encyclopedia

Medicine (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Whitehead: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. KidsHealth Glossary of Medical Words (No longer online)
  5. Whitehead: MEDLINE plus Illustrated Medical Encyclopedia
  6. whitehead: Medical dictionary
  7. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)
  8. Whitehead: Drug Medical Dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. whitehead: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. whitehead, the Whitehead: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Whitehead: Beauty & Health Glossary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Whitehead)

noun:  (dermatology) A pimple formed by a clogged sebaceous gland, usually with a milky-white cap.
noun:  A species of passerine bird, endemic to New Zealand (Mohoua albicilla).
noun:  The blue-winged snow goose, Anser caerulescens caerulescens.
noun:  The surf scoter duck.
noun:  A domestic pigeon of a particular breed; a white-tailed monk.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  A place name:
noun:  A small coastal town in County Antrim, Northern Ireland; a headland there is named White Head (Irish grid ref J 4791).
noun:  The Rural Municipality of Whitehead, a rural municipality in south-west Manitoba, Canada.
noun:  A community of Guysborough County, Nova Scotia, Canada.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Tallahatchie County, Mississippi, United States.
noun:  A township in Alleghany County, North Carolina, United States.
noun:  A form of self-propelling torpedo.

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