Crossword clues for thunderhead
thunderhead
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Thunderhead \Thun"der*head`\, n. A rounded mass of cloud, with shining white edges; a cumulus, -- often appearing before a thunderstorm.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. The top portion of a cumulonimbus cloud, which tend to be flattened or fibery in appearance, and which may be indicative of thunderstorm activity.
Wikipedia
Thunderhead may refer to:
- a cumulonimbus cloud seen during a thunderstorm
Thunderhead may also refer to:
- Thunderhead (novel) by Lincoln Child and Douglas Preston
- Thunderhead (roller coaster) at Dollywood theme park
- Thunderhead, Son of Flicka, 1985 film
- Thunderhead Mountain in the Great Smoky Mountains
- Thunderhead, a character in the Young Heroes in Love comic book series
- Thunderhead (I Just Wanted A Little Rain), a song on the album Well... by Katey Sagal
- Thunderhead, a song on the album Round Room by Phish
- Thunderhead, a song on the album Bloodletting (Overkill album) by Overkill
- Thunderhead Raceway, a fictional raceway in Speed Racer (film)
Thunderhead is a wooden roller coaster located at Dollywood in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. The coaster, which was the anchor attraction of the new "Thunderhead Gap" section, opened on April 3, 2004, to much critical acclaim. Thunderhead boasts 22 turns and 32 crossovers 1, and utilizes GCI's Millennium Flyer trains, used on all GCI coasters since 1999. Thunderhead is also the first roller coaster to feature a station flyby.
Thunderhead is a thriller novel by American writers Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. The book was published on July 1, 1999 by Grand Central Publishing.
Thunderhead (foaled 1949) was a French Thoroughbred racehorse and sire, best known for winning the classic 2000 Guineas in 1952. He won once as a two-year-old and showed improved form in the spring of 1952, winning the Prix de Fontainebleau before recording an emphatic win over twenty-five opponents in the 2000 Guineas. He then finished second when favourite for the Poule d'Essai des Poulains and ran poorly when strongly-fancied for the Epsom Derby. He was later exported to South Africa where he had some success as a breeding stallion.
When racing in Britain he was known as Thunderhead II.
Usage examples of "thunderhead".
Before entering the forest, we saw an impressive cell of mini thunderheads, gorgeously mauve and dimly aflicker from within, standing on the phony horizon like purple-robed clerics of Doom.
Dodge back and forth through the social and commercial strata, snuffling the flavors of change, the plastic aromas of the new Florida superimposed on the Spanish moss, the rain-sounds of the night peepers in the marsh, the sea smell of low tides, creak of bamboo in light winds, fright cry of the cruising night birds, tiny sirens of the mosquitoes, faraway flicker of lightning silhouetting the circus parade of thunderheads on the Gulf horizon-superimposed on all these old enduring things, known when only Caloosas made their shell mounds and slipped through the sawgrass in their dugouts.
We went out and explored the city in the fading light of evening, drifting the gray Dodge back and forth through the social and commercial strata, snuffling the flavors of change, the plastic aromas of the new Florida superimposed on the Spanish moss, the rain-sounds of the night peepers in the marsh, the sea smell of low tides, creak of bamboo in light winds, fright cry of the cruising night birds, tiny sirens of the mosquitoes, faraway flicker of lightning silhouetting the circus parade of thunderheads on the Gulf horizon-superimposed on all these old enduring things, known when only Caloosas made their shell mounds and slipped through the sawgrass in their dugouts.
The fueler could have lifted over them, but with their fuel level already dropping faster than Pheylan liked, he opted instead to let Max thread them between the thunderheads.
Situated at the top of a hill, it had sweeping views of the mountains and high desert, the lights of town, and the summer thunderheads rearing over the Jemez Mountains.
Primidon was called on, and a burning cloud like a miniature thunderhead scorched lemures and sent up a sickening stench like charred garbage.
Piece by piece he assembled it: the trees, the three mounds, the play of shade and light, the cornfields stretching out below, the towering thunderheads above, the air, the sky, the living earth.
Thunderheads were forming up again to the west, another storm beginning to build in that midseason time of storms.
Others crowded heaven, unwinking brilliances, every hue from radio to gamma, save where the Milky Way foamed around blackness or a nearby dark nebula looked like a thunderhead.
A towering bank of thunderheads had moved stolidly out of the east, black as a carboned anvil.
Summer thunderheads were building to the north and Blevins was studying the horizon and watching the thin wires of lightning and watching the dust to see how the wind blew.
Sure enough, when he looked outside, there were high alto-cumulus clouds and a thunderhead building.
Thunderheads were massed to the west, approaching at a slow, steady roll across the back of a still-calm wind, and the burn of the sun through gaps in the thinner clouds east was giving way before cooler air.
A sparrow's fall in Portugal could diddle the global fluid system so that, in principle, a thunderhead system would form over Fountain Valley a week later.
Pham guessed that seeing it was some function of viewing angle and the orientation of Trygve’s thunderheads.