headmost

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: head=most

CIDE DICTIONARY

headmost, a. 

 Most advanced; most forward; as, the headmost ship in a fleet.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

headmost, adj. (esp. of a ship) foremost.

THESAURUS

headmost

acmatic, ahead, antecedent, anterior, apical, arch, banner, before, capital, cardinal, central, champion, chief, consummate, crowning, dominant, exordial, first, focal, fore, foregoing, forehand, foremost, forward, front, frontal, great, head, heading, hegemonic, highest, in advance, in front, in the forefront, in the foreground, in the front, in the lead, inaugural, initiatory, leading, magisterial, main, master, maximal, maximum, meridian, meridional, overmost, overruling, paramount, precedent, preceding, precessional, precursory, predominant, preeminent, prefatory, preliminary, preludial, prelusive, preparatory, preponderant, prevailing, prevenient, primal, primary, prime, principal, prior, proemial, propaedeutic, ranking, ruling, sovereign, star, stellar, summital, supereminent, supreme, tip-top, to the fore, to the front, top, topflight, topmost, ultimate, up ahead, upmost, uppermost, vertical, zenithal

ROGET THESAURUS

headmost

Precession

N precession, leading, heading, precedence, priority, the lead, le pas, van, precursor, leading, precedent, in advance, before, ahead, in the van, in the lead, foremost, headmost, in front, at the head, out in front, way out in front, far ahead, seniores priores, ahead of his time.