Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

θ	thin	ð	this	ʃ	she	ʒ	measure
tʃ	church	dʒ	judge	ŋ	sing	j	yes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

-s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
-ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
-ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

heads

/hɛdz/ interjection, noun

Also a form of head

Forms heads!

interjection A shouted warning that something is falling from above, mind your heads; heads-up.
noun (nautical) The part of older sailing ships forward of the forecastle and around the beak, used by the crew as their lavatory; still used as the word for toilets on a ship.
noun One side of a coin: “Heads, I win.”
noun (usually) The side that bears the picture of the head of state or other national symbol.
noun (Ireland, sometimes) The side that does not bear an image of the Irish harp.
noun (Ireland, law) The draft scheme of a bill before it is formally introduced to a parliament.
noun Tiles laid at the eaves of a house.
noun (slang) High-grade marijuana.

Synonyms

Plural of head.

From head (from the notion that it gives a head high) + -s (possibly either genitive or plural).

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Sources: Wiktionary — from the Wiktionary entry “heads”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “heads” (best matches first).

चामर cāmara or ī, as, n. f. m. a chowrie, the bushy tail of the Bos Grunniens, used as a fly-flap or fan, and as one of …
ज्योतिष्क jyotiṣka a luminary, a heavenly body; the luminaries regarded by the Jainas as a class of deities arranged under five…
प्रकीर्णक pra-kīrṇaka scattered about; occurring singly or in single instances; ( as, am ), m. n. a chowrie, the tail of the Bos G…
शिरःश्रेणि śiraḥ-śreṇi a line of heads, number of heads.
सहस्रशीर्ष sahasra-śīrṣa or sahasra-śīrṣan, ā, ā, a, thousand-headed, having a thousand heads.
मुण्डमण्डली muṇḍa-maṇḍalī a number of shaven heads; a number of troops of an inferior description.
अमृतेष्टका amṛteṣṭakā a kind of sacrificial brick, shaped like golden heads (of men, animals, etc.).
अचलभ्रातृ acala-bhrātṛ name of a Brāhman from Oude, who became one of the eleven heads of Gaṇas among the Jainas.