headline vs stephead

headline and stephead both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
headline	Yes	No	Yes	No
stephead	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, stephead is a hyponym of headline; that is, stephead is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than headline:

headline: the heading or caption of a newspaper article
stephead: a headline with the top line flush left and succeeding lines indented to the right

Other hyponyms of headline include drop line, dropline, stagger head, staggered head, stepped line, screamer, banner, streamer.

headline (noun)	stephead (noun)
the heading or caption of a newspaper article	a headline with the top line flush left and succeeding lines indented to the right

headline (verb)	stephead (verb)
publicize widely or highly, as if with a headline
provide (a newspaper page or a story) with a headline