veil vs head covering

veil and head covering both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
veil	Yes	No	Yes	No
head covering	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, veil and head covering are synonyms defined as:

veil (noun)	head covering (noun)
a garment that covers the head and face	a garment that covers the head and face
a vestment worn by a priest at High Mass in the Roman Catholic Church; a silk shawl
the inner membrane of embryos in higher vertebrates (especially when covering the head at birth)
a membranous covering attached to the immature fruiting body of certain mushrooms

veil (verb)	head covering (verb)
make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing
to obscure, or conceal with or as if with a veil