| badge | (noun) any feature that is regarded as a sign of status (a particular power or quality or rank) | - |
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| (noun) an emblem (a small piece of plastic or cloth or metal) that signifies your status (rank or membership or affiliation etc.) | - |
| bridge | (noun) any of various card games based on whist for four players | - |
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| (noun) a structure that allows people or vehicles to cross an obstacle such as a river or canal or railway etc. | Synonyms: span |
| (noun) an upper deck where a ship is steered and the captain stands | Synonyms: bridge deck |
| (noun) the link between two lenses; rests on the nose | Synonyms: nosepiece |
| (noun) a denture anchored to teeth on either side of missing teeth | Synonyms: bridgework |
| (noun) a wooden support that holds the strings up | - |
| (noun) a circuit consisting of two branches (4 arms arranged in a diamond configuration) across which a meter is connected | Synonyms: bridge circuit |
| (noun) the hard ridge that forms the upper part of the nose | - |
| (noun) something resembling a bridge in form or function | - |
| cartridge | (noun) ammunition consisting of a cylindrical casing containing an explosive charge and a bullet; fired from a rifle or handgun | - |
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| (noun) an electro-acoustic transducer that is the part of the arm of a record player that holds the needle and that is removable | Synonyms: pickup |
| (noun) a module designed to be inserted into a larger piece of equipment | - |
| (noun) a light-tight supply chamber holding the film and supplying it for exposure as required | Synonyms: magazine |
| dodge | (noun) a quick evasive movement | - |
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| (noun) an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade | Synonyms: contrivance, stratagem |
| (noun) a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery | Synonyms: dodging, scheme |
| drawbridge | (noun) a bridge that can be raised to block passage or to allow boats or ships to pass beneath it | Synonyms: lift bridge |
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| dredge | (noun) a power shovel to remove material from a channel or riverbed | - |
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| drudge | (noun) a laborer who is obliged to do menial work | Synonyms: galley slave, navvy, peon |
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| (noun) one who works hard at boring tasks | Synonyms: hack, hacker |
| edge | (noun) a sharp side formed by the intersection of two surfaces of an object | - |
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| (noun) the outside limit of an object or area or surface; a place farthest away from the center of something | - |
| (noun) a slight competitive advantage | - |
| (noun) the attribute of urgency in tone of voice | Synonyms: sharpness |
| (noun) the boundary of a surface | Synonyms: border |
| (noun) a line determining the limits of an area | Synonyms: bound, boundary |
| featheredge | (noun) a thin tapering edge | - |
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| flybridge | (noun) the highest navigational bridge on a ship; a small (often open) deck above the pilot house | Synonyms: fly bridge, flying bridge, monkey bridge |
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| footbridge | (noun) a bridge designed for pedestrians | Synonyms: overcrossing, pedestrian bridge |
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| foredge | (noun) the part of a book that faces inward when the book is shelved; the part opposite the spine | Synonyms: fore edge |
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| foreknowledge | (noun) knowledge of an event before it occurs | Synonyms: precognition |
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| fridge | (noun) a refrigerator in which the coolant is pumped around by an electric motor | Synonyms: electric refrigerator |
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| fudge | (noun) soft creamy candy | - |
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| grudge | (noun) a resentment strong enough to justify retaliation | Synonyms: grievance, score |
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| hedge | (noun) a fence formed by a row of closely planted shrubs or bushes | Synonyms: hedgerow |
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| (noun) an intentionally noncommittal or ambiguous statement | Synonyms: hedging |
| (noun) any technique designed to reduce or eliminate financial risk; for example, taking two positions that will offset each other if prices change | Synonyms: hedging |
| hodgepodge | (noun) a theory or argument made up of miscellaneous or incongruous ideas | Synonyms: jumble, patchwork |
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| (noun) a motley assortment of things | Synonyms: farrago, gallimaufry, hotchpotch, melange, mingle-mangle, mishmash, oddments, odds and ends, omnium-gatherum, ragbag |
| judge | (noun) a public official authorized to decide questions brought before a court of justice | Synonyms: jurist, justice |
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| (noun) an authority who is able to estimate worth or quality | Synonyms: evaluator |
| kludge | (noun) a badly assembled collection of parts hastily assembled to serve some particular purpose | - |
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| knowledge | (noun) the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning | Synonyms: cognition, noesis |
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| ledge | (noun) a projecting ridge on a mountain or submerged under water | Synonyms: shelf |
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| lodge | (noun) any of various Native American dwellings | Synonyms: indian lodge |
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| (noun) a hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers | Synonyms: auberge, hostel, hostelry, inn |
| (noun) a small (rustic) house used as a temporary shelter | Synonyms: hunting lodge |
| (noun) small house at the entrance to the grounds of a country mansion; usually occupied by a gatekeeper or gardener | - |
| (noun) a formal association of people with similar interests | Synonyms: club, gild, guild, order, social club, society |
| metaknowledge | (noun) knowledge about knowledge | - |
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| midge | (noun) minute two-winged mosquito-like fly lacking biting mouthparts; appear in dancing swarms especially near water | - |
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| nudge | (noun) a slight push or shake | Synonyms: jog |
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| nutsedge | (noun) a widely distributed perennial sedge having small edible nutlike tubers | Synonyms: Cyperus rotundus, nut grass, nut sedge, nutgrass |
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| partridge | (noun) small Old World gallinaceous game birds | - |
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| (noun) a popular North American game bird; named for its call | Synonyms: bobwhite, bobwhite quail |
| (noun) valued as a game bird in eastern United States and Canada | Synonyms: Bonasa umbellus, ruffed grouse |
| (noun) heavy-bodied small-winged South American game bird resembling a gallinaceous bird but related to the ratite birds | Synonyms: tinamou |
| (noun) flesh of either quail or grouse | - |
| pepperidge | (noun) columnar tree of eastern North America having horizontal limbs and small leaves that emerge late in spring and have brilliant color in early fall | Synonyms: black gum, Nyssa sylvatica, sour gum |
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| pledge | (noun) a binding commitment to do or give or refrain from something | Synonyms: assurance |
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| (noun) a drink in honor of or to the health of a person or event | Synonyms: toast |
| (noun) someone accepted for membership but not yet fully admitted to the group | - |
| (noun) a deposit of personal property as security for a debt | - |
| porridge | (noun) soft food made by boiling oatmeal or other meal or legumes in water or milk until thick | - |
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| pudge | (noun) a short fat person | - |
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| ridge | (noun) a beam laid along the edge where two sloping sides of a roof meet at the top; provides an attachment for the upper ends of rafters | Synonyms: ridgepole, rooftree |
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| (noun) any long raised border or margin of a bone or tooth or membrane | - |
| (noun) a long narrow natural elevation or striation | - |
| (noun) a long narrow range of hills | Synonyms: ridgeline |
| (noun) a long narrow natural elevation on the floor of the ocean | - |
| (noun) any long raised strip | - |
| sedge | (noun) grasslike or rushlike plant growing in wet places having solid stems, narrow grasslike leaves and spikelets of inconspicuous flowers | - |
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| selvedge | (noun) the edge of a fabric that is woven so that it will not ravel or fray | Synonyms: selvage |
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| (noun) border consisting of an ornamental fringe at either end of an oriental carpet | Synonyms: selvage |
| sledge | (noun) a heavy long-handled hammer used to drive stakes or wedges | Synonyms: maul, sledgehammer |
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| (noun) a vehicle mounted on runners and pulled by horses or dogs; for transportation over snow | Synonyms: sled, sleigh |
| sludge | (noun) any thick, viscous matter | Synonyms: goo, gook, goop, guck, gunk, muck, ooze, slime |
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| (noun) the precipitate produced by sewage treatment | - |
| smidge | (noun) a tiny or scarcely detectable amount | Synonyms: iota, scintilla, shred, smidgen, smidgeon, smidgin, tittle, whit |
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| smudge | (noun) a blemish made by dirt | Synonyms: blot, daub, slur, smear, smirch, spot |
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| (noun) a smoky fire to drive away insects | - |
| splodge | (noun) an irregularly shaped spot | Synonyms: blotch, splotch |
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| stodge | (noun) heavy and filling (and usually starchy) food | - |
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| straightedge | (noun) hand tool consisting of a flat rigid rectangular bar (metal or wood) that can be used to draw straight lines (or test their straightness) | - |
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| trudge | (noun) a long difficult walk | - |
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| wedge | (noun) something solid that is usable as an inclined plane (shaped like a V) that can be pushed between two things to separate them | - |
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| (noun) a block of wood used to prevent the sliding or rolling of a heavy object | Synonyms: chock |
| (noun) a heel that is an extension of the sole of the shoe | Synonyms: wedge heel |
| (noun) (golf) an iron with considerable loft and a broad sole | - |
| (noun) a diacritical mark (an inverted circumflex) placed above certain letters (such as the letter c) to indicate pronunciation | Synonyms: hacek |
| (noun) a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States | Synonyms: bomber, Cuban sandwich, grinder, hero, hero sandwich, hoagie, hoagy, Italian sandwich, poor boy, sub, submarine, submarine sandwich, torpedo, zep |
| (noun) any shape that is triangular in cross section | Synonyms: cuneus, wedge shape |
| weighbridge | (noun) platform scale flush with a roadway for weighing vehicles and cattle etc | - |
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