| abridge | (verb) reduce in scope while retaining essential elements | Synonyms: abbreviate, contract, cut, foreshorten, reduce, shorten |
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| (verb) lessen, diminish, or curtail | - |
| abridged | (adjective) (used of texts) shortened by condensing or rewriting | - |
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| abridgement | (noun) a shortened version of a written work | Synonyms: abridgment, capsule, condensation |
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| abridger | (noun) one who shortens or abridges or condenses a written work | Synonyms: abbreviator |
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| acknowledge | (verb) accept as legally binding and valid | - |
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| (verb) accept (someone) to be what is claimed or accept his power and authority | Synonyms: know, recognise, recognize |
| (verb) declare to be true or admit the existence or reality or truth of | Synonyms: admit |
| (verb) express obligation, thanks, or gratitude for | Synonyms: recognise, recognize |
| (verb) report the receipt of | Synonyms: receipt |
| (verb) express recognition of the presence or existence of, or acquaintance with | Synonyms: notice |
| acknowledgeable | (adjective) capable of being acknowledged | - |
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| acknowledged | (adjective) recognized or made known or admitted | - |
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| (adjective) generally accepted | - |
| acknowledgement | (noun) a statement acknowledging something or someone | Synonyms: acknowledgment |
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| (noun) the state or quality of being recognized or acknowledged | Synonyms: acknowledgment, recognition |
| adjudge | (verb) declare to be | Synonyms: declare, hold |
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| 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.) | - |
| (verb) put a badge on | - |
| badger | (noun) sturdy carnivorous burrowing mammal with strong claws; widely distributed in the Northern Hemisphere | - |
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| (verb) persuade through constant efforts | - |
| (verb) annoy persistently | Synonyms: beleaguer, bug, pester, tease |
| badgerer | (noun) someone who tries to embarrass you with gibes and questions and objections | Synonyms: heckler |
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| badgering | (noun) the act of harassing someone | Synonyms: bedevilment, torment, worrying |
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| begrudge | (verb) wish ill or allow unwillingly | Synonyms: resent |
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| (verb) be envious of; set one's heart on | Synonyms: envy |
| bludgeon | (noun) a club used as a weapon | - |
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| (verb) strike with a club or a bludgeon | Synonyms: club |
| (verb) overcome or coerce as if by using a heavy club | - |
| bludgeoner | (noun) an assailant who uses a bludgeon | - |
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| bodge | (verb) make a mess of, destroy or ruin | Synonyms: ball up, blow, bobble, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch, botch up, bumble, bungle, flub, fluff, foul up, fuck up, fumble, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, muff, screw up, spoil |
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| 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 | - |
| (verb) make a bridge across | - |
| (verb) cross over on a bridge | - |
| (verb) connect or reduce the distance between | Synonyms: bridge over |
| bridgeable | (adjective) capable of being connected by a bridge or as if by a bridge | - |
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| bridgehead | (noun) an area in hostile territory that has been captured and is held awaiting further troops and supplies | Synonyms: foothold |
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| (noun) a defensive post at the end of a bridge nearest to the enemy | - |
| bridgework | (noun) a denture anchored to teeth on either side of missing teeth | Synonyms: bridge |
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| budge | (verb) move very slightly | Synonyms: agitate, shift, stir |
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| budgereegah | (noun) small Australian parakeet usually light green with black and yellow markings in the wild but bred in many colors | Synonyms: budgerigar, budgerygah, budgie, grass parakeet, lovebird, Melopsittacus undulatus, shell parakeet |
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| budgerigar | (noun) small Australian parakeet usually light green with black and yellow markings in the wild but bred in many colors | Synonyms: budgereegah, budgerygah, budgie, grass parakeet, lovebird, Melopsittacus undulatus, shell parakeet |
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| budgerygah | (noun) small Australian parakeet usually light green with black and yellow markings in the wild but bred in many colors | Synonyms: budgereegah, budgerigar, budgie, grass parakeet, lovebird, Melopsittacus undulatus, shell parakeet |
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| budget | (noun) a sum of money allocated for a particular purpose | - |
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| (noun) a summary of intended expenditures along with proposals for how to meet them | - |
| (verb) make a budget | - |
| budgetary | (adjective) of or relating to a budget | - |
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| cadge | (verb) ask for and get free; be a parasite | Synonyms: bum, grub, mooch, sponge |
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| (verb) obtain or seek to obtain by cadging or wheedling | Synonyms: schnorr, scrounge, shnorr |
| cadger | (noun) someone who mooches or cadges (tries to get something free) | Synonyms: mooch, moocher, scrounger |
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| 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 |
| codger | (noun) used affectionately to refer to an eccentric but amusing old man | Synonyms: old codger |
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| cudgel | (noun) a club that is used as a weapon | - |
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| (verb) strike with a cudgel | Synonyms: fustigate |
| curmudgeon | (noun) a crusty irascible cantankerous old person full of stubborn ideas | - |
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| curmudgeonly | (adjective) brusque and surly and forbidding | Synonyms: crusty, gruff, ill-humored, ill-humoured |
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| dislodge | (verb) remove or force out from a position | Synonyms: free |
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| (verb) remove or force from a position of dwelling previously occupied | Synonyms: bump |
| (verb) change place or direction | Synonyms: reposition, shift |
| dislodgement | (noun) forced removal from a position of advantage | Synonyms: dislodgment |
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| 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 |
| (verb) avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues) | Synonyms: circumvent, duck, elude, evade, fudge, hedge, parry, put off, sidestep, skirt |
| (verb) make a sudden movement in a new direction so as to avoid | - |
| (verb) move to and fro or from place to place usually in an irregular course | - |
| dodger | (noun) small oval cake of corn bread baked or fried (chiefly southern) | Synonyms: corn dab, corn dodger |
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| (noun) a shifty deceptive person | Synonyms: fox, slyboots |
| 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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| (verb) remove with a power shovel, usually from a bottom of a body of water | - |
| (verb) search (as the bottom of a body of water) for something valuable or lost | Synonyms: drag |
| (verb) cover before cooking | - |
| dredger | (noun) a barge (or a vessel resembling a barge) that is used for dredging | - |
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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 |
| (verb) work hard | Synonyms: dig, fag, grind, labor, labour, moil, toil, travail |
| drudgery | (noun) hard monotonous routine work | Synonyms: donkeywork, grind, plodding |
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| dudgeon | (noun) a feeling of intense indignation (now used only in the phrase `in high dudgeon') | Synonyms: high dudgeon |
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| 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 |
| (verb) lie adjacent to another or share a boundary | Synonyms: abut, adjoin, border, butt, butt against, butt on, march |
| (verb) provide with an edge | - |
| (verb) advance slowly, as if by inches | Synonyms: inch |
| (verb) provide with a border or edge | Synonyms: border |
| edged | (adjective) having a specified kind of border or edge | - |
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| (adjective) having a cutting edge or especially an edge or edges as specified; often used in combination | - |
| (adjective) (of speech) harsh or hurtful in tone or character | Synonyms: cutting, stinging |
| edgeless | (adjective) lacking a cutting edge | - |
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| edger | (noun) garden tool for cutting grass around the edges of a yard | - |
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| (noun) a person who puts finishing edges on a garment | - |
| edgeways | (adverb) with the edge forward or on, by, or toward the edge | Synonyms: edgewise |
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| (adverb) as if by an edge; barely | Synonyms: edgewise |
| edgewise | (adverb) with the edge forward or on, by, or toward the edge | Synonyms: edgeways |
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| (adverb) as if by an edge; barely | Synonyms: edgeways |
| featheredge | (noun) a thin tapering edge | - |
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| featheredged | (adjective) having a rough edge; used of handmade paper or paper resembling handmade | Synonyms: deckle-edged, deckled |
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| fidget | (noun) a feeling of agitation expressed in continual motion | Synonyms: fidgetiness, restlessness |
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| (verb) move restlessly | - |
| fidgetiness | (noun) a feeling of agitation expressed in continual motion | Synonyms: fidget, restlessness |
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| fidgety | (adjective) nervous and unable to relax | Synonyms: antsy, fretful, itchy, restless |
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| fledge | (verb) grow feathers | Synonyms: feather |
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| (verb) decorate with feathers | Synonyms: flight |
| (verb) feed, care for, and rear young birds for flight | - |
| fledged | (adjective) (of birds) having developed feathers or plumage; often used in combination | Synonyms: mature |
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| (adjective) (of an arrow) equipped with feathers | Synonyms: vaned |
| fledgeless | (adjective) (of an arrow) not equipped with feathers | Synonyms: unfledged, unvaned |
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| fledgeling | (adjective) (of a young bird) having acquired its flight feathers | Synonyms: fledgling |
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| (noun) young bird that has just fledged or become capable of flying | Synonyms: fledgling |
| (noun) any new participant in some activity | Synonyms: entrant, fledgling, freshman, neophyte, newbie, newcomer, starter |
| 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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| (verb) avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues) | Synonyms: circumvent, dodge, duck, elude, evade, hedge, parry, put off, sidestep, skirt |
| (verb) tamper, with the purpose of deception | Synonyms: cook, fake, falsify, manipulate, misrepresent, wangle |
| gadget | (noun) a device or control that is very useful for a particular job | Synonyms: appliance, contraption, contrivance, convenience, gismo, gizmo, widget |
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| gadgeteer | (noun) a person who delights in designing or building or using gadgets | - |
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| gadgetry | (noun) appliances collectively | - |
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| gidgee | (noun) scrubby Australian acacia having extremely foul-smelling blossoms | Synonyms: Acacia cambegei, stinking wattle |
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| grudge | (noun) a resentment strong enough to justify retaliation | Synonyms: grievance, score |
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| (verb) accept or admit unwillingly | - |
| (verb) bear a grudge; harbor ill feelings | Synonyms: stew |
| gudgeon | (noun) small slender European freshwater fish often used as bait by anglers | Synonyms: Gobio gobio |
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| (noun) small spiny-finned fish of coastal or brackish waters having a large head and elongated tapering body having the ventral fins modified as a sucker | Synonyms: goby |
| headgear | (noun) clothing for the head | Synonyms: headdress |
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| (noun) stable gear consisting of any part of a harness that fits about the horse's head | - |
| (noun) the hoist at the pithead of a mine | - |
| 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 |
| (verb) minimize loss or risk | - |
| (verb) avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues) | Synonyms: circumvent, dodge, duck, elude, evade, fudge, parry, put off, sidestep, skirt |
| (verb) enclose or bound in with or as it with a hedge or hedges | Synonyms: hedge in |
| (verb) hinder or restrict with or as if with a hedge | - |
| hedged | (adjective) evasively worded in order to avoid an unqualified statement | Synonyms: weasel-worded |
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| hedgefund | (noun) a flexible investment company for a small number of large investors (usually the minimum investment is $1 million); can use high-risk techniques (not allowed for mutual funds) such as short-selling and heavy leveraging | Synonyms: hedge fund |
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| hedgehog | (noun) small nocturnal Old World mammal covered with both hair and protective spines | Synonyms: Erinaceus europaeus, Erinaceus europeaeus |
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| (noun) relatively large rodents with sharp erectile bristles mingled with the fur | Synonyms: porcupine |
| hedgehop | (verb) fly very close to the ground | Synonyms: flat-hat |
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| hedger | (noun) a gardener who takes care of and trims hedges | - |
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| (noun) someone who counterbalances one transaction (as a bet) against another in order to protect against loss | - |
| (noun) a respondent who avoids giving a clear direct answer | Synonyms: equivocator, tergiversator |
| hedgerow | (noun) a fence formed by a row of closely planted shrubs or bushes | Synonyms: hedge |
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| 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 |
| (verb) form a critical opinion of | Synonyms: evaluate, pass judgment |
| (verb) judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time) | Synonyms: approximate, estimate, gauge, guess |
| (verb) determine the result of (a competition) | - |
| (verb) pronounce judgment on | Synonyms: label, pronounce |
| (verb) put on trial or hear a case and sit as the judge at the trial of | Synonyms: adjudicate, try |
| judgement | (noun) (law) the determination by a court of competent jurisdiction on matters submitted to it | Synonyms: judgment, judicial decision |
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| (noun) the act of judging or assessing a person or situation or event | Synonyms: assessment, judgment |
| (noun) the capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly and to draw sound conclusions | Synonyms: judgment, perspicacity, sound judgement, sound judgment |
| (noun) the cognitive process of reaching a decision or drawing conclusions | Synonyms: judging, judgment |
| (noun) the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations | Synonyms: discernment, judgment, sagaciousness, sagacity |
| (noun) an opinion formed by judging something | Synonyms: judgment, mind |
| (noun) the legal document stating the reasons for a judicial decision | Synonyms: judgment, legal opinion, opinion |
| judgeship | (noun) the position of judge | Synonyms: judicature |
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| kedgeree | (noun) a dish of rice and hard-boiled eggs and cooked flaked fish | - |
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| 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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| knowledgeability | (noun) wisdom as evidenced by the possession of knowledge | Synonyms: initiation, knowledgeableness |
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| knowledgeable | (adjective) highly educated; having extensive information or understanding | Synonyms: knowing, learned, lettered, well-educated, well-read |
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| (adjective) thoroughly acquainted through study or experience | Synonyms: intimate, versed |
| (adjective) alert and fully informed | Synonyms: knowing |
| knowledgeableness | (noun) wisdom as evidenced by the possession of knowledge | Synonyms: initiation, knowledgeability |
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| ledge | (noun) a projecting ridge on a mountain or submerged under water | Synonyms: shelf |
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| ledgeman | (noun) a quarry worker who splits off blocks of stone | Synonyms: breaker |
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| ledger | (noun) an accounting journal as a physical object | Synonyms: daybook |
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| (noun) a record in which commercial accounts are recorded | Synonyms: account book, book, book of account, leger |
| 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 |
| (verb) file a formal charge against | Synonyms: charge, file |
| (verb) put, fix, force, or implant | Synonyms: deposit, stick, wedge |
| (verb) provide housing for | Synonyms: accommodate |
| (verb) be a lodger; stay temporarily | - |
| lodgement | (noun) the state or quality of being lodged or fixed even temporarily | Synonyms: lodging, lodgment |
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| lodgepole | (noun) shrubby two-needled pine of coastal northwestern United States; red to yellow-brown bark fissured into small squares | Synonyms: lodgepole pine, Pinus contorta, shore pine, spruce pine |
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| lodger | (noun) a tenant in someone's house | Synonyms: boarder, roomer |
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| 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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| midget | (adjective) very small | Synonyms: bantam, diminutive, flyspeck, lilliputian, petite, tiny |
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| (noun) a person who is markedly small | Synonyms: dwarf, nanus |
| misjudge | (verb) judge incorrectly | - |
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