| nudge | (noun) a slight push or shake | Synonyms: jog |
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| (verb) push into action by pestering or annoying gently | - |
| (verb) to push against gently | Synonyms: poke at, prod |
| nudger | (noun) someone who nudges; someone who gives a gentle push | - |
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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 | - |
| partridgeberry | (noun) creeping woody plant of eastern North America with shiny evergreen leaves and scarlet berries | Synonyms: boxberry, Mitchella repens, twinberry |
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| 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 | - |
| (verb) promise solemnly and formally | Synonyms: plight |
| (verb) bind or secure by a pledge | - |
| (verb) give as a guarantee | - |
| (verb) propose a toast to | Synonyms: drink, salute, toast, wassail |
| (verb) pay (an amount of money) as a contribution to a charity or service, especially at regular intervals | Synonyms: subscribe |
| pledged | (adjective) bound by or as if by an oath | Synonyms: sworn |
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| pledgee | (noun) someone to whom a pledge is made or someone with whom something is deposited as a pledge | - |
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| pledger | (noun) someone who makes or gives a pledge | - |
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| porridge | (noun) soft food made by boiling oatmeal or other meal or legumes in water or milk until thick | - |
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| prejudge | (verb) judge beforehand, especially without sufficient evidence | - |
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| prejudgement | (noun) a judgment reached before the evidence is available | Synonyms: prejudgment |
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| pudge | (noun) a short fat person | - |
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| resmudge | (verb) smudge again | - |
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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 | - |
| (verb) form into a ridge | - |
| (verb) spade into alternate ridges and troughs | - |
| (verb) throw soil toward (a crop row) from both sides | - |
| (verb) plough alternate strips by throwing the furrow onto an unploughed strip | - |
| (verb) extend in ridges | - |
| ridged | (adjective) having a ridge or shaped like a ridge or suggesting the keel of a ship | Synonyms: carinate, carinated, keeled |
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| ridgel | (noun) a colt with undescended testicles | Synonyms: ridgeling, ridgil, ridgling |
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| ridgeline | (noun) a long narrow range of hills | Synonyms: ridge |
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| ridgeling | (noun) a colt with undescended testicles | Synonyms: ridgel, ridgil, ridgling |
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| ridgepole | (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: ridge, rooftree |
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| 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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| sedgelike | (adjective) resembling rush or sedge | Synonyms: rushlike |
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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 |
| (verb) beat with a sledgehammer | Synonyms: sledgehammer |
| (verb) transport in a sleigh | - |
| (verb) ride in or travel with a sledge | - |
| sledgehammer | (noun) a heavy long-handled hammer used to drive stakes or wedges | Synonyms: maul, sledge |
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| (verb) beat with a sledgehammer | Synonyms: sledge |
| 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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| smidgen | (noun) a tiny or scarcely detectable amount | Synonyms: iota, scintilla, shred, smidge, smidgeon, smidgin, tittle, whit |
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| smidgeon | (noun) a tiny or scarcely detectable amount | Synonyms: iota, scintilla, shred, smidge, smidgen, 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 | - |
| (verb) make a smudge on; soil by smudging | Synonyms: blur, smear, smutch |
| 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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| (verb) walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud | Synonyms: footslog, pad, plod, slog, tramp |
| trudger | (noun) someone who walks in a laborious heavy-footed manner | Synonyms: plodder, slogger |
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| unabridged | (adjective) (used of texts) not shortened | - |
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| (noun) a dictionary that has not been shortened by the omitting terms or definitions; a comprehensive dictionary | Synonyms: unabridged dictionary |
| unacknowledged | (adjective) not recognized or admitted | - |
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| (adjective) not openly acknowledged | - |
| unbridgeable | (adjective) not bridgeable | - |
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| unfledged | (adjective) (of birds) not yet having developed feathers | Synonyms: immature |
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| (adjective) young and inexperienced | Synonyms: callow, fledgling |
| (adjective) (of an arrow) not equipped with feathers | Synonyms: fledgeless, unvaned |
| unknowledgeable | (adjective) unaware because of a lack of relevant information or knowledge | Synonyms: ignorant, unknowing, unwitting |
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| unpledged | (adjective) not promised in marriage | Synonyms: unengaged, unpromised |
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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 |
| (verb) squeeze like a wedge into a tight space | Synonyms: force, squeeze |
| (verb) put, fix, force, or implant | Synonyms: deposit, lodge, stick |
| wedged | (adjective) wedged or packed in together | Synonyms: impacted |
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| weighbridge | (noun) platform scale flush with a roadway for weighing vehicles and cattle etc | - |
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| widgeon | (noun) freshwater duck of Eurasia and northern Africa related to mallards and teals | Synonyms: Anas penelope, wigeon |
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| widget | (noun) a device or control that is very useful for a particular job | Synonyms: appliance, contraption, contrivance, convenience, gadget, gismo, gizmo |
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| (noun) something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known | Synonyms: dojigger, doodad, doohickey, gimmick, gismo, gizmo, gubbins, thingamabob, thingamajig, thingmabob, thingmajig, thingumabob, thingumajig, thingummy, whatchamacallit, whatchamacallum, whatsis |