| 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 | - |
| hemorrhage | (noun) the flow of blood from a ruptured blood vessel | Synonyms: bleeding, haemorrhage |
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| (verb) lose blood from one's body | Synonyms: bleed, shed blood |
| herbage | (noun) succulent herbaceous vegetation of pastureland | Synonyms: pasturage |
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| heritage | (noun) hereditary succession to a title or an office or property | Synonyms: inheritance |
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| (noun) any attribute or immaterial possession that is inherited from ancestors | Synonyms: inheritance |
| (noun) practices that are handed down from the past by tradition | - |
| (noun) that which is inherited; a title or property or estate that passes by law to the heir on the death of the owner | Synonyms: inheritance |
| hermitage | (noun) the abode of a hermit | - |
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| hinge | (noun) a joint that holds two parts together so that one can swing relative to the other | Synonyms: flexible joint |
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| (noun) a circumstance upon which subsequent events depend | - |
| (verb) attach with a hinge | - |
| 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 |
| homage | (noun) respectful deference | Synonyms: court |
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| homepage | (noun) the opening page of a web site; also, the first page opened when a web browser is launched (default or start-up page) | Synonyms: home page |
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| horologe | (noun) a measuring instrument or device for keeping time | Synonyms: timekeeper, timepiece |
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| hostage | (noun) a prisoner who is held by one party to insure that another party will meet specified terms | Synonyms: surety |
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| huge | (adjective) unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope | Synonyms: Brobdingnagian, immense, vast |
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| hypallage | (noun) reversal of the syntactic relation of two words (as in `her beauty's face') | - |
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| image | (noun) a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface | Synonyms: icon, ikon, picture |
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| (noun) a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture) | Synonyms: effigy, simulacrum |
| (noun) (Jungian psychology) a personal facade that one presents to the world | Synonyms: persona |
| (noun) the general impression that something (a person or organization or product) presents to the public | - |
| (noun) an iconic mental representation | Synonyms: mental image |
| (noun) a standard or typical example | Synonyms: epitome, paradigm, prototype |
| (noun) language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense | Synonyms: figure, figure of speech, trope |
| (noun) (mathematics) the set of values of the dependent variable for which a function is defined | Synonyms: range, range of a function |
| (noun) someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor) | Synonyms: double, look-alike |
| (verb) imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind | Synonyms: envision, fancy, figure, picture, project, see, visualise, visualize |
| (verb) render visible, as by means of MRI | - |
| impinge | (verb) advance beyond the usual limit | Synonyms: encroach, infringe |
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| (verb) impinge or infringe upon | Synonyms: encroach, entrench, trench |
| indulge | (verb) yield (to); give satisfaction to | Synonyms: gratify, pander |
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| (verb) enjoy to excess | Synonyms: luxuriate |
| (verb) treat with excessive indulgence | Synonyms: baby, cocker, coddle, cosset, featherbed, mollycoddle, pamper, spoil |
| (verb) give free rein to | - |
| infringe | (verb) advance beyond the usual limit | Synonyms: encroach, impinge |
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| (verb) go against, as of rules and laws | Synonyms: conflict, contravene, run afoul |
| inmarriage | (noun) marriage within one's own tribe or group as required by custom or law | Synonyms: endogamy, intermarriage |
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| insectifuge | (noun) a chemical substance that repels insects | Synonyms: insect repellant, insect repellent |
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| interchange | (noun) the act of changing one thing for another thing | Synonyms: exchange |
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| (noun) mutual interaction; the activity of reciprocating or exchanging (especially information) | Synonyms: give-and-take, reciprocation |
| (noun) reciprocal transfer of equivalent sums of money (especially the currencies of different countries) | Synonyms: exchange |
| (noun) a junction of highways on different levels that permits traffic to move from one to another without crossing traffic streams | - |
| (verb) reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action) | Synonyms: alternate, flip-flop, flip, switch, tack |
| (verb) cause to change places | Synonyms: counterchange, transpose |
| (verb) give to, and receive from, one another | Synonyms: change, exchange |
| (verb) put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items | Synonyms: exchange, replace, substitute |
| interlanguage | (noun) a common language used by speakers of different languages | Synonyms: koine, lingua franca |
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| intermarriage | (noun) marriage within one's own tribe or group as required by custom or law | Synonyms: endogamy, inmarriage |
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| (noun) marriage to a person belonging to a tribe or group other than your own as required by custom or law | Synonyms: exogamy |
| 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 |
| kilometrage | (noun) the number of kilometres travelled by a vehicle. | - |
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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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| lactifuge | (noun) any agent that reduces milk secretion (as given to a woman who is not breast feeding) | - |
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| language | (noun) the mental faculty or power of vocal communication | Synonyms: speech |
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| (noun) the cognitive processes involved in producing and understanding linguistic communication | Synonyms: linguistic process |
| (noun) a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols | Synonyms: linguistic communication |
| (noun) (language) communication by word of mouth | Synonyms: oral communication, speech, speech communication, spoken communication, spoken language, voice communication |
| (noun) the text of a popular song or musical-comedy number | Synonyms: lyric, words |
| (noun) a system of words used to name things in a particular discipline | Synonyms: nomenclature, terminology |
| large | (adjective) above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent | Synonyms: big |
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| (adjective) having broad power and range and scope | - |
| (adjective) conspicuous in position or importance | Synonyms: big, prominent |
| (adjective) generous and understanding and tolerant | Synonyms: big, magnanimous |
| (adjective) in an advanced stage of pregnancy | Synonyms: big, enceinte, expectant, gravid, great, heavy, with child |
| (adjective) ostentatiously lofty in style | Synonyms: bombastic, declamatory, orotund, tumid, turgid |
| (adjective) fairly large or important in effect; influential | - |
| (noun) a garment size for a large person | - |
| (adverb) with the wind abaft the beam | - |
| (adverb) at a distance, wide of something (as of a mark) | - |
| (adverb) in a boastful manner | Synonyms: big, boastfully, vauntingly |
| lavage | (noun) washing out a hollow organ (especially the stomach) by flushing with water | - |
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| leafage | (noun) the main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants | Synonyms: foliage, leaf |
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| leakage | (noun) the discharge of a fluid from some container | Synonyms: escape, leak, outflow |
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| ledge | (noun) a projecting ridge on a mountain or submerged under water | Synonyms: shelf |
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| leverage | (noun) investing with borrowed money as a way to amplify potential gains (at the risk of greater losses) | Synonyms: leveraging |
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| (noun) strategic advantage; power to act effectively | - |
| (noun) the mechanical advantage gained by being in a position to use a lever | Synonyms: purchase |
| (verb) provide with leverage | - |
| (verb) supplement with leverage | - |
| liege | (adjective) owing or owed feudal allegiance and service | - |
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| (noun) a person holding a fief; a person who owes allegiance and service to a feudal lord | Synonyms: feudatory, liege subject, liegeman, vassal |
| (noun) a feudal lord entitled to allegiance and service | Synonyms: liege lord |
| lighterage | (noun) the transportation of goods on a lighter | - |
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| (noun) the fee charged for carrying goods in lighters | - |
| linage | (noun) a rate of payment for written material that is measured according to the number of lines submitted | Synonyms: lineage |
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| (noun) the number of lines in a piece of printed material | Synonyms: lineage |
| lineage | (noun) inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline | Synonyms: ancestry, derivation, filiation |
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| (noun) the hereditary derivation of an individual | Synonyms: ancestry, blood, blood line, bloodline, descent, line, line of descent, origin, parentage, pedigree, stemma, stock |
| (noun) a rate of payment for written material that is measured according to the number of lines submitted | Synonyms: linage |
| (noun) the number of lines in a piece of printed material | Synonyms: linage |
| (noun) the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors | Synonyms: descent, filiation, line of descent |
| linkage | (noun) the act of linking things together | - |
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| (noun) a mechanical system of rods or springs or pivots that transmits power or motion | - |
| (noun) (genetics) traits that tend to be inherited together as a consequence of an association between their genes; all of the genes of a given chromosome are linked (where one goes they all go) | Synonyms: gene linkage |
| (noun) an associative relation | - |
| lockage | (noun) passage through a lock in a canal or waterway | - |
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| (noun) a system of locks in a canal or waterway | - |
| (noun) a fee charged for passage through a lock in a canal or waterway | - |
| 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 | - |
| loge | (noun) balcony consisting of the forward section of a theater mezzanine | - |
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| (noun) private area in a theater or grandstand where a small group can watch the performance | Synonyms: box |
| lounge | (noun) a room (as in a hotel or airport) with seating where people can wait | Synonyms: waiting area, waiting room |
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| (noun) an upholstered seat for more than one person | Synonyms: couch, sofa |
| (verb) sit or recline comfortably | - |
| (verb) be about a place without any apparent purpose | Synonyms: footle, hang around, lallygag, linger, loaf, loiter, lollygag, lurk, mess about, mill about, mill around, tarry |
| lovage | (noun) stalks eaten like celery or candied like angelica; seeds used for flavoring or pickled like capers | - |
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| (noun) herb native to southern Europe; cultivated for its edible stalks and foliage and seeds | Synonyms: Levisticum officinale |
| lozenge | (noun) a dose of medicine in the form of a small pellet | Synonyms: pill, tab, tablet |
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| (noun) a small aromatic or medicated candy | - |
| luge | (noun) a racing sled for one or two people | - |
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| (verb) move along on a luge or toboggan | Synonyms: toboggan |
| luggage | (noun) cases used to carry belongings when traveling | Synonyms: baggage |
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| lunge | (noun) the act of moving forward suddenly | Synonyms: lurch |
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| (noun) (fencing) an attacking thrust made with one foot forward and the back leg straight and with the sword arm outstretched forward | Synonyms: passado, straight thrust |
| (verb) make a thrusting forward movement | Synonyms: hurl, hurtle, thrust |
| macrophage | (noun) a large phagocyte; some are fixed and other circulate in the blood stream | - |
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| manage | (verb) handle effectively | Synonyms: handle, wield |
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| (verb) be in charge of, act on, or dispose of | Synonyms: care, deal, handle |
| (verb) watch and direct | Synonyms: oversee, superintend, supervise |
| (verb) carry on or function | Synonyms: do |
| (verb) succeed in doing, achieving, or producing (something) with the limited or inadequate means available | Synonyms: contend, cope, deal, get by, grapple, make do, make out |
| (verb) achieve something by means of trickery or devious methods | Synonyms: finagle, wangle |
| (verb) be successful; achieve a goal | Synonyms: bring off, carry off, negociate, pull off |
| mange | (noun) a persistent and contagious disease of the skin causing inflammation and itching and loss of hair; affects domestic animals (and sometimes people) | - |
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| marge | (noun) a spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a substitute for butter | Synonyms: margarin, margarine, oleo, oleomargarine |
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| marriage | (noun) the act of marrying; the nuptial ceremony | Synonyms: marriage ceremony, wedding |
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| (noun) two people who are married to each other | Synonyms: man and wife, married couple |
| (noun) the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce) | Synonyms: matrimony, spousal relationship, union, wedlock |
| (noun) a close and intimate union | - |
| massage | (noun) kneading and rubbing parts of the body to increase circulation and promote relaxation | - |
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| (verb) give a massage to | - |
| (verb) manually manipulate (someone's body), usually for medicinal or relaxation purposes | Synonyms: knead, rub down |
| matrilineage | (noun) line of descent traced through the maternal side of the family | Synonyms: cognation, enation |
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| melange | (noun) a motley assortment of things | Synonyms: farrago, gallimaufry, hodgepodge, hotchpotch, mingle-mangle, mishmash, oddments, odds and ends, omnium-gatherum, ragbag |
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| menage | (noun) a social unit living together | Synonyms: family, home, house, household |
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| merge | (verb) become one | Synonyms: unify, unite |
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| (verb) mix together different elements | Synonyms: blend, coalesce, combine, commingle, conflate, flux, fuse, immix, meld, mix |
| (verb) join or combine | Synonyms: unify, unite |
| meshugge | (adjective) senseless; crazy | Synonyms: meshuga, meshugga, meshuggeneh, meshuggener |
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| message | (noun) content communicating a message; what something is about | Synonyms: content, subject matter, substance |
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| (noun) a communication (usually brief) that is written or spoken or signaled | - |
| (verb) send a message | - |
| (verb) send as a message | - |
| (verb) send a message to | - |
| messuage | (noun) (law) a dwelling house and its adjacent buildings and the adjacent land used by the household | - |
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| metaknowledge | (noun) knowledge about knowledge | - |
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| metalanguage | (noun) a language that can be used to describe languages | - |
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| microphage | (noun) a neutrophil that ingests small things (as bacteria) | - |
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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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| milage | (noun) distance measured in miles | Synonyms: mileage |
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| mileage | (noun) distance measured in miles | Synonyms: milage |
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| (noun) a travel allowance at a given rate per mile traveled | - |
| (noun) the ratio of the number of miles traveled to the number of gallons of gasoline burned | Synonyms: fuel consumption rate, gas mileage, gasoline mileage |
| minge | (noun) vulgar term for a woman's pubic hair or genitals | - |
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| mintage | (noun) act or process of minting coins | - |
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| (noun) coins collectively | Synonyms: coinage, metal money, specie |
| (noun) fee paid to a mint by the government for minting a coin | - |
| mirage | (noun) something illusory and unattainable | - |
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| (noun) an optical illusion in which atmospheric refraction by a layer of hot air distorts or inverts reflections of distant objects | - |
| miscarriage | (noun) a natural loss of the products of conception | Synonyms: spontaneous abortion, stillbirth |
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| (noun) failure of a plan | Synonyms: abortion |
| misgauge | (verb) gauge something incorrectly or improperly | - |
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| misjudge | (verb) judge incorrectly | - |
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| mismanage | (verb) manage badly or incompetently | Synonyms: misconduct, mishandle |
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| montage | (noun) a paste-up made by sticking together pieces of paper or photographs to form an artistic image | Synonyms: collage |
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| moorage | (noun) the act of securing an arriving vessel with ropes | Synonyms: dockage, docking, tying up |
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| (noun) a place where a craft can be made fast | Synonyms: berth, mooring, slip |
| (noun) a fee for mooring | - |
| mortgage | (noun) a conditional conveyance of property as security for the repayment of a loan | - |
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| (verb) put up as security or collateral | - |
| mucilage | (noun) a gelatinous substance secreted by plants | - |
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| (noun) cement consisting of a sticky substance that is used as an adhesive | Synonyms: glue, gum |
| multistage | (noun) occurring in more than one stage | - |
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| muskellunge | (noun) large (60 to 80 pounds) sport fish of North America | Synonyms: Esox masquinongy |
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| (noun) flesh of very large North American pike; a game fish | - |
| mycophage | (noun) a person or animal who eats fungi (especially mushrooms) | Synonyms: mycophagist |
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| neglige | (noun) a loose dressing gown for women | Synonyms: housecoat, negligee, peignoir, wrapper |
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| nonage | (noun) any age prior to the legal age | Synonyms: minority |
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| 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 |
| nutsedge | (noun) a widely distributed perennial sedge having small edible nutlike tubers | Synonyms: Cyperus rotundus, nut grass, nut sedge, nutgrass |
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| oblige | (verb) bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted | Synonyms: bind, hold, obligate |
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| (verb) provide a service or favor for someone | Synonyms: accommodate |
| (verb) force somebody to do something | Synonyms: compel, obligate |
| offstage | (adjective) situated or taking place in the area of a stage not visible to the audience | - |
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| (adjective) concealed from public view or attention | Synonyms: backstage |
| (noun) a stage area out of sight of the audience | Synonyms: backstage, wing |
| (adverb) behind the scenes; not on stage | - |
| (adverb) not in public | - |
| ohmage | (noun) the ohmic resistance of a conductor | - |
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| omnirange | (noun) a navigational system consisting of a network of radio beacons that provide aircraft with information about exact position and bearing | Synonyms: omnidirectional radio range, omnidirectional range |
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| onstage | (adjective) situated or taking place on the area of a stage visible to the audience | - |
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| (adverb) on the stage | - |
| orange | (adjective) of the color between red and yellow; similar to the color of a ripe orange | Synonyms: orangish |
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| (noun) orange color or pigment; any of a range of colors between red and yellow | Synonyms: orangeness |
| (noun) round yellow to orange fruit of any of several citrus trees | - |
| (noun) any citrus tree bearing oranges | Synonyms: orange tree |
| (noun) any pigment producing the orange color | - |
| orphanage | (noun) a public institution for the care of orphans | Synonyms: orphans' asylum |
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| (noun) the condition of being a child without living parents | Synonyms: orphanhood |
| outage | (noun) a temporary suspension of operation (as of computers) | - |
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| (noun) the amount of something (as whiskey or oil) lost in storage or transportation | - |
| outrage | (noun) the act of scandalizing | Synonyms: scandalisation, scandalization |
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| (noun) a wantonly cruel act | - |
| (noun) a disgraceful event | Synonyms: scandal |
| (noun) a feeling of righteous anger | Synonyms: indignation |
| (verb) strike with disgust or revulsion | Synonyms: appal, appall, offend, scandalise, scandalize, shock |
| (verb) force (someone) to have sex against their will | Synonyms: assault, dishonor, dishonour, rape, ravish, violate |
| (verb) violate the sacred character of a place or language | Synonyms: desecrate, profane, violate |
| outrange | (verb) have a greater range than (another gun) | - |
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| overage | (adjective) too old to be useful | Synonyms: over-the-hill, overaged, superannuated |
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| (noun) a surplus or excess of money or merchandise that is actually on hand and that exceeds expectations | - |
| overcharge | (noun) a price that is too high | - |
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| (verb) place too much a load on | Synonyms: overload, surcharge |
| (verb) rip off; ask an unreasonable price | Synonyms: fleece, gazump, hook, pluck, plume, rob, soak, surcharge |
| overgorge | (verb) overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself | Synonyms: binge, englut, engorge, glut, gorge, gormandise, gormandize, gourmandize, ingurgitate, overeat, overindulge, pig out, satiate, scarf out, stuff |
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| overindulge | (verb) overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself | Synonyms: binge, englut, engorge, glut, gorge, gormandise, gormandize, gourmandize, ingurgitate, overeat, overgorge, pig out, satiate, scarf out, stuff |
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| overlarge | (adjective) excessively large | Synonyms: too large |
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