Words Containing: A,B,R,I,D,G,E

• Any of three breeds of dog with a distinctive ridge of hair that runs against the grain of the rest of the coat along the spine: the Rhodesian Ridgeback, the Phu Quoc Ridgeback and the Thai Ridgeback.

• a bridge that can be raised to block passage or to allow boats or ships to pass beneath it

• an area in hostile territory that has been captured and is held awaiting further troops and supplies

• a defensive post at the end of a bridge nearest to the enemy

• To remove the bark from a tree in a ring all the way around its trunk, normally killing the tree (because nutrients are carried through the phloem, the layers immediately under the bark, which layers are damaged by the process).

• given or giving freely

• go ashore

• a shortened version of a written work

• capable of being connected by a bridge or as if by a bridge