Badgers are small mammals that belong to the family Mustelidae. The crossword solutions for the term BADGERS include RIDES (5 letters), BAITS (5 letters), NAGS (4 letters), VEXES (5 letters), NAGSAT (6 letters), TAUNTS (6 letters), HECKLES (7 letters), and PESTERS (7 letters). RIDES refers to the act of riding a badger, BAITS is an action of luring a badger with food, NAGS is a verb meaning to scold or criticize persistently, VEXES means to annoy or irritate, NAGSAT is an acronym for National Association of Greyhound and Sighthound Adoption and Training, TAUNTS is an action of provoking someone with mocking words, HECKLES is an action of harassing someone with questions or comments, and PESTERS is an action of annoying someone persistently.