billabong
bogan
guelta
intermittent lake
wash
plashy
valley
bayou
rill
arroyo
washway
rodham
lakebed
binnekill
interdrainage
fiumara
river water
lakehead
bay
bank
swampish
ephemeral lake
distributary
runlet
sea
waterfast
crossing
stream
creekbank
water system
ford
stream pool
pell
Dragonja
open water
brook
flow
nyanza
dump
waterwards
interbasin
nullah
prairie lake
ostium
dry reach
dry wash
floodshed
douit
lade
trickle
limnic
slack
slew
tide
bar
washland
pond
floss
puddle
slough
swampy
wetland
Chilcotin
sea mouth
lake
wiery
hydroecoregion
trough
subcatchment
outlet
waterstream
lash
creeklet
coulee
draw
salt wedge
donga
riverside
plashet
stanch
reliction
limnetic
bedload
floodland
wringing wet
riffle
Lake Texcoco
outcrop
clearwater
blashy
headstream
beck
wind gap
canal basin
derivation
first order stream
plashy
interdrainage
swampish
waterfast
limnic
swampy
wiery
lash
limnetic
wringing wet
clearwater
blashy
waterwards
billabong
bogan
guelta
intermittent lake
wash
valley
bayou
rill
arroyo
washway
rodham
lakebed
binnekill
fiumara
river water
lakehead
bay
bank
ephemeral lake
distributary
runlet
sea
crossing
stream
creekbank
water system
ford
stream pool
pell
open water
brook
nyanza
dump
interbasin
nullah
prairie lake
ostium
dry reach
dry wash
floodshed
douit
lade
trickle
slack
slew
tide
bar
washland
pond
floss
puddle
slough
wetland
sea mouth
lake
hydroecoregion
trough
subcatchment
outlet
waterstream
creeklet
coulee
draw
salt wedge
donga
riverside
plashet
stanch
reliction
bedload
floodland
riffle
outcrop
headstream
beck
wind gap
canal basin
derivation
first order stream
flow
noun
- Any narrow water or creek, particularly a tranquil backwater.
- An unsophisticated person from a working class background.
- A petrolhead.
- An Anglo-Celtic member of a lower socioeconomic group, stereotypically classified as wearing black jumpers or black concert T-shirts.
- An indigenous person.
verb
noun
- A piece of ground washed by the action of water, or sometimes covered and sometimes left dry; the shallowest part of a river, or arm of the sea; also, a bog; a marsh.
- The upper surface of a member or material when given a slope to shed water; hence, a structure or receptacle shaped so as to receive and carry off water.
- A lighting fixture that can cast a wide beam of light to evenly fill an area with light, as opposed to a spotlight.
- The process or an instance of washing or being washed by water or other liquid.
- The backward current or disturbed water caused by the action of oars, or of a steamer's screw or paddles, etc.
- A thin coat of paint or metal laid on anything for beauty or preservation.
- A liquid used for washing.
- A shallow body of water.
- In distilling, the fermented wort before the spirit is extracted.
- A lotion or other liquid with medicinal or hygienic properties.
- A fictitious kind of sale of stock or other securities between parties of one interest, or by a broker who is both buyer and seller, and who minds his own interest rather than that of his clients.
- The blade of an oar.
- A mixture of dunder, molasses, water, and scummings, used in the West Indies for distillation.
- A smooth and translucent painting created using a paintbrush holding a large amount of solvent and a small amount of paint.
- Ground washed away to the sea or a river.
- The turbulence left in the air by a moving airplane.
- Waste liquid, the refuse of food, the collection from washed dishes, etc., from a kitchen, often used as food for pigs; pigwash.
- The quantity of clothes washed at a time.
- A lighting effect that fills a scene with a chosen colour.
- Ten strikes, or bushels, of oysters.
- The breaking of waves on the shore; the onwards rush of shallow water towards a beach.
- In arid and semi-arid regions, the normally dry bed of an intermittent or ephemeral stream; an arroyo or wadi.
- A situation in which losses and gains or advantages and disadvantages are equivalent; a situation in which there is no net change.
- The bow wave or wake of a moving ship, or the vortex from its screws.
verb
- To cover with water or any liquid; to wet; to fall on and moisten.
- To be cogent, convincing; to withstand critique.
- To bear without injury the operation of being washed.
- To overlay with a thin coat of metal.
- To cause dephosphorization of (molten pig iron) by adding substances containing iron oxide, and sometimes manganese oxide.
- To be eroded or carried away by the action of water.
- To move with a lapping or swashing sound; to lap or splash.
- To separate valuable material (such as gold) from worthless material by the action of flowing water.
- To move or erode by the force of water in motion.
- To clean oneself with water.
- To cover with a thin or watery coat of colour; to tint lightly and thinly.
- To pass (a gas or gaseous mixture) through or over a liquid for the purpose of purifying it, especially by removing soluble constituents.
- To clean with water.
- To be wasted or worn away by the action of water, as by a running or overflowing stream, or by the dashing of the sea; said of road, a beach, etc.
noun
- A bank or dam to keep back water.
- An internal recess; a compartment or area surrounded on three sides.
- A brown colour/color of the coat of some horses.
- The distance between two supports in a vault or building with a pitched roof.
- Laurus nobilis, a tree or shrub of the family Lauraceae, having dark green leaves and berries.
- A kind of mahogany obtained from Campeche in Mexico.
- An opening in a wall, especially between two columns.
- A state of being obliged to face an antagonist or a difficulty, when escape has become impossible.
- A body of water (especially the sea) more-or-less three-quarters surrounded by land.
- Each of the spaces, port and starboard, between decks, forward of the bitts, in sailing warships.
- Bay leaf, the leaf of this or certain other species of tree or shrub, used as a herb.
- A bay platform.
- A bay window.
- The excited howling of dogs when hunting or being attacked.
- A horse of this color.
- The climactic confrontation between hunting-dogs and their prey.
- A tract covered with bay trees.
verb
- To howl.
- To pursue noisily, like a pack of hounds.
- To bark at; hence, to follow with barking; to bring or drive to bay.
adj
noun
- An edge of river, lake, or other watercourse.
- An institution where one can place and borrow money and take care of financial affairs.
- The ground at the top of a shaft.
- A contiguous block of memory that is of fixed, hardware-dependent size, but often larger than a page and partitioning the memory such that two distinct banks do not overlap.
- Money; profit.
- The incline of an aircraft, especially during a turn.
- The regular term of a court of law, or the full court sitting to hear arguments upon questions of law, as distinguished from a sitting at nisi prius, or a court held for jury trials. See banc
- A row or panel of items stored or grouped together.
- A row of keys on a musical keyboard or the equivalent on a typewriter keyboard.
- An incline, a hill.
- A slope of earth, sand, etc.; an embankment.
- The sum of money etc. which the dealer or banker has as a fund from which to draw stakes and pay losses.
- A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in transacting business; a joint stock or capital.
- A branch office of such an institution.
- A device used to store coins or currency.
- An elevation, or rising ground, under the sea; a shallow area of shifting sand, gravel, mud, and so forth (for example, a sandbank or mudbank).
- A mass noun for a quantity of clouds.
- The face of the coal at which miners are working.
- An underwriter or controller of a card game.
- A set of multiple adjacent drop targets.
- A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars.
- A bench or seat for judges in court.
- A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level.
- In certain games, such as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw.
- A safe and guaranteed place of storage for and retrieval of important items or goods.
- A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ.
verb
- To put into a bank.
- To arrange or order in a row.
- To raise a mound or dike about; to enclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank.
- To provide additional power for a train ascending a bank (incline) by attaching another locomotive.
- To conceal in the rectum for use in prison.
- To deal with a bank or financial institution, or for an institution to provide financial services to a client.
- To cause (an aircraft) to bank.
- To roll or incline laterally in order to turn.
- To form into a bank or heap, to bank up.
- To cover the embers of a fire with ashes in order to retain heat.
adj
noun
- A lake, especially if large or if salty or brackish.
- A body of salt water smaller than an ocean, generally forming part of, or connecting with, an ocean or a larger sea.
- A large body of salt water.
- Living or used in or on the sea; of, near, or like the sea.
- A very large lake of liquid hydrocarbon.
- The swell of the sea; a single wave; billow.
- A constant flux of gluons splitting into quarks, which annihilate to produce further gluons.
- The ocean; the continuous body of salt water covering a majority of the Earth's surface.
- A large, dark plain of rock; a mare.
- Anything resembling the vastness or turbulence of the sea.
adj
noun
- a shallow area in a stream that can be forded
- traveling across
- a point where two lines (paths or arcs etc.) intersect
- a junction where one street or road crosses another
- a path (often marked) where something (as a street or railroad) can be crossed to get from one side to the other
- (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids
- a voyage across a body of water (usually across the Atlantic Ocean)
noun
- A small river; a large creek; a body of moving water confined by banks.
- All moving waters.
- A source or repository of data that can be read or written only sequentially.
- A live stream.
- A thin connected passing of a liquid through a lighter gas (e.g. air).
- A division of a school year by perceived ability.
- A particular path, channel, division, or way of proceeding.
- Any steady flow or succession of material, such as water, air, radio signal or words.
verb
noun
name
noun
- In a river, pond, or other small body of water, an area of surface unobstructed by aquatic vegetation, boulders, and the like, adequate for navigation or swimming.
- An area of an ocean, sea, lake, or river which is not covered by ice.
- An expanse of an ocean, sea, or large lake which is distant from shore and devoid of nearby islands or other obstructions.
verb
- cover or swamp with water
- move or progress freely as if in a stream
- move along, of liquids
- cause to flow
- be abundantly present
- fall or flow in a certain way
- undergo menstruation
noun
- the motion characteristic of fluids (liquids or gases)
- the amount of fluid that flows in a given time
- the act of flowing or streaming; continuous progression
- any uninterrupted stream or discharge
- something that resembles a flowing stream in moving continuously
- dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas
- the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause
noun
- A deep hole in a river bed; a pool.
- An act of defecation; a defecating.
- A place where waste or garbage is left; a ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.; a disposal site.
- An act of dumping, or its result.
- That which is dumped, especially in a chaotic way; a mess.
- An unpleasant, dirty, disreputable, unfashionable, boring, or depressing looking place.
- Absence of mind; reverie.
- A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.
- A pile of ore or rock.
- A temporary display case that holds many copies of an item being sold.
- A small coin made by punching a hole in a larger coin (called a holey dollar).
- A sad, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; despondency.
- A storage place for supplies, especially military.
- A formatted listing of the contents of program storage, especially when produced automatically by a failing program.
verb
- To sell below cost or very cheaply; to engage in dumping.
- To precipitate (especially snow) heavily.
- To put or throw down with more or less of violence; hence, to unload from a cart by tilting it
- To release, especially in large quantities and chaotic manner.
- To output the contents of storage or a data structure, often in order to diagnose a bug.
- Of a surf wave, to crash a swimmer, surfer, etc., heavily downwards.
- To end a romantic relationship with.
- To copy (data) from a system to another place or system, usually in order to archive it.
- To discard; to get rid of something one no longer wants.
adv
noun
noun
noun
verb
noun
- A tidal marsh or shallow that periodically fills and drains.
- Unconditional listening attention given by client to patient.
- A temporary speed restriction where track maintenance or engineering work is being carried out at a particular place.
- The part of anything that hangs loose, having no strain upon it.
- Small coal; coal dust.
- A valley, or small, shallow dell.
adj
- Moderately warm.
- Vulgar; sexually explicit, especially in dancehall music.
- Not active or busy, successful, or violent.
- Excess; surplus to requirements.
- Lax; not tense; not firmly extended.
- Lacking diligence or care; not earnest or eager.
- Lax.
- Moderate in speed.
- Weak; not holding fast.
verb
adv
noun
- A stream, current or flood.
- Tendency or direction of causes, influences, or events; course; current.
- The period of twelve hours.
- The periodic change of the sea level, particularly when caused by the gravitational influence of the sun and the moon.
- Something which changes like the tides of the sea.
verb
noun
- a submerged (or partly submerged) ridge in a river or along a shore
- a room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter
- a counter where you can obtain food or drink
- a rigid piece of metal or wood; usually used as a fastening or obstruction or weapon
- musical notation for a repeating pattern of musical beats
- an obstruction (usually metal) placed at the top of a goal
- the act of preventing
- (meteorology) a unit of pressure equal to a million dynes per square centimeter
- the body of individuals qualified to practice law in a particular jurisdiction
- a narrow marking of a different color or texture from the background
- a block of solid substance (such as soap or wax)
- a horizontal rod that serves as a support for gymnasts as they perform exercises
- a heating element in an electric fire
- (law) a railing that encloses the part of the courtroom where the judges and lawyers sit and the case is tried
verb
noun
- A small stream of water.
- Fluid glass floating on iron in the puddling furnace, produced by the vitrification of oxides and earths which are present.
- A body feather of an ostrich.
- The common rush (Juncus effusus).
- Any thread-like material having parallel strands that are not spun or wound around each other.
- A thread used to clean the gaps between the teeth.
- Raw silk fibres.
- The fibres covering a corncob etc.; the loose downy or silky material inside the husks of certain plants, such as beans.
- Spun sugar or cotton candy, especially in the phrase "candy floss".
- A dance move in which the dancer repeatedly swings their arms, with clenched fists, from the back of their body to the front, on each side.
verb
noun
- A type of swamp or shallow lake system, typically formed as or by the backwater of a larger waterway, similar to a bayou with trees.
- A small pond, often alkaline, many but not all formed by glacial potholes.
- Dead skin on a sore or ulcer.
- A muddy or marshy area.
- A state of depression.
- The skin shed by a snake or other reptile.
- A secondary channel of a river delta, usually flushed by the tide.
verb
noun
- A short, narrow canal designed to hold water until it drains or evaporates.
- A gutter under the eaves of a building; an eaves trough.
- A linear atmospheric depression associated with a weather front.
- A long, narrow container, open on top, for feeding or watering animals.
- A rectangular container used for washing or rinsing clothes.
- A long, narrow depression between waves or ridges; the low portion of a wave cycle.
- A channel for conveying water or other farm liquids (such as milk) from place to place by gravity; any ‘U’ or ‘V’ cross-sectioned irrigation channel.
- Any similarly shaped container.
- low turning point or a local minimum of a business cycle
verb
noun
- A river that runs out of a lake.
- A vent or similar passage to allow the escape of something.
- Something which allows for the release of one's desires.
- A shop that sells the products of a particular manufacturer or supplier.
- A wall-mounted device such as a socket or receptacle connected to an electrical system at which current is taken to supply utilization equipment or appliances.
noun
adj
noun
- The thong or braided cord of a whip, with which the blow is given.
- A quick and violent sweeping movement, as of an animal's tail; a swish.
- A stroke of satire or sarcasm; an expression or retort that cuts or gives pain; a cut.
- An attempt; a go at something.
- In carpet weaving, a group of strings for lifting simultaneously certain yarns, to form the figure.
- A stroke with a whip, or anything pliant and tough, often given as a punishment.
- A hair growing from the edge of the eyelid; an eyelash.
- Looseness between fitted parts, either intentional (as allowance) or unintentional (from error or wear).
verb
- To utter censure or sarcastic language.
- To throw out with a jerk or quickly.
- To scold; or to satirize; to censure with severity.
- To fall heavily, especially in the phrase lash down.
- Used in phrasal verbs: lash back, lash out.
- To strike forcibly and quickly, as with a lash; to beat, or beat upon, with a motion like that of a lash.
- To strike with a lash; to whip or scourge with a lash, or with something like one.
- To ply the whip; to strike.
- To bind with a rope, cord, thong, or chain, so as to fasten.
noun
noun
- A dry stream bed that drains surface water only during periods of heavy rain or flooding.
- The act of drawing.
- The act of pulling back the strings in preparation of firing.
- Something that attracts e.g. a crowd.
- Cannabis.
- The spin or twist imparted to a ball etc. by a drawing stroke.
- The procedure by which the result of a lottery is determined.
- A shot that is intended to land gently in the house (the circular target) without knocking out other stones; cf. takeout.
- A bag of cannabis.
- Draft in the sense of the flow through a flue of gasses (smoke) resulting from a combustion process, possibly adjustable with a damper.
- The result of a two-innings match in which at least one side did not complete all their innings before time ran out (as distinguished from a tie).
- A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves intentionally to the left. See hook, slice, fade.
- In a commission-based job, an advance on future (potential) commissions given to an employee by the employer.
- A situation in which one or more players has four cards of the same suit or four out of five necessary cards for a straight and requires a further card to make their flush or straight.
- The result of a contest that neither side has won; a tie.
verb
- To take (air, smoke etc.) into the lungs; to inhale.
- To provoke or attract (a particular response or reaction).
- To hit (the ball) with the toe of the club so that it is deflected toward the left.
- To take (water) from a well or other source.
- To strike (the cue ball) below the center so as to give it a backward rotation which causes it to take a backward direction on striking another ball.
- To receive (a salary); to withdraw (money) from a bank etc.
- To elicit information from (someone); to induce (a person) to speak on some subject. (Now frequently in passive.)
- To pull out, unsheathe (a sword, firearm etc.).
- To make (wire) by pulling it through an aperture; to stretch (metal) into a wire.
- To move steadily in a particular direction or into a specific position.
- To extract (a tooth).
- To take or be dealt a playing card from the deck. See also draw out.
- To pull (something) in a particular manner or direction.
- To call forth (something) from a person, to elicit.
- To take or be dealt (a card) from the deck; to have (a particular hand) as a result of this.
- To make a shot that lands gently in the house (the circular target) without knocking out other stones.
- To attract (something) by means of a physical force, especially magnetism or gravity; (figurative) to act as an inducement or enticement.
- To come to, towards (a particular moment in time); to approach (a time).
- To produce (a shape, figure, picture etc.) with pencil, crayon, chalk, or other implement.
- To cause (someone) to come to a particular place, condition, or course of action; to attract (a person).
- To conduct (a lottery); to select (the numbers) for a lottery; to win (a prize) in a lottery.
- To depict (something) linguistically; to portray in words.
- To produce a visual representation of (a person or thing) by lines and marks with pencil, pen, paints etc.
- To drag (a person, thing, or part of the body), especially along the ground.
- To move (a part of one's body) in a particular direction.
- To stretch or elongate.
- To deduce or infer (a conclusion); to make (a deduction).
- To draw up, compose (a document).
- To have a draught; to allow air to be passed through in order to allow for combustion.
- To induce (the mind, eyes, attention etc.) to be directed at or focused on something.
- To cause (something); to bring (something) about as a consequence.
- To become contracted; to shrink.
- To pull (a curtain, blinds etc.) open or closed.
- To assume a specific position or attitude.
- To require (a depth of water) for floating.
- To pull back (the string of a bow) in preparation for shooting.
- To pull (one's face, features) out of shape, from emotion etc.
- Of a sail, to fill with wind.
- To select (an item) at random to decide which of a group of people will receive or undergo something; to select (a person) by this process.
- To disembowel (someone); to remove the viscera from (an animal), especially before cooking.
- To end a game in a draw (with neither side winning).
- To steep; to leave (tea) temporarily in water to allow the flavour to increase.
- To run (a bath).
- To produce an image of something by artistic means; to make drawings.
- To pull (a belt or other item) so that it tightens or wraps around something more closely.
- To take (something) from a particular source, especially of information; to derive.
- To pull (a plough, vehicle etc.); to cause (something) to move forwards by pulling it.
- To extract (juice, fluids etc.) from something by pressure, osmosis or similar.
- To play (a short-length ball directed at the leg stump) with an inclined bat so as to deflect the ball between the legs and the wicket.
- To consume (power).
noun
verb
- To stop the flow of (blood); to stop (a wound) from bleeding.
- To check or stop, or deter, (an action).
- To stop the flow of (water or some other liquid).
- To make (a building or other structure) watertight or weatherproof.
- To stop the progression of (an illness); also, to alleviate (pain); often followed by of: to relieve (someone's) pain.
- Of bleeding: to stop.
noun
- A swift, shallow part of a stream causing broken water.
- A succession of small waves.
- A quick skim through the pages of a book.
- A trough or sluice having cleats, grooves, or steps across the bottom for holding quicksilver and catching particles of gold when auriferous earth is washed. Also one of the cleats, grooves or steps in such trough.
- In seal engraving, a small metal disc at the end of a tool.
- The act of shuffling cards; the sound made while shuffling cards.
verb
- To ruffle with a rippling action.
- To skim or flick through the pages of a book.
- To flow over a swift, shallow part of a stream.
- To shuffle playing cards by separating the deck in two and sliding the thumbs along the edges of the cards to mix the two parts.
- To leaf through rapidly.
- To idly manipulate objects with the fingers.
- To prepare samples of material using a riffler.
noun
- drawing off water from its main channel as for irrigation
- the source or origin from which something derives (i.e. comes or issues)
- (historical linguistics) an explanation of the historical origins of a word or phrase
- a line of reasoning that shows how a conclusion follows logically from accepted propositions
- (descriptive linguistics) the process whereby new words are formed from existing words or bases by affixation
- inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline
- drawing of fluid or inflammation away from a diseased part of the body
- the act of deriving something or obtaining something from a source or origin
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