binnekill
creek bed
paleoswamp
limnic
streambank
runway
ford
crossing
creekbank
letch
bayou
dump
telmatic
bottom
rodham
nyanza
burn
coulee
shelving
hinterland
runnel
bar
outcrop
streamwater
paleolagoon
riverside
midstream
riverbank
paleospring
bay
rine
slough
midwater
fresh
sunk fence
headstream
rhine
brooklet
ditchwater
freshwater
upcreek
lagoonlike
downriver
wash
backcast
billabong
interdrainage
subfluvial
subcatchment
bogan
dry wash
riparian
ditchmoss
genus Elodea
channel
Elodea
Inver-
refluctuation
stank
wasteweir
swampside
pondweed
paleobasin
runlet
creekwater
uliginous
creeky
floss
derivation
pothole
artesian water
river
standage
boss
fork
ripe
paleohydrography
enhydros
left bank
kesh
slew
streambed
quagmire
Nuphar sagittifolium
southern spatterdock
lade
brookside
wellhead
liman
ostium
palaeohydrology
subcreek
potamography
backwater
ostiary
mouth
ground
limnic
telmatic
lagoonlike
downriver
interdrainage
subfluvial
riparian
uliginous
creeky
upcreek
binnekill
creek bed
paleoswamp
streambank
runway
ford
crossing
creekbank
letch
bayou
dump
bottom
rodham
nyanza
burn
coulee
shelving
hinterland
runnel
bar
outcrop
streamwater
paleolagoon
riverside
midstream
riverbank
paleospring
bay
rine
slough
midwater
fresh
sunk fence
headstream
rhine
brooklet
ditchwater
freshwater
wash
backcast
billabong
subcatchment
bogan
dry wash
ditchmoss
genus Elodea
channel
Elodea
refluctuation
stank
wasteweir
swampside
pondweed
paleobasin
runlet
creekwater
floss
derivation
pothole
artesian water
river
standage
boss
fork
ripe
paleohydrography
enhydros
left bank
kesh
slew
streambed
quagmire
Nuphar sagittifolium
southern spatterdock
lade
brookside
wellhead
liman
ostium
palaeohydrology
subcreek
potamography
backwater
ostiary
mouth
ground
noun
- A stream bed.
- A defined, narrow section of land or an artificial structure used for access.
- In javelin, long jump, and similar events: a short track along which athletes can accelerate themselves for their jumps or throws.
- Hence, the number of months that a startup company can operate by using up its cash reserves.
- The usual path taken by deer or other wild animals, such as from a forest to a water source.
- A narrow walkway (often on a platform) extending from a stage on which people walk, especially one used by models during fashion shows.
- A section of land, usually paved, for airplanes to land on or take off from.
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
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.
noun
- The bed of a body of water, as of a river, lake, or sea.
- Low-lying land near a river with alluvial soil.
- The far end of somewhere.
- A ball or skein of thread; a cocoon.
- A submissive in sadomasochistic sexual activity.
- The buttocks or anus.
- Low-lying land; a valley or hollow.
- The second half of an inning, the home team's turn at bat.
- A cargo vessel, a ship.
- A man who prefers the receptive role in anal sex with men.
- Character, reliability, staying power, dignity, integrity or sound judgment.
- Certain parts of a vessel, particularly the cargo hold or the portion of the ship that is always underwater.
- The base; the fundamental part; basic aspect.
- A garment worn to cover the body below the torso.
- An abyss.
- The lowest part of anything.
- Spirits poured into a glass before adding soda water.
- The lowest part of a container.
adj
verb
- To pour spirits into (a glass to be topped up with soda water).
- To establish or found (something) on or upon.
- To lie on the bottom of; to underlie, to lie beneath.
- To reach the bottom of something.
- To fall to the lowest point.
- To be the submissive partner in a BDSM relationship.
- To reach or strike against the bottom of something, so as to impede free action.
- To furnish (something) with a bottom.
- To be anally penetrated in gay sex.
noun
- A stream.
- Physical sensation in the muscles following strenuous exercise, caused by build-up of lactic acid.
- Tobacco.
- The writing of data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip.
- An effective insult, often in the expression sick burn (excellent or badass insult).
- The firing of a spacecraft's rockets in order to change its course.
- A sensation resembling such an injury.
- The act of burning something with fire.
- A physical injury caused by heat, cold, electricity, radiation or caustic chemicals.
- An intense non-physical sting, as left by shame or an effective insult.
- The operation or result of burning or baking, as in brickmaking.
- A disease in vegetables; brand.
verb
- To make or produce by the application of fire or burning heat.
- In certain games, to approach near to a concealed object which is sought.
- To injure (a person or animal) with heat or chemicals that produce similar damage.
- In pontoon, to swap a pair of cards for another pair, or to deal a dead card.
- To be consumed by fire, or in flames.
- To increase the exposure for certain areas of a print in order to make them lighter (compare dodge).
- To render subtitles into a video's content while transcoding it, making the subtitles part of the image.
- To be hot, e.g. due to embarrassment.
- To sunburn.
- To consume, injure, or change the condition of, as if by action of fire or heat; to affect as fire or heat does.
- To overheat so as to make unusable.
- To insult or defeat.
- To accidentally touch a moving stone.
- To blackmail.
- To be converted to another element in a nuclear fusion reaction, especially in a star.
- To compromise (an agent's cover story).
- To discard.
- To waste (time); to waste money or other resources.
- To cause to be consumed by fire.
- To betray.
- To cause to combine with oxygen or other active agent, with evolution of heat; to consume; to oxidize.
- To shoot someone with a firearm.
- To become overheated to the point of being unusable.
- To cauterize.
- To write data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip.
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
noun
noun
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
- A stream or spring of fresh water.
- A rush of water, along a river or onto the land; a flood.
- The mingling of fresh water with salt in rivers or bays, as by means of a flood of fresh water flowing toward or into the sea.
adv
verb
- To rebore the barrel of a rifle or shotgun.
- To freshen up.
- To update.
- To pack (fish) loosely on ice.
- To flood or dilute an area of salt water with flowing fresh water.
- to give birth to a calf.
- To become stronger.
- To renew.
adj
- Invigoratingly cool and refreshing.
- Rested; not tired or fatigued.
- Without salt; not saline.
- In a raw or untried state; uncultured; unpracticed.
- Sexually aggressive or forward; prone to caress too eagerly; overly flirtatious.
- Not dried, frozen, or spoiled.
- Newly produced or obtained; recent.
- Disobedient or rude, as of a child.
- Youthful; florid.
- Still green and not dried.
- Good, fashionable.
- Rude, cheeky, or inappropriate; presumptuous; disrespectful; forward.
noun
noun
- the dry bed of an intermittent stream (as at the bottom of a canyon)
- a thin coat of water-base paint
- the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water)
- the erosive process of washing away soil or gravel by water (as from a roadway)
- the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller
- a watercolor made by applying a series of monochrome washes one over the other
- garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering
- any enterprise in which losses and gains cancel out
verb
- clean with some chemical process
- cleanse (one's body) with soap and water
- cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water
- move by or as if by water
- be capable of being washed
- admit to testing or proof
- separate dirt or gravel from (precious minerals)
- apply a thin coating of paint, metal, etc., to
- remove by the application of water or other liquid and soap or some other cleaning agent
- form by erosion
- make moist
- wash or flow against
- wash by removing particles
- to cleanse (itself or another animal) by licking
noun
- backwater
- Retrospect; hindsight.
- A backward stroke, or a stroke driving one back.
- A cast or throw back.
- Misfortune; reverse; reversal; a relapse in health or illness; moral backsliding.
- Any discouragement or cause of relapse or failure.
adv
verb
- To change retrospectively; reverse.
- To identify the actions required in order to reach a proposed future.
adj
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
- The physical confine of a river or slough, consisting of a bed and banks.
- A distribution channel
- The wale of a sailing ship which projects beyond the gunwale and to which the shrouds attach via the chains. One of the flat ledges of heavy plank bolted edgewise to the outside of a vessel, to increase the spread of the shrouds and carry them clear of the bulwarks.
- The navigable part of a river.
- A gutter; a groove, as in a fluted column.
- A single path provided by a transmission medium via physical separation, such as by multipair cable.
- A single path provided by a transmission medium via spectral or protocol separation, such as by frequency or time-division multiplexing.
- A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies used for transmitting television.
- A means of delivering up-to-date Internet content.
- A channel was dredged to allow ocean-going vessels to reach the city.
- A path for conveying electrical or electromagnetic signals, usually distinguished from other parallel paths.
- The part of a turbine pump where the pressure is built up.
- A narrow body of water between two land masses.
- A particular area for conversations on an IRC network, analogous to a chat room and often dedicated to a specific topic.
- Something through which another thing passes; a means of conveying or transmitting.
- A connection between initiating and terminating nodes of a circuit.
- The natural or man-made deeper course through a reef, bar, bay, or any shallow body of water.
- The part that connects a data source to a data sink.
- A structural member with a cross section shaped like a squared-off letter C.
- A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies, usually in conjunction with a predetermined letter, number, or codeword, and allocated by international agreement.
- The portion of a storage medium, such as a track or a band, that is accessible to a given reading or writing station or head.
- A psychic or medium who temporarily takes on the personality of somebody else.
- The narrow conducting portion of a MOSFET transistor.
verb
prefix
noun
- Water retained by an embankment; a pool of water.
- A stink; a foul smell.
- A dam or mound to stop water.
adj
verb
- To surround or guard.
- To stumble or lurch.
- To seal off an area of the mine in which a fire has started.
- To trample.
- To pack in tightly.
- To stink; to smell bad.
- To dam up; to block the flow of water or other liquid.
- To cause to smell bad.
- simple past tense of stink
- To cause (the udders) to become blocked and inflamed from lack of milking.
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 leading or drawing off of water from a stream or source.
- The act of tracing origin or descent.
- The act of receiving anything from a source; the act of procuring an effect from a cause, means, or condition, as profits from capital, conclusions or opinions from evidence.
- That from which a thing is derived.
- That which is derived; a derivative; a deduction.
- The state or method of being derived; the relation of origin when established or asserted.
- Forming a new word by changing the base of another word or by adding affixes to it.
- The operation of deducing one function from another according to a fixed definition, referred to as derivation or differentiation; this is the inverse operation to integration.
- A drawing of humors or fluids from one part of the body to another, to relieve or lessen a morbid process.
noun
- A pit formed in the bed of a turbulent stream.
- A shallow pit or other edged depression in a road's surface, especially when caused by erosion by weather or traffic.
- A pit resulting from unauthorized excavation by treasure hunters or vandals.
- A shallow hole dug for the purpose of prospecting for opal or gold.
- A hole or recess on the top of a stove into which a pot may be placed.
- A vertical cave system, often found in limestone.
noun
- A head or reservoir of water.
- Wife.
- An enemy, often at the end of a level, that is particularly challenging and must be beaten in order to progress.
- A swelling, lump or protuberance in an animal, person or object.
- A convex protuberance in hammered work, especially the rounded projection in the centre of a shield.
- A wooden vessel for the mortar used in tiling or masonry, hung by a hook from the laths, or from the rounds of a ladder.
- A knob or projection, usually at the intersection of ribs in a vault.
- A person in charge of a business or company.
- A protrusion, frequently a cylinder of material that extends beyond a hole.
- A lump-like mass of rock, especially one projecting through a stratum of different rock.
- A target block, made of foam but historically made of hay bales, to which a target face is attached.
- A term of address to a man.
- A leader, the head of an organized group or team.
- A person who oversees and directs the work of others; a supervisor.
- The head of a political party in a given region or district.
verb
- To exercise authoritative control over; to tell (someone) what to do, often repeatedly.
- To decorate with bosses; to emboss.
adj
noun
- The bottom of a sump into which the water of a mine drains.
- In a bicycle or motorcycle, the portion of the frameset holding the front wheel, allowing the rider to steer and balance, also called front fork.
- Such a pronged tool having a long straight handle, generally for two-handed use, as used for digging, lifting, mucking, pitching, etc.
- Either of the (figurative) paths thus taken.
- The simultaneous attack of two adversary pieces with one single attacking piece (especially a knight).
- The crotch.
- A tuning fork.
- The upper front brow of a saddle bow, connected in the tree by the two saddle bars to the cantle on the other end.
- Any of the pieces/versions (of software, content, or data sets) thus created.
- A point where a waterway, such as a river or other stream, splits and flows into two (or more) different directions.
- Any of several types of pronged tools for use on farms, in fields, or in the garden or lawn, such as a smaller hand fork for weeding or a larger one for turning over the soil.
- A decision point.
- A utensil with spikes used to put solid food into the mouth, or to hold food down while cutting.
- A point in time where one has to make a decision between two life paths.
- The launch of one or more separate software development efforts based upon a modified copy of an existing project, especially in free and open-source software.
- Any of the software projects resulting from the launch of such separate software development efforts based upon a copy of the original project.
- The splitting of the coverage of a topic (within a corpus of content) into two or more pieces.
- Any of the pieces/versions of content thus created.
- A split in a blockchain resulting from protocol disagreements, or a branch of the blockchain resulting from such a split.
- An intersection in a road or path where one road is split into two.
- One of the parts into which anything is furcated or divided; a prong; a branch of a stream, a road, etc.; a barbed point, as of an arrow.
- A forklift.
- Either of the blades of a forklift (or, in plural, the set of blades), on which the goods to be raised are loaded.
verb
- To move with a fork (as hay or food).
- To kick someone in the crotch.
- To launch a separate software development effort based upon a modified copy of an existing software project, especially in free and open-source software.
- To create a copy of a distributed version control repository.
- To spawn a new child process by duplicating the existing process.
- To divide into two or more branches or copies.
- To bale a shaft dry.
- To shoot into blades, as corn does.
noun
verb
adj
- Ready for action or effect; prepared.
- Having attained its full development; mature; perfected
- Like ripened fruit in ruddiness and plumpness.
- Smelly: having a disagreeable odor.
- Advanced to the state of fitness for use; mellow
- Rife
- Ready for reaping or gathering; having attained perfection; mature
- Of a conflict between parties, having developed to a stage where the conflict may be reviewed by a court of law.
noun
verb
noun
- The water held back by a dam or other obstruction
- A remote place; somewhere that remains unaffected by new events, progresses, ideas, etc.
- A rowing stroke in which the oar is pushed forward to stop the boat; see back water
- Water used in the papermaking process. Recycled to reduce usage of fresh water, and usually containing residual amounts of chemicals and fibres.
verb
noun
- the point where a stream issues into a larger body of water
- the opening through which food is taken in and vocalizations emerge
- the externally visible part of the oral cavity on the face and the system of organs surrounding the opening
- an opening that resembles a mouth (as of a cave or a gorge)
- a person conceived as a consumer of food
- a spokesperson (as a lawyer)
- an impudent or insolent rejoinder
- the opening of a jar or bottle
verb
noun
- The bottom of a body of water.
- Basis, foundation, groundwork, legwork.
- Terrain.
- The pit of a theatre.
- A soccer stadium.
- Reason, (epistemic) justification, cause.
- The plain surface upon which the figures of an artistic composition are set.
- A flat surface upon which figures are raised in relief.
- An electrical conductor connected to the earth, or a large conductor whose electrical potential is taken as zero (such as a steel chassis).
- The area on which a battle is fought, particularly as referring to the area occupied by one side or the other. Often, according to the eventualities, "to give ground" or "to gain ground".
- The surface of the Earth, as opposed to the sky or water or underground.
- One of the pieces of wood, flush with the plastering, to which mouldings etc. are attached.
- Background, context, framework, surroundings.
- The net of small meshes upon which the embroidered pattern is applied.
- A composition in which the bass, consisting of a few bars of independent notes, is continually repeated to a varying melody.
- Advantage given or gained in any contest; e.g. in football, chess, debate or academic discourse.
- The area of grass on which a match is played (a cricket field); the entire arena in which it is played; the part of the field behind a batsman's popping crease where he can not be run out (hence to make one's ground).
- The tune on which descants are raised; the plain song.
- Soil, earth.
- A gummy substance spread over the surface of a metal to be etched, to prevent the acid from eating except where an opening is made by the needle.
verb
- To cover with a ground, as a copper plate for etching, or as paper or other materials with a uniform tint as a preparation for ornament.
- To connect (an electrical conductor or device) to a ground.
- To forbid (an aircraft or pilot) to fly.
- To found; to fix or set, as on a foundation, reason, or principle; to furnish a ground for; to fix firmly.
- To run aground; to strike the bottom and remain fixed.
- To place something on the ground.
- To hit a ground ball. Compare fly (verb (regular)) and line (verb).
- To improve or focus the mental or emotional state of.
- To punish, especially a child or teenager, by forcing them to stay at home and/or give up certain privileges.
- To give a basic education in a particular subject; to instruct in elements or first principles.
adj
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