bogey
natant
lave
wash
lap
sinky
lavement
submarine
sie
swill
founder
submerse
submerge
sink
slide down
slump
sluice
balneal
water-wash
huck
drench
bullet
dip
scuddle
swamp
sinklike
droop
aswim
bolter
watery
ablute
subside
slop
settle
depress
go down
dive
tapware
lower
bathe
pond
water
wetten
batheable
splather
sloosh
tosh
insurgent
belave
dub
sinkless
swag
wet
sag
swash
flag
waterhead
sponge bath
drippy
take water
overflow hole
do the laundry
utility sink
water-washed
rinse
drown
dop
swim
non-buoyant
the cow knows not the worth of its tail till it loses it
showerable
washed
launder
bath
sea bathing
exoreic
plashet
dribble
washway
lavatory
antibathing
ablution
submersible
submergible
natatory
sozzle
waterly
domestic hot water
swimminess
natant
sinky
balneal
sinklike
aswim
watery
batheable
insurgent
sinkless
drippy
water-washed
non-buoyant
showerable
washed
exoreic
antibathing
submersible
submergible
natatory
waterly
wet
lavement
bogey
bullet
slop
tapware
sloosh
dub
wet
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sponge bath
overflow hole
utility sink
sea bathing
plashet
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lavatory
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domestic hot water
swimminess
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wash
lap
submarine
sie
swill
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submerge
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slide down
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sluice
water-wash
huck
drench
dip
scuddle
swamp
droop
bolter
ablute
subside
settle
depress
go down
dive
lower
bathe
pond
water
wetten
splather
sloosh
tosh
belave
swag
wet
sag
swash
flag
take water
do the laundry
rinse
drown
dop
swim
launder
bath
dribble
sozzle
verb
noun
- A swim or bathe; a bath.
- An unidentified aircraft, especially as observed as a spot on a radar screen and suspected to be hostile.
- A standard of performance set up as a mark to be aimed at in competition.
- A bugbear: any terrifying thing.
- Synonym of bandit: an enemy aircraft.
- A score of one over par on a hole.
- A bog-standard (representative) specimen taken from the center of production.
- A ghost, goblin, or other hostile supernatural creature.
verb
- wash or flow against
- 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 by removing particles
- to cleanse (itself or another animal) by licking
noun
- a thin coat of water-base paint
- the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water)
- the dry bed of an intermittent stream (as at the bottom of a canyon)
- 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
- To sink or submerge oneself.
- To torpedo; to destroy with a sudden sneak attack.
- To operate or serve on a submarine.
- To slide forwards underneath one's seat belt (during a crash or sudden stop).
noun
- A kind of sandwich made in a long loaf of bread.
- Any submarine plant or animal.
- A boat that can go underwater.
- A pitch delivered with an underhand motion.
- A stowaway on a seagoing vessel.
adj
verb
- To flood with water and sink.
- To fail; to miscarry.
- To disable or lame (a horse) by causing internal inflammation and soreness in the feet or limbs.
- To fall; to stumble and go lame, as a horse.
noun
- One who founds or establishes (especially said of a company, project, organisation, state).
- One who casts metals in various forms; a caster.
- The iron worker in charge of the blast furnace and the smelting operation.
- A severe laminitis of a horse, caused by untreated internal inflammation in the hooves.
- Someone for whose parents one has no data.
verb
- fall or sink heavily
- fall or descend to a lower place or level
- cause to sink
- pass into a specified state or condition; sink into
- go under
- descend into or as if into some soft substance or place
- appear to move downward
- fall heavily or suddenly; decline markedly
- embed deeply
noun
- plumbing fixture consisting of a water basin fixed to a wall or floor and having a drainpipe
- (technology) a process that acts to absorb or remove energy or a substance from a system
- a depression in the ground communicating with a subterranean passage (especially in limestone) and formed by solution or by collapse of a cavern roof
- a covered cistern; waste water and sewage flow into it
verb
verb
- To wash (down or out).
- To flow, pour.
- To elide the complement in a coordinated wh-question. See sluicing.
- To emit by, or as by, flood gates.
- To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice
- To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice.
noun
- The stream flowing through a floodgate.
- A water gate or floodgate.
- A long box or trough through which water flows, used for washing auriferous earth.
- An instance of wh-stranding ellipsis, or sluicing.
- An artificial passage for water, fitted with a valve or gate, for example in a canal lock or a mill stream, for stopping or regulating the flow.
- Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply.
verb
verb
- To paddle off a waterfall or to boof a big drop.
- To throw or chuck.
- To attempt a particularly big jump or drop, often haphazardly.
- To make a maneuver in a clumsy or poorly planned way.
- To throw one's body in the air, possibly in a way that is ungraceful or lacks skill.
- To throw oneself off a large jump or drop.
- To throw a frisbee a long distance.
- To make a long throw with the frisbee; to start a point by making such a throw.
noun
noun
- A plumb or sinker.
- chess played at an extremely fast time control, with one minute given to each player. (Short for bullet chess.)
- A young or little bull; a male calf.
- An entire round of unfired ammunition for a firearm, including the projectile, the cartridge casing, the propellant charge, etc.
- One year of prison time.
- An ace (the playing card).
- A roughly bullet-shaped sweet consisting of a cylinder of liquorice covered in chocolate.
- A projectile, usually of metal, shot from a gun at high speed.
- Ammunition for a sling or slingshot which has been manufactured for such use.
- A rejection letter, as for employment, admission to a school or a competition.
- Very fast (speedy).
- Anything that is projected extremely fast.
- A notation used on pop music charts to indicate that a song is climbing in the rankings.
- A large scheduled repayment of the principal of a loan; a balloon payment.
- A printed symbol in the form of a solid circle, “•”, often used to mark items in a list.
- The heavy projectile thrown in a game of road bowling.
verb
verb
- To immerse oneself; to become plunged in a liquid; to sink.
- To incline downward from the plane of the horizon.
- To perform a dip dance move (often phrased with the leader as the subject noun and the follower as the subject noun being dipped)
- To take out, by dipping a dipper, ladle, or other receptacle, into a fluid and removing a part; often with out.
- To treat cattle or sheep by immersion in chemical solution.
- To lower (a flag), particularly a national ensign, to a partially hoisted position in order to render or to return a salute. While lowered, the flag is said to be “at the dip.” A flag being carried on a staff may be dipped by leaning it forward at an approximate angle of 45 degrees.
- To perform the action of plunging a dipper, ladle. etc. into a liquid or soft substance and removing a part.
- To lower into a liquid.
- To miss out on seeing a sought after bird.
- To immerse for baptism.
- To use a dip stick to check oil level in an engine.
- To perform (a bow or curtsey) by inclining the body.
- To engage as a pledge; to mortgage.
- To lower the body by bending the knees while keeping the body in an upright position, as in movement to the rhythm of music.
- To leave.
- To wet, as if by immersing; to moisten.
- To consume snuff by placing a pinch behind the lip or under the tongue so that the active chemical constituents of the snuff may be absorbed into the system for their narcotic effect.
- To lower a light's beam.
- To plunge or engage thoroughly in any affair.
- (of a value or rate) To decrease slightly.
noun
- A diplomat.
- A swim, usually a short swim to refresh.
- A lower section of a road or geological feature.
- The moist form of snuff tobacco.
- A move in many different styles of partner dances, often performed at the end of a dance, in which the follower leans far to the side and is supported by the leader.
- The viscid exudation that is dipped out from incisions in the trees. Virgin dip is the runnings of the first year, yellow dip the runnings of subsequent years.
- A sudden drop followed by a climb, usually to avoid obstacles or as the result of getting into an airhole.
- Fried bread.
- A foolish person.
- A dip stick.
- A gymnastic or bodybuilding exercise on parallel bars in which the performer, resting on his hands, lets his arms bend and his body sink until his chin is level with the bars, and then raises himself by straightening his arms.
- A tank or trough where cattle or sheep are immersed in chemicals to kill parasites.
- Inclination downward; direction below a horizontal line; slope; pitch.
- The angle from horizontal of a planar geologic surface, such as a fault line.
- A sauce for dipping.
- The act of missing out on seeing a sought after bird.
- The action of dipping or plunging for a moment into a liquid.
- A financial asset in decline, seen as an investment opportunity.
verb
- To drench or fill with water.
- To overwhelm; to make too busy, or overrun the capacity of.
- To plunge into difficulties and perils; to overwhelm; to ruin; to wreck.
noun
- A piece of wet, spongy land; low ground saturated with water; soft, wet ground which may have a growth of certain kinds of trees, but is unfit for agricultural or pastoral purposes.
- A place or situation that is foul or where progress is difficult.
- A type of wetland that stretches for vast distances, and is home to many creatures which have adapted specifically to that environment.
verb
- To swim or turn sideways while eating.
- To pound rapidly.
- To smear or become smeared with a grimy substance.
- To sift or filter through a sieve or bolter.
- To miss a landing on an aircraft carrier by failing to catch the arresting gear wires with the aircraft's tailhook.
- To fish using a bolter.
noun
- A horse that wins at long odds.
- A machine or mechanism that automatically sifts milled flour.
- A person who sifts flour or meal.
- A member of a political party who does not support the party's nominee.
- A plant that grows larger and more rapidly than usual.
- In team sports, a relatively little-known or inexperienced player who inspires the team to greater success.
- A kind of fishing line; a boulter.
- A missed landing on an aircraft carrier; an aircraft that has made a missed landing.
- A filter mechanism.
- An obscure athlete who wins an upset victory.
- A person or thing that bolts, or runs suddenly.
verb
noun
- (usually plural) waste water from a kitchen or bathroom or chamber pot that has to be emptied by hand
- wet feed (especially for pigs) consisting of mostly kitchen waste mixed with water or skimmed or sour milk
- deep soft mud in water or slush
- (usually plural) weak or watery unappetizing food or drink
- writing or music that is excessively sweet and sentimental
verb
verb
- sink down or precipitate
- settle into a position, usually on a surface or ground
- bring to an end; settle conclusively
- settle conclusively; come to terms
- take up residence and become established
- come to terms
- go under
- become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style
- become resolved, fixed, established, or quiet
- establish or develop as a residence
- come to rest
- arrange or fix in the desired order
- accept despite lack of complete satisfaction
- end a legal dispute by arriving at a settlement
- dispose of; make a financial settlement
- become clear by the sinking of particles
- cause to become clear by forming a sediment (of liquids)
- fix firmly
- get one's revenge for a wrong or an injury
- make final; put the last touches on; put into final form
- form a community
- come as if by falling
noun
verb
- To sink.
- To crash.
- To be soundly defeated.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, down.
- To be received or accepted.
- To be pleasant, etc., when eaten or drunk.
- To perform oral sex.
- To decrease; to change from a greater value to a lesser one.
- To fall (down); to fall to the floor.
- To take place, happen.
- To be blamed for something; to be the scapegoat; to go to prison.
- To stop functioning, to go offline.
- To be recorded or remembered (as).
- Synonym of set, to disappear below the horizon.
verb
- To swim under water.
- To deliberately fall down after a challenge, imitating being fouled, in the hope of getting one's opponent penalised.
- To descend sharply or steeply.
- To cause to descend, dunk; to plunge something into water.
- To jump headfirst toward the ground or into another substance.
- To undertake with enthusiasm.
- To explore by diving; to plunge into.
- To plunge or to go deeply into any subject, question, business, etc.; to penetrate; to explore.
- To jump into water head-first.
noun
verb
- To wet or supply with water; to moisten; to overflow with water; to irrigate.
- To get or take in water.
- To dilute.
- To pour water into the soil surrounding (plants).
- To urinate onto.
- To fill with or secrete water.
- To provide (animals) with water for drinking.
- To wet and calender, as cloth, so as to impart to it a lustrous appearance in wavy lines; to diversify with wavelike lines.
noun
- The aforementioned liquid, considered one of the Classical elements or basic elements of alchemy.
- A solution in water of a gaseous or readily volatile substance.
- A serving of liquid water.
- A substance (of molecular formula H₂O) found at room temperature and pressure as a clear liquid; it is present naturally as rain, and found in rivers, lakes and seas; its solid form is ice and its gaseous form is steam.
- Urine.
- The liquid form of this substance: liquid H₂O.
- Amniotic fluid or the amniotic sac containing it. (Used only in the plural in the UK but often also in the singular in North America.)
- Fluids in the body, especially when causing swelling.
- Water in a body; an area of open water.
- A state of affairs; conditions; usually with an adjective indicating an adverse condition.
- A person's intuition.
- The limpidity and lustre of a precious stone, especially a diamond.
- A wavy, lustrous pattern or decoration such as is imparted to linen, silk, metals, etc.
- Spa water.
- Mineral water.
verb
noun
- A pool or puddle.
- A twenty-dollar sack of marijuana.
- A blow, thrust, or poke.
- A trend in music starting in 2009, in which bass distortion is synced off timing to electronic dance music.
- A win.
- The replacement of a voice part in a movie or cartoon, particularly with a translation; an instance of dubbing.
- A style of reggae music involving mixing of different audio tracks.
- An unskillful, awkward person.
- A mostly instrumental remix with all or part of the vocals removed.
- A wheel rim measuring 20 inches or more.
- A piece of graffiti in metallic colour with a thick black outline.
verb
- (now historical) To confer knighthood; the conclusion of the ceremony was marked by a tap on the shoulder with a sword.
- To strike cloth with teasels to raise a nap.
- To replace the original soundtrack of a film with a synchronized translation
- To make a copy from an original or master audio tape.
- To dress a fishing fly.
- To dress with an adze.
- To make a noise by brisk drumbeats.
- To prepare (a gamecock) for fighting, by trimming the hackles and cutting off the comb and wattles.
- To rub or dress with grease, as leather in the process of currying it.
- To mix audio tracks to produce a new sound; to remix.
- To deem.
- To execute a shot poorly.
- To do something badly.
- To name, to entitle, to call.
- To clothe or invest; to ornament; to adorn.
- To add sound to film or change audio on film.
verb
- To make or become wet.
- to wet the baby's head
- To kill or seriously injure.
- To form an intermetallic bond between a solder and a metal substrate.
- To make (oneself, clothing, a bed, etc.) wet by accidental urination.
- To cover or impregnate with liquid.
- To celebrate by drinking alcohol.
noun
- Liquid or moisture.
- Rainy season. (often capitalized)
- A tyre for use in wet weather.
- Rainy weather.
- An alcoholic drink.
- One who supports the consumption of alcohol and thus opposes Prohibition.
- A weak or sentimental person; a wimp or softie.
- A moderate Conservative; especially, one who opposed the hard-line policies of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s.
adj
- Employing, or done by means of, water or some other liquid.
- Permitting alcoholic beverages.
- Of a person: inexperienced in a profession or task; having the characteristics of a rookie.
- Using afterburners or water injection for increased engine thrust.
- Of a burrito, sandwich, or other food: covered in a sauce.
- Of a Quaker: liberal with respect to religious observance.
- Made up of liquid or moisture, usually (but not always) water.
- Of calligraphy and fountain pens: depositing a large amount of ink from the nib or the feed.
- Of a sound recording: having had audio effects applied.
- Of a scientist or laboratory: working with biological or chemical matter.
- Of weather or a time period: rainy.
- Involving assassination or "wet work".
- Of an object, etc.: covered or impregnated with liquid, usually (but not always) water.
- Ineffectual, feeble, showing no strength of character.
- Sexually aroused and thus having the vulva moistened with vaginal secretions.
verb
- To dash or flow noisily; to splash.
- To swipe.
- To streak, to color in a swash.
- To wade forcefully through liquid.
- To swagger; to act with boldness or bluster (toward).
- To fall violently or noisily.
- To swirl through liquid; to swish.
adj
noun
- A long, protruding ornamental line or pen stroke found in some typefaces and styles of calligraphy.
- A smooth stroke; a swish.
- A wet splashing sound.
- The water that washes up on shore after an incoming wave has broken.
- A streak or patch.
- A narrow sound or channel of water lying within a sand bank, or between a sand bank and the shore, or a bar over which the sea washes.
- A swishing noise.
- An oval figure, whose mouldings are oblique to the axis of the work.
verb
- droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss of tautness
- communicate or signal with a flag
- provide with a flag
- decorate with flags
- become less intense
noun
- emblem usually consisting of a rectangular piece of cloth of distinctive design
- a listing printed in all issues of a newspaper or magazine (usually on the editorial page) that gives the name of the publication and the names of the editorial staff, etc.
- plants with sword-shaped leaves and erect stalks bearing bright-colored flowers composed of three petals and three drooping sepals
- a rectangular piece of fabric used as a signalling device
- flagpole used to mark the position of the hole on a golf green
- stratified stone that splits into pieces suitable as paving stones
- a conspicuously marked or shaped tail
noun
- A spring or headwater.
- The amount of water or water pressure provided by a waterhead (reservoir or portion of a device that stores water).
- A reservoir or natural source of water that is put to use.
- A portion of a device or system where water is stored before it is used, such as a header tank.
- A showerhead.
- The enlarged head of a person or animal with hydrocephalus.
- A burst of water.
- A hydrocephalic person or animal
- An area of high elevation, viewed as the catchment basin for a region.
- A water main
- A stupid and/or ugly person.
- Hydrocephalus
- The place where water enters or exits a device or system
verb
verb
verb
noun
verb
- To fall in drops or an unsteady stream; to trickle.
- To let something fall in drips.
- To perform a card flourish in which the cards fall smoothly from one's hand.
- In various ball games, to move (with) the ball, controlling its path by kicking or bouncing it repeatedly.
- To let saliva drip from the mouth; to drool.
noun
noun
- A plumbing fixture used for washing: a sink.
- Handwashing as an act, particularly
- A laver: a washbasin.
- A plumbing fixture for urination and defecation: a toilet.
- A room containing a toilet: a bathroom (US) or WC (UK).
- The ritual washing of hands after using the piscina to clean the communion vessels.
- A piscina: the basin used for washing communion vessels.
- A lavabo: the basin used for washing one's hands before handling the Eucharist.
- The lavabo: the ritual washing of hands before handling the eucharist.
- A baptismal font: the basin used for baptism, used figuratively for the washing away of sins.
- A vessel or fixture for washing
noun
- Washing oneself; bathing, cleaning oneself up.
- Originally, the purifying of oils and other substances by emulsification with hot water; now more generally, a thorough cleansing of a precipitate or other non-dissolved substance.
- The liquid used in the cleansing or ablution.
- The location or building where the showers and basins are located.
- The act of washing or cleansing the body, or some part of it, as a religious rite.
- The rinsing of the priest's hand and the sacred vessel following the Communion with, depending on rite, water or a mix of it and wine, which may then be drunk by the priest.
- The ritual consumption by the deacon or priest of leftover sacred wine of host after the Communion.
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