S: (n) body of water, water (the part of the earth's surface covered with water (such as a river or lake or ocean)) "they invaded our territorial waters"; "they were sitting by the water's edge"
S: (n) backwater (a body of water that was created by a flood or tide or by being held or forced back by a dam) "the bayous and backwaters are breeding grounds for mosquitos"
S: (n) bay, embayment (an indentation of a shoreline larger than a cove but smaller than a gulf)
S: (n) channel (a deep and relatively narrow body of water (as in a river or a harbor or a strait linking two larger bodies) that allows the best passage for vessels) "the ship went aground in the channel"
S: (n) drink (any large deep body of water) "he jumped into the drink and had to be rescued"
S: (n) estuary (the wide part of a river where it nears the sea; fresh and salt water mix)
S: (n) flowage (a body of water that has been created by deliberately flooding an area) "many campsites were located near the flowage"
S: (n) mid-water (the water that is well below the surface but also well above the bottom) "many marine fishes inhabit the mid-waters"
S: (n) ocean (a large body of water constituting a principal part of the hydrosphere)
S: (n) offing (the part of the sea that can be seen from the shore and is beyond the anchoring area) "there was a ship in the offing"
S: (n) polynya (a stretch of open water surrounded by ice (especially in Arctic seas))
S: (n) pool, puddle (a small body of standing water (rainwater) or other liquid) "there were puddles of muddy water in the road after the rain"; "the body lay in a pool of blood"
S: (n) sea (a division of an ocean or a large body of salt water partially enclosed by land)
S: (n) seven seas (an informal expression for all of the oceans of the world) "the old salt had sailed the seven seas"
S: (n) sea (a division of an ocean or a large body of salt water partially enclosed by land)
S: (n) gulf, disconnect, disconnection (an unbridgeable disparity (as from a failure of understanding)) "he felt a gulf between himself and his former friends"; "there is a vast disconnect between public opinion and federal policy"
S: (n) far cry (a disappointing disparity) "it was a far cry from what he had expected"
S: (n) gap, spread (a conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures) "gap between income and outgo"; "the spread between lending and borrowing costs"
S: (n) gulf, disconnect, disconnection (an unbridgeable disparity (as from a failure of understanding)) "he felt a gulf between himself and his former friends"; "there is a vast disconnect between public opinion and federal policy"
S: (n) disproportion (lack of proportion; imbalance among the parts of something)