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Noun
S: (n) water, H2O (binary compound that occurs at room temperature as a clear colorless odorless tasteless liquid; freezes into ice below 0 degrees centigrade and boils above 100 degrees centigrade; widely used as a solvent)
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) bight (a broad bay formed by an indentation in the shoreline) "the Bight of Benin"; "the Great Australian Bight"
S: (n) Guantanamo Bay (an inlet of the Caribbean Sea; a United States naval station was established on the bay in 1903)
S: (n) James Bay (the southern extension of Hudson Bay in Canada between western Quebec and northeastern Ontario)
S: (n) Korea Bay (an inlet of the Yellow Sea between the Liaodong Peninsula in China and western Korea)
S: (n) Massachusetts Bay (an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean off of eastern Massachusetts extending from Cape Ann on the north to Cape Cod on the south)
S: (n) Minamata Bay (a bay on the west coast of Kyushu; in the 1950s industrial wastes caused mercury poisoning among the Japanese people who ate fish from Minamata Bay)
S: (n) Mobile Bay (a bay of the Gulf of Mexico; fed by the Mobile River)
S: (n) Tampa Bay (an arm of the Gulf of Mexico in west central Florida)
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) canal ((astronomy) an indistinct surface feature of Mars once thought to be a system of channels; they are now believed to be an optical illusion)
S: (n) Bosporus (a strait connecting the Mediterranean and the Black Sea; separates the European and Asian parts of Turkey; an important shipping route)
S: (n) Cook Strait (a narrow strait separating the North Island and South Island in New Zealand)
S: (n) Golden Gate (a strait in western California that connects the San Francisco Bay with the Pacific Ocean; discovered in 1579 by Sir Francis Drake)
S: (n) Kattegatt (a strait of the North Sea between Jutland and Sweden; connects with the North Sea through the Skagerrak)
S: (n) Strait of Magellan (the strait separating South America from Tierra del Fuego and other islands to the south of the continent; discovered by Ferdinand Magellan in 1520; an important route around South America before the Panama Canal was built)
S: (n) Strait of Malacca (the strait between the Malay Peninsula and Sumatra; it connects the Pacific Ocean to the east with the Indian Ocean to the west and is an important shipping lane)
S: (n) Torres Strait (a strait between northeastern Australia and southern New Guinea that connects the Coral Sea with the Arafura Sea)
S: (n) tideway (a channel in which a tidal current runs)
S: (n) watercourse (natural or artificial channel through which water flows)
S: (n) White Sea (a large inlet of the Barents Sea in the northwestern part of European Russia)
S: (n) Zuider Zee (a former inlet of the North Sea in the northern coast of the Netherlands; sealed off from the sea in 1932 by a dam that created the IJsselmeer)
S: (n) lake (a body of (usually fresh) water surrounded by land)
S: (n) Dead Sea (a saltwater lake on the border between Israel and Jordan; its surface in 1292 feet below sea level)
S: (n) Eyre, Lake Eyre (a shallow salt lake in south central Australia about 35 feet below sea level; the largest lake in the country and the lowest point on the continent)
S: (n) Lake Champlain, Champlain (a lake in northeastern New York, northwestern Vermont and southern Quebec; site of many battles in the French and Indian War and in the American Revolution and in the War of 1812)
S: (n) Lake Edward (a lake in the Great Rift Valley between Congo and Uganda)
S: (n) Lake Ilmen, Ilmen (a lake in northwestern Russia; drains through the Volkhov River into Lake Ladoga)
S: (n) Lake Ladoga, Ladoga (a lake in northwestern Russia to the north of St. Petersburg; the largest lake in Europe; drains through the Neva River into the Gulf of Finland)
S: (n) Lake Michigan, Michigan (the 3rd largest of the Great Lakes; the largest freshwater lake entirely within the United States borders)
S: (n) Lake Victoria, Victoria Nyanza (the largest lake in Africa and the 2nd largest fresh water lake in the world; a headwaters reservoir for the Nile River)
S: (n) Arctic Ocean (ice covered waters surrounding the North Pole; mostly covered with solid ice or with ice floes and icebergs)
S: (n) Atlantic, Atlantic Ocean (the 2nd largest ocean; separates North and South America on the west from Europe and Africa on the east)
S: (n) Indian Ocean (the 3rd largest ocean; bounded by Africa on the west, Asia on the north, Australia on the east and merging with the Antarctic Ocean to the south)
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) billabong (a stagnant pool of water in the bed of a stream that flows intermittently)
S: (n) mud puddle (a puddle of mud) "the children loved a mud puddle"
S: (n) sea (a division of an ocean or a large body of salt water partially enclosed by land)
S: (n) South Sea (any sea to the south of the equator (but especially the South Pacific))
S: (n) Adriatic, Adriatic Sea (an arm of the Mediterranean between Slovenia and Croatia and Montenegro and Albania on the east and Italy on the west)
S: (n) Aegean, Aegean Sea (an arm of the Mediterranean between Greece and Turkey; a main trade route for the ancient civilizations of Crete and Greece and Rome and Persia)
S: (n) Arabian Sea (a northwestern arm of the Indian Ocean between India and Arabia)
S: (n) Arafura Sea (a part of the western Pacific Ocean to the north of Australia and to the south of New Guinea and the eastern islands of Indonesia)
S: (n) Baffin Bay (a body of water between Greenland and northeastern Canada; connected with the Arctic Ocean to the north and with the Atlantic Ocean (via the Labrador Sea) to the south; icebound in winter)
S: (n) Inland Sea (an arm of the Pacific Ocean in southern Japan; surrounded by the islands of Honshu and Shikoku and Kyushu and linked to the Sea of Japan by a narrow channel; the chief port is Hiroshima)
S: (n) Ionian Sea (an arm of the Mediterranean Sea between western Greece and southern Italy)
S: (n) Irish Sea (an arm of the North Atlantic between Great Britain and Ireland)
S: (n) Kara Sea (part of the Arctic Ocean to the north of Siberia and to the east of the Barents Sea; icebound most of the year)
S: (n) Labrador Sea (an arm of the northern Atlantic between Labrador and southern Greenland)
S: (n) Laptev Sea (part of the Arctic Ocean to the north of Siberia (between the Taimyr Peninsula and the New Siberian Islands) that is icebound most of the year)
S: (n) Ligurian Sea (an arm of the Mediterranean between northwest Italy and Corsica)
S: (n) Bull Run (a creek in northeastern Virginia where two battles were fought in the American Civil War)
S: (n) Aegospotami, Aegospotamos (a creek emptying into the Hellespont in present-day Turkey; at its mouth in 405 BC the Spartan fleet under Lysander defeated the Athenians and ended the Peloponnesian War)
S: (n) mare clausum ((closed sea) a navigable body of water under the jurisdiction of a single nation)
S: (n) mare liberum ((free sea) a navigable body of water to which all nations have equal access)
S: (n) rapid (a part of a river where the current is very fast)
S: (n) Cross-Florida Waterway, Okeechobee Waterway (a waterway used by small boats to travel between the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico through Lake Okeechobee and the Caloosahatchee Canal and the Caloosahatchee River)
S: (n) water (once thought to be one of four elements composing the universe (Empedocles))
S: (n) water system, water supply, water (a facility that provides a source of water) "the town debated the purification of the water supply"; "first you have to cut off the water"
S: (n) urine, piss, pee, piddle, weewee, water (liquid excretory product) "there was blood in his urine"; "the child had to make water"
S: (n) water (a liquid necessary for the life of most animals and plants) "he asked for a drink of water"
Verb
S: (v) water, irrigate (supply with water, as with channels or ditches or streams) "Water the fields"
S: (v) water (provide with water) "We watered the buffalo"