1.3.1.3 River

Use this domain for words referring to bodies of flowing water.

  • What words refer to rivers of different sizes?
    river, stream, streamlet, creek, brook, brooklet, rill, rivulet
  • What words refer to a river when it has a lot of water?
    flood, torrent, flash flood, freshet, swell, surge
  • What words refer to a river overflowing its banks?
    overflow its banks, flood, deluge
  • What words refer to two rivers coming together?
    branch, confluence, fork, tributary
  • What words refer to a part of a river that is steep?
    waterfall, falls, rapids, cascade, cataract, spillway, race
  • What are the parts of a river?
    source, head, headwaters, mouth, upstream, downstream, bend, whirlpool, eddy, river bottom, riverbed, backwater, narrows, oxbow
  • What words refer to a river when it has no water?
    watercourse, dry riverbed, wash, arroyo, wadi
  • What words refer to a man-made river?
    canal
  • What words refer to a place to cross a river?
    bridge, ford
  • What words refer to something floating down a river or caught in it?
    flotsam, snag, logjam
  • What words refer to dirt, sand, and rocks washed down by a river?
    sandbar, delta, alluvium, alluvial, silt,
  • What words refer to the area of land drained by a river?
    watershed, basin
  • What words refer to the movement of a river?
    current, flow