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Loch

A lake; a bay or arm of the sea.

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Inlet 76% connected

A passage by which an inclosed place may be entered; a place of ingress; entrance.

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Lake 76% connected

A pigment formed by combining some coloring matter, usually by precipitation, with a metallic oxide or earth, esp. with aluminium hydrate; as, madder…

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Recess 76% connected

A withdrawing or retiring; a moving back; retreat; as, the recess of the tides.

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Aquifer noun · 86% connection

underground bed or layer yielding ground water for wells and springs etc

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Basin noun · 86% connection

the entire geographical area drained by a river and its tributaries; an area characterized by all runoff being conveyed to the same ou…

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Bayou noun · 86% connection

a swampy arm or slow-moving outlet of a lake (term used mainly in Mississippi and Louisiana)

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Bog noun · 86% connection

wet spongy ground of decomposing vegetation; has poorer drainage than a swamp; soil is unfit for cultivation but can be cut and dried…

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Catchment area noun · 86% connection

the entire geographical area drained by a river and its tributaries; an area characterized by all runoff being conveyed to the same ou…

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Catchment basin noun · 86% connection

the entire geographical area drained by a river and its tributaries; an area characterized by all runoff being conveyed to the same ou…

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Drainage area noun · 86% connection

the entire geographical area drained by a river and its tributaries; an area characterized by all runoff being conveyed to the same ou…

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Drainage basin noun · 86% connection

the entire geographical area drained by a river and its tributaries; an area characterized by all runoff being conveyed to the same ou…

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Fen noun · 86% connection

low-lying wet land with grassy vegetation; usually is a transition zone between land and water; "thousands of acres of marshland"; "th…

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Fenland noun · 86% connection

low-lying wet land with grassy vegetation; usually is a transition zone between land and water; "thousands of acres of marshland"; "th…

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Horsepond noun · 86% connection

a pond for watering horses

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Lagoon noun · 86% connection

a body of water cut off from a larger body by a reef of sand or coral

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Lagune noun · 86% connection

a body of water cut off from a larger body by a reef of sand or coral

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Liman noun · 86% connection

a long narrow lagoon near the mouth of a river

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Lough noun · 86% connection

Irish word for a lake

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Marsh noun · 86% connection

low-lying wet land with grassy vegetation; usually is a transition zone between land and water; "thousands of acres of marshland"; "th…

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Marshland noun · 86% connection

low-lying wet land with grassy vegetation; usually is a transition zone between land and water; "thousands of acres of marshland"; "th…

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Mere noun · 86% connection

a small pond of standing water

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Acheron noun · 78% connection

A river in the Nether World or infernal regions; also, the infernal regions themselves. By some of the English poets it was supposed t…

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Affluent noun · 78% connection

A stream or river flowing into a larger river or into a lake; a tributary stream.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lake.
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Ait noun · 78% connection

An islet, or little isle, in a river or lake; an eyot.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lake.
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Amia noun · 78% connection

A genus of fresh-water ganoid fishes, exclusively confined to North America; called bowfin in Lake Champlain, dogfish in Lake Erie, an…

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Appellative noun · 78% connection

A common name, in distinction from a proper name. A common name, or appellative, stands for a whole class, genus, or species of beings…

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Asphaltum noun · 78% connection

Mineral pitch, Jews' pitch, or compact native bitumen. It is brittle, of a black or brown color and high luster on a surface of fractu…

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Avernian adjective · 78% connection

Of or pertaining to Avernus, a lake of Campania, in Italy, famous for its poisonous vapors, which ancient writers fancied were so mali…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lake.
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Bank noun · 78% connection

The margin of a watercourse; the rising ground bordering a lake, river, or sea, or forming the edge of a cutting, or other hollow.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lake.
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Beach noun · 78% connection

The shore of the sea, or of a lake, which is washed by the waves; especially, a sandy or pebbly shore; the strand.

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Bench noun · 78% connection

A conformation like a bench; a long stretch of flat ground, or a kind of natural terrace, near a lake or river.

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Bluefin noun · 78% connection

A species of whitefish (Coregonus nigripinnis) found in Lake Michigan.

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Borax noun · 78% connection

A white or gray crystalline salt, with a slight alkaline taste, used as a flux, in soldering metals, making enamels, fixing colors on…

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