All alluvium synonyms

noun alluvium

• land — Edwin Herbert, 1909–91, U.S. inventor and businessman: created the Polaroid camera.
• dirt — Design In Real Time
• terrain — a tract of land, especially as considered with reference to its natural features, military advantages, etc.
• shore — Jane, 1445?–1527, mistress of Edward IV of England.
• surface — the outer face, outside, or exterior boundary of a thing; outermost or uppermost layer or area.
• coast — The coast is an area of land that is next to the sea.
• mud — wet, soft earth or earthy matter, as on the ground after rain, at the bottom of a pond, or along the banks of a river; mire.
• clay — Clay is a kind of earth that is soft when it is wet and hard when it is dry. Clay is shaped and baked to make things such as pots and bricks.
• dust — earth or other matter in fine, dry particles.
• turf — a layer of matted earth formed by grass and plant roots.
• gravel — small stones and pebbles, or a mixture of these with sand.
• sand — George [jawrj;; French zhawrzh] /dʒɔrdʒ;; French ʒɔrʒ/ (Show IPA), (Lucile Aurore Dupin Dudevant) 1804–76, French novelist.
• goo — a thick or sticky substance: Wash that goo off your hands.
• slime — thin, glutinous mud.
• sludge — mud, mire, or ooze; slush.
• gunk — any sticky or greasy residue or accumulation: gunk on the oil filter.
• silt — earthy matter, fine sand, or the like carried by moving or running water and deposited as a sediment.
• lees — Ann, 1736–84, British mystic: founder of Shaker sect in U.S.
• drift — a driving movement or force; impulse; impetus; pressure.
• deposition — A deposition is a formal written statement, made for example by a witness to a crime, which can be used in a court of law if the witness cannot be present.
• dregs — dregs, the sediment of liquids; lees; grounds.
• precipitate — to hasten the occurrence of; bring about prematurely, hastily, or suddenly: to precipitate an international crisis.
• precipitation — the act of precipitating; state of being precipitated.
• sediment — the matter that settles to the bottom of a liquid; lees; dregs.
• grounds — the solid surface of the earth; firm or dry land: to fall to the ground.
• settlings — the act of a person or thing that settles.
• delta — A delta is an area of low, flat land shaped like a triangle, where a river splits and spreads out into several branches before entering the sea.
• clod — A clod of earth is a large lump of earth.
• sod — the act of seething.
• muck — moist farmyard dung, decaying vegetable matter, etc.; manure.
• compost — Compost is a mixture of decayed plants and vegetable waste which is added to the soil to help plants grow.
• deposit — A deposit is a sum of money which is part of the full price of something, and which you pay when you agree to buy it.
• mold — loose, friable earth, especially when rich in organic matter and favorable to the growth of plants.
• fill — to make full; put as much as can be held into: to fill a jar with water.
• marl — Geology. a friable earthy deposit consisting of clay and calcium carbonate, used especially as a fertilizer for soils deficient in lime.
• loam — a rich, friable soil containing a relatively equal mixture of sand and silt and a somewhat smaller proportion of clay.
• subsoil — the bed or stratum of earth or earthy material immediately under the surface soil.
• topsoil — the fertile, upper part of the soil.
• humus — the dark organic material in soils, produced by the decomposition of vegetable or animal matter and essential to the fertility of the earth.
• glebe — Also called glebe land. Chiefly British. the cultivable land owned by a parish church or ecclesiastical benefice.
• mire — a tract or area of wet, swampy ground; bog; marsh.
• fluid — a substance, as a liquid or gas, that is capable of flowing and that changes its shape at a steady rate when acted upon by a force tending to change its shape.
• gook — a contemptuous term used to refer to a native of Southeast Asia or the South Pacific, especially a member of an enemy military force.
• glop — unappetizing food, especially of a semiliquid consistency.
• terra firma — firm or solid earth; dry land (as opposed to water or air).
• peat moss — Also called bog moss. any moss, especially of the genus Sphagnum, from which peat may form.
• terrane — any rock formation or series of formations or the area in which a particular formation or group of rocks is predominant.
• ground — the act of grinding.
• soil — the act or fact of soiling.