All wadi synonyms

noun wadi

• waterway — a river, canal, or other body of water serving as a route or way of travel or transport.
• aqueduct — An aqueduct is a long bridge with many arches, which carries a water supply or a canal over a valley.
• brook — to bear; tolerate
• canal — A canal is a long, narrow stretch of water that has been made for boats to travel along or to bring water to a particular area.
• channel — A channel is a television station.
• chute — A chute is a steep, narrow slope down which people or things can slide.
• conduit — A conduit is a small tunnel, pipe, or channel through which water or electrical wires go.
• creek — A creek is a narrow place where the sea comes a long way into the land.
• culvert — A culvert is a water pipe or sewer that crosses under a road or railway.
• drain — to withdraw or draw off (a liquid) gradually; remove slowly or by degrees, as by filtration: to drain oil from a crankcase.
• estuary — The tidal mouth of a large river, where the tide meets the stream.
• flume — a deep narrow defile containing a mountain stream or torrent.
• gullet — the esophagus.
• gully — a small valley or ravine originally worn away by running water and serving as a drainageway after prolonged heavy rains.
• gutter — a channel at the side or in the middle of a road or street, for leading off surface water.
• inlet — an indentation of a shoreline, usually long and narrow; small bay or arm.
• ravine — a narrow steep-sided valley commonly eroded by running water.
• river — a person who rives.
• sluice — an artificial channel for conducting water, often fitted with a gate (sluice gate) at the upper end for regulating the flow.
• spillway — a passageway through which surplus water escapes from a reservoir, lake, or the like.
• stream — a body of water flowing in a channel or watercourse, as a river, rivulet, or brook. Synonyms: rill, run, streamlet, runnel.
• trench — Richard Chenevix [shen-uh-vee] /ˈʃɛn ə vi/ (Show IPA), 1807–86, English clergyman and scholar, born in Ireland.