River

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