Drainage is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DRAINAGE in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the act of draining
• the action or process of draining something
• a system of drains
• A draining; a gradual flowing off of any liquid; also, that which flows out of a drain.
• The mode in which the waters of a country pass off by its streams and rivers.
• The system of drains and their operation, by which superfluous water is removed from towns, railway beds, mines, and other works.
• Area or district drained; as, the drainage of the Po, the Thames, etc.
• The act, process, or means of drawing off the pus or fluids from a wound, abscess, etc.
• emptying something accomplished by allowing liquid to run out of it
• system of drains

Words related to DRAINAGE

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Words that contain DRAINAGE

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How to use DRAINAGE in a sentence

• It is never dry in summer because the frost prevents any underground drainage, and even in winter the animals feed upon it and thrive.
• At the same time the steady drainage of the surface and underground water is provided for.
• The Mississippi alone carries yearly to the sea more than 400,000,000 tons of the richest soil within its drainage basin.
• The pots in which they grow should be provided with ample drainage and stood in a larger-sized pot, with wet moss between the two.
• Drainage is one of the most important considerations in the cultivation of flowers.
• Procure a good sized bell-glass and an earthenware pan without any holes for drainage.
• Nay, the same hut bore these different characters, according to its position at the top of a slope, or half-way down, so as to collect under its floor the drainage from a spring.
• Probably therefore the drainage of this part of the country is affected by the chain of lakes, which must afterwards fall into the river I saw to the northward.
• New pots are advisable, or old ones must be thoroughly cleansed, and free drainage is essential to success.
• For their success good drainage, a warm position, and plenty of water in dry weather are essential.
• There is nothing which is more important in a sanitary point of view than good workmanship in house drainage.
• The water consists mainly of the natural drainage of the ground.
• There were hours of work here to soften the fever crust and establish drainage.
• The Pompton River has a drainage area above Mountain View of 420 square miles.
• The drainage area tributary to this point is about 140 square miles in extent, the country for the most part being quick-spilling and upland.
• In the upper basin, however, there is a sufficient available storage capacity to afford almost complete control of destructive floods from that part of the drainage area.
• The drainage area above this dam would be approximately 4 square miles.
• Most surprising of all, however, in many respects, was the revelation of the amazingly complete system of drainage with which the palace was provided.
• Drainage ditches have been made behind them and pumping plants put in to pump the water out of them.
• That perfect drainage and cultivation will do this, is a well known fact.
• No written description of a single process will suffice for the direction of those having charge of this most delicate of all drainage operations.
• I also made a tank at the bottom to hold the drainage, and had a pump in it to pump the liquid back on to the heap in dry weather.
• I can only account for this by supposing that there was an imperceptible drainage of fresh water through the banks.
• The waters from which Bath gets its fame are believed to owe their origin to the surface drainage of the E.

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