Headwaters is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for HEADWATERS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• HEADWATER, the highest part of a stream or river before receiving tributaries
• a tributary stream of a river close to or forming part of its source
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the source of a stream —usually used in plural

Words related to HEADWATERS

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How to use HEADWATERS in a sentence

• Slowly he worked his way up a small tributary whose headwaters were fifty or sixty miles to the south and east.
• Near the headwaters of the Snake River, in the proximity of Yellowstone Park, there are very fertile bottoms, with long stretches of valley lands.
• When the drive started, far up toward headwaters, the cut was banked for miles along the stream, forty million feet of it to the last timber.
• It is not longitude, since they occur in the head-waters of the Iowa rivers.
• On the head-waters of the Wabash, near Lake Erie, we first meet with those grassy plains to which the early French explorers of the West gave the name of Prairies.
• Duluth was named for Daniel Greyson Duluth, a native of France, who was the first white man to explore the head-waters of Lake Superior.
• The end of the holiday-time was at hand, for they had before them the labor of crossing the great mountains so as to strike the head-waters of the Columbia.
• These were two American hunters named Dickson and Hancock, who were going up to trap the head-waters of the Missouri on their own account.
• The denuded and waste lands at the headwaters of the Allegheny River now extend over one-half million acres.
• The family was the headwaters of national, industrial, social and religious life.
• THE HEADWATERS OF THE PARAGUAY At Corumba our entire party, and all their belongings, came aboard our good little river boat, the Nyoac.
• The headwaters of the rivers are usually reached by pack-trains of mules and oxen.
• The most profitable way of approaching Salisbury is to continue northwards from Ansty by a lane that eventually descends to Tisbury on the headwaters of the Nadder.
• It was of the Missinaibie, the great river whose head-waters rise a scant hundred feet from those that flow as many miles south into Lake Superior.
• The Ayauway nation, consisting of three hundred men, have a village near its head-waters on the river De Moines.
• Each knew that they were not likely to make the headwaters of Snake River without molestation.
• But its way would be shorter, and it would miss Fort Mowbray altogether, and take up its quarters at the headwaters of Snake River, to await the coming of the leaders.
• The excuse was the state of the river, by which they were to make the headwaters.
• The headwaters of the Yukon are also situated in the northern part of the province.
• In 1842 their number was estimated at 4,000, and they were described as inhabiting the headwaters of the Yellowstone.
• Exhibitions followed in Milan, Turin, Genoa and other cities of northern Italy, then the travelers passed into France, to the headwaters of the Rhone.
• At its headwaters in the mountains of northern New Jersey are numerous sites for reservoirs.
• Thus Meave escaped and Fergus with her, and came to their great fort on the green hillside of Cruacan amid the headwaters of the Shannon.
• Finally, she begged her father to let her make a winter retreat to some place near the headwaters of the Penobscot.
• After a toilsome and painful march of many days, the party reached the Seneca village, upon the head-waters of the Alleghany, near what is now called Olean Point.
• Even more striking are cases furnished by Shilluk, one of the languages of the headwaters of the Nile.
• Clair pushed slowly on for twenty-nine miles until he reached the head-waters of the Wabash.
• There was a ninety-six mile dry drive between the headwaters of the Concho and Horsehead Crossing on the Pecos, and before attempting it we rested a few days.
• The last of the buffalo passed out of sight before we reached the headwaters of the Concho.
• My active partner was notified, and I went on to the headwaters of the Nueces River.
• Counting back from the headwaters of either its more northerly tributary the Peace or its southern feeder the Athabasca, the length of the river is three thousand miles.
• This was the first salmon he had seen, and the captain was now assured that he was on the headwaters of the Columbia.
• For example, some good-hearted philanthropist established a kind of reading-room and post-office in the desert near the headwaters of the Humboldt River.
• This cattle company, so we afterwards learned from Flood, had headquarters at Helena, while their ranges were somewhere on the headwaters of the Missouri.
• Their range runs from the trail crossing, six miles below, to the headwaters of Beaver, including all its tributaries.
• Meanwhile a trip with him to the headwaters of a creek would not injure her in the least.
• As far as discovered they are chiefly near the headwaters of the Cowlitz river in Lewis county.

Similar words containing HEADWATER without suffix s

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