Watershed is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for WATERSHED in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the area which a river and its tributaries drain
• an area or ridge of land that separates waters flowing to different rivers, basins, or seas.
• an area or region drained by a river, river system, or other body of water.
• an event or period marking a turning point in a situation
• the time after which programmes that are regarded as unsuitable for children are broadcast on television
• important period or factor serving as a dividing line
• The whole region or extent of country which contributes to the supply of a river or lake.
• The line of division between two adjacent rivers or lakes with respect to the flow of water by natural channels into them; the natural boundary of a basin.
• a ridge of land that separates two adjacent river systems
• the entire geographical area drained by a river and its tributaries; an area characterized by all runoff being conveyed to the same outlet
• an event marking a unique or important historical change of course or one on which important developments depend
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• divide 2a; a region or area bounded peripherally by a divide and draining ultimately to a particular watercourse or body of water

Words related to WATERSHED

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Words that contain WATERSHED

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How to use WATERSHED in a sentence

• He described the timber on the gravel terraces of the watershed as small and open.
• It is evident that we are now approaching the watershed of the Fitzroy River, and hope soon to emerge from the vast tract of scrub which occupies the valley of the Suttor River.
• It drains a large water-shed of its intellect, and will not itself be drained.
• We are in Australia, three hundred and fifty miles south of Sydney, on the great watershed which divides the Belloury from the Maryburnong.
• At Vilhena we were on a watershed which drained into the Gy-Parana, which itself runs into the Madeira nearly midway between its sources and its mouth.
• On the watershed between the Lake and the Loangwa River.
• The watershed parts some streams for Loendi and some for Rovuma.
• We were on the northern slope of the watershed, and could see far.
• It is probably a watershed between streams going to the Chambeze and those that go to the northern rivers.
• The watershed extends westwards to beyond Casembe, and the Luapula, or Chambeze, rises in the same parallels of latitude as does the Lofu and the Lonzna.
• Immediately after leaving the watershed of the Flinders he got onto that of the Thomson.
• When we had ridden three or four miles we got on the watershed of a creek on the Barcoo side of the range.
• The watershed is a granite and porphyry formation, heavily timbered, and the stream is fed by snow and rain.
• AGATHA A haunting silence prevails in the land beyond the barrier of the Yukon watershed.
• And before that he had never so much as peeped beyond the watershed at the world outside.
• Half a dozen miles out of Souilly we crossed the watershed between the Seine and the Rhine and were in the valley of the Meuse.
• The Marne is a small river in France, gently coursing from the water-shed south of Verdun to the Seine near Paris, its general course convex to the north.
• The path, rising to the height of the watershed, where at a great elevation we gain a distant view of water, descends by the counterslope once more to the river Laowatan.
• This watershed afforded a fine view of the surrounding country, and from its apex I scanned our rear for miles without detecting any sign of animate life.
• This watershed was also recognized as the line of Keith County, an organized community, and the next morning expectation ran high as to what the day would bring forth.
• By raising our reservoir to 240 feet when full we secure a capacity of 10,493,000,000 cubic feet, or ample to utilize the heaviest floods of the watershed.
• Cabra is built in a fertile valley between the Sierra de Cabra and the Sierra de Montilla, which together form the watershed between the rivers Cabra and Guadajoz.
• Smith pointed out the watershed between the Mediterranean and the Dead Sea.
• Saturday morning we left Lake Eleanor and climbed the steep ridge separating its watershed from that of the Tuolumne.
• We are inclined to turn our heel upon the East, upon the watershed, upon the gates of the wind, and to go the smooth road.
• At all events, it stretches almost from the Saskatchewan to the Athabasca, and indicates some great watershed in times past.
• We are standing at the Height of Land, the watershed between the Saskatchewan and the Athabasca.
• Several thousand acres lay bare, and by breaking out all drifts and depressions running north and south across the watershed, new grazing grounds could be added daily.
• By the middle of the afternoon the watershed had been crossed, and the gradual slope clown to the Beaver was begun.
• Scarcely is the watershed passed when the traveller begins to enter a new landscape and a distinct climate.
• When they reached the summit of the mountain chain, which is the watershed, they found there a cacique called Javana.
• KITTITAS COUNTY Kittitas county is located about in the center of the state, and takes in the upper reaches and most of the watershed of the Yakima river.
• There is something indescribably sublime, a conception of universality, in that sense of standing on the water-shed of a hemisphere.

Similar words containing WATERSH without suffix ed

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