Waterworks is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for WATERWORKS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• WATERWORK, a piece of fabric painted to resemble a tapestry
• A mechanism for raising, conveying, or distributing water.
• In plural The system of reservoirs, pipes, and machinery by which water is obtained, stored, purified, and supplied to an area or a town; a water pumping or purifying station.
• In plural figurative euphemism. The urinary system.
• A kind of mural painted in imitation of a tapestry in size or distemper. Now historical.
• Chiefly in plural Work concerned with hydraulic engineering, irrigation, drainage, etc. Now rare.
• A device or structure which produces an ornamental or spectacular display of water; an ornamental fountain or cascade. Also: a display of this type. Usually in plural Compare "firework" 3c. Now chiefly historical.
• Tears, weeping, especially when regarded as being forced, cynically manipulative, or overdramatic. In later use often in "to turn on the waterworks".
• In other figurative uses: †lava flow (obsolete rare); rain.
• In various contexts: a thing done or occurring in, on, or by means of water. Also as a mass noun: activity performed with or in water.
• a public utility that provides water
• workplace where water is stored and purified and distributed for a community
• In other figurative uses: †lava flow (obsolete rare); rain.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the system of reservoirs, channels, mains, and pumping and purifying equipment by which a water supply is obtained and distributed (as to a city)

Words related to WATERWORKS

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How to use WATERWORKS in a sentence

• The city had no waterworks at that time, but relied for water entirely upon cisterns located in different parts of the city.
• Our first real domestic tragedy was the destruction of the waterworks on the 30th of September.
• If the waterworks will not afford you sufficient pressure, you can bring it up to the required pressure, by attaching a hydraulic pump or a good force pump.
• It lives largely on its traditions, of which, leaving out Franklin and Independence Hall, the most imposing must be considered its famous water-works.
• Since that time, the construction of the Quebec water-works, which are supplied from Lake St.
• The greatest curiosity is the water-works, which are perhaps unequalled in the world.
• I visited at this time the celebrated Schuylkill waterworks, which are beautifully situated on the river of that name.
• The town is electric-lighted and has a good system of waterworks.
• The few tents fell, and men in brown uniforms moved hither and thither near the waterworks building.
• Over from the hills in the south came the dull roar of Boer cannon, followed by the reports of the shells exploding in the east near the waterworks.
• The cannon at the drift joined in the attack on the horsemen scattered over the slope, and the big guns at the waterworks continued to reply vigorously.
• These joints are the standard joints specified by the New England Water-Works Association.
• Ennis is also proud of its County Club, of its handsome drapery stores, of its brand-new waterworks, of its hundred and odd whisky-shops, and of its patriots.
• There were quite a number of adequate buildings, most of them connected with the water-works just outside.
• The old family of the private individual must vanish before it, just as the old waterworks of private enterprise, or the old gas company.
• In the same way the municipal waterworks in San Francisco and all the other towns occupied by the Japanese were insured against attack.
• In the light of early dawn on June eleventh the condemned men were led out to the waterworks to be executed, the wounded being conveyed in wagons.
• A little beyond this, on the right, are the remains of the waterworks which supplied the whole city.
• John Coghlan, gave Buenos Ayres its first waterworks.
• But the rich waterworks are the main commendation of the place.
• Waterworks, gas, electric lighting, street railways, telephone systems, are among these.
• In small towns the public electric lighting and waterworks have been operated more economically under one roof.
• Waterworks and probably electric lighting, because of the comparative simplicity of their operation, are more suitable for public ownership than are gas works.
• In the little wooden bungalow over against, the water-works a light had been kindled and gleamed out in a red streak across the Plain.
• By morning the people of Gridley knew that the ruins of the abandoned water-works cottage had been explored, and that the remains of Amos Garwood had not been found there.
• After reconnoitring the Waterworks and the Boer positions on the right bank of the Modder, Colvile came to the conclusion that he was not strong enough to attack them.
• The windmill was part of a simple water-works system, which supplied the village with draughts from the bottom of the river.
• When he saw that she was interested, he went on to tell her of other wonderful triumphs of science, the telephone, the electric light, gas, and the modern system of water-works.
• I mean, water-works not being the fashion when Yorkburg was first begun, nobody has ever thought of putting them in.
• As soon as the steam is blown off the subterranean waterworks fill the tube and the process is repeated.
• Cloud, together with their splendid grounds, have been thrown open, and the water-works set to playing in both places.
• Cloud to see how the English and Americans would enjoy the playing of the water-works.

Similar words containing WATERWORK without suffix s

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