| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| water bailiff | An officer of the customs, whose duty it is to search vessels. | |
| water ballast | Water confined in specially constructed compartments in a vessel’s hold, to serve as ballast. | |
| water battery | A voltaic battery in which the exciting fluid is water., A battery nearly on a level with the water. | |
| water bellows | Same as Tromp. | |
| water boatman | A boat bug. | |
| water buffalo | The European buffalo. | |
| water caltrop | The water chestnut. | |
| water chicken | The common American gallinule. | |
| water deerlet | See Water chevrotain. | |
| water feather | Alt. of Water feather-foil | |
| water flannel | A floating mass formed in pools by the entangled filaments of a European fresh-water alga (Cladophora crispata). | |
| water gilding | The act, or the process, of gilding metallic surfaces by covering them with a thin coating of amalgam of gold, and then volatilizing the mercury by heat; — called also wash gilding. | |
| water hemlock | A poisonous umbelliferous plant (Cicuta virosa) of Europe; also, any one of several plants of that genus., A poisonous plant (/nanthe crocata) resembling the above. | |
| water lettuce | A plant (Pistia stratiotes) which floats on tropical waters, and forms a rosette of spongy, wedge-shaped leaves. | |
| water measure | A measure formerly used for articles brought by water, as coals, oysters, etc. The water-measure bushel was three gallons larger than the Winchester bushel. | |
| water milfoil | Any plant of the genus Myriophyllum, aquatic herbs with whorled leaves, the submersed ones pinnately parted into capillary divisions. | |
| water monitor | A very large lizard (Varanaus salvator) native of India. It frequents the borders of streams and swims actively. It becomes five or six feet long. Called also two-banded monitor, and kabaragoya. The name is also applied to other aquatic monitors. | |
| water murrain | A kind of murrain affecting cattle. | |
| water opossum | See Yapock, and the Note under Opossum. | |
| water parsnip | Any plant of the aquatic umbelliferous genus Sium, poisonous herbs with pinnate or dissected leaves and small white flowers. | |
| water pitcher | A pitcher for water., One of a family of plants having pitcher-shaped leaves. The sidesaddle flower (Sarracenia purpurea) is the type. | |
| waterproofing | noun | The act or process of making waterproof., Same as Waterproof, n., 1. |
| water rattler | The diamond rattlesnake (Crotalus adamanteus); — so called from its preference for damp places near water. | |
| water-retting | present participle & vb. noun | of Water-ret |
| water-rotting | present participle & vb. noun | of Water-rot |
| water soldier | An aquatic European plant (Stratiotes aloides) with bayonet-shaped leaves. | |
| water spaniel | A curly-haired breed of spaniels, naturally very fond of the water. | |
| water sparrow | The reed warbler., The reed bunting. | |
| water spinner | The water spider. | |
| water trefoil | The buck bean. | |
| water wagtail | See under Wagtail. |