Bodies of water vocabulary word list. Bodies of water are such an important part of life. Land and sea, they’re both so awesome in their own ways. But really, what is more beautiful than the amazon river or a desert lake? Either way, these bodies of water have been around for quite a while now and will continue to be around forever.
If you want to learn more about the world of bodies of water then take a look at this awesome list below.
Start With A :
Abyss
Alluvial Fan
Arm Of The Sea
Arroyo
Start With B :
Barrage | Blackwater | Bottomless |
Basin | Blue | Brackish |
Bay | Boating | Breaking |
Bayou | Bodyboarding | Briny |
Bend | Bog | Brook |
Bight | Boiling | Burbling |
Billabong | Bottled | Burning Hot |
Start With C :
Calm | Choppy | Contaminated |
Canal | City | Coral Reef |
Canoeing | Clean | Cove |
Carbonated | Clear | Crashing |
Cataract | Cliff Diving | Crater Lake |
Channel | Coastal | Creek |
Chilly | Cold | Cresting |
Chlorinated | Coming Down | Crystal Clear |
Current |
Start With D :
Dam | Deluge | Drinkable |
Dammed | Dirty | Drinking |
Deep | Distilled | Drip |
Deep Sea | Diving | Drizzling |
Deionized | Downpour | Drop |
Delta | Downstream | Droplet |
Start With E :
Ebb Tide
Eddy
Effluent
Estuary
Start With F :
Falling | Fishing | Flowing |
Falls | Fjord | Foamy |
Fen | Flatwater | Fork |
Fetid | Flavored | Fresh |
Filtered | Floating | Freshwater |
Firth | Flood Stage | Frigid |
Flooding | Frothy |
Start With G :
Geyser
Glacier
Glacier Cave
Glassy
Green
Greywater
Gulch
Gulf
Gully
Start With H :
Harbor
Headland
Headwaters
High
High Tide
High Water
Holy
Hose
Hot
Hydrating
Hydrofoiling
Start With I :
Ice Cliff
Ice Field
Iceberg
Icy
Inlet
Island
Islet
Start With K :
Kayaking
Kettle
Kill
Start With L :
Lagoon
Lake
Levy
Littered
Loch
Low
Low Ebb
Low Tide
Low Water
Lukewarm
Start With M :
Maelstrom | Mirrored | Mucky |
Mangrove Swamp | Mist | Mud Flat |
Marsh | Mizzle | Muddy |
Meander | Moat | Municipal |
Mid-ocean Ridge | Mouth | Murky |
Millpond | Moving | Mineral |
Start With N :
Narrows
Navigable
Neck
Start With O :
Oasis
Ocean
Oceanic Trench
Opaque
Overflowing
Oxbow Lake
Start With P :
Paddleboarding | Playa | Pouring |
Paddling | Polluted | Prairie |
Passable | Pond | Processed |
Pelting | Pool | Puddle |
Perilous | Port | Pure |
Placid | Potable | Purified |
Start With R :
Rafting | Reef | Rivulet |
Rain | Reservoir | Rolling |
Raindrops | Ria | Rough |
Rainfall | Rippling | Rowing |
Rainstorm | River | Run |
Rainwater | River Delta | Runoff |
Rapids | Riverbed |
Start With S :
Saline | Shoreline | Stored |
Salt Marsh | Shower | Storm |
Saltwater | Sleet | Storm Surge |
Salty | Slough | Strait |
Scarp | Snorkeling | Stream |
Scree | Soaking | Subglacial Lake |
Scuba Diving | Sound | Sulfurous |
Sea | Source | Surf |
Sea Cave | Sparkling | Surge |
Seashore | Spilled | Swamp |
Serene | Spray | Swimming |
Shallow | Spring | Swollen |
Shallows | Springs | Stale |
Shoal | Sprinkling | Steamy |
Shore | Squall | Still |
Stagnant |
Start With T :
Tab | Tide | Transparent |
Temperature | Tide Pool | Treated |
Tempestuous | Torrent | Tributary |
Tepid | Torrential | Trickle |
Tidal Basin | Tranquil | Tubing |
Tidal Pool | Turbid |
Start With U :
Undulating
Upstream
Start With W :
Wading | Water Ballet | Wavy |
Wakeboarding | Water Polo | Well Water |
Warm | Waterfall | Wetland |
Wash | Watershed | Whirlpool |
Wastewater | Waterspout | Wild |
Water Aerobics | Waterway | Windsurfing |
If you love the ocean, you’ll love this list. I’ll be adding more words as I learn them. If you have any ideas of what to add, just leave a comment.