Water crossword clue

The most likely answers for the crossword clue “Water” are MAIN, RACE or BOAT, with 4 letters. Below are 90 answers from 3 to 12 letters, best match first in each length, then what each top answer means and how to tell them apart.

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The best answers, explained

PEE 3 letters · noun

liquid excretory product

MAIN 4 letters · noun

any very large body of (salt) water

URINE 5 letters · noun

liquid excretory product “there was blood in his urine”

SHALLOW 7 letters · noun

a stretch of shallow water

IRRIGATE 8 letters · verb

supply with water, as with channels or ditches or streams

IMMERSION 9 letters · noun

sinking until covered completely with water

SPRINKLING 10 letters · noun

the act of sprinkling water in baptism (rare)

DEHYDRATION 11 letters · noun

dryness resulting from the removal of water

DESALINATION 12 letters · noun

the removal of salt (especially from sea water)

Telling them apart

With 4 squares, MAIN, RACE, BOAT, FLOW, POOL and WASH all fit. The first letter tells them all apart: M → MAIN · R → RACE · B → BOAT · F → FLOW · P → POOL · W → WASH. Fill in that crossing answer first.

With 5 squares, URINE, DRINK, PLANE, STEAM, FLOOD and FLOAT all fit. The first letter settles most of it: U → URINE · D → DRINK · P → PLANE · S → STEAM · F → FLOOD, FLOAT. Fill in that crossing answer first.

With 3 squares, PEE, SEA, ICE, POP, WET and JET all fit. The first letter settles most of it: P → PEE, POP · S → SEA · I → ICE · W → WET · J → JET. Fill in that crossing answer first.

Other forms of this clue

Clues often use another form of the word, and the answer then takes the same form: “watered” wants an answer that ends the same way.

What “water” means

• noun: binary compound that occurs at room temperature as a clear colorless odorless tasteless liquid; freezes into ice below 0 degrees centigrade and boils above 100 degrees centigrade; widely used as a sol
• noun: the part of the earth's surface covered with water (such as a river or lake or ocean) (“they invaded our territorial waters”)
• noun: once thought to be one of four elements composing the universe (Empedocles), associated with the humour phlegm
• noun: a facility that provides a source of water (“the town debated the purification of the water supply”)

A clue usually points at one of these senses, so the right answer is the one that matches the sense the puzzle means: check it against the crossing words.

About these answers

We match the clue against our own thesaurus and dictionary (Open English WordNet): words that mean the same as WATER, and words whose definition is WATER. We don't copy answers from newspaper puzzles, so a clue that leans on trivia or wordplay may need the crossing letters instead.