FLOODWALL

Domain	Definition
Hydrologic	A long, narrow concrete, or masonry embankment usually built to protect land from flooding. If built of earth the structure is usually referred to as a levee. Floodwalls and levees confine streamflow within a specified area to prevent flooding. The term "dike" is used to describe an embankment that blocks an area on a reservoir or lake rim that is lower than the top of the dam. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Misspellings: FLOODWALL

Anagrams: FLOODWALL

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-f-l-l-l-o-o-w"
	-3 letters: fallow, follow.
	-4 letters: aldol, allod, allow, aloof, flood, loofa, waldo, woald.
	-5 letters: alow, awol, doll, fado, fall, flaw, flow, foal, fold, food, fool, fowl, lall, load, loaf, loll, loof, olla, wall, woad, wold, wolf, wood, woof, wool.
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Alternative Orthography: FLOODWALL

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

HTML Code (1990) (references)

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

Specialty Definition: FLOODWALL

Misspellings
	"FLOODWALL" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Blodwell, Flotwell. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).