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| Domain | Definition |
Geography | Dry, vegetation-free, flat area at the lowest part of an undrained desert basin, underlain by stratified clay, silt or sand, and commonly by soluble salts. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | See:playa. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
![]() | M2-F2 Crash on Rogers Dry Lake. Credit: NASA. | ![]() | HL-10 On Rogers Dry Lake Bed With Pilots. Credit: NASA. |
![]() | X-1E On Rogers Dry Lake With Collapsed Nose Gear. Credit: NASA. | ![]() | On a dry lake bed White 1 and 1/2 ton truck Astro party of C.V. Hodgson. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
![]() | A dry lake bed flooded by late spring rains Level crew of Paul Taylor. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. | ![]() | Desert Shadows Leveling across a dry lake bed. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
Dust devil in a dry lake bed. Credit: Tillman. | |||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
dry lake | 7 |
bed dry lake | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "DRY LAKE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | playa (kavir, playa, sabkha, takir, vloer). (various references) | |
Dutch | playa (kavir, playa, sabkha, takir, vloer). (various references) | |
Finnish | playa (kavir, playa, sabkha, takir, vloer). (various references) | |
French | playa. (various references) | |
German | Playa (kavir, playa, sabkha, takir, vloer). (various references) | |
Greek | συλλεκτήρια λεκάνη (kavir, playa, sabkha, takir, vloer). (various references) | |
Italian | playa (kavir, playa, sabkha, takir, vloer). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ydray akelay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | playa (kavir, playa, sabkha, takir, vloer), planície salgada (kavir, playa, sabkha, takir, vloer). (various references) | |
Swedish | playa (kavir, playa, sabkha, takir, vloer). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-k-l-r-y" | |
-1 letter: darkle, darkly, dearly, larked. | |
-2 letters: alder, alkyd, deary, delay, deray, drake, early, lader, laked, laker, lardy, larky, layed, layer, leady, leaky, leary, lyard, raked, rayed, ready, redly, relay, ryked. | |
-3 letters: aery, alky, aryl, dale, dare, dark, deal, dear, dray, drek, dyer, dyke, earl, eyra, kale, kyar, lade, lady, lake, laky, lard, lark, lead. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-k-l-r-y" | |
+1 letter: kaleyard, markedly. | |
+2 letters: kaleyards, skylarked. | |
+5 letters: daydreamlike, holidaymaker. | |
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