Definitions
Etymologies
- rain + water (Wiktionary)
Examples
“First, go up yourself or send the gardener, and check the roof drains and gutters to assure that the rainwater is able to flow freely and quickly off the roof.”
“DIOP (through translator): We constructed what we call rainwater basins, which allow us to stock rainwater and allow farmers who are poor to cultivate crops after the rain seasons.”
“Water is withdrawn but is generally replaced or recharged when rainwater from the surface percolates downward.”
The Huffington Post: Bill Chameides: Where Has All The Water Gone?
“Since the island has no natural underground source of freshwater, rainwater is collected for drinking and irrigation.”
“A member of the U.S. military reflected in rainwater in a detainee recreation area in Camp One.”
“I think that not being able to ‘harvest’ rainwater is a minus.”
“The barrier will retain rainwater (after hurricanes) from an area of several hundred square kilometers and also prevent the incursion of sea water.”
“Some one stated that the rainwater from the roof was messing up their sewer system ..... someone has that all wrong, rain water is NOT supposed to go into you house sewer drains, it is supposed to go our to the street, where the 'agua pluvial' sewer lines, or gravity will drain it to the lowest point nearby, to be percolated into the ground.”
“It was trash day on my street, and it was there on the sidewalk, covered in rainwater and unloved.”
“The rainwater is covered with yellow “slime,” the pine tree pollen that has been covering everything the past week or so and trigging everyone’s allergies.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘rainwater’.
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Walking in the rain
It's possible someone else has already made a list like this. Maybe their list includes piña coladas - I hope so. I'll be starting mine with a broken umbrella and slippery flip-flops, but feel free...
broken umbrella, slippery flip-flops, rain, worms, cold, wet, mud-luscious, puddle-wonderful, lightning, flooding, mud, storm-water runoff and 18 more...
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Real last names that look like compou...
pennywhistle, drinkwater, goodfellow, applejohn, rainwater, goodfriend, stonecipher, snowball, peacemaker, goodman, brownback, hayslip and 25 more...
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Conversations for the Ages
A list of words that have fascinating conversations on them. Or just, you know, really funny ones. If I missed any, I hope someone will let me know...
Also see a few other Wordizens' l...misuse, slough of despond, drinking problem, sausage fest, vergerhade, baromets, todal, googlewhack, quetzalcoatl, cheesewa, cheesois, absinthe and 187 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, R
retinol, rectory, rhubarb, rancor, recension, rood, redivivus, roborate, redound, ripsnorting, ragtag, recruit and 250 more...
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Libatious Words
worth pouring over
foison, fondant, fondue, font, found, funnel, fusile, libation, fuse, fusion, affusion, circumfuse and 85 more...
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Politics as Usual
US political practices and ideas
family values, states' rights, compassionate con..., second homeless, effete liberals, glittering genera..., blitzcraig, vittersweet, dog-whistle, nattering nabobs ..., sound bites, social conservative and 40 more...
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Glory Glory
All about boarding life.
There is a mixture of positive and negative.claque, sisters, overshare, emotional, bogan, shower timer, harris, patchell, stairs, leave slips, formal dinner, shower roster and 47 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for rainwater.
dontcry The state can have the stale water. I'm keeping the fresh (shh..) Jul 29, 2008
darqueau I like the idea of stale, State-owned water falling from the sky. Jul 29, 2008
darqueau I noticed the same thing reesetee, and thought it was quite curious.
Jul 29, 2008
reesetee Well, thank heavens it's fresh water. We wouldn't want stale water falling as precipitation from clouds. *eye roll* Jul 29, 2008
trivet ps - weirdnet. Jul 28, 2008
reesetee This page never had a chance. Jul 28, 2008
skipvia Wordievolution set in right out of the gate on this one, didn't it? Jul 24, 2008
bilby There are some days when you arrive at a Wordie thread some time after it's started and ... Jul 24, 2008
bestiary or, incidentally, his spank bank.
and what do you mean, chained_bear? rainwater ⇒ uterus ⇒ spigot is perfectly logical. Jul 23, 2008
skipvia Spunk tanks is the funniest euphemism I have heard in ages. Thanks, yarb. Jul 23, 2008
dontcry Uh, huh. If I had a nickle for every time I heard THAT one... Jul 23, 2008
yarb It would only be the spigots that were tiny, dontcry. The size of a man's spigots would bear no relation to that of his spunk tanks. Jul 23, 2008
dontcry I'm not sure that you'd want to call them "little tiny"... Jul 23, 2008
chained_bear *loves this page for its spectacular misplacement of conversational topic* Jul 23, 2008
bestiary i'm not sure you'd want to call them spigots: "pardon; i have to turn off my spigots.." Jul 23, 2008
skipvia From the male perspective, it would be nice to have little tiny spigots that you could turn on or off as needed. Although I'm not sure where you'd put them. Jul 23, 2008
bestiary oh yes. and those!
i'd really like to be able to put my uterus in a jar somewhere and pop it back in when i actually need it. Jul 23, 2008
skipvia But for a vasectomy some years ago, I'd be all over it! Jul 23, 2008
bestiary seems anti-pregnancy measures employed by intellectuals (who realize they don't want or shouldn't have children at the moment) tending to be birth control pills and condoms rather than wishful thinking is somehow working against us! (well, the world.) Jul 23, 2008
chained_bear Who's with me?! Jul 23, 2008
skipvia Besides being a beautiful (if somewhat redundant) word, it seems that it underscores additional support for chained_bear's assertions that intelligent people need to reproduce in ever-increasing numbers. From Planetsave:
"Notch up another one for the members of the Idiots Anonymous who have apparently been camping out in Bellingham, Washington. Apparently, rainwater doesn’t actually belong to individuals, but to the state as a whole. Therefore, all the wonderful efforts of communities to collect water are actually illegal.
Not just frowned upon, or morally unethical, or shifty – all of which water collection is not – but actually illegal, so much so that in the future such legalities could be used in a court of law.
It comes down once again to the simple fact that humanity is doomed to an ever continuing cycle of idiot and misanthropic events and situations that will, eventually, simply wear down those of us with half a brain, and leave planet Earth populated by half-wits and mimes (often the same thing)." Jul 23, 2008