Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An unpredictable, abnormally large wave that occurs on a seemingly random basis in the oceans.
Wiktionary
- n. surfing A freak, large wave.
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘rogue wave’.
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Waves and Waveforms
wave, brainwave, soliton, traveling wave, tidal wave, transverse wave, capillary wave, cats' paws, alpha wave, light wave, microwave, acoustic wave and 314 more...
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ENVI - Collocations RS
race relations, rack bar, rack-raking machine, radial drainage, radial flow to a ..., radial gate, radial gate with ..., radial tyre, radial velocity, radial velocity o..., radial water coll..., radial-gate weir and 4474 more...
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Public List: Rogues' Gallery
I got momentarily interested in the description of various phenomena as "rogue ___." Don't know how far this will go, but have at it.
rogue nation, rogue state, rogue trader, rogue wave, rogue sapling, rogue-eyed, rogue river, rogue planet, rogue elephant, rogueword, rogue priest
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Underwaterritory
When you're underwater, what do you see or experience? Let's dive...
(Here's a cute little related list called Fishful Thinking...)underwater, curglaff, submarine, underwater habitat, diving bell, paravane, bottom trawling, sediment traps, torpedo, mines, shipwreck, sonar and 214 more...
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The Waves
In the water. See also waves-and-waveforms.
comber, groundswell, wavelet, tidal wave, billow, breaker, seiche, mirobia, rolling wave, surge, swell, bow-wave and 40 more...
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Driftology
Words combed from 'Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists, and Fools, Including the Author,Who Went in Search of Them.'
driftology, beachcomber, skookum, wrack, jackstraw, driftologist, garbage patch, ghost net, autodumbfoundment, phytoplankton, gyre, hindcast and 58 more...
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skipvia's Words
syzygy, egg, lossy, catharsis, impuissance, truckle, obsequious, sequoia, sonot khazoot, alizarin, sepulchre, klister and 434 more...
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skipvia A wave that poses significant danger to ships at sea. Defined as a wave whose height is more than twice the significant wave height (SWH), which is defined as the mean of the largest third of waves in a wave record; a.k.a a really big wave. Jan 29, 2008