- Types Of Speech
- You can use floodgate as a noun in a sentence.
- About Floodgate
- A 2 syllables noun and 9 letters with the letters a, d, e, f, g, l, o, and t, 5 consonants, 4 vowels and 2 syllables with the middle letter d. Floodgate starts with a consonant and ends with a vowel with the starting letters f, fl, flo, floo, flood, and the ending characters are e, te, ate, gate, dgate, . Floodgate is also a double vowel (oo) word. View the double vowel words list.
- Definition
- Regulator consisting of a valve or gate that controls the rate of water flow through a sluice
- Compound Words
- A compound word, floodgate has more than one word within it. There's 2 words which are flood, and gate.
- Pig Latin
- Floodgate in Pig Latin is said as "oodgateflay or oodgateflway".
- Unigram
- f | l | o | o | d | g | a | t | e
- Bigram
- fl | lo | oo | od | dg | ga | at | te
- Trigram
- flo | loo | ood | odg | dga | gat | ate
- Quadrigram
- floo | lood | oodg | odga | dgat | gate
- Word Gram
- Noun Examples
- regulator consisting of a valve or gate that controls the rate of water flow through a sluice
- something that restrains a flood or outpouring;
"suspension of surveillance opened the floodgates to illegal immigrants"
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| Air Lock | |
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View all cognitive synonyms for Floodgate
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| Regulator | a control that maintains a steady speed in a machine (as by controlling the supply of fuel) |
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| Sluice | conduit that carries a rapid flow of water controlled by a sluicegate |
Floodgate Is In These Word Lists
- Starts With F
- Ends With E
- Spelled With / Contains Letters
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