waterworks

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: wa=ter=works

OXFORD DICTIONARY

waterworks, n.
1 an establishment for managing a water-supply.
2 colloq. the shedding of tears.
3 Brit. colloq. the urinary system.

THESAURUS

waterworks

aqueduct, arroyo, bed, bleachworks, bottling works, brassworks, canal, copperworks, creek bed, culvert, donga, dry bed, dye works, flume, gasworks, glassworks, gulch, gully, gullyhole, headrace, ironworks, irrigation ditch, metalworks, nullah, paper works, printworks, race, river bed, riverway, runnel, saltworks, scrapworks, sluice, soapworks, spillbox, spillway, starchworks, steelworks, stream bed, streamway, swash, swash channel, tailrace, tileworks, tryworks, tubeworks, wadi, water carrier, water channel, water furrow, water gap, water gate, watercourse, waterway, wireworks, works

ROGET THESAURUS

waterworks

Conduit

N conduit, channel, duct, watercourse, race, head race, tail race, abito, aboideau, aboiteau, bito, acequia, acequiador, acequiamadre, arroyo, adit, aqueduct, canal, trough, gutter, pantile, flume, ingate, runner, lock-weir, tedge, vena, dike, main, gully, moat, ditch, drain, sewer, culvert, cloaca, sough, kennel, siphon, piscina, pipe, funnel, tunnel, water pipe, waste pipe, emunctory, gully hole, artery, aorta, pore, spout, scupper, adjutage, ajutage, hose, gargoyle, gurgoyle, penstock, weir, flood gate, water gate, sluice, lock, valve, rose, waterworks, pipeline, vascular.