Silt

What do we mean by silt?

A sedimentary material consisting of very fine particles intermediate in size between sand and clay. noun

To become filled with silt. intransitive verb

To fill, cover, or obstruct with silt. intransitive verb

A deposit of mud or fine soil from running or standing water; fine earthy sediment: as, a harbor choked up with silt. noun

To choke, fill, or obstruct with silt or mud: commonly with up.

To percolate through crevices; ooze, as water carrying fine sediment.

To become obstructed or choked with silt or sediment: with up.

Mud or fine earth deposited from running or standing water. noun

To choke, fill, or obstruct with silt or mud. transitive verb

To flow through crevices; to percolate. intransitive verb

Mud or fine earth deposited from running or standing water. noun

Material with similar physical characteristics, whatever its origins or transport. noun

A particle from 3.9 to 62.5 microns in diameter, following the Wentworth scale noun

To clog or fill with silt. verb

To become clogged with silt. verb

To flow through crevices; to percolate. verb

Become chocked with silt verb

Mud or clay or small rocks deposited by a river or lake noun

Mud or fine earth deposited from running or standing water.

(by extension) Material with similar physical characteristics, whatever its origins or transport.

A particle from 3.9 to 62.5 microns in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.

Words that are spelled similarly to silt:
silt.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word silt:
loam, silty, loess, subsoil, turbidity, alluvium, uniquely, dredged, consume, deposited, gravel, sediment, detritus, boulders, clay, sand, sedimentation, peat, alluvial, mud, deposits, bedrock, dredging, bottoms, shale, runoff, deposition, eroded, fences, debris, soil, erosion, floods, nile, accumulated, glacial, coarse, sedimentary, currents, spawning, drained, ducks, tidal, washed, muddy, tides, fertile, beds, downstream, sands, particles, fence, estuary, streams, quartz, dams, substrate, dunes, watershed, tributaries, algae, wetlands, deposit, layers, sandy, upstream, reservoir, flooding, vegetation, rivers, shallow, aquatic, bed, flood, freshwater, sandstone, drainage, texture, dam, wash, delta, organic, visibility, stream, flooded, limestone, ash, bottom, basin, tide, layer, coral, plains, irrigation, volcanic, minerals, marsh, lake, rainfall, rocks.

Words that rhyme with silt:
tilt, quilt, gilt, guilt, built, milt, stilt, wilt, lilt, hilt, jilt, kilt, spilt, rebuilt, crazy quilt, unbuilt, overbuilt, to the hilt, continental quilt, patchwork quilt, banded stilt, peterbilt, australian stilt, basket hilt, tobacco wilt, wildt, granville wilt, schilt, schildt, bildt, microbilt, vanderwilt, welbilt.

Adjectives that are often used to describe silt:
fine, sandy, clayey, brown, coarse, rich, much, soft, dark, fertile, grey, gray, more, organic, yellow, black, alluvial, red, nile, glacial, calcareous, light, heavy, laminated, deposited, loose, windblown, grained, finer, blown, inorganic, primary, bottom, medium, thick, marine, muddy, reddish, green, frozen, deep, compact, fresh, yellowish, lacustrine, wet, less, dry, finest, enough, borne, saturated, dense, micaceous, massive, stratified, blue, suspended, chalky, thin, pure, brownish, tan, nonplastic, clean, pale, consolidated, sterile, colored, moist, excessive, unconsolidated, varved, sorted, plastic, fertilizing, homogeneous, abundant, coarser, excess, gravelly, powdery, mixed, terrigenous.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective silt:
clay, loam, size, mixtures, particles, basin, fraction, deposits, sand, bank, material, sediments, clays, soil, basins, loams, beds, load, fractions, layers, layer, trap, stone, water, mixture, rocks, matrix, grains, lands, sandstone, out, bed, soils, creaking, bottom, deposit, range, content, mud, bottoms, stones, deposition, terrace, sediment, bearing, facies, traps, fence, lamp, clearing, charge, jar, settling, rock, clearance, sequence, detention, interface, substrate, flats, accumulation, banks, boston, sandstones, pockets, loan, tire, casting, sizes, contribution, manure, fill, wells, shale, retention.

Consonant match to silt:
salt, celt, sault, sult, solt.

Words that sound like silt:
silt, cilt, sylt, celt, sult, selt, salt, sault, solt, soult, seld, celled, silly, sit, sold, sealed, sill, sailed, spilt, soiled, stilt, sil, cit, sillouette, sills, cil, scylla, sett, cilla, cill, silhoutte, silla, scilla, sald, soled, silty, souled, sylla, siloutte, syl, slt, sitt, sild, seeled, sils, citt, cillo, cills, cila, sitte, cils, smilt, silts, cilli, cyl, psit, scit, cili, syt, zelt, ceiled, psylla, skilt, silked, cyla, syli, scil, wilt, hilt, wildt, schildt, schilt, cell, cells, assult, cel, celts, cella, celo, cet, sals, cels, celie, cela, celi, salu, salue, pset, psl, celle, salih, cette, salaah, celta, salaat, psle, celles, salai, psut, cellae.