Word Meanings - DOWNPOUR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A pouring or streaming downwards; esp., a heavy or continuous shower.

Related words: (words related to DOWNPOUR)

• POURSUIVANT
  See PURSUIVANT
• POURPARLER
  A consultation preliminary to a treaty.
• POURPARTY
  A division; a divided share. To make pourparty, to divide and apportion lands previously held in common.
• STREAMLET
  A small stream; a rivulet; a rill.
• STREAM WHEEL
  A wheel used for measuring, by its motion when submerged, the velocity of flowing water; a current wheel.
• CONTINUOUSLY
  In a continuous maner; without interruption. -- Con*tin"u*ous*ness, n.
• POURELICHE
  Poorly. Chaucer.
• SHOWER
  1. One who shows or exhibits. 2. That which shows; a mirror. Wyclif.
• HEAVY-HEADED
  Dull; stupid. "Gross heavy-headed fellows." Beau. & Fl.
• POURER
  One who pours.
• STREAM CLOCK
  An instrument for ascertaining the velocity of the blood in a vessel.
• SHOWERY
  1. Raining in showers; abounding with frequent showers of rain. 2. Of or pertaining to a shower or showers. "Colors of the showery arch." Milton.
• POURPOINT
  A quilted military doublet or gambeson worn in the 14th and 15th centuries; also, a name for the doublet of the 16th and 17th centuries worn by civilians.
• STREAM LINE
  The path of a constituent particle of a flowing fluid undisturbed by eddies or the like.
• STREAMLINE
  Of or pert. to a stream line; designating a motion or flow that is free from turbulence, like that of a particle in a streamline; hence, designating a surface, body, etc., that is designed so as to afford an unbroken flow of a fluid about it, esp.
• STREAMINESS
  The state of being streamy; a trailing. R. A. Proctor.
• POURVEYANCE
  See PURVEYANCE
• STREAMY
  1. Abounding with streams, or with running water; streamful. Arcadia However streamy now, adust and dry, Denied the goddess water. Prior. 2. Resembling a stream; issuing in a stream. His nodding helm emits a streamy ray. Pope.
• HEAVY-ARMED
  Wearing heavy or complete armor; carrying heavy arms.
• SHOWERLESS
  Rainless; freo from showers.
• DOWNPOUR
  A pouring or streaming downwards; esp., a heavy or continuous shower.
• OUTPOUR
  To pour out. Milton.
• UPSTREAM
  Toward the higher part of a stream; against the current.
• DISTREAM
  To flow. Yet o'er that virtuous blush distreams a tear. Shenstone.
• TOP-HEAVY
  Having the top or upper part too heavy for the lower part. Sir H. Wotton.
• POTPOURRI
  A medley or mixture. Specifically: A ragout composed of different sorts of meats, vegetables, etc., cooked together. A jar or packet of flower leaves, perfumes, and spices, used to scent a room. A piece of music made up of different airs strung
• THUNDERSHOWER
  A shower accompanied with lightning and thunder.