avalanche β An avalanche is a large mass of snow that falls down the side of a mountain.
barrage β A barrage is continuous firing on an area with large guns and tanks.
cataclysm β A cataclysm is an event that causes great change or harm.
inundation β to flood; cover or overspread with water; deluge.
spate β a sudden, almost overwhelming, outpouring: a spate of angry words.
torrent β a stream of water flowing with great rapidity and violence.
niagara β a river on the boundary between W New York and Ontario, Canada, flowing from Lake Erie into Lake Ontario. 34 miles (55 km) long.
cataract β Cataracts are layers over a person's eyes that prevent them from seeing properly. Cataracts usually develop because of old age or illness.
overflowing β to flow or run over, as rivers or water: After the thaw, the river overflows and causes great damage.
pour β to send (a liquid, fluid, or anything in loose particles) flowing or falling, as from one container to another, or into, over, or on something: to pour a glass of milk; to pour water on a plant.
rush β to move, act, or progress with speed, impetuosity, or violence.
deluge β A deluge of things is a large number of them which arrive or happen at the same time.
flood β a great flowing or overflowing of water, especially over land not usually submerged.
monsoon β the seasonal wind of the Indian Ocean and southern Asia, blowing from the southwest in summer and from the northeast in winter.
storm β Theodore Woldsen [tey-aw-dawr vawlt-suh n] /ΛteΙͺ ΙΛdΙr ΛvΙlt sΙn/ (Show IPA), 1817β88, German poet and novelist.
cloudburst β A cloudburst is a sudden, very heavy fall of rain.
quantity β a particular or indefinite amount of anything: a small quantity of milk; the ocean's vast quantity of fish.
flow β to move along in a stream: The river flowed slowly to the sea.
glut β to feed or fill to satiety; sate: to glut the appetite.
stream β a body of water flowing in a channel or watercourse, as a river, rivulet, or brook. Synonyms: rill, run, streamlet, runnel.
surge β a strong, wavelike, forward movement, rush, or sweep: the onward surge of an angry mob.
tide β the periodic rise and fall of the waters of the ocean and its inlets, produced by the attraction of the moon and sun, and occurring about every 12 hours.
tsunami β an unusually large sea wave produced by a seaquake or undersea volcanic eruption.
surplus β something that remains above what is used or needed.
drizzle β to rain gently and steadily in fine drops; sprinkle: It drizzled throughout the night.
hail β to pour down on as or like hail: The plane hailed leaflets on the city.
mist β a cloudlike aggregation of minute globules of water suspended in the atmosphere at or near the earth's surface, reducing visibility to a lesser degree than fog.
precipitation β the act of precipitating; state of being precipitated.