Crossword-Solution: ESTUARY 7 letters, 89 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

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Word Word Type Definition
Estuary n. A place where water boils up; a spring that wells forth.
Estuary n. A passage, as the mouth of a river or lake, where the tide
meets the current; an arm of the sea; a frith.
Estuary a. Belonging to, or formed in, an estuary; as, estuary
strata.

We have 89 clues for the answer “ESTUARY”

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POINT where river and sea meet 1 answer
Sea arm at lower end of a river. 1 answer
River-to-sea connection 1 answer
River-to-ocean connector 1 answer
River-sea link 1 answer
River to ocean connector 1 answer
RIVER tidal mouth 1 answer
RIVER arm 1 answer
RIVER and sea meeting point 1 answer
Place where fresh water and salt water mix 1 answer
Part of a mouth 1 answer
Río de la Plata, e.g. 1 answer
Mouth of the Thames. 1 answer
Many a lagoon 1 answer
MOUTH of tidal river 1 answer
Lower part of a tidal river 1 answer
Broad river mouth 1 answer
Large river mouth 1 answer
Galveston Bay, e.g. 1 answer
Environment with brackish water 1 answer
Form of English inlet 1 answer
Where river and sea meet 1 answer
the wide part of a river where it nears the sea 1 answer
fresh and salt water mix 1 answer
Wide river mouth 1 answer
Wide part of a river where it meets the sea 1 answer
Wide mouth of a river. 1 answer
Wide lower tidal part of a river 1 answer
Where saltwater and freshwater mix 1 answer
Where salt and fresh water mix 1 answer
Where river meets Sea 1 answer
Where fresh and salt waters meet 1 answer
Where a river meets the sea 1 answer
Tidal river. 1 answer
Tidal river mouth 1 answer
Tidal mouth of a river 1 answer
The tidal mouth of a large river 1 answer
TIDAL mouth of large river 1 answer
Puget Sound, e.g. 2 answers
Sea inlet at the mouth of a river 2 answers
River End 2 answers
Little sound 2 answers
Thames area 2 answers
estero 2 answers
Fjord, for example 2 answers
Chesapeake Bay, for example 2 answers
Chesapeake Bay is one 2 answers
Arm of a sea 2 answers
River Mouth area 2 answers
Chesapeake Bay, e.g. 3 answers
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Sentences with ESTUARY (5)

But on the 11th of April it rose suddenly, and land appeared at the mouth of the Amazon River, a vast estuary, the embouchure of which is so considerable that it freshens the sea-water for the distance of several leagues.
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea Jules Verne 1994
Time was when the ships were berthed so close that many had to wait in the estuary outside the walls, and memorials had been sent to the King that the port should be doubled in size to hold the glut of trade.
The Lost Continent C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne 2008
When I was fourteen, my head filled with the tales of the old voyagers, my vision with tropic isles and far sea-rims, I was sailing a small centreboard skiff around San Francisco Bay and on the Oakland Estuary.
John Barleycorn Jack London 2008
The ancient and famous metropolis of the North sits overlooking a windy estuary from the slope and summit of three hills.
Edinburgh Robert Louis Stevenson 2010
The Sofala would be headed towards the somber strip of the coast, which at a given moment, as the ship closed with it obliquely, would show several clean shining fractures--the brimful estuary of a river.
End of the Tether Joseph Conrad 2006

Quotes with ESTUARY (3)

And under the cicadas, deeper down that the longest taproot, between and beneath the rounded black rocks and slanting slabs of sandstone in the earth, ground water is creeping. Ground water seeps and slides, across and down, across and down, leaking from here to there, minutely at a rate of a mile a year. What a tug of waters goes on! There are flings and pulls in every direction at every moment. The world is a wild wrestle under the grass; earth shall be moved. What else is …
Annie Dillard Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
the source of a river is narrow. If you could jump over it in a twinkle of an eye at the source, be sure to ponder before you jump over it at its mid or its estuary.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
To the bankrupt poet, to the jilted lover, to anyone who yearns to elude the doubt within and the din without, the tidal strait between Manhattan Island and her favorite suburb offers the specious illusion of easy death. Melville prepared for the plunge from the breakwater on the South Street promenade, Whitman at the railing of the outbound ferry, both men redeemed by some Darwinian impulse, maybe some epic vision, which enabled them to change leaden water into lyric wine. H…
Jacob M. Appel The Biology of Luck
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Appears in: Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 48 times in crossword archives (1945–2025).