Floodgate is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.
You can make 331 anagrams from letters in floodgate (adefgloot).
Middle English word dating back to 1175-1225; See origin at flood, gate1
If these happen to be small, let those who sit near them beware; the smaller the floodgate, the smarter will be the stream.
The inventor of the damper register opened a floodgate to such aliquot re-enforcement as can be got in no other way.
He raised the floodgate, and there at last was a way of escape.
Meeting his gaze, she unbarred a floodgate of happy tenderness in her eyes.
And, crestfallen, she went along the passages, and once more out into floodgate Street.
The dam and floodgate were just beyond the southwestern bastion and the old embankment of the dam can still be traced.
The pond or reservoir above the floodgate is separated from the weir by a stone wall on the left, or south-west side.
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