Floodgates is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.
You can make 643 anagrams from letters in floodgates (adefgloost).
Middle English word dating back to 1175-1225; See origin at flood, gate1
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.
The pond or reservoir above the floodgate is separated from the weir by a stone wall on the left, or south-west side.
If these happen to be small, let those who sit near them beware; the smaller the floodgate, the smarter will be the stream.
And, crestfallen, she went along the passages, and once more out into floodgate Street.
Meeting his gaze, she unbarred a floodgate of happy tenderness in her eyes.
The dam and floodgate were just beyond the southwestern bastion and the old embankment of the dam can still be traced.