Sluiceway is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.
You can make 371 anagrams from letters in sluiceway (aceilsuwy).
An Americanism dating back to 1770-80; sluice + way1
The men hastily withdrew, first taking the precaution to remove the plank that covered the sluiceway.
The plank over that sluiceway makes a lot of racket, and the scoundrel may hear us and slip away.
Then came the grand finish —the closing of this sluiceway through the dam.
Entrance was made at last through the sluiceway, or open sewer, draining out under the city walls.
With cautious strokes they paddled on until a sudden glimpse of the sluiceway leading under the mill caused them to pull up short.
A pond, with a sluiceway which, when opened, gives on the ravine.
Booms were strung, forming a funnel of which the sluiceway was the outlet.
He could not escape, for the removal of the plank from the sluiceway made the place literally an island.
Cottrell chose a spot overlooking the packed logs and the sliding water of the sluiceway.
"He must, because he ain't in the sluiceway," remarked the tall boy.