Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
| arefaction | the act of drying, or the state of growing dry. |
| arefy | to dry up. |
| arid | very dry. |
| aridity | the state of being arid. |
| aridly | (Adv.) ARID, very dry. |
| aridness | the state of being arid. |
| barken | to dry up into a barky crust. |
| bedabble | to dabble. |
| bedash | to wet by dashing or throwing water or other liquid upon. |
| bedew | to wet with dew. |
| bedrench | to drench; to soak. |
| bedrop | to sprinkle, as with drops. |
| beduck | to duck, drench. |
| beliquor | to soak with liquor. |
| bewet | (Shakesp.) to make wet. |
| blash | (Scots) a dash or splash of liquid or semiliquid (verb) to splash |
| clammily | (Adv.) CLAMMY, unpleasantly damp. |
| clammy | unpleasantly damp. |
| daggle | to trail, so as to wet or befoul. |
| damp | moist (noun) moistness; (verb) to lessen in intensity |
| dampen | to moisten. |
| dampener | a thing that dampens; (US) a contrivance for moistening linen etc. |
| dampish | somewhat damp. |
| dampishness | the state of being dampish. |
| damply | (Adv.) DAMP, to lessen in intensity. |
| dampness | the state of being damp. |
| dampy | somewhat damp. |
| dank | damp (noun, Milton) a wet place |
| dankly | (Adv.) DANK, damp. |
| dankness | the state of being dank. |
| dehydration | loss or withdrawal of moisture. |
| deluge | to flood. |
| desiccant | a drying or desiccating agent. |
| desiccate | to remove the moisture from, dry up. |
| desiccation | the state of being desiccated. |
| desiccative | a drying agent. |
| dew | moisture deposited from the air on cooling (verb) to moisten as with dew |
| disponge | to sprinkle or discharge as if from a sponge. |
| drench | a draught; a dose of liquid medicine forced down the throat (of an animal); (verb) to wet thoroughly. |
| drencher | something that drenches. |
| drily | (Adv.) DRY, not wet. |
| drook | (Scots) to drench. |
| dropple | a trickle. |
| drought | a dry period. |
| droughtiness | the state of being droughty. |
| droughty | characterized by drought. |
| drouk | (Scots) to drench. |
| drouth | drought. |
| dry | not wet (noun) a prohibitionist (verb) to make dry |
| dryable | that can be dried. |
| dryish | somewhat dry. |
| dryly | (Adv.) DRY, not wet. |
| dryness | the state of being dry. |
| dunk | to dip into liquid. |
| dunker | one who dunks. |
| embrue | to wet or moisten. |
| ensear | (Shakesp.) to dry up. |
| exsiccant | (Something) having the quality of drying up. |
| exsiccate | to dry up. |
| exsiccative | serving to dry up. |
| flouse | (Dial.) to splash. |
| floush | (Dial.) to splash. |
| flowage | an overflowing with water; also, the water which thus overflows. |
| fluxion | the act of flowing. |
| gizzen | (Scots) to shrink from dryness so as to leak. |
| gloop | thick viscous liquid (verb) to plop slowly and heavily |
| guttate | to exude liquid by guttation. |
| guttation | the release of drops of moisture. |
| hirstie | (Scots) dry, barren. |
| histie | (Scots) dry, barren. |
| humect | to moisten. |
| humectate | to moisten; to wet. |
| humectation | the act of moistening. |
| humective | something tending to moisten. |
| humefy | (Obs.) to moisten. |
| humid | having much humidity. |
| humidify | to moisten, make humid. |
| humidly | (Adv.) HUMID, having much humidity. |
| humidness | the state of being humid. |
| humify | to moisten. |
| hydric | adapted to life with an abundance of moisture. |
| hydrically | (Adv.) HYDRIC, pertaining to an abundance of moisture. |
| hyperarid | excessively arid. |
| imbrue | to wet or moisten. |
| immerge | to immerse; to dip into water. |
| immerse | to plunge into a liquid. |
| immersion | the act of immersing. |
| indrench | (Obs.) to submerge in water. |
| inpour | to pour in. |
| introfy | to increase the wetting properties of. |
| inundant | overflowing. |
| inundate | to overwhelm with water. |
| irriguous | watered; wet; irrigating. |
| jabble | (Scots) to splash, ripple. |
| jap | to splash or spatter. |
| jaup | (Scots) to splash or spatter. |
| jirble | (Scots) to pour splashingly. |
| leakage | the act or an instance of leaking. |
| lyophilise | to dry by freezing. |
| lyophiliser | an agent that lyophilises. |
| lyophilize | to dry by freezing. |
| macerate | to steep or soak. |
| madefaction | moistening. |
| madefy | (Arch.) to moisten. |
| madid | wet; dank. |
| mersion | (Obs.) dipping, as in baptism. |
| moist | damp (verb, Shakesp.) to moisten |
| moisten | to make or become moist. |
| moistener | something that moistens. |
| moistful | full of moisture. |
| moistify | to make moist. |
| moistly | (Adv.) MOIST, damp. |
| moistness | the state of being moist. |
| moisture | condensed or diffused liquid. |
| moistureless | without moisture. |
| moisturise | to add moisture to. |
| moisturize | to add moisture to. |
| niagara | a deluge or outpouring. |
| oose | (Scots) fluff, nap. |
| overdry | to dry too much. |
| oversoak | to soak excessively. |
| overwet | to wet excessively. |
| parch | to make very dry. |
| parchedly | (Adv.) PARCHED, very dry. |
| parchedness | the state of being parched. |
| plash | a dash of water (verb) to splash, dash with water |
| plasher | one who plashes. |
| plashy | relating to a plash, a shallow pool or puddle. |
| plesh | (Spenser) a pool; a plash. |
| plotter | one who plots; (verb, Scots) to dabble in liquid; to potter. |
| plouter | (Scots) to dabble in liquid; to potter. |
| plowter | (Scots) to dabble in liquid; to potter. |
| poachy | spongy and sodden. |
| premoisten | to moisten beforehand. |
| presoak | to soak beforehand. |
| puddly | full of puddles. |
| redry | to dry again. |
| remoisten | to moisten again. |
| resoak | to soak again. |
| rewet | to wet again. |
| saturate | to fill completely with something that permeates. |
| saturation | complete infiltration. |
| scoosh | to squirt, spurt. |
| seepage | the action of seeping; water or other liquid that has seeped. |
| seepy | tending to seep. |
| semidry | half dry. |
| semidrying | not drying completely. |
| semimoist | slightly moist. |
| sere | scorched, withered (noun) a series of ecological communities; (verb) to dry up, wither |
| siccative | a drying agent. |
| siccity | dryness, aridity. |
| sipe | (Dial.) to soak through, seep. |
| sket | (Dial.) to splash water. |
| skoosh | (Scots) to squirt, spurt. |
| slocken | (Scots) to quench, moisten. |
| sloken | (Scots) to quench, moisten. |
| sloppiness | the state of being sloppy. |
| sloppy | wet or muddy. |
| sloshy | splashy. |
| sluicy | falling copiously or in streams, as from a sluice. |
| soak | to saturate thoroughly in liquid. |
| soakage | the process or period of soaking. |
| soakingly | (Adv.) SOAKING, very wet. |
| sodden | wet through (verb) to make or become sodden |
| soddenly | (Adv.) SODDEN, wet through. |
| soddenness | the state of being sodden. |
| sog | (Dial.) a wet place (verb) to soak |
| soggily | (Adv.) SOGGY, soaked. |
| sogginess | the state of being soggy. |
| soggy | soaked. |
| sop | bread or other food dipped or soaked in liquid (verb) to soak |
| sozzle | to splash, soak; to intoxicate SOZZLY. |
| spairge | to sprinkle (with moisture). |
| sparge | to sprinkle (with moisture). |
| spirt | to spurt. |
| splash | the effect of an impact into a liquid (verb) to scatter a liquid about |
| splasher | one that splashes. |
| splashily | (Adv.) SPLASHY, given to splashing. |
| splashiness | the state of being splashy. |
| splashy | given to splashing. |
| splatch | (Scots) a splash, a splotch; (verb) to splotch. |
| splatter | to spatter, to splash. |
| splish | to splash. |
| splodge | a big, heavy splash or spot (verb) to make a splash |
| sploosh | to splash. |
| splosh | to splash. |
| splotch | a big, heavy splash or spot (verb) to make a splash |
| splurt | to gush forth in a stream or jet. |
| spouty | issuing in a spout. |
| spray | a cloud of small flying drops (verb) to disperse in fine particles to chap, roughen |
| sprayey | in a spray. |
| spritz | (Ger.) a spray of liquid; (verb) to spray (liquid). |
| spritzy | emitting a spray. |
| spume | foam (verb) to foam |
| spumescence | foaminess, frothiness. |
| spurt | a sudden or violent gush; (verb) to gush forth. |
| squatter | (Dial.) to splash water about. |
| squidgy | unpleasantly damp, clammy. |
| squirt | a jet, a spurt; (verb) to eject in a thin, swift stream. |
| stillicide | a succession of drops of water, esp falling from the eaves of a house. |
| subarid | slightly arid. |
| subsaturation | a state of incomplete saturation. |
| sunbake | to bake eg mud hard by the action of sun. |
| swash | a wash of liquid, eg of water over a beach (verb) to dash, to splash |
| swatter | (Dial.) to splash water about. |
| sype | (Dial.) to soak through, seep. |
| torrefaction | the act of torrefying. |
| tricklet | a little trickle. |
| ultradry | very very dry. |
| unmoistened | not moistened. |
| unsoaked | not soaked. |
| unsod | not boiled, not sodden. |
| unwet | not wet. |
| unwetted | not wetted. |
| updry | to dry completely. |
| washily | (Adv.) WASHY, watery; damp. |
| washiness | the state of being washy. |
| washy | watery, damp. |
| waterlog | to saturate. |
| wet | not dry (verb) to make wet |
| wetly | (Adv.) WET, not dry. |
| wetness | the state of being wet. |
| wetproof | waterproof. |
| wettability | the ability to be wetted. |
| wettable | capable of being wetted. |
| wetter | something that wets. |
| wettish | somewhat wet. |
| xeransis | (Greek) a drying up. |
| xerantic | relating to xeransis, a drying up. |