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Bodies Of Water: Complete List
Kate Broome
1, February 2018 | Last Updated: 3, March 2020
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Here is a complete list of all the different bodies of water and their definitions. These bodies of water can either be man-made or naturally occurring:

Arroyo – a dry creek bed that can temporarily flood after rain
Artificial lake (AKA reservoir) – a manmade lake, often used for communities
Arm of the sea – a narrow extension or reach of an ocean
Basin – an area where rain and water is collected and flows into another outlet, also where melted snow drains to
Barachois – a body of water separated from the ocean by a sandbar
Bay – a body of water that has a barrier on 3 sides, but is smaller than a gulf (Example: The Bay of Bengal)
Bayou – a marshy area of rivers or lakes
Bight – a curved, or recessed, coastline
Beck – a stream that comes from a mountain
Brook – a tiny stream
Burn – a channel that can vary in size from a stream to a river
Channel – the actual barriers of a river, ocean, or any body of water that has banks and a bed
Canal – a manmade waterway connecting 2 bodies of water (Example: Panama canal)
Cove – a sheltered inlet (or bay) associated with either oceans, rivers, or lakes
Creek – a stream, tributary, or brook of a river
Tidal creek – a creek that is affected by the tides of the ocean

Distributary channel – a stream that flows away from the main channel often seen in river deltas
Delta – the location where a river flows to. It can be the ocean, lake, reservoir, etc.
Draw – a dry creek bed that can flood during heavy rains (like an arroyo)
Estuary – an estuary is typically the point where rivers meet the sea
Fjord – a narrow inlet of ocean between mountainous cliffs
Firth – a Scottish term used to explain where the river meets the sea (is another word for estuary)
Glacier – a large chunk of frozen ice that moves slowly down a mountain
Gulf – an area of water surrounded by three sides, larger than a bay (Example: Gulf of Mexico)
Harbor – typically a man-made (but can be natural) body of water where boats and ships are “parked” away from ocean currents (Example of an artificial harbor: Port of Houston) (Example of a natural harbor: Boston Harbor)
Headland – an area of water bordered on three sides by land
Impound – a man-made body of water created by a damming source, it is often used as flood control
Inlet – a body of saltwater that can have a mixture of characteristics from these different bodies of water: cove, bay, estuary, fjord, river, or sea loch
Kettle lake – a shallow and material rich body of water created by glacial ice moving
Kill – used by the Dutch to describe a river, or arm of the sea
Lagoon – a shallow saltwater (or brackish) body of water that is separated from the deeper ocean by coral or a sandbanks
Loch – a Scottish term used to describe a lake or inlet of water
Lake – a freshwater body of water, can be large that is contained within a piece of land
Marsh – a shallow wetland area featuring plants such as; grasses, reeds, typhus, etc.
Mere – a body of water that is larger than it is deep (Example: Aqualate Mere, Staffordshire, England)
Millpond – a reservoir built for the sole purpose of providing running water to watermills
Moat – a deep water-filled trench surrounding something (like a castle, town, etc.)
Ocean – a major body of saltwater. Oceans cover over 70% of the Earth’s surface
Oxbow lake – a U-shaped lake created when a river is cut off and produces a lake
Pool – small man-made bodies of water, like a swimming pool, pond, etc.
Pond – small body of water that can house animals. Can be artificial or natural
Phytolelma – a small body of water housed in a cavity in plats (hence the prefix phyto)
Puddle – small area of water, typically caused by water on the ground. Fun to jump in
Rill – a very shallow channel of water caused by erosion. Can be artificial or natural
River – a natural waterway that is created by either glacial runoff or melting snow that drains into the sea. Flows from high ground to low ground (Example: The Amazon river)
Roadstead – a location (not in a harbor) where a ship can drop anchor in an enclosed area that opens to the ocean. Smaller than a bay or gulf
Run – a small smoothly flowing stream
Sea – a large expanse of salt water that is enclosed by land. Often used as a synonym with ocean (Example: Bering Sea)

Saltmarsh – an area along the coast that is oftentimes flooded with salt water
Sea lough – a fjord, bay, estuary, or sea inlet
Seep – body of water that is created by a spring
Source – point from which river flows
Sound – a very large sea/inlet that is: larger than a bay, deeper than a bight, might be narrow between 2 land bodies and is wider than a fjord
Strait – narrow channel that connects 2 bodies of water between 2 landmasses
Spring – a point where groundwater flows to the ground
Stream – small and narrow body of water with a slight current
Subglacial lake – a lake that is permanently frozen by ice
Swamp – a wetland area that has a permanent large body of water
Tarn – a mountain pool formed from a glacier
Tributary – a stream that flows to another stream
Tidepool – rocky pool next to the ocean and is filled with salt water
Vernal pool – a shallow area that occasionally holds water (it is seasonal)
Wadi / Wash – a dry bed that will fill with water after heavy rain (just like an arroyo)
Wetland – an environment characterized by saturated land

#10 A Long Petal of the Sea has a duplicate at #163.

Thanks Vicki, I've cleared the duplicates.