Term: levee: an embankment that is built in order to prevent a river from overflowing
Broader: embankment: a long artificial mound of stone or earth; built to hold back water or to support a road or as protection | Unrelated: hard currency: a currency that is not likely to depreciate suddenly in value
Broader: embankment: a long artificial mound of stone or earth; built to hold back water or to support a road or as protection | Unrelated: flowering ash: shrubby ash of southwestern United States having fragrant white flowers
Broader: embankment: a long artificial mound of stone or earth; built to hold back water or to support a road or as protection | Unrelated: troy unit: any of the unit of the troy system of weights
Broader: embankment: a long artificial mound of stone or earth; built to hold back water or to support a road or as protection | Unrelated: pachycephalosaur: bipedal herbivore having 10 inches of bone atop its head; largest boneheaded dinosaur ever found
Broader: embankment: a long artificial mound of stone or earth; built to hold back water or to support a road or as protection | Unrelated: high-level formatting: (computer science) the format for the root directory and the file allocation tables and other basic configurations
Broader: embankment: a long artificial mound of stone or earth; built to hold back water or to support a road or as protection | Unrelated: sir: term of address for a man
Broader: embankment: a long artificial mound of stone or earth; built to hold back water or to support a road or as protection | Unrelated: queen: the wife or widow of a king
Broader: embankment: a long artificial mound of stone or earth; built to hold back water or to support a road or as protection | Unrelated: shortness: the property of being truncated or short
Broader: embankment: a long artificial mound of stone or earth; built to hold back water or to support a road or as protection | Unrelated: greenwich mean time: the local time at the 0 meridian passing through Greenwich, England; it is the same everywhere
Broader: embankment: a long artificial mound of stone or earth; built to hold back water or to support a road or as protection | Unrelated: early bird: a person who arrives early before others do