Word: downcutting
Part of speech: Noun
Syllables: down
cu
tting
Definition: An erosion process that deepens a channel by removing material from a stream's bed or a valley's floor.
Morphemes:
Affix: down
Language: en
PoS: Noun
Meaning: A tract of poor, sandy, undulating or hilly land near the sea, covered with fine turf which serves chiefly for the grazing of sheep.
Affix: cut
Language: en
PoS: Noun
Meaning: A notch, passage, or channel made by cutting or digging; a furrow; a groove.
Affix: -ing
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Used to form uncountable nouns from verbs denoting the act of doing something, an action.