Word: waterfloods
Part of speech: Noun
Syllables: wa
ter
floods
Definition: Plural of waterflood. To pump water into the ground around an oil well nearing depletion in order to loosen and force out additional oil.
Morphemes:
Affix: water
Language: en
PoS: Verb
Meaning: To wet or supply with water; to moisten; to overflow with water; to irrigate.
Affix: flood
Language: en
PoS: Noun
Meaning: Water as opposed to land.
Affix: -s
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Used to form the plural of nouns that correctly take just an "s" in the plural. See greengrocer’s apostrophe.