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depositnoun(banking) Money placed in a bank account, as for safekeeping or to earn interest.
depositsnoun(banking) Money placed in a bank account, as for safekeeping or to earn interest.
footsnounThe settlings of oil, molasses, etc., at the bottom of a barrel or hogshead.
rocksnoun(slang) Money.
detritusnoun(by extension) Any debris or fragments of disintegrated material.
leesnounThe sediment that settles during fermentation of beverages, consisting of dead yeast and precipitated parts of the fruit.
dregsnoun(figuratively, the dregs) The worst and lowest part of something.
siltnoun(uncountable) Mud or fine earth deposited from running or standing water.
residuenounThat which persists or remains following the removal or elimination of other elements.
alluviumnounsoil, clay, silt or gravel deposited by flowing water, as it slows, in a river bed, delta, estuary or flood plain
mucknounAnything filthy or vile. Dirt; something that makes another thing dirty.
loamnoun(geology) A type of soil; an earthy mixture of sand, silt and clay, with organic matter to which its fertility is chiefly due.
precipitatenoun(transitive) To make something happen suddenly and quickly.
settlingsnounsediment that has settled at the bottom of a liquid
tillnoun(chiefly British) A cash register.
sludgenounA residual semi-solid material left from industrial, water treatment, or wastewater treatment processes.
driftnoun(physical) Movement; that which moves or is moved.
particulatesalt=A computer graphic showing how many PM particles can be wrapped around a human hair and how several PM particles can be wrapped around PM|thumb|PM and PM compared with a human hair in a graphic from the Environmental Protection Agency
gravelnoun(uncountable) Small fragments of rock, used for laying on the beds of roads and railways, and as ballast.
mudnoun(Venezuelan politics) Democratic Unity Roundtable, a coalition of opposition political parties in Venezuela.

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