borehole
/ˈbɔːhəʊl
/noun
A deep, narrow hole made in the ground, especially to locate water or oil.Encia workmen are punching boreholes deep into the ground to suck up oily chemicals which leaked into aquifers far beneath the surface....
- Then a specific place in the center of each grid has been selected for excavating the geotechnical borehole.
- In extracting geothermal energy from hot dry rock, cold water is pumped down into the rock mass to pass through fractures and exit from a borehole or set of boreholes.
Rhymes
- live for the moment
- live goods
- live heading
- live high on (or off) the hog
- livehood
- live-in
- live in hope
- live in sin
- live in the past
- live it up
- livelihead
- livelihood
- live like a king (or queen)
- live like a lord
- livelily
- liveliness
- live load
- livelong
- lively
- lively-looking
- liven
- livener
- liveness
- live oak
- live off (or on)