embankment
How many syllables in embankment?
There are 3 syllables in the word embankment.How to pronounce embankment:
Synonyms for embankment:
bank
barricade
barrier
breakwater
bulwark
canal
causeway
dam
dike
ditch
earthwork
head
hill
levee
mound
rampart
revetement
revetment
ridge
stone facing
wall
weir
Antonyms for embankment:
depression
ditch
lowland
valley
Here are some other common 3-syllable words.
- dissident
- Desiree
- annoyance
- raucously
- Ptolemaic
- provision
- nauseating
- Napoli
- Mubarak
- impulsive
- depiction
- cognition
- caviar
- cathedral
- ancestral
- sanctity
- redolent
- impulse
- Guglielmo
- fluently
- derailing
- defeatist
- resumption
- pauperize
- millipede
- dopamine
- cyclostyle
- biopsy
- armistice
- après-ski
- shiniest
- relevance
- overtly
- complainer
- befitting
- mystical
- immortals
- embroider
- chastising
- buggier
- palpitate
- overfly
- optimist
- evelight
- diligence
- contradict
- mannishly
- inherit
- incumbent
- complacent
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