Word.ws English Dictionary

slickwater

slickwater noun: water with chemical additives used in hydraulic fracturing.

Noun

slickwater (uncountable)

  1. Water with chemical additives used in hydraulic fracturing.

Origin of slickwater

From slick + water.

Questions about slickwater

What does slickwater mean?
Slickwater means water with chemical additives used in hydraulic fracturing.
What part of speech is slickwater?
Slickwater is a noun.

Words near slickwater in the dictionary

  1. slicksters
  2. slickstone
  3. slickstones
  4. slicktop
  5. slicktops
  6. slickwater
  7. slicky boy
  8. slicky slide
  9. slicky slides
  10. slicy
  11. slid

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: slickwater (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “slickwater.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/slickwater. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.