sed·i·ment 
(sĕdə-mənt)
(sĕdə-mənt)n.
1. Material that settles to the bottom of a liquid; lees.
2. Solid fragments of inorganic or organic material that come from the weathering of rock and are carried and deposited by wind, water, or ice.
[Latin sedimentum, act of settling, from sedēre, to sit, settle; see sed- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.]
- merchant marine
- merchant mariner
- Mercia
- Mercian
- Mercier Philip
- merciful
- mercifully
- mercifulness
- merciless
- mercilessly
- mercilessness
- mercur-
- mercur-
- mercurate
- mercuration
- mercurial
- mercurialism
- mercurially
- mercuric
- mercuric chloride
- mercuric sulfide
- mercuro-
- mercurochrome
- mercurous
- mercurous chloride