Washout

Noun

 * 1) An act of washing something out, or an appliance or device for doing so.
 * The cistern was fitted with washouts and air-valves.
 * 1)  The cleaning of matter from a physiological system using a fluid.
 * 2)  The action whereby falling rainwater clean particles from the air.
 * 3) A channel produced by the erosion of a relatively soft surface by a sudden gush of water.
 * 4)  A disappointment or total failure; an unsuccessful person.
 * As an actor, he was a complete washout, so he went back to accounting.
 * 1) A sporting fixture that could not be completed because of rain.
 * 2) The aerodynamic effect of a small twist in the shape of an aircraft wing

Thesaurus
ablution, airmanship, alluvion, alluvium, also-ran, bankrupt, bollix, bomb, botch, breakdown, breaking up, breakup, brief, briefing, bungle, bust, cataclysm, catastrophe, cave, cave-in, cleaning out, collapse, crack-up, crash, debacle, deluge, disaster, douche, douching, dud, dull thud, elution, elutriation, enema, engulfment, failure, false alarm, fiasco, fizzle, flat failure, flight plan, flood, flop, floperoo, flunk, flush, flushing, flushing out, flying lessons, foozle, frost, hash, inundation, irrigation, lathering, lavabo, lavage, lavation, laving, lemon, loser, mess, mopping, mopping up, muddle, overflow, overflowing, overrunning, pilot training, pilotship, rinse, rinsing, rundown, scouring, scrub, scrubbing, scrubbing up, shampoo, shipwreck, smash, smashup, soaping, spill, spillage, sponge, sponging, submersion, swabbing, the Deluge, the Flood, total loss, turkey, wash, washing, washing up, washup, whelming, wiping up, wrack, wreck

Alternative forms

 * wash-out

Etymology
From the verb wash out:.

Anagrams

 * outwash