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Answer for the clue "Activity intended to produce rain ", 10 letters:
rainmaking

Word definitions for rainmaking in dictionaries

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Rainmaking is a weather modification ritual that attempts to invoke rain . Among the best known examples of weather modification rituals are North American rain dances , historically performed by many Native American tribes, particularly in the Southwestern ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. activity intended to produce rain

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The attempted artificial production of rain, either by use of magic or by seeding clouds 2 (context US informal English) Hiring someone who creates business opportunities or revenue.

Usage examples of rainmaking.

Lanyon s rainmaking device, its tests had not come up to specifications.

As the three of them headed back up the same slope, Longarm saw that same balloon still floating a whole lot higher, and idly wondered if he was fixing to meet the famous Rainmaking Ruggles.

You had a body worried, scouting a spell up yonder, before you rode down to hit town from this side with everyone else up the other way watching them fool rainmaking gals.

Dad Jergens, and I do believe them rainmaking gals call themselves the Ruggles sisters, now that I think back.

I got to get on over to that rainmaking operation before real trouble starts in these parts.

One of my customers showed us the newspaper article saying they had a government patent for their rainmaking balloon!

So he had no call to ask how two adventurous young gals had come by all this rainmaking flim-flammery.

So once those rainmaking gals came over the horizon to threaten your winter wheat harvest with unseasonable rain, you thought you collected a handsome payoff in hopes of a dry harvest.

Rainmaking spoke against Theamh--and for this scheme, at least, Rainmaking is irrelevant.

The king was anxious for the rainmaking incantations to begin, but Mr.

If the grass was dry enough to warrant rainmaking, it was too dry to be bent.

I had to be ready with two versions of my sermon, depending on whether the rainmaking was or was not successful.