Open English Wordnet
Nouns
(n)climax, flood tidethe highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding“the climax of the artist's career”, “in the flood tide of his success”
(n)flood tide, flood, rising tidethe occurrence of incoming water (between a low tide and the following high tide)“a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune” (Shakespeare)