Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
- scale
- a thin flake of dead epidermis shed from the surface of the skin
- Mozambique Channel
- an arm of the Indian Ocean between Madagascar and southeastern Africa
- Annapurna
- a mountain in the Himalayas in Nepal (26,500 feet high)
- metal filing
- a fragment of metal rubbed off by the use of a file
- billabong
- a branch of a river made by water flowing from the main stream only when the water level is high
- Coropuna
- a mountain peak in the Andes in Peru (21,083 feet high)
- Denebola
- a star in Leo approximately 43 light years from Earth
- landfall
- the seacoast first sighted on a voyage (or flight over water)
- watercourse
- natural or artificial channel through which water flows
- bilestone
- a calculus formed in the gall bladder or its ducts
- Mount Parnassus
- (Greek mythology) a mountain in central Greece where (according to Greek mythology) the Muses lived; known as the mythological home of music and poetry
- Gulf of Guinea
- a gulf off the southwest coast of Africa
- North Channel
- a strait between Northern Ireland and Scotland that connects the Atlantic Ocean and the Irish Sea
- Lake Winnipeg
- a lake in southern Canada in Manitoba
- neck
- a narrow elongated projecting strip of land
- foreshore
- the part of the seashore between the highwater mark and the low-water mark
- Korean Strait
- a strait between Korea and Japan; connects the East China Sea and the Sea of Japan
- escarpment
- a long steep slope or cliff at the edge of a plateau or ridge; usually formed by erosion
- core
- a cylindrical sample of soil or rock obtained with a hollow drill
- snowfield
- a permanent wide expanse of snow
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