Nouns denoting natural phenomena
- hail
- precipitation of ice pellets when there are strong rising air currents
- chance
- an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another
- work
- (physics) a manifestation of energy; the transfer of energy from one physical system to another expressed as the product of a force and the distance through which it moves a body in the direction of that force
- ultrasound
- very high frequency sound; used in ultrasonography
- capillary action
- a phenomenon associated with surface tension and resulting in the elevation or depression of liquids in capillaries
- push
- the force used in pushing
- glow
- a steady even light without flames
- streamer
- light that streams
- aerobiosis
- life sustained in the presence of air or oxygen
- wind power
- power derived from the wind (as by windmills)
- line of force
- an imaginary line in a field of force; direction of the line at any point is the direction of the force at that point
- surface tension
- a phenomenon at the surface of a liquid caused by intermolecular forces
- nuclear power
- nuclear energy regarded as a source of electricity for the power grid (for civilian use)
- lightning
- abrupt electric discharge from cloud to cloud or from cloud to earth accompanied by the emission of light
- variation
- (astronomy) any perturbation of the mean motion or orbit of a planet or satellite (especially a perturbation of the earth's moon)
- brainwave
- (neurophysiology) rapid fluctuations of voltage between parts of the cerebral cortex that are detectable with an electroencephalograph
- foehn
- a warm dry wind that blows down the northern slopes of the Alps
- circulation
- movement through a circuit; especially the movement of blood through the heart and blood vessels
- sandstorm
- a windstorm that lifts up clouds of dust or sand
- sunbeam
- a ray of sunlight
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