Nouns denoting natural events
- onslaught
- a sudden and severe onset of trouble
- fortuity
- anything that happens suddenly or by chance without an apparent cause
- prelude
- something that serves as a preceding event or introduces what follows
- spike
- a transient variation in voltage or current
- reversal
- an unfortunate happening that hinders or impedes; something that is thwarting or frustrating
- run
- a race run on foot
- surcease
- a stopping
- sound
- the sudden occurrence of an audible event
- occultation
- one celestial body obscures another
- bell ringing
- the sound of someone playing a set of bells
- immersion
- sinking until covered completely with water
- wrestling match
- a match between wrestlers
- sky burial
- a traditional Tibetan funeral ritual in which the corpse is exposed to the open air to be eaten by sacred vultures
- eye opener
- something surprising and revealing
- separation
- the termination of employment (by resignation or dismissal)
- comber
- a long curling sea wave
- thunder
- a booming or crashing noise caused by air expanding along the path of a bolt of lightning
- tramp
- a heavy footfall
- migration
- the periodic passage of groups of animals (especially birds or fishes) from one region to another for feeding or breeding
- deletion
- (genetics) the loss or absence of one or more nucleotides from a chromosome
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