Nouns denoting natural events
- rededication
- a new dedication
- ramification
- a development that complicates a situation
- saltation
- an abrupt transition
- growling
- the sound of growling (as made by animals)
- inferno
- a very intense and uncontrolled fire
- ground fire
- a forest fire that burns the humus; may not appear on the surface
- crackling
- the sharp sound of snapping noises
- back-blast
- backfire from a recoilless weapon
- heartbreaker
- a narrow defeat or a defeat at the last minute
- devastation
- an event that results in total destruction
- tidal wave
- a wave resulting from the periodic flow of the tides that is caused by the gravitational attraction of the moon and sun
- phenomenon
- a remarkable development
- near-death experience
- the experience of being close to death but surviving
- adaptive radiation
- the development of many different forms from an originally homogeneous group of organisms as they fill different ecological niches
- regatta
- a meeting for boat races
- squeak
- a short high-pitched noise
- dip
- a brief immersion
- bun-fight
- (Briticism) a grand formal party on an important occasion
- crepitation rale
- the crackling sound heard on auscultation when patients with respiratory diseases inhale; associated with tuberculosis and pneumonia and congestive heart failure
- experience
- an event as apprehended
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