Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
- corner
- a projecting part where two sides or edges meet
- wormhole
- hole made by a burrowing worm
- Great Mendenhall Glacier
- a glacier of the Piedmont type near Juneau in Alaska
- Snake River
- a tributary of the Columbia River that rises in Wyoming and flows westward; discovered in 1805 by the Lewis and Clark Expedition
- gene delivery vector
- a vector for delivering genes into cells
- dipole molecule
- a molecule that is a permanent dipole
- Araguaia River
- a river in central Brazil that flows generally northward (with many falls) to join the Tocantins River
- Argun River
- a river in eastern Asia that arises in China and flows northeast along the border between China and Russia to become a tributary of the Amur River
- eggshell
- the exterior covering of a bird's egg
- sand bar
- a bar of sand
- Mount Sinai
- a mountain peak in the southern Sinai Peninsula (7,500 feet high); it is believed to be the peak on which Moses received the Ten Commandments
- nebula
- an immense cloud of gas (mainly hydrogen) and dust in interstellar space
- North Sea
- an arm of the North Atlantic between the British Isles and Scandinavia; oil was discovered under the North Sea in 1970
- East China Sea
- part of the Pacific Ocean near eastern Asia
- Arkansas River
- a river that rises in the Rocky Mountains in Colorado and flows southeast through Kansas and Oklahoma and through Arkansas to become a tributary of the Mississippi River
- mud puddle
- a puddle of mud
- Gulf of Riga
- an inlet of the Baltic Sea between Latvia and Estonia
- Orinoco River
- a South American river 1,500 miles long; flows into the South Atlantic
- footwall
- the lower wall of an inclined fault
- hydrogen ion
- a positively charged atom of hydrogen; that is to say, a normal hydrogen atomic nucleus
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