Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
- honeycomb
- a structure of small hexagonal cells constructed from beeswax by bees and used to store honey and larvae
- lagune
- a body of water cut off from a larger body by a reef of sand or coral
- continental glacier
- a glacier that spreads out from a central mass of ice
- Nan River
- a river of western Thailand flowing southward to join the Ping River to form the Chao Phraya
- groundwater level
- underground surface below which the ground is wholly saturated with water
- siderite
- a meteorite consisting principally of nickel and iron
- Ligurian Sea
- an arm of the Mediterranean between northwest Italy and Corsica
- Kasai River
- a river of southwestern Africa that rises in central Angola and flows east and then north (forming part of the border between Angola and Congo) and continuing northwest through Congo to empty into the Congo River on the border between Congo and Republic of the Congo
- Yellow River
- a major river of Asia in northern China; flows generally eastward into the Yellow Sea; carries large quantities of yellow silt to its delta
- overburden
- the surface soil that must be moved away to get at coal seams and mineral deposits
- Para River
- an estuary in northern Brazil into which the Tocantins River flows
- Great Plains of North America
- a vast prairie region extending from Alberta and Saskatchewan and Manitoba in Canada south through the west central United States into Texas; formerly inhabited by Native Americans
- strand
- a poetic term for a shore (as the area periodically covered and uncovered by the tides)
- Great Mendenhall Glacier
- a glacier of the Piedmont type near Juneau in Alaska
- Nacimiento
- a mountain peak in the Andes in Argentina (21,302 feet high)
- Flint River
- a river in western Georgia that flows generally south to join the Chattahoochee River at the Florida border where they form the Apalachicola River
- Takakkaw
- a waterfall in southeastern British Columbia; the highest waterfall in Canada (1250 feet high)
- bottom
- low-lying alluvial land near a river
- gulch
- a narrow gorge with a stream running through it
- common fault
- an inclined fault in which the hanging wall appears to have slipped downward relative to the footwall
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