Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
- Denebola
- a star in Leo approximately 43 light years from Earth
- Gulf of Aden
- arm of the Indian Ocean at the entrance to the Red Sea
- virino
- (microbiology) a hypothetical infectious particle thought to be the cause of scrapie and other degenerative diseases of the central nervous system; consists of nucleic acid in a protective coat of host cell proteins
- North Peak
- 19,370 feet high
- Makalu
- a mountain in the Himalayas in Nepal (27,790 feet high)
- drop
- a steep high face of rock
- transmission mechanism
- any mechanism whereby an infectious agent is spread from a reservoir to a human being
- shore boulder
- a boulder found on a shore remote from its place of origin
- Tampa Bay
- an arm of the Gulf of Mexico in west central Florida
- Jordan River
- a river in Palestine that empties into the Dead Sea; John the Baptist baptized Jesus in the Jordan
- Great Smoky Mountains
- part of the Appalachians between North Carolina and Tennessee
- Humber
- an estuary in central northeastern England formed by the Ouse River and the Trent River
- Atlantic Coast
- a coast of the Atlantic Ocean
- Great Lakes
- a group of five large, interconnected lakes in central North America
- thermal spring
- a natural spring of water at a temperature of 70 F or above
- Kura River
- a river in western Asia; rises in northeast Turkey and flows to the Caspian Sea
- heterocycle
- a ring of atoms of more than one kind; especially a ring of carbon atoms containing at least one atom that is not carbon
- Golfo de Campeche
- a part of the Gulf of Mexico to the west of Yucatan
- shoal
- a stretch of shallow water
- steep
- a steep place (as on a hill)
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