Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Jupiter
the largest planet and the 5th from the sun; has many satellites and is one of the brightest objects in the night sky
 
Aire River
a river in northern England that flows southeast through West Yorkshire
 
bonanza
an especially rich vein of precious ore
 
Davy Jones's locker
the bottom of a sea or ocean
 
Apalachicola River
a river in northwestern Florida formed by the confluence of the Chattahoochee River and the Flint River at the Florida border
 
nucleus
(astronomy) the center of the head of a comet; consists of small solid particles of ice and frozen gas that vaporizes on approaching the sun to form the coma and tail
 
deep
literary term for an ocean
 
Connecticut River
a river in the northeastern United States; flows south from northern New Hampshire along the border between New Hampshire and Vermont and through Massachusetts and Connecticut where it empties into Long Island Sound
 
full radiator
a hypothetical object capable of absorbing all the electromagnetic radiation falling on it
 
flume
a narrow gorge with a stream running through it
 
diffuse nebula
a cluster of stars within an intricate cloud of gas and dust
 
filing
a fragment rubbed off by the use of a file
 
Labrador Sea
an arm of the northern Atlantic between Labrador and southern Greenland
 
Great Australian Bight
a wide bay of the Indian Ocean in southern Australia; notorious for storms
 
ness
a strip of land projecting into a body of water
 
Vesta
the brightest asteroid but the fourth to be discovered
 
Arafura Sea
a part of the western Pacific Ocean to the north of Australia and to the south of New Guinea and the eastern islands of Indonesia
 
continental shelf
the relatively shallow (up to 200 meters) seabed surrounding a continent
 
K particle
an unstable meson produced as the result of a high-energy particle collision
 
outthrust
an outcropping of rock that extends outward
 
  List More