Word
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Definition
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picacho | (Spanish) an isolated peak of a hill. |
piedmont | An area of land formed or lying at the foot of a mountain or mountain range. |
pingo | (Inuit) a cone-shaped mound with an ice core. |
pocosen | (Am. Ind.) an upland swamp of the coastal plain of the southeastern U.S. |
poechore | A semiarid region. |
rambla | (Spanish) a dry ravine; a broad avenue esp in Barcelona. |
rillmark | A marking produced by water running down a bank or beach. |
rimaye | (Fr.) a crevasse formed where a glacier or snowfield moves away from a mountain wall. |
rimland | An outlying land. |
rognon | (Fr.) an isolated rock outcrop on a glacier. |
savanna | (Spanish) tropical grassland. |
scabland | An area of bare rock in the N. W. US that has been deeply channelled by glacial meltwater. |
seif | (Arabic) a long sand-dune lying parallel to the direction of the wind that forms it. |
serac | (Fr.) a large mass of ice broken off a glacier and remaining behind in a crevasse. |
shott | (Arabic) a shallow saline lake of northern Africa; the dried bed of such a lake. |
skaw | A low cape or headland. |
skerry | (ON) a small rocky island. |
slade | A little valley or dell. |
slieve | (Irish) a mountain. |
slobland | A mudflat, reclaimed alluvial land. |
soffioni | (Ital.) volcanic steam-holes. |
sowback | An eroded, steeply tilted ridge of resistant rocks with equal slopes on the sides. |
strath | (Scots) a valley of considerable size, through which a river runs. |
swail | A marshy hollow or depression. |
swire | A hollow between two hills. |
talweg | (Ger.) a line following the lowest point of a valley |
tephra | (Greek) ash and debris ejected by a volcano. |
tombolo | (Ital.) a bar of sand or gravel connecting one island with another. |
urman | (Russian) swampy pine forest. |
washaway | An erosion of the earth's surface due to running water. |
yardang | (Turkish) a ridge formed by wind erosion parallel to prevailing winds. |