footwall
hanging wall
krantz
overthrust
rock face
roof
common fault
gravity fault
normal fault
dip
syncline
shelve
geoboundary
wall rock
reverse fault
inclined fault
toe wall
overbrow
dyke
open book
overthrust fault
thrust fault
cliff
orbicule
strike-slip fault
talus
wayboard
drop
drop-off
chimney
crevice
heugh
rimrock
scarcement
cranny
revetment
crag
diapir
face
euendolith
pitch-faced
plinth
sill
scarp
outthrust
bed
batter
borderstone
cliffline
wale
scar
allostratigraphy
through
boulderstone
C-horizon
foreledge
through-stone
transform fault
rock formation
C horizon
leptoclase
intrusive
mural
bund
merestone
cliffside
sheet
ginging
clifflet
footing
epimarginal
paralithic
corrugation
landmark
floor
parapet
ledger wall
lissen
flank
arête
balk
windrow
tied
bold
indentation
bluff
shallow
brink
sublaterodorsal
pitch-faced
mural
epimarginal
paralithic
tied
bold
bluff
shallow
sublaterodorsal
footwall
hanging wall
krantz
overthrust
rock face
roof
common fault
gravity fault
normal fault
dip
syncline
shelve
geoboundary
wall rock
reverse fault
inclined fault
toe wall
overbrow
dyke
open book
overthrust fault
thrust fault
cliff
orbicule
strike-slip fault
talus
wayboard
drop
drop-off
chimney
crevice
heugh
rimrock
scarcement
cranny
revetment
crag
diapir
face
euendolith
plinth
sill
scarp
outthrust
bed
batter
borderstone
cliffline
wale
scar
allostratigraphy
through
boulderstone
C-horizon
foreledge
through-stone
transform fault
rock formation
C horizon
leptoclase
intrusive
bund
merestone
cliffside
sheet
ginging
clifflet
footing
corrugation
landmark
floor
parapet
ledger wall
lissen
flank
arête
balk
windrow
indentation
brink
noun
- The angle from horizontal of a planar geologic surface, such as a fault line.
- A lower section of a road or geological feature.
- A diplomat.
- A swim, usually a short swim to refresh.
- The moist form of snuff tobacco.
- A move in many different styles of partner dances, often performed at the end of a dance, in which the follower leans far to the side and is supported by the leader.
- The viscid exudation that is dipped out from incisions in the trees. Virgin dip is the runnings of the first year, yellow dip the runnings of subsequent years.
- A sudden drop followed by a climb, usually to avoid obstacles or as the result of getting into an airhole.
- Fried bread.
- A foolish person.
- A dip stick.
- A gymnastic or bodybuilding exercise on parallel bars in which the performer, resting on his hands, lets his arms bend and his body sink until his chin is level with the bars, and then raises himself by straightening his arms.
- A tank or trough where cattle or sheep are immersed in chemicals to kill parasites.
- Inclination downward; direction below a horizontal line; slope; pitch.
- A sauce for dipping.
- The act of missing out on seeing a sought after bird.
- The action of dipping or plunging for a moment into a liquid.
- A financial asset in decline, seen as an investment opportunity.
verb
- To incline downward from the plane of the horizon.
- To perform a dip dance move (often phrased with the leader as the subject noun and the follower as the subject noun being dipped)
- To take out, by dipping a dipper, ladle, or other receptacle, into a fluid and removing a part; often with out.
- To immerse oneself; to become plunged in a liquid; to sink.
- To treat cattle or sheep by immersion in chemical solution.
- To lower (a flag), particularly a national ensign, to a partially hoisted position in order to render or to return a salute. While lowered, the flag is said to be “at the dip.” A flag being carried on a staff may be dipped by leaning it forward at an approximate angle of 45 degrees.
- To perform the action of plunging a dipper, ladle. etc. into a liquid or soft substance and removing a part.
- To lower into a liquid.
- To miss out on seeing a sought after bird.
- To immerse for baptism.
- To use a dip stick to check oil level in an engine.
- To perform (a bow or curtsey) by inclining the body.
- To engage as a pledge; to mortgage.
- To lower the body by bending the knees while keeping the body in an upright position, as in movement to the rhythm of music.
- To leave.
- To wet, as if by immersing; to moisten.
- To consume snuff by placing a pinch behind the lip or under the tongue so that the active chemical constituents of the snuff may be absorbed into the system for their narcotic effect.
- To lower a light's beam.
- To plunge or engage thoroughly in any affair.
- (of a value or rate) To decrease slightly.
noun
- A low embankment or stone wall serving as an enclosure and boundary marker.
- A fissure in a rock stratum filled with intrusive rock; a fault.
- An embankment formed by the creation of a ditch.
- A body of rock (usually igneous) originally filling a fissure but now often rising above the older stratum as it is eroded away.
- An earthwork raised to prevent inundation of low land by the sea or flooding rivers.
- A raised causeway.
- Any small body of water.
- Any fence or hedge.
- Any navigable watercourse.
- A beaver's dam.
- Any impediment, barrier, or difficulty.
- A long, narrow hollow dug from the ground to serve as a boundary marker.
- A lesbian, particularly one with masculine or butch traits or behavior.
- A non-heterosexual woman.
- Any watercourse.
- A long, narrow hollow dug from the ground to conduct water.
- A jetty; a pier.
- A place to urinate and defecate: an outhouse or lavatory.
verb
noun
- a steep high face of rock
- a shape that is spherical and small
- a small indefinite quantity (especially of a liquid)
- a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity
- a predetermined hiding place for the deposit and distribution of illicit goods (such as drugs or stolen property)
- a free and rapid descent by the force of gravity
- a curtain that can be lowered and raised onto a stage from the flies; often used as background scenery
- a central depository where things can be left or picked up
- the act of dropping something
verb
- let fall to the ground
- to fall vertically
- go down in value
- fall or descend to a lower place or level
- terminate an association with
- utter with seeming casualness
- stop pursuing or acting
- remove (cargo, people, etc.) from and leave
- cause to fall by or as if by delivering a blow
- lose (a game)
- pay out
- lower the pitch of (musical notes)
- hang loosely
- stop associating with
- let or cause to fall in drops
- to remove
- take (a drug, especially LSD), by mouth
- omit (a letter or syllable) in speaking or writing
- leave undone or leave out
- change from one level to another
- fall or sink into a state of exhaustion or death
- grow progressively worse
- give birth; used for animals
noun
- A narrow cleft in a rock face; a narrow vertical cave passage.
- A black eye; a shiner.
- The smokestack of a steam locomotive.
- The glass flue surrounding the flame of an oil lamp.
- A vagina.
- A vertical tube or hollow column used to emit environmentally polluting gaseous and solid matter (including but not limited to by-products of burning carbon- or hydrocarbon-based fuels); a flue.
verb
noun
- a vertical surface of a building or cliff
- the front of the human head from the forehead to the chin and ear to ear
- the feelings expressed on a person's face
- the general outward appearance of something
- the striking or working surface of an implement
- a part of a person that is used to refer to a person
- a surface forming part of the outside of an object
- the part of an animal corresponding to the human face
- the side upon which the use of a thing depends (usually the most prominent surface of an object)
- a contorted facial expression
- a specific size and style of type within a type family
- status in the eyes of others
- impudent aggressiveness
verb
- deal with (something unpleasant) head on
- oppose, as in hostility or a competition
- be oriented in a certain direction, often with respect to another reference point; be opposite to
- be opposite
- turn so as to face; turn the face in a certain direction
- present somebody with something, usually to accuse or criticize
- turn so as to expose the face
- line the edge (of a garment) with a different material
- cover the front or surface of
noun
- A stratum of rock, especially an intrusive layer of igneous rock lying parallel to surrounding strata.
- A young herring.
- The shaft or thill of a carriage.
- The inner edge of the bottom of an embrasure.
- A threshold; horizontal structural member of a building near ground level on a foundation or pilings, or lying on the ground, and bearing the upright portion of a frame; a sill plate.
- A threshold or brink across the bottom of a canal lock for the gates to shut against.
- A raised area at the base of the nasal aperture in the skull.
- A breast wall; window breast; horizontal brink which forms the base of a window.
adj
noun
- The horizontal surface of a building stone.
- Marriage.
- The taut surface of a trampoline.
- Any of the sections of a dartboard with a point value, delimited by a wire.
- The time for going to sleep or resting in bed; bedtime.
- The smallest division of a geologic formation or stratigraphic rock series marked by well-defined divisional planes (bedding planes) separating it from layers above and below.
- Sleep; rest; getting to sleep.
- Sexual activity.
- A garden plot.
- A place, or flat surface or layer, on which something else rests or is laid.
- A piece of music, normally instrumental, over which a radio DJ talks.
- The lower surface of a brick, slate, or tile.
- An area where a large number of oysters, mussels, other sessile shellfish, or a large amount of seaweed is found.
- A foundation or supporting surface formed of a fluid.
- The superficial earthwork, or ballast, of a railroad.
- A course of stone or brick in a wall.
- Time spent in a bed.
- A deposit of ore, coal, etc.
- A piece of furniture, usually flat and soft, on which to rest or sleep.
- A prepared spot in which to spend the night.
- The bottom of a body of water, such as an ocean, sea, lake, or river.
- The flat surface of a scanner on which a document is placed to be scanned.
- The platform of a truck, trailer, railcar, or other vehicle that supports the load to be hauled.
- One's place of sleep or rest.
- A shaped piece of timber to hold a cask clear of a ship’s floor; a pallet.
verb
- To settle, as machinery.
- To go to bed.
- To have sexual intercourse with.
- To lay flat; to lay in order; to place in a horizontal or recumbent position.
- To lay or put in any hollow place, or place of rest and security, surrounded or enclosed; to embed.
- To furnish with a bed or bedding.
- To set out (plants) in a garden bed.
- To place in a bed.
- To dress or prepare the surface of (stone) so it can serve as a bed.
- To put oneself to sleep.
- To set in a soft matrix, as paving stones in sand, or tiles in cement.
noun
- An incline on the outer face of a built wall.
- A beaten mixture of flour and liquid (usually egg and milk), used for baking (e.g. pancakes, cake, or Yorkshire pudding) or to coat food (e.g. fish) prior to frying.
- A paste of clay or loam.
- A bruise on the face of a plate or of type in the form.
- A binge; a heavy drinking session.
- The player attempting to hit the ball with a bat.
- The player now receiving strike; the striker.
- A player of the batting side now on the field.
- Any player selected for his or her team principally to bat, as opposed to a bowler.
verb
noun
- A ridge or low barrier.
- A ridge or streak produced on skin by a cane or whip.
- A horizontal timber used for supporting or retaining earth.
- A ridge on the outside of a horse collar.
- A timber bolted to a row of piles to secure them together and in position.
- Something selected as being the best, preference; choice.
- The texture of a piece of fabric.
- A horizontal ridge or ledge on the outside planking of a wooden ship. (See gunwale, chainwale)
- A raised rib in knit goods or fabric, especially corduroy.
verb
noun
- A cliff or rock outcrop.
- A rock in the sea breaking out from the surface of the water.
- A permanent mark on the skin, sometimes caused by the healing of a wound.
- A bare rocky place on the side of a hill or mountain.
- A permanent negative effect on someone's mind, caused by a traumatic experience.
- Any permanent mark resulting from damage.
- A marine food fish, the scarus or parrotfish (family Scaridae).
verb
noun
prep
- Entering, then later leaving.
- To (or up to) and including, with all intermediate values.
- From one side of an opening to the other.
- By means of.
- In consequence of; as a result of.
- Surrounded by (while moving).
postp
adj
- Passing from one side of something to the other.
- Without a future; done for.
- No longer interested; wearied or turned off by experience.
- Proceeding from origin to destination without delay due to change of equipment.
- In possession of the ball beyond the last line of defence but not necessarily the goalkeeper; through on goal.
- Finished; complete.
adv
noun
adj
noun
- An embankment.
- A league or confederacy; especially the confederation of German states.
- A group of foreign sympathesizers of Nazi Germany, most notoriously before and during World War II.
- A perennial ("wet") or seasonal ("dry") pond constructed in a depression and in which fish are stored, typically for breeding.
- A secondary enclosure, typically consisting of a wall or berm, which surrounds a tank or fluid-handling mechanism, intended to contain any spills or leaks.
verb
noun
noun
- An extensive bed of an eruptive rock intruded between, or overlying, other strata.
- A layer of veneer.
- A piece of paper, usually rectangular, that has been prepared for writing, artwork, drafting, wrapping, manufacture of packaging (boxes, envelopes, etc.), and for other uses. The word does not include scraps and irregular small pieces destined to be recycled, used for stuffing or cushioning or paper mache, etc.
- A sail.
- A thin bed cloth used as a covering for a mattress or as a layer over the sleeper.
- A thin, flat layer of solid material.
- A line (rope) used to adjust the trim of a sail.
- The area of ice on which the game of curling is played.
- Precipitation of such quantity and force as to resemble a thin, virtually solid wall.
- A flat metal pan, often without raised edge, used for baking.
- A broad, flat expanse of a material on a surface.
- The space in the forward or after part of a boat where there are no rowers.
verb
noun
noun
- The thickened or sloping portion of a wall, or of an embankment at its foot; foundation.
- Stability or balance when standing on one's feet.
- A narrow cotton lace, without figures.
- A footprint or footprints; tracks, someone's trail.
- The finer refuse part of whale blubber, not wholly deprived of oil.
- The act of putting a foot to anything; also, that which is added as a foot
- The act of adding up a column of figures; the amount or sum total of such a column.
- A double-check of the numbers vertically.
- A ground for the foot; place for the foot to rest on; firm foundation to stand on.
- A standing; position; established place; foothold.
- A relative condition; state.
noun
- a mark showing the boundary of a piece of land
- the position of a prominent or well-known object in a particular landscape
- an event marking a unique or important historical change of course or one on which important developments depend
- an anatomical structure used as a point of origin in locating other anatomical structures (as in surgery) or as point from which measurements can be taken
noun
- A horizontal, flat ore body; the rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit.
- The trading floor of a stock exchange, pit; the area in which business is conducted at a convention or exhibition.
- A floor-like carpeted surface for performing gymnastic movements.
- The area of an establishment where food and drink are served to customers.
- The lower inside surface of a hollow space.
- The area of a casino where gambling occurs.
- A lower limit on the interest rate payable on an otherwise variable-rate loan, used by lenders to defend against falls in interest rates. Opposite of a cap.
- In a parliament, the part of the house assigned to the members, as opposed to the viewing gallery.
- The interior bottom or surface of a house or building; the supporting surface of a room.
- The supporting surface or platform of a structure such as a bridge.
- The bottom of a pit, pothole or mine.
- An event performed on a floor-like carpeted surface; floor exercise
- A dance floor.
- A structure formed of beams, girders, etc, with proper covering, which divides a building horizontally into storeys/stories.
- The largest integer less than or equal to a given number.
- A storey/story of a building.
- That part of the bottom of a vessel on each side of the keelson which is most nearly horizontal.
- Ground (surface of the Earth, as opposed to the sky or water or underground).
- Hence, the right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event.
verb
noun
- The sides of a bastion perpendicular to the wall from which the bastion projects.
- The flesh between the last rib and the hip; the side.
- The outermost strip of a road.
- The wing, one side of the pitch.
- That part of the acting surface of a gear wheel tooth that lies within the pitch line.
- A cut of meat from the flank of an animal.
- The side of something, in general senses.
- The extreme left or right edge of a military formation, army etc.
verb
- To be placed to the side(s) of something (usually in terms of two objects, one on each side).
- To defend the flank(s) of.
- To attack the flank(s) of.
- To place to the side(s) of.
adj
noun
- The wall of earth at the edge of an excavation.
- Beam, crossbeam; squared timber; a tie beam of a house, stretching from wall to wall, especially when laid so as to form a loft, "the balks".
- The area of the table lying behind the baulk line.
- A sudden and obstinate stop.
- A hindrance or disappointment; a check.
- The rope by which fishing nets are fastened together.
- The area of the table lying behind the line from which the cue ball is initially shot, and from which a ball in hand must be played.
- An illegal motion by the pitcher, intended to deceive a runner.
- A motion used to deceive the opponent during a serve.
- An uncultivated ridge formed in the open field system, caused by the action of ploughing.
verb
- To refuse suddenly.
- To stop short and refuse to go on.
- To leave heaped up; to heap up in piles.
- To omit, miss, or overlook by chance.
- To leave or make balks in.
- To make a deceptive motion to deceive another player.
- To stop, check, block.
- To indicate to fishermen, by shouts or signals from shore, the direction taken by the shoals of herring.
- To engage in contradiction; to be in opposition.
- To disappoint; to frustrate.
noun
- A ridge or berm at a perimeter
- The green border of a field, dug up in order to carry the earth onto other land to improve it.
- A line of snow left behind by the edge of a snowplow’s blade.
- A long snowbank along the side of a road.
- A line of leaves etc heaped up by the wind.
- A similar streak of seaweed etc on the surface of the sea formed by Langmuir circulation.
- A line of gravel left behind by the edge of a grader’s blade.
- A row of cut grain or hay allowed to dry in a field.
verb
adj
- Having walls that are connected in a few places by a single stone overlapping from one wall to another.
- Conditional on other agreements being upheld.
- Restricted.
- a cover having a stamp where the postmark cancellation overlaps the stamp.
- Provided for use by an employer for as long as one is employed, often with restrictions on the conditions of use.
- Closely connected or associated.
- That resulted in a tie.
noun
- A notch or recess, in the margin or border of anything.
- The act of beginning a line or series of lines at a little distance within the flush line of the column or page, as in the common way of beginning the first line of a paragraph.
- The act of indenting or state of being indented.
- A measure of the distance from the flush line.
- A division unit of a piece of law distinguished by its indentation or by a dash.
- A recess or sharp depression in any surface.
adj
- very steep; having a prominent and almost vertical front
- bluntly direct and outspoken but good-natured
noun
- a high steep bank (usually formed by river erosion)
- pretense that your position is stronger than it really is
- the act of bluffing in poker; deception by a false show of confidence in the strength of your cards
verb
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