The fluid which we breathe, and which surrounds the earth; the atmosphere. It is invisible, inodorous, insipid, transparent, compressi…
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Environmental science, Geography, Natural hazards.El Nino southern oscillation: alternatives and connections
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El Nino southern oscillation
a more intense El Nino that occurs every few years when the welling up of cold nutrient-rich water does not occur; kills plankton and fish and affects weather patterns
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The north wind; -- usually a personification.
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Environmental science, Geography, Natural hazards.Alt. of Breeze fly
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Environmental science, Geography, Natural hazards.Freedom from motion, agitation, or disturbance; a cessation or absence of that which causes motion or disturbance, as of winds or wave…
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Environmental science, Geography, Natural hazards.One of a tribe of North American Indians now living in the state of Washington, noted for the custom of flattening their skulls. Chino…
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Environmental science, Geography, Natural hazards.A violent storm, often of vast extent, characterized by high winds rotating about a calm center of low atmospheric pressure. This cent…
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Environmental science, Geography, Natural hazards.A washing away; an overflowing of the land by water; an inundation; a flood; specifically, The Deluge, the great flood in the days of…
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Environmental science, Geography, Natural hazards.the gradual transformation of habitable land into desert; is usually caused by climate change or by destructive use of the land; "the…
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Environmental science, Geography, Environmental ecology.A part of the ocean near the equator, abounding in calms, squalls, and light, baffling winds, which sometimes prevent all progress for…
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Environmental science, Geography, Natural hazards.A sudden fall; a body of things falling.
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Environmental science, Geography, Natural hazards.Dryness; want of rain or of water; especially, such dryness of the weather as affects the earth, and prevents the growth of plants; ar…
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Environmental science, Geography, Natural hazards.Same as Drought.
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Environmental science, Geography, Natural hazards.(oceanography) a warm ocean current that flows along the equator from the date line and south off the coast of Ecuador at Christmas ti…
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Environmental science, Geography, Physical geography, Environmental ecology, Oceans and coasts.An extensive wood; a large tract of land covered with trees; in the United States, a wood of native growth, or a tract of woodland whi…
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Environmental science, Geography, Physical geography, Environmental ecology.a slight wind (usually refreshing); "the breeze was cooled by the lake"; "as he waited he could feel the air on his neck"
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Environmental science, Geography, Natural hazards.A forest as it appears is spring and summer.
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Environmental science, Geography, Physical geography, Environmental ecology.a wave of unusually hot weather
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Environmental science, Geography, Oceans and coasts, Natural hazards.The art of measuring and describing the sea, lakes, rivers, and other waters, with their phenomena.
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Environmental science, Geography, Physical geography, Environmental ecology, Oceans and coasts.Words connected by meaning
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A small fish, about three inches in length, of the Herring family (Engraulis encrasicholus), caught in vast numbers in the Mediterrane…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: intense, nino, occurs, years, welling.One who kills, or attempts to kill, by surprise or secret assault; one who treacherously murders any one unprepared for defense.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: intense, nino, occurs, years, welling.An assassin.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: intense, nino, occurs, years, welling.a silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group; occurs abundantly in natural compounds (especially in salt water); bur…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: intense, nino, occurs, years, welling.One of the largest species of sharks (Cetorhinus maximus), so called from its habit of basking in the sun; the liver shark, or bone sh…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: intense, nino, occurs, years, welling.A daring villain; a bandit; one who sets law at defiance; a professional assassin or murderer.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: intense, nino, occurs, years, welling.A spinose, plectognath fish of the Allantic coast of the United States (esp. Chilo mycterus geometricus) having the power of distendin…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: intense, nino, occurs, years, welling.Moderately cold; cold and raw or damp so as to cause shivering; causing or feeling a disagreeable sensation of cold, or a shivering.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: intense, nino, occurs, years, welling.Of or pertaining to the Copepoda.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: intense, nino, occurs, years, welling.The act or practice of cultivating, or of preparing the earth for seed and raising crops by tillage; as, the culture of the soil.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: intense, nino, occurs, years, welling.A huge ray (Manta birostris / Cephaloptera vampyrus) of the Gulf of Mexico and Southern Atlantic coasts. Several other related species…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: intense, nino, occurs, years, welling.The name popularly given to the rich man in our Lord's parable of the "Rich Man and Lazarus" (Luke xvi. 19-31). Hence, a name for a ri…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: intense, nino, occurs, years, welling.Explore Academic Dictionary
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