| adret | A hillside or slope which faces the sun, or the equator. Freq. attrib. | 1922 | Go To Quotation |
| anthropogeography | That department of geography which treats of the relations of the earth to mankind as its inhabitants. | 1895 | Go To Quotation |
| Benin | Formerly: of or relating to the Benin Empire in West Africa; (more recently) of or… | 1893 | Go To Quotation |
| bioform | A particular form or type of living organism. Cf. life form n. 1. | 1958 | Go To Quotation |
| cairn | trans. To mark with a cairn. | 1937 | Go To Quotation |
| Cameroonian | Of, relating to, or characteristic of the Republic of Cameroon or its inhabitants. | 1894 | Go To Quotation |
| dead zone | An area where no life (of a particular kind) exists, or can exist. Also: an area where… | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| depositional | Of, relating to, or caused by deposition. | 1900 | Go To Quotation |
| faultage | Faults considered collectively, faulting. | 1899 | Go To Quotation |
| geomatic | Of or relating to geomatics. | 1936 | Go To Quotation |
| glaçon | A medium-sized ice-floe (see quots.). | 1933 | Go To Quotation |
| habu | A venomous pit-viper, Trimeresurus flavoviridis, native to the Ryukyu Islands and neighbouring areas. | 1895 | Go To Quotation |
| Hadley | Used, usu. attrib., with reference to a model of air flow in the Earth's atmosphere… | 1936 | Go To Quotation |
| heartland | A (usually extensive) central region of homogeneous (geographical, political, industrial, etc.) character. Also transf. | 1904 | Go To Quotation |
| hippo fly | A large blood-sucking fly of the family Tabanidæ, found in central Africa. | 1901 | Go To Quotation |
| hydrogeologist | An expert in, or student of, hydrogeology. | 1935 | Go To Quotation |
| hypsograph | = hypsographic curve. | 1937 | Go To Quotation |
| Ibero-Maurusian | Of or relating to a late Palaeolithic people of northern Africa (and possibly also… | 1926 | Go To Quotation |
| infill | = infilling n. (various senses). | 1939 | Go To Quotation |
| interlacustrine | Lying between lakes. | 1900 | Go To Quotation |
| isostatically | Geol. As regards isostasy; by, or as a result of, isostatic forces. | 1901 | Go To Quotation |
| jihadi | A person who advocates or takes part in a jihad; a jihadist. | 1920 | Go To Quotation |
| kar | = cirque n. 2, cwm n. | 1893 | Go To Quotation |
| karren | With pl. concord. The furrows, fissures, or grikes of a karrenfeld n.; (also) = karrenfelder. | 1894 | Go To Quotation |
| karst | With the. The name of a high barren limestone region south of Ljubljana in Slovenia that… | 1894 | Go To Quotation |
| karstification | Development of karst or karstic features; alteration into karst. | 1958 | Go To Quotation |
| Lahu | The Tibeto-Burman language of this people. | 1900 | Go To Quotation |
| limnology | (The study of) the physical, chemical, geological, and biological aspects of lakes… | 1893 | Go To Quotation |
| lipomorph | (See quots.) | 1897 | Go To Quotation |
| Lisu | A member of a people indigenous to the mountainous south-western region of China; an ethnic sub-group of the Yi. | 1896 | Go To Quotation |
| macroseism | An earthquake, as opposed to an imperceptible earth tremor (cf. microseism n.). Formerly… | 1903 | Go To Quotation |
| macroseismic | Of the nature of or relating to a macroseism; (in modern use) designating or relating… | 1903 | Go To Quotation |
| magnetologist | An expert in or student of magnetism, esp. that of the earth; a geomagnetist. | 1910 | Go To Quotation |
| matrilocality | The custom of matrilocal marriage. | 1935 | Go To Quotation |
| minke | In full minke whale. A small rorqual, Balaenoptera acutorostrata, that occurs in all oceans… | 1939 | Go To Quotation |
| nodality | Geogr. The degree to which a place is a point of convergence for different routes. | 1897 | Go To Quotation |
| north-north-eastwards | = north-north-east adv. | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| north-north-westwards | Towards the north-north-west. | 1903 | Go To Quotation |
| obsequent | Of a stream, stream valley, or drainage pattern: having a course or character opposite to… | 1895 | Go To Quotation |
| Orkhon | attrib. Of, relating to, or designating a number of 8th-cent. stone monuments found… | 1900 | Go To Quotation |
| overthrust | Of a mass of rock: that has been overthrust. | 1900 | Go To Quotation |
| palaeoclimatologist | An expert in or student of palaeoclimatology. | 1927 | Go To Quotation |
| palaeogeologist | An expert in or student of palaeogeology. | 1940 | Go To Quotation |
| panga | Esp. in East Africa and South Africa: a large, heavy knife with a long, broad blade… | 1929 | Go To Quotation |
| pantographed | Copied or changed to scale using a pantograph; having a mark, stamp, or imprint copied by means of a pantograph. | 1920 | Go To Quotation |
| P-Celtic | The group of Celtic languages, now represented by Welsh, Cornish and Breton, in… | 1919 | Go To Quotation |
| photo-detachment | Mil. A detachment (of soldiers, etc.) assigned to photographic work. | 1935 | Go To Quotation |
| photogeological | Of, relating to, or designating the geological interpretation of aerial or satellite photographs. | 1940 | Go To Quotation |
| photogoniometer | Cartogr. An instrument for measuring angles indirectly from photographs of an area. | 1923 | Go To Quotation |
| photogrammetric | Of, relating to, or using photogrammetry. | 1893 | Go To Quotation |
| photometrograph | An instrument for recording the intensity of light at different depths in water. | 1898 | Go To Quotation |
| photomosaic | A composite photograph or image, esp. one made up of a number of separate images… | 1920 | Go To Quotation |
| photostereographic | Of, relating to, or involving a photostereograph. | 1926 | Go To Quotation |
| phototopography | The use of photography in topographic surveying; photogrammetry. | 1893 | Go To Quotation |
| pipkrake | Each of the needle-like crystals of ice that constitute needle ice. Also as a mass noun: needle ice. | 1936 | Go To Quotation |
| planate | trans. To make level by erosion. Chiefly in pass. | 1906 | Go To Quotation |
| plottable | That can be plotted; spec. able to be plotted or represented on a map, chart, or plan; large enough to be so plotted. | 1920 | Go To Quotation |
| pluggable | Of a hole or aperture: able to be filled or stopped. Also fig. | 1923 | Go To Quotation |
| Pokot | A member of an East African Nilotic people inhabiting parts of western Kenya and eastern central Uganda; = Suk n. a. | 1937 | Go To Quotation |
| polje | An enclosed plain in a karstic region (esp. in Slovenia) that is larger than an… | 1894 | Go To Quotation |
| polygonation | The tracing and measurement of a set of contiguous polygons in order to determine… | 1900 | Go To Quotation |
| progradation | The outward growth or advance of a shore or shoreline as a result of the accumulation of waterborne sediment or beach material. | 1909 | Go To Quotation |
| prograde | intr. Of a shore or shoreline: to grow or advance outwards through the accumulation of sediment, to undergo progradation. | 1909 | Go To Quotation |
| psammology | The scientific study of sand. | 1897 | Go To Quotation |
| pterobranch | Any of various small, marine, usually colonial, tube-dwelling hemichordates constituting the class Pterobranchia. | 1909 | Go To Quotation |
| Q-Celtic | The group of Celtic languages, now represented by Irish, Scottish Gaelic, and Manx… | 1919 | Go To Quotation |
| radiolocation | A place considered in respect of its suitability for radio reception or transmission. nonce-use. | 1926 | Go To Quotation |
| Rai Sahib | An honorific title awarded in British India and the Republic of India. Cf. Rai Bahadur n. | 1905 | Go To Quotation |
| rakyat | In Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia: ordinary citizens collectively, the common… | 1897 | Go To Quotation |
| ray trace | A calculation of position based on lines of sight. Cf. ray tracing n. 1. Obs. rare. | 1895 | Go To Quotation |
| Rehoboth Bastard | = Rehoboth Baster n. Cf. bastard n. 1b. | 1894 | Go To Quotation |
| remen | An ancient Egyptian measure of length equivalent to 370.3 mm (14.58 inches). | 1908 | Go To Quotation |
| rift valley | A large, elongated valley or depression with steep sides, formed by the subsidence of a… | 1894 | Go To Quotation |
| Rigel Kent | = Rigel Kentaurus n. | 1938 | Go To Quotation |
| rooibos | S. Afr. Any of several shrubs or small trees of the genus Combretum (family Combretaceae)… | 1893 | Go To Quotation |
| Seistan | A strong north-westerly wind prevalent in this region in the summer months. Also attrib., as Seistan wind. | 1906 | Go To Quotation |
| submaturely | At a stage preceding the mature stage of an erosion cycle. Cf. maturely adv. 3b. | 1899 | Go To Quotation |
| tjaele | Frozen ground; also, permafrost. Freq. attrib. | 1924 | Go To Quotation |
| ubac | A hillside or mountain slope which receives little sunshine, esp. (in the northern… | 1922 | Go To Quotation |
| uvala | A depression in the ground surface occurring in karstic regions (see quots.). | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| virgation | A system of faults branching out like twigs from a bough. | 1897 | Go To Quotation |
