aqueduct |
a bridgelike structure designed to carry a waterway or pipe across a river or valley. [1/2 definitions] |
bowl1 |
a rounded valley or other geographical depression or formation. [1/6 definitions] |
cirque |
a circular basin or hollow in an upper end of a mountain valley sometimes containing a pond. |
dale |
a valley. |
debouch |
of a river or the like, to flow from a narrow valley into a larger channel or open plain. [1/4 definitions] |
defile2 |
a narrow passage or valley, as between mountains. [1/3 definitions] |
dell |
a small, secluded vale or valley, usu. wooded. |
embouchure |
the opening out of a valley into a flatland. [1/4 definitions] |
Euphrates |
a river that flows from eastern Turkey south to join the Tigris in a valley in which some of the most ancient civilizations developed. |
flatland |
(often pl.) fairly flat terrain such as a valley or plains, as opposed to hilly or mountainous terrain. |
glen |
a narrow secluded valley, esp. between mountains. |
gully |
a ravine or valley worn away by a watercourse or flooding and still serving as a drainage course for overflow. [1/3 definitions] |
hollow |
a low or sunken spot or area, esp. a small valley. [1/10 definitions] |
intervalley |
combined form of valley. |
Mahican |
a member of a tribe or confederacy of North American Indians formerly living in the upper Hudson Valley. [1/2 definitions] |
Mohave |
a member of a North American Indian tribe formerly living in the Colorado River valley of Arizona and California. [1/2 definitions] |
Mound Builders |
the early Indian peoples of North America who built extensive burial mounds, mainly in the Mississippi Valley. |
papyrus |
a tall reedlike water plant of the Nile valley. [1/3 definitions] |
Rhine wine |
any of various light, semidry, white wines that come from the Rhine Valley, or similar wines from elsewhere. |
rift |
a geological fault, or a valley along a fault. [1/4 definitions] |
Sancerre |
a dry French white wine from the upper Loire valley. |