| arid |
extremely dry or parched, esp. as land which has received little or no rainfall. [1/2 definitions] |
| army |
(sometimes cap.) the military land force of a nation. [1/3 definitions] |
| artillery |
mounted large-caliber weapons, such as cannons or rocket launchers, used in land warfare and manned by a crew. [1/3 definitions] |
| ashore |
on land. [1/2 definitions] |
| ballpark |
an enclosed piece of land, with or without a roof, having stands for spectators and a playing field for ball games, esp. baseball. [1/2 definitions] |
| barony |
a baron's land holdings. [1/2 definitions] |
| bay1 |
a body of water partly surrounded by land, esp. a recessed area along a shoreline; large cove. |
| beach |
the land at the edge of a body of water, usu. sandy and sometimes part of a swimming area; shore. [1/2 definitions] |
| beachfront |
a strip of land bordering on a beach. [1/2 definitions] |
| belt |
a long strip of land. [1/11 definitions] |
| benefice |
land held by a feudal tenant as a return for services to the owner. [1/3 definitions] |
| body |
a large portion of land, water, air, or other matter with specific boundaries. [1/7 definitions] |
| borderland |
land that is at or near a border; frontier. [1/2 definitions] |
| box turtle |
any of several North American land turtles with a hinged shell that can completely enclose the body; box tortoise. |
| Brobdingnag |
in Jonathan Swift's eighteenth-century novel Gulliver's Travels, a land inhabited by giants. |
| brush2 |
the land covered by thickly growing vegetation. [1/2 definitions] |
| bulldoze |
to move (earth) or clear out (land) using a bulldozer. [1/2 definitions] |
| bush1 |
an area of uncultivated, mostly uninhabited land, usu. covered densely with bushes or other plants (usu. prec. by "the"). [1/3 definitions] |
| butte |
a steep hill or mountain, usu. with a flat top, that stands alone on flat land. (See mesa.) |
| C. |
abbreviation of "cape," a point of land jutting into a large body of water (used in a proper name). |
| Canaan |
the Biblical name of the land between the Jordan and the Mediterranean, which is now the state of Israel. [2 definitions] |