Word Finder - sea

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A large body of salt water.

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A lake, especially if large or if salty or brackish.

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The Caspian Sea, the Sea of Galilee, the Salton Sea, etc.

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The swell of the sea; a single wave; billow.

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(in combination) Living or used in or on the sea; of, near, or like the sea.

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Seaman, sea gauge, sea monster, sea horse, sea level, seaworthy, seaport, seaboard, etc.

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Anything resembling the vastness or turbulence of the sea.

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A constant flux of gluons splitting into quarks, which annihilate to produce further gluons.

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A large, dark plain of rock; a mare.

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The Apollo 11 mission landed in the Sea of Tranquility.

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A very large lake of liquid hydrocarbon.

The sea was rough.

It was so close to the sea that those who lived in it could hear the waves forever beating against the shore.

In fact, he seemed lost in a sea of uncertainty.

The Sea Mist dated back to the 1930's.

You must either jump overboard into the sea or be slain with your own sword.

In the open space between the clouds and the black, bubbling sea far beneath, could be seen an occasional strange bird winging its way swiftly through the air.

He moved forward until the sound of the sea and the firmness of the sand suggested he was close to the water's edge.

Hundreds of little sail-boats swung to and fro close by, and the sea was calm.

A book of stories of adventure on the sea, which he read over and over again when a boy, had filled him with a longing for a seafaring life.

The sea shore is too far to the east so I fear she'll be remanded to a roadside bier of Kudzu and discarded fast food wrappers.

They told me if Jeff's body wasn't found the first couple of weeks, it had probably washed out to sea and would maybe never be located.

The churning sea below was littered with jagged rocks that looked small from her perch a hundred feet above them.

She rubbed her head and glared at him, watching as he followed his father in the direction where both sky and sea darkened into blackness.

Take the bodies and throw them into the sea, where no one will find them.

But the smooth sea again suddenly becomes disturbed.

He looked out to sea again.

The dry desert heat gave way to cool sea breeze, and a massive apple tree protected her from the sun overhead.

She could smell the sea; they were probably somewhere in the destroyed city.

My father brought me from across the sea.

Below them was a vast space, at the bottom of which was a black sea with rolling billows, through which little tongues of flame constantly shot up.

His eyes were white then black then changed from every color in between, his brown hair of medium length and wavy, ruffled by the sea breeze.

The sun pushed aside the shadows as it emerged from the depths of the distant sea until it sat on the horizon, casting long shadows and brilliant bars of light into the walled city.

The Senegal indeed has what is styled an interior delta, but, with the exception of the marigot named, all the divergent branches rejoin the main stream before the sea is reached.

One summer he went over the sea to Italy; for his name was well known there, and many people wished to hear him sing.

I've chosen the sea shore as the final resting place for my little beauty.

The scent of sea was in the air, a rough circle of lighter darkness before her.

It is navigable from the heart of Tirol to the sea.

No doubt eastern Australia then extended far out into the Tasman Sea.

The central range here approaches much nearer to the sea, and hence, with few exceptions, the rivers that flow from it have short courses and are of comparatively little importance.

They traded also on the Red sea, and opened up regular traffic with India as well as with the ports of the south and west, so that it was natural for Solomon to employ the merchant navies of Tyre in his oversea trade.

The frozen sea beneath her feet was the color of tar, the black clouds above paused mid-swirl around a pop of blue sky in the storm's center.

From Mafu to the sea, a distance of 215 m., the Senegal is navigable all the year round by vessels drawing not more than to ft.

Colonel Goddard with a Bengal army marched across the breadth of the peninsula from the valley of the Ganges to the western sea, and achieved almost without a blow the conquest of Gujarat.

The area of the ancient city is now called the Kaleh, and is inhabited by the Turks; eastward of this is the extensive Christian quarter, and beyond this again a low promontory juts northward into the sea, partly covered with the houses of a well-built suburb, which is the principal centre of commerce.

It was, however, the need to ensure command of the sea and free all lines of communication behind him that determined Alexander's plan for the next campaign.

The excessive heat of the upper regions compels him to descend, and he next visits the bottom of the sea in a kind of diving-bell.

The district is a deltaic tract, bordering south on the sea and traversed by many tidal creeks.

He was now sent on an important mission to India; he left England in September 1769, but the ship in which he sailed was lost at sea late in 1770 or early in 1771.

An interest and importance belong to this sea as forming part of the chief highway between Europe and India.

This untoward disaster led to the abandonment of the expedition, which forthwith returned to Spain, bringing with them the news of the discovery of a fresh-water sea.

Amidst this sea of financial troubles the government drifted helplessly on, without showing any inclination or capacity to initiate a strong policy of reform in the methods of administration which had done so much to ruin the country.

North of that river the coast is low-lying and bordered by sand-lunes, to which succeed on the Strait of Dover the cliffs in the neighborhood of the port of Boulogne and the marshes and sand-dunes of Flanders, with the ports of Calais and Dunkirk, the latter the principal French port on the NOrth Sea.

The coasts present a number of maritime inlets, forming inland bays, which communicate with the sea by channels of greater or less width.

The Central Plateau has probably been a land mass ever since this period, but the rest of the country was flooded by the Palaeozoic sea.

The earlier deposits of that sea now rise to the surface in Brittany, the Ardennes, the Montagne Noire and the Cvennes, and in all these regions they arc intensely folded.

Naked crags, when they do appear, lift themselves from a sea of green, and a tropical vegetation, quite Malaysian in character, covers everything.

The other rivers worth mentioning are the Yarra, entering the sea at Port Phillip, Hopkins and Glenelg.

Among the sea fish, the schnapper is of great value as an article of food, and its weight comes up to 50 lb.

It is provided with a jetty, is the sea terminus of the railway systems, the residence of the governor, and has churches, schools, hospitals and large business houses.

Each line terminated in an earth plate placed in the sea.