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| a ring-shaped coral reef or a string of closely spaced small coral islands, enclosing or nearly enclosing a shallow lagoon. |
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| Nautical. water thrown backward by the motion of oars, propellers, paddle wheels, etc. |
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| Nautical. water thrown backward by the motion of oars, propellers, paddle wheels, etc. |
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a reef of coral running roughly parallel to the shore and separated from it by a wide, deep lagoon.
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| an expanse of sand or pebbles along a shore. |
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| A sudden escape of a confined gas or liquid, as from a well. |
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| A rocklike deposit consisting of the calcareous skeletons secreted by various anthozoans. Coral deposits often accumulate to form reefs or islands in warm seas. |
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| the act of deflating or the state of being deflated. |
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| A desert pavement is a desert surface that is covered with closely packed, interlocking angular or rounded rock fragments of pebble and cobble size. |
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| a sand hill or sand ridge formed by the wind, usually in desert regions or near lakes and oceans. |
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| a storm of strong winds and dust-filled air over an extensive area during a period of drought over normally arable land (distinguished from sandstorm ). |
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| a long narrow inlet of the sea between steep cliffs; common in Norway |
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| a coral reef close to and along the land. |
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| an area of shallow water separated from the sea by low sandy dunes. |
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| a loamy deposit formed by wind, usually yellowish and calcareous, common in the Mississippi Valley and in Europe and Asia. |
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| Longshore drift (sometimes known as shore drift, LSD or littoral drift) is a geological process by which sediments such as sand or other materials, move along a beach shore. |
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| a round of time marked by the recurrence of some phenomenon or occupied by some recurring process or action. |
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| Physics. the change of direction of a ray of light, sound, heat, or the like, in passing obliquely from one medium into another in which its wave velocity is different. |
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| A strong, narrow surface current that flows rapidly away from the shore, returning the water carried landward by waves. Also called rip tide, tiderip. |
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| a high steep face of a rock. |
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| to splash, as things in water, or as water does: Waves were swashing against the piers. |
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| an unusually large sea wave produced by a seaquake or undersea volcanic eruption. |
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| a pebble or cobble that has been faceted, grooved, and polished by the erosive action of wind-driven sand. |
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| Physics. the distance, measured in the direction of propagation of a wave, between two successive points in the wave that are characterized by the same phase of oscillation. |
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