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SOIL CREEP

Specialty Definition: SOIL CREEP

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Building & Civil Engineering

The downslope movement of a soil mass. Source: European Union. (references)

Mining

The gradual, steady downhill movement of soil and loose rock material on a slope that may be very gentle but is usually steep.Syn:surficial creep. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: SOIL CREEP

Specialty definitions using "SOIL CREEP": frost creep. (references)

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Modern Translation: SOIL CREEP

Language Translations for "SOIL CREEP"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

solifluktion (earth creep, earth flow, earth slide, land slip, landslide, slip), jordskred (cavy, debris avalanche, earth creep, earth flow, earth slide, land slip, landslide, landslip, mud slide, mudslide, slide, slip, slough), jordflydning (earth creep, earth flow, earth slide, land slip, landslide, slip). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

grondverschuiving (earth creep, earth flow, earth slide, land slip, landslide, slip), bodemv erschuiving (earth creep, earth flow, earth slide, land slip, landslide, slip), aardverschuiving (landslide). (various references)

   

French

  

glissement de terrain, frane. (various references)

   

German

  

Terrainrutschung (earth creep, earth flow, earth slide, land slip, landslide, slip), Rutschung des Bodens (earth creep, earth flow, earth slide, land slip, landslide, slip), Erdrutschbewegung (earth creep, earth flow, earth slide, land slip, landslide, slip), Erdrutsch (landslide, landslip), Bodenrutschung (earth creep, earth flow, earth slide, land slip, landslide, slip). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κατολίσθισις γαιών (earth creep, earth flow, earth slide, land slip, landslide, slip), κατολίσθηση εδάφους (earth creep, earth flow, earth slide, land slip, landslide, slip), ερπυσμός εδάφους (earth creep, earth flow, earth slide, land slip, landslide, slip), ολίσθηση του εδάφους (earth creep, earth flow, earth slide, land slip, landslide, slip). (various references)

   

Italian

  

smottamento del terreno (earth creep, earth flow, earth slide, land slip, landslide, slip), slittamento di terreno (earth creep, earth flow, earth slide, land slip, landslide, slip), scivolamento del terreno (earth creep, earth flow, earth slide, land slip, landslide, slip), franamento (landslide), frana (landslide, landslip, slide, slip). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oilsay eepcray

   

Portuguese

  

resvalamento de terrenos (earth creep, earth flow, earth slide, land slip, landslide, slip), escorregamento de terras (debris avalanche, earth creep, earth flow, earth slide, land slip, landslide, landslip, mudslide, slide, slip), deslizamento do terreno (earth creep, earth flow, earth slide, land slip, landslide, slip), deslizamento de terras (earth creep, earth flow, earth slide, land slip, landslide, slip). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

desprendimiento de tierras (landslide), deslizamiento de tierras (debris avalanche, earth creep, earth flow, earth slide, land slip, landslide, landslip, mudslide, slide, slip), deslizamiento de terreno (earth creep, earth flow, earth slide, land slip, landslide, slip), derrumbe (collapse), corrimiento de tierras (landslide). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

jordskred (landslide, landslip). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: SOIL CREEP

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-e-i-l-o-p-r-s"

-1 letter: creolise, preslice, recopies, resplice.

-2 letters: ceilers, coilers, copiers, creoles, eclipse, elopers, leprose, peloric, piecers, pierces, polices, precise, recipes, recoils, replies, spieler, splicer, spoiler.

-3 letters: ceiler, ceorls, cerise, clepes, closer, coiler, colies, copers, copier, copies, corpse, cosier, creels, creeps, creole, crepes, cresol, cripes, eloper, elopes, lepers, lisper, lopers, lories, oilers, oriels, perils, piecer, pieces.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-e-i-l-o-p-r-s"
 

+1 letter: recompiles.

 

+2 letters: forcepslike, helicopters, necropoleis, prelections, processible, projectiles, supercoiled.

 

+3 letters: coleopterist, compressible, corpulencies, narcolepsies, necropolises, neuroleptics, precessional, preelections, preselection.

 

+4 letters: archipelagoes, cerebrospinal, coleopterists, compressively, copolymerizes, electrophiles, inoperculates, myrmecophiles, plerocercoids, porcelainizes, preceptorials, predilections, preselections, prospectively, reproducibles, scleroprotein, semiporcelain, stereotypical, supercollider.

 

+5 letters: cephalometries, cephaloridines, comprehensible, comprehensibly, convertiplanes, corporealities, electrodeposit, hydrocephalies, incompressible, lexicographers, lexicographies, microcephalies, nucleoproteins, overspecialize, petrochemicals, prolificnesses, prosencephalic, scleroproteins, semiporcelains, supercolliders, teleprocessing.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Bibliography


  

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