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SUNKEN BLOCK

Specialty Definition: SUNKEN BLOCK

DomainDefinition

Geography

Elongated, relatively depressed crustal unit or block that is bounded by faults on its long sides. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Modern Translation: SUNKEN BLOCK

Language Translations for "SUNKEN BLOCK"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

gravsænkning (fault trough, graben, rift valley, trough), graben (fault trough, graben, rift valley, trough). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

slenk (coring, graben, piping defect, trough). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

hautavajoama (fault trough, graben, rift valley, trench, trough). (various references)

   

French

  

massif affaissé, graben. (various references)

   

German

  

Verwerfungsgraben (graben, trough), Graben (burrow, canal, channel, cut, cutting, dig, ditch, engrave, excavation, fosse, grub, gutter, hole, mine, moat, pit, pole, prospect, rift, scoop out, spade, to burrow, to dig, to dig (dug, to sink, to trench, trench, water jump), abgesunkenes Massiv (graben, trough). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

τάφρος (dike, ditch, fosse), graben (fault trough, graben, rift valley, trough). (various references)

   

Italian

  

massiccio sprofondato (graben, trough), graben (fault trough, graben, rift valley, trough). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

unkensay ockblay

   

Portuguese

  

graben (graben, trough). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

graben (graben, trough). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

gravsänka (rift valley), graben (graben, trough). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: SUNKEN BLOCK

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-c-e-k-k-l-n-n-o-s-u"

-3 letters: knuckles, nucleons, sunblock, unblocks.

-4 letters: beckons, boucles, bounces, buckles, buckoes, buncoes, bunkoes, counsel, knuckle, leukons, nucleon, nuncles, unblock, unclose, unlocks.

-5 letters: beckon, blocks, blokes, blouse, bonnes, boucle, boules, bounce, buckle, buckos, buncos, bunkos, clones, clonks, clonus, clunks, cobles, coleus, consul, ensoul, kelson, knocks, leukon, nelson, nobles, nonces, nonuse, nuncle, obelus, oscule, ounces, suckle.

 Words containing the letters "b-c-e-k-k-l-n-n-o-s-u"
 

+1 letter: knucklebones.

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

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INDEX

1. Translations: Modern
2. Anagrams
3. Bibliography


  

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