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| being in actual contact : touching along a boundary or at a point |
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| land in or predominantly in grass |
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| a system of mountain ranges often consisting of a number of more or less parallel chains |
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| a deep narrow valley with steep sides and often with a stream flowing through it |
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| deep enough and wide enough to afford passage to ships |
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| industrial materials and capacities (as mineral deposits and waterpower) supplied by nature |
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| of or relating to large groups of people classed according to common racial, national, tribal, religious, linguistic, or cultural origin or background |
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| the customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group; also : the characteristic features of everyday existence (as diversions or a way of life} shared by people in a place or time |
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| a regional variety of language distinguished by features of vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation from other regional varieties and constituting together with them a single language |
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| a period of dryness especially when prolonged; specifically : one that causes extensive damage to crops or prevents their successful growth |
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| an extreme scarcity of food |
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| a tropical cyclone with winds of 74 miles (119 kilometers) per hour or greater that occurs especially in the western Atlantic, that is usually accompanied by rain, thunder, and lightning, and that sometimes moves into temperate latitudes |
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| a violent destructive whirling wind accompanied by a funnel-shaped cloud that progresses in a narrow path over the land |
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| a hurricane occurring especially in the region of the Philippines or the China sea |
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| a body of people living in a new territory but retaining ties with the parent state |
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| to add to something earlier, larger, or more important |
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| the systematic use of terror especially as a means of coercion |
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| a self-governing nation of the Commonwealth of Nations other than the United Kingdom that acknowledges the British monarch as chief of state |
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| the distribution of power in an organization (as a government) between a central authority and the constituent units |
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| the process of amending by parliamentary or constitutional procedure |
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| of, based on, or having the characteristics of parliamentary government |
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| a smaller community adjacent to or within commuting distance of a city |
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| having originated in and being produced, growing, living, or occurring naturally in a particular region or environment |
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| having or expressed in two languages < |
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