Terrain description

Outdoor descriptions should be diverse, especially if the story takes place entirely outside. Mountians and hills nouns: acclivity, alp, anthill, barrow, bluff, brae, butte, cliff, climb crag, down, drift, drumlin, dune, elevation, eminence, escarpment, foothill, grade, gradiant, headland, heap, height, highland, hill, hillock, hillside, holt, hummock, hump, incline, knap, knoll, knob, kopje, molehill, monticle, monticule, moor, mound, mount, mountain, mountaintop, peak, pike, pile, pinnacle, plateau, point, precipice, promontory, ramp, rise, slope, spur, stack, steep, summit, swell, talus, tor, upgrade, upland adjectives: alpine, beetling, cloud-capped, cloud-touching, elevated, heaven-kissing, high, high-reaching, hilly, knobby, lofty, Olympian, overtopping, precipitous, rising, rocky, rolling, rugged, sheer, sky-high, soaring, steep, supernal, tall, towering, upland Valleys, etc. nouns: basin, channel, chase, chasm, crevasse, culvert, depression, dip, ditch, glen, gulch, gully, gutter, notch, ravine, trench, vale, valley Islands nouns: ait, archipelago, atoll, calf, cay, eyot, floe, holm, iceberg, icefloe, island, isle, islet, key, oasis, reef Bodies of Water Rivers and Streams nouns: affluent, anabranch, arroyo, backflow, backstream, backwash, beck, bourne, branch, brook, brooklet, burst, cataract, cascade, channel, countercurrent, creek, crick, current, discharge, drift, eddy, estuary, feeder, flood, flow, flux, freshet, ghyll, gill, gush, kill, onrush, overflow, race, rapids, reach, rill, rindle, river, rivulet, run, rundle, runnel, runlet, rush, sike, spate, spring, storm, stream, streamlet, surge, swirl, syke, tide, torrent, tributary, wadi, watercourse, waterway Ponds, Lakes, etc. nouns: basin, bayou lake, fishpond, glacial lake, lagoon, lake, lakelet, loch, lough, mere, millpond, millpool, mountain lake, nyanza, oxbow lake, pond, pondlet, pool, puddle, reservoir, still water, tarn, tidal pond, volcanic lake, water hole, water pocket Seas nouns: brine, briny deep, hydrospace, main, Neptune's kingdom, ocean, ocean blue, sea, the deep, the drink adjectives: briny, foamy, salty Waves, Etc. nouns: billow, breaker, heave, roller, surge, swell, undulation Plains and Grasslands nouns: camagna, campo, champaign, downs, field, grassland, heath, lea, llano, mead, meadow, meadowland, moor, moorland, open country, pampas, pasturage, pasture, pastureland, plains, prairie, savanna, shieling, steppe, tundra, veld, veldt, wold Deserts nouns: badlands, barrens, desert, dust bowl, flats, moor, no man's land, Sahara, waste, wasteland, wild, wilderness adjectives: anhydrous, arid, baked, bare, barren, burning, burnt, cactoid, cactuslike, deficient, dehydrated, desicated, desolate, destitute, devoid, dried up, droughty, dry, empty, hot, infertile, moistureless, parched, poor, roasted, scorched, sterile, thirsty, toasted, torrid, uncultivable, uncultivatable, unfertile, unproductive, waterless Woodlands and Jungle nouns: boscage, bosk, brake, brush, bush, canebrake, chaparral, chase, copse, covert, forest, greenwood, grove, jungle, morass, rainforest, sylvan thicket, thicket, timberland, tropical rainforest, tangle, underbrush, virgin forest, wildwood, wood, wooded area, woodland, woods Clearings nouns: clearance, cleared land, clearing, dale, dell, expanse, felled forest, gap, glade, opening, passage, patch, open field, open space, tilled field, tract