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Word entry · 9 letters

embayment

Best crossword clue

"Coastal inlet"

9 letters · collected on this word page

9 lettersPronunciation /ɪmˈbeɪmənt/Part of speech nounSorted abeemmntyStarts with EEnds with T1 clues
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Definitions

  1. an indentation of a shoreline larger than a cove but smaller than a gulf

Word origin

From em- + bay + -ment.

Used in a sentence

  • The path climbed along a wall of purple sandstone above an embayment and in the sunlit shadows below him he could see the long cataphracted forms of gars lying in a kind of electric repose among the reeds.

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