Horst

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A mass of the earth's crust that lies between two faults and is higher than the surrounding land.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. an area of the earth's surface which is raised relative to surrounding land
  • Word Usage
    "The first fact that we infer from the former existence of such a temperature distribution is the improbability, indeed the impossibility, that anything resembling a rigid obstacle, or deep-seated "horst," can have existed beneath the present surface-level, and opposed the northerly movement of the deep-lying synclines."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    earth's crust    crust   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    divorced    endorsed    enforced    forced    horsed    outsourced    reinforced    unenforced    unhorsed