Term: nuclear winter: a long period of darkness and extreme cold that scientists predict would follow a full-scale nuclear war; a layer of dust and smoke in the atmosphere would cover the earth and block the rays of the sun; most living organisms would perish
Broader: catastrophe: a sudden violent change in the earth's surface | Unrelated: earthworm: terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers
Broader: catastrophe: a sudden violent change in the earth's surface | Unrelated: falchion: a short broad slightly convex medieval sword with a sharp point
Broader: catastrophe: a sudden violent change in the earth's surface | Unrelated: ball: a pitch that is not in the strike zone
Broader: catastrophe: a sudden violent change in the earth's surface | Unrelated: piaster: a fractional monetary unit in Egypt and Lebanon and Sudan and Syria
Broader: catastrophe: a sudden violent change in the earth's surface | Unrelated: sivapithecus: fossil primates found in India
Broader: catastrophe: a sudden violent change in the earth's surface | Unrelated: reflexivity: the coreferential relation between a reflexive pronoun and its antecedent
Broader: catastrophe: a sudden violent change in the earth's surface | Unrelated: bulbul: nightingale spoken of in Persian poetry
Broader: catastrophe: a sudden violent change in the earth's surface | Unrelated: cosmographer: a scientist knowledgeable about cosmography
Broader: catastrophe: a sudden violent change in the earth's surface | Unrelated: counterproposal: a proposal offered as an alternative to an earlier proposal
Broader: catastrophe: a sudden violent change in the earth's surface | Unrelated: goatsfoot: short-stemmed South African plant with bluish flowers