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