namakier
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Synonym of salt glacier.
Example Sentences
- "Namakiers represent large, recumbent sheath folds underlain and flanked by rigid bedrock and overlain by air."
- "Hence the namakier consists of a stack of overlapping tongues."
- "Most salt extrusions rising on high ground are asymmetric and feed only one namakier."
- "Small ephemeral features, including shallow caves, are typical of the salt glacier surface, but in an active namakier the salt is flowing too fast to preserve them."
- "From Farsi for "mountain of salt," a namakier is perhaps more accurately described as a glacier of salt that can flow over the land surface as fast as inches per year, rivaling its icy counterparts for speed."