| scorched-earth policy | the target company defends itself by selling off its crown jewels |
| ground earth | a connection between an electrical device and a large conducting body, such as the earth (which is taken to be at zero voltage) |
worldly concern
earthly concern
world earth | the concerns of this life as distinguished from heaven and the afterlife, they consider the church to be independent of the world |
| earth science | any of the sciences that deal with the earth or its parts |
tremor
earth tremor
microseism | a small earthquake |
a Hizballah
Hezbollah
Hizbollah
Hizbullah
Lebanese Hizballah
Party of God
Islamic Jihad Islamic Jihad for the Liberation of Palestine
Revolutionary Justice Organization
Organization of the Oppressed on Earth | a Shiite terrorist organization with strong ties to Iran, seeks to create an Iranian fundamentalist Islamic state in Lebanon, car bombs are the signature weapon |
Earth
earth | the abode of mortals (as contrasted with Heaven or Hell), it was hell on earth |
hell hell on earth
hellhole
snake pit
the pits
inferno | any place of pain and turmoil, the hell of battle, the inferno of the engine room, when you're alone Christmas is the pits, |
crust
Earth's crust | the outer layer of the Earth |
Earth
earth world
globe | the rd planet from the sun, the planet we live on, the Earth moves around the sun, he sailed around the world |
land
dry land
earth ground
solid ground
terra firma | the solid part of the earth's surface, the plane turned away from the sea and moved back over land, the earth shook for several minutes, he dropped the logs on the ground |
surface
Earth's surface | the outermost level of the land or sea, earthquakes originate far below the surface, three quarters of the Earth's surface is covered by water |
earth-god
earth god | a god of fertility and vegetation |
earth-goddess
earth goddess | a goddess of fertility and vegetation |
| earth mother | the earth conceived of as the female principle of fertility |
lion's foot
gall of the earth
Nabalus serpentarius
Prenanthes serpentaria | common perennial herb widely distributed in the southern and eastern United States having drooping clusters of pinkish flowers and thick basal leaves suggesting a lion's foot in shape, sometimes placed in genus Prenanthes |
chufa
yellow nutgrass
earth almond
ground almond
rush nut
Cyperus esculentus | European sedge having small edible nutlike tubers |
heath pea
earth-nut pea
earthnut pea
tuberous vetch
Lathyrus tuberosus | European herb bearing small tubers used for food and in Scotland to flavor whiskey |
wild potato vine
wild sweet potato vine
man-of-the-earth manroot
scammonyroot
Ipomoea panurata
Ipomoea fastigiata | tropical American prostrate or climbing herbaceous perennial having an enormous starchy root, sometimes held to be source of the sweet potato |
| man-of-the-earth Ipomoea leptophylla | a morning glory with long roots of western United States |
truffle
earthnut earth-ball | any of various highly prized edible subterranean fungi of the genus Tuber, grow naturally in southwestern Europe |
earthtongue
earth-tongue | any club-shaped fungus of the genus Geoglossum |
rare earth
rare-earth element
lanthanoid
lanthanide
lanthanon | any element of the lanthanide series (atomic numbers through ) |
ader wax
earth wax
mineral wax
ozokerite
ozocerite | a waxy mineral that is a mixture of hydrocarbons and occurs in association with petroleum, some varieties are used in making ceresin and candles |
| earth color | a colored mineral used as a pigment |
alkaline earth
alkaline-earth metal | any of the bivalent metals of group II of the periodic table (calcium or strontium or barium or magnesium or beryllium) |
bleaching clay
bleaching earth | an adsorbent clay that will remove coloring from oils |
potter's clay
potter's earth | clay that does not contain any iron, used in making pottery or for modeling |
earth
ground | the loose soft material that makes up a large part of the land surface, they dug into the earth outside the church |
diatomaceous earth
diatomite
kieselguhr | a light soil consisting of siliceous diatom remains and often used as a filtering material |
| earth | once thought to be one of four elements composing the universe (Empedocles) |
| fuller's earth | an absorbent soil resembling clay, used in fulling (shrinking and thickening) woolen cloth and as an adsorbent |
| earth | connect to the earth, earth the circuit |
land up
earth up | block with earth, as after a landslide |
| earth | hide in the earth like a hunted animal |
down-to-earth
earthy | sensible and practical, has a straightforward down-to-earth approach to a problem, her earthy common sense |
| on earth | used with question words to convey surprise, what on earth are you doing? |