Nouns denoting natural events
- vision
- a religious or mystical experience of a supernatural appearance
- avalanche
- a sudden appearance of an overwhelming number of things
- etiology
- the cause of a disease
- recombination
- (physics) a combining of charges or transfer of electrons in a gas that results in the neutralization of ions; important for ions arising from the passage of high-energy particles
- track event
- a footrace performed on a track (indoor or outdoor)
- subsequence
- something that follows something else
- collapse
- a sudden large decline of business or the prices of stocks (especially one that causes additional failures)
- predestination
- previous determination as if by destiny or fate
- stall
- a malfunction in the flight of an aircraft in which there is a sudden loss of lift that results in a downward plunge
- collision
- an accident resulting from violent impact of a moving object
- brake failure
- brakes fail to stop a vehicle
- seismic disturbance
- an instance of agitation of the earth's crust
- sunset
- the daily event of the sun sinking below the horizon
- calamity
- an event resulting in great loss and misfortune
- gravitation
- movement downward resulting from gravitational attraction
- explosion
- the noise caused by an explosion
- streak
- a sudden flash (as of lightning)
- opener
- the first event in a series
- cockfight
- a match in a cockpit between two fighting cocks heeled with metal gaffs
- field trial
- a contest between gun dogs to determine their proficiency in pointing and retrieving
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