Phrase Hound found 12 phrases and 4 compound words that contain nevada. The most common are listed below. Open nevada in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 12
- Sierra NevadaA mountain range in Andalusia, Spain.
- Nevada CountyOne of 75 counties in Arkansas, United States. County seat: Prescott. It was so named as it is roughly the shape of the state of Nevada when inverted.
- Nevada CityA city, the county seat of Nevada County, California, United States.
- Nevada DayA public holiday in Nevada celebrated on the last Friday in October, commemorating the state's October 31, 1864 admission to the Union.
- Nevada gasHydrogen cyanide, used in the gas chamber.
- Nevada TriangleA region bounded by the vertices at Reno, Nevada, US; Las Vegas, Nevada, US; Fresno, California, US; containing part of the Sierra Nevada (a mountain range in the Rocky Mountain Cordillera); the triangle falling mostly in the U.S. state of …
- Nevada bluegrassThe American grass Poa secunda.
- Nevada ephedraA gray, leafless shrub native to dry, rocky or sandy areas of western North America and used to make an herbal tea, Ephedra nevadensis
- Nevada jointfirA gray, leafless shrub native to dry, rocky or sandy areas of western North America and used to make an herbal tea, Ephedra nevadensis
- Sierra Nevada de Santa MartaAn isolated mountain range in northern Colombia.
- Sierra Nevada brushfinchArremon basilicus, a species of brushfinch.
- Sierra Nevada brushfinchesplural of Sierra Nevada brushfinch: Arremon basilicus, a species of brushfinch.
Compound words 4
- NevadaplanoA high-elevation orogenic plateau that once existed during the Tertiary period in what is modern North America’s Great Basin, analogous to today’s high-elevation South American altiplano.
- nevadaiteAn orthorhombic-disphenoidal mineral containing aluminum, copper, fluorine, hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, vanadium, and zinc.
- NevadianNevadan
- nevaditeA granitoid variety of rhyolite.