Phrase Hound found 11 phrases and 8 compound words that contain reefs. The most common are listed below. Open reefs in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 11
- coral reefsplural of coral reef: A reef formed by compacted coral skeletons
- Forest ReefsA locality in the Blayney council area and the Cabonne council area, central eastern New South Wales, Australia.
- Junee ReefsA locality in the Junee council area, southern New South Wales, Australia.
- barrier reefsplural of barrier reef: A reef separated from the adjacent coast by a channel or lagoon; a reef that forms a barrier between the open ocean and the waters of the shoreline.
- fringing reefsplural of fringing reef: A completely shallow coral reef adjacent to a coast.
- bag reefsplural of bag reef: The fourth or lower reef of a topsail.
- close-reefsthird-person singular simple present indicative of close-reef: To reef a sail as tightly as possible by taking in all available reefs, thereby reducing the sail area maximally for strong winds.
- Irish reefsplural of Irish reef: The head of a sail tied up.
- saddle reefsplural of saddle reef: A mineral deposit associated with the crest of an anticlinal fold and following the bedding planes, usually found in vertical succession, especially the gold-bearing quartz veins of Australia.
- Spanish reefsplural of Spanish reef: A knot tied in the head of a jib-headed sail.
- saddle back reefsplural of saddle back reef: A saddle reef: a saddle-shaped bedded mineral vein in the form of an anticline or a syncline (an inverted saddle).
Compound words 8
- Andreefsplural of Andreef: A surname from Russian.
- backreefsplural of backreef: A lagoon found in a coral reef ecosystem.
- disreefsthird-person singular simple present indicative of disreef: To allow (a reefed parachute) to fully open.
- forereefsplural of forereef: The seaward side of a coral reef ecosystem.
- reefscapeThe landscape of a reef
- reefscapesplural of reefscape: The landscape of a reef
- Shareefsplural of Shareef: meek, gentle, gentlemanly, upstanding, innocent
- shereefsplural of shereef: A member of an Arab princely family descended from Muhammad through his son-in-law Ali and daughter Fatima, the "Grand Shereef" being the governor of Mecca.