Phrase Hound found 20 phrases and 44 compound words that contain terra. The most common are listed below. Open terra in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 20
- terra-cottaAlternative form of terracotta: A hard red-brown unglazed earthenware, used for pottery and building construction.
- terra incognitaLand that has never been explored, mapped, or surveyed.
- terra firmaContinental land, as distinguished from islands.
- terra pretaA very dark, man-made, nutritionally dense soil found in the Amazon basin.
- Arabia TerraA large upland region in the north of Mars that lies mostly in the Arabia quadrangle.
- Terra BellaA census-designated place in Tulare County, California, United States.
- Terra MarianaMedieval Livonia, established in 1207 in the aftermath of the Livonian Crusade, and corresponding to present-day Estonia and Latvia.
- Terra NovaA town in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
- Aphrodite TerraOne of the three continental regions on the planet Venus.
- terra nulliusEmpty land; land not legally belonging to anyone; no man's land.
- Terra NiviumA roughly triangular highland region on the Moon.
- terra sigillataA type of astringent earth or clay originally from the Greek islands, formerly used as a medicine and antidote.
- terra ponderosaBarite, or heavy spar.
- terra rossaA well-drained, reddish, clayey to silty soil with neutral pH conditions, typical of the Mediterranean region.
- terra albaA white earthy substance consisting of burnt gypsum and aluminium silicate (kaolin), or some similar ingredient, such as magnesia. It is sometimes used to adulterate certain foods, spices, candies, paints, etc.
- terra-maraAn earthy deposit containing fertilizing organic or mineral matter.
- terra cottasplural of terra cotta: A hard red-brown unglazed earthenware, used for pottery and building construction.
- terra LemniaLemnian earth, sphragide, a medicinal clay.
- terra-japonicagambier (Uncaria gambir)
- Terra del FuegoObsolete form of Tierra del Fuego: An island at the southern tip of South America, politically divided between Chile and Argentina; in full, Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego.
Compound words 44
- terraformTo transform the atmosphere (or biosphere) of another planet into one having the characteristics of Earth.
- terramationA process for the final disposition of human remains in which microbes convert a dead body into compost.
- terricideThe destruction of ecosystems, human lives, and intangible energies that regulate human and nonhuman life.
- terracideThe destruction of a planet or of natural ecosystems.
- terranautSomeone who explores some part of the Earth.
- TerranianAn inhabitant of Earth.
- AquaterraCollectively, all the submerged lands that were once above water in ice age glacial periods, since the start of the Pleistocene.
- terracottaA hard red-brown unglazed earthenware, used for pottery and building construction.
- terrapinAny of several small turtles of the families Emydidae and Geoemydidae found throughout the world.
- terracedsimple past and past participle of terrace