embayment (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 1 sense of the word *embayment*:
NOUN	object	embayment, bay	an indentation of a shoreline larger / larger than a cove but smaller than a gulf

embayment > pronunciation
Sounds	ehmbey'mahnt
Rhymes	abandonment ... wonderment: 671 rhymes with ahnt...

English > *embayment*: 1 sense > noun 1, object
Meaning	An indentation of a shoreline larger / larger than a cove but smaller than a gulf.
Synonym	bay
Instances	Abukir, Abukir Bay	A bay on the Mediterranean Sea in northern Egypt
	Andaman Sea	Part of the Bay of Bengal to the west of the Malay Peninsula
	Bay of Bengal	An arm of the Indian Ocean to the east of India
	Bay of Biscay	An arm of the Atlantic Ocean in western Europe
	Bay of Fundy	A bay of the North Atlantic between New Brunswick and Nova Scotia
	Bay of Naples	An arm of the Tyrrhenian Sea at Naples
	Biscayne Bay	A narrow bay formed by an inlet from the Atlantic Ocean in southeastern Florida
	Bo Hai, Po Hai	An inlet of the Yellow Sea, on the coast of Eastern China
	Buzzards Bay	An inlet of the Atlantic Ocean in southeastern Massachusetts
	Cape Cod Bay	The southern part of Massachusetts Bay
	Chesapeake Bay	A large inlet of the North Atlantic between Virginia and Maryland
	Delaware Bay	An inlet of the North Atlantic
	Galveston Bay	An arm of the Gulf of Mexico in Texas to the south of Houston
	Galway Bay	A bay of the North Atlantic on the west coast of Ireland
	Hangzhou Bay	A bay formed by an inlet of the East China Sea
	James Bay	The southern extension of Hudson Bay in Canada between western Quebec and northeastern Ontario
	Korea Bay	An inlet of the Yellow Sea between the Liaodong Peninsula in China and western Korea
	Massachusetts Bay	An inlet of the Atlantic Ocean off of eastern Massachusetts extending from Cape Ann on the north to Cape Cod on the south
	Minamata Bay	A bay on the west coast of Kyushu
	Mobile Bay	A bay of the Gulf of Mexico
	Monterey Bay	An inlet of the Pacific Ocean in western California
	Moreton Bay	An arm of the Tasman Sea forming a bay to the east of Brisbane
	Narragansett Bay	A deep inlet of the Atlantic Ocean in Rhode Island
	New York Bay	A bay of the North Atlantic
	Osaka Bay	A bay of the western Pacific in southern Honshu
	Penobscot Bay	An inlet of the Atlantic in eastern Maine
	Prudhoe Bay	A bay on the northern coast of Alaska where oil was discovered in 1968
	San Diego Bay	A bay of the Pacific in southern California
	San Francisco Bay	A bay of the Pacific in western California
	Sea of Azov, Sea of Azof, Sea of Azoff	A bay of the Black Sea between Russia and the Ukraine
	Tampa Bay	An arm of the Gulf of Mexico in west central Florida
Part of	sea	A division of an ocean or a large body of salt water partially enclosed by land
Narrower	Guantanamo Bay	An inlet of the Caribbean Sea
Narrower	bight	A broad bay formed by an indentation in the shoreline
Broader	body of water, water	The part of the earth's surface covered with water (such as a river or lake or ocean)
Spanish	bahía
Catalan	badia

HyperDic: embayment