EARTHQUAKE
ADJECTIVES
► MACROSEISMIC relating to an intense earthquake, or to one of great area or of long continuance → 1910 (Bk.)
NOUNS
► DIRT-QUAKE an earthquake → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► EARTH-DIN an earthquake; thunder in the earth → a1079 obs. exc. Sc.
► EARTH-GRINE an earthquake → 1297 obs.
► EARTH-GRITH an earthquake → 1297 obs.
► EARTH-MOVING an earthquake → 1382 obs.
► EARTHQUAKING an earthquake → c1400 obs.
► EARTHQUAVE an earthquake → 1382 obs.
► EARTH-SHAKE an earthquake → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► EARTH-SHAKING an earthquake → 1387
► EARTH-SHOCK an earthquake → c1315 obs.
► HYPOCENTER ► HYPOCENTRE the focus of an earthquake; the point within the earth where it originates → 1905
► MACROSEISM a great earthquake; a heavy or intense earthquake → 1910 (Bk.)
► QUAKER an earthquake → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► SEISM an earthquake → 1883
► SHAKE an earthquake; an earth tremor → 1705 Amer. dial.
► SHAKER an earthquake → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► SHAKES an earthquake; an earth tremor → 1705 Amer. dial.
► STROKE a shock of earthquake → 1815 obs.
► TERREMOTE an earthquake → 1390 obs.
► TREMBLER an earthquake → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► WIGGLER an earthquake → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
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