Related Words for faulting

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WordSyllablesCategories
defect
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Noun, Verb
demerit
x/x
Verb, Noun, Verb
error
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Verb, Noun, Verb
mistake
x/
Verb, Noun, Verb
blame
/
Verb, Verb, Noun, Adjective
fracture
/x
Adjective, Noun, Verb
break
/
Verb, Verb, Noun
flaw
/
Noun, Noun, Verb
fault line
//
Phrase, Verb, Noun
merit
/x
Noun, Noun, Verb
virtue
/x
Verb, Noun
absolve
x/
Noun, Verb
justify
/xx
Verb, Verb
free
/
Verb, Adjective, Noun, Adverb, Verb
tectonic
x/x
Noun, Adjective
rifting
/x
Noun
criticizing
/xxx
Verb
subduction
x/x
Noun
inferring
x/x
Verb
extensional
x/xx
Adjective
unconformity
xx/xx
Noun
orogenic
xx/x
Noun
compressional
x/xx
Noun
undercutting
/xxx
Noun
lithospheric
/x/x
Adjective
praising
/x
Verb
overloading
/xxx
Noun
undermining
/xxx
Noun
volcanics
x/x
Noun
chiding
/x
Noun
criticising
/xxx
Verb
crustal
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Noun, Adjective
chastising
x/x
Verb
coeval
x/x
Noun
excusing
x/x
Verb
ridiculing
/xxx
Verb
complaining
x/x
Verb
weakening
/xx
Noun
slowness
/x
Noun
transform
x/
Verb
formation
x/x
Noun
folding
/x
Noun, Verb
terracing
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Noun
slippage
/x
Noun
warping
/x
Noun, Verb
accident
/xx
Noun
group
/
Noun
buckling
/x
Noun
leap
/
Noun
landform
/x
Noun
rake
/
Noun
subsequent
/xx
Adjective
horizontal
xx/x
Adjective
thrusting
/x
Noun, Verb
jointing
/x
Noun, Verb
tilting
/x
Noun, Verb
volcanism
xxxx
Noun
wrench
/
Verb
slumping
/x
Verb
seismicity
/xxx
Noun
shearing
/x
Noun
uplift
/x
Noun
subsidence
x/x
Noun
cenozoic
xx/x
Adjective
recency
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Noun
earthquakes
/x
Noun
holocene
/xx
Adjective
kinematics
xx/x
Noun
brittle
/x
Adjective
contemporaneous
xxx/xx
Adjective
mesozoic
xx/x
Adjective
mechanics
x/x
Noun
erosion
x/x
Noun
metamorphism
xx/xx
Noun
intrusion
x/x
Noun
seismic
/x
Adjective
sedimentation
xxx/x
Noun
reverse
x/
Adjective
deformed
x/
Verb
zones
/
Noun
quaternary
/xxx
Adjective
basement
/x
Noun
ductile
/x
Adjective
cretaceous
x/x
Adjective
slip
/
Noun
caledonian
xx/xx
Name, Adjective
closing
/x
Noun, Adjective
contractile
/xx
Adjective
cracking
/x
Adjective, Noun, Adverb
daylight
/x
Noun, Verb
denudation
x//x
Noun
depositional
xx/xx
Adjective
dispersal
x/x
Noun
epochal
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Adjective
eruptive
x/x
Adjective, Noun
glaciation
xx/x
Noun
initiating
x/xxx
Verb, Adjective
loophole
/x
Noun, Verb
morphogenetic
xxx/x
Adjective
recrystallization
x/xxxx
Noun
scarp
/
Noun, Verb
gloss
/
Noun, Verb
stovepipe
/x
Noun, Verb
idiomatic
xxx/x
Adjective, Noun
stonewall
/x
Name, Verb, Adjective
closet
/x
Noun, Adjective, Verb
backwater
/xx
Noun, Verb
bundle
/x
Noun, Verb
aisle
/
Noun
headlines
/x
Noun
milestone
/x
Noun, Verb
collocation
xx/x
Noun
cluster
/x
Noun, Verb
chunk
/
Noun, Verb
standard
/x
Adjective, Noun
vernacular
x/xx
Noun, Adjective
expression
x/x
Noun
dialect
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Noun