Related Words for straits

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head
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Noun, Noun
pass
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Noun, Noun
perilous
/xx
Adjective
straights
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Noun
shoals
/
Noun
difficulties
/xxx
Noun
gulfs
/
Noun
situations
xx/x
Noun
hardships
/x
Noun
conditions
x/x
Noun
straitened
/x
Adjective
waters
/x
Noun
predicaments
x/xx
Noun
seas
/
Noun
precipices
/xxx
Noun
precarious
x/xx
Adjective
coasts
/
Noun
circumstances
/xxx
Noun
troubles
/x
Noun
calamities
x/xx
Noun
crises
/x
Noun
isles
/
Noun
exigencies
x/xx
Noun
shores
/
Noun
ravines
x/
Noun
distresses
x/x
Noun
financial
x/x
Adjective
afflictions
x/x
Noun
stormy
/x
Adjective
chasms
/x
Noun
perils
/x
Noun
gorges
/x
Noun
extremity
x/xx
Noun
perplexities
x/xx
Noun
dardanelles
/x/
Name, Adjective
affairs
x/
Noun
vicissitudes
x/xx
Noun
calamitous
x/xx
Adjective
succor
/x
Noun
crossings
/x
Noun
destitution
/xxx
Noun
tidewater
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Noun
salish
/x
Verb
mackinac
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Name
settlements
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Verb
magellan
x/x
Name
sunda
/x
Name
banca
/x
Name
messina
x/x
Name
malacca
x/x
Name
torres
/
Verb, Name
melaka
x/x
Name
gibraltar
x/x
Name
haro
/x
Name
maire
/
Name
dover
/x
Name
otranto
x/x
Name
bosporus
/xx
Name
bering
/x
Verb
johor
xx
Name
bosphorus
/xx
Name
lombok
/x
Name
bahama
x/x
Name
raves
/
Verb
hellespont
x/x
Name
internationalized
xx/xxx
Verb
singleton
/xx
Noun
vali
/x
Noun
thermopylae
/xx/
Name
blockade
x/
Verb, Noun
tarshish
/x
Name
salamis
x/x
Name
constantinople
xxx/x
Name
demilitarization
xxxxx/x
Noun
formosa
x/x
Name
gallipoli
x/xx
Name
florida
/xx
Name
gull
/
Noun
fjords
/
Noun
bordering
/xx
Verb
patrol
x/
Verb
istanbul
xx/
Name
corfu
x/
Name
ferried
/x
Verb
scylla
/x
Name
fortify
/xx
Verb
turkish
/x
Adjective
huron
/x
Name
bays
/
Noun
navigated
/xxx
Verb
warships
/x
Noun
sicily
/xx
Name
aqaba
x/x
Name
penang
/x
Name
channels
/x
Noun
close
/
Adjective, Verb, Noun
compatriots
x/xx
Noun
detroit
x/
Name
disappointments
xx/x
Noun
disrepute
xx/
Noun, Verb
hae
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Verb, Noun
hoi
/
Name
ido
/x
Name
interethnic
xx/x
Adjective
intergenerational
xx/x/xx
Adjective
intergroup
xx/
Noun, Adjective
interregional
xx/xx
Adjective
intertribal
xx/x
Adjective
intragroup
xxx
Adjective
marine
x/
Noun, Adjective, Verb
misfortunes
x/x
Noun
narrow
/x
Adjective, Noun, Verb
naval
/x
Adjective, Name
ordeals
x/
Noun
plight
/
Noun, Verb
privations
x/x
Noun
problems
/x
Noun
quandary
/xx
Noun
reverses
x/x
Verb, Noun
roads
/
Noun
sounds
/
Noun
streets
/
Noun
tight
/
Adjective, Adverb, Verb
trilateral
x/xx
Adjective
arabism
x/xx
Name
english
/x
Name, Adjective, Verb
hellenism
/xxx
Name
semitism
/xxx
Name
nickel
/x
Noun, Adjective, Verb
cloth
/
Noun
maypole
/x
Noun, Verb
oh
/
Noun, Verb
girly
/x
Adjective, Noun
closet
/x
Noun, Adjective, Verb
nsa
x
Name, Adverb, Adjective
sop
/
Noun, Verb
aisle
/
Noun
idiomatic
xxx/x
Adjective, Noun
headlines
/x
Noun
vernacular
x/xx
Noun, Adjective
dicky
/x
Name, Adjective
dialect
/xx
Noun
pidgin
/x
Noun
standard
/x
Adjective, Noun