recess vs cove

recess and cove both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
recess	Yes	No	Yes	No
cove	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, cove is a hyponym of recess; that is, cove is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than recess:

recess: an arm off of a larger body of water (often between rocky headlands)
cove: a small inlet

Other hyponyms of recess include fiord, fjord, loch.

recess (noun)	cove (noun)
a pause from doing something (as work)	a small inlet
an enclosure that is set back or indented	small or narrow cave in the side of a cliff or mountain
an arm off of a larger body of water (often between rocky headlands)
a small concavity
a state of abeyance or suspended business