recess vs fiord

recess and fiord both are nouns.

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

As nouns, fiord is a hyponym of recess; that is, fiord 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)
fiord: a long narrow inlet of the sea between steep cliffs; common in Norway

Other hyponyms of recess include cove, fjord, loch.

recess (noun)	fiord (noun)
a pause from doing something (as work)	a long narrow inlet of the sea between steep cliffs; common in Norway
an enclosure that is set back or indented
an arm off of a larger body of water (often between rocky headlands)
a small concavity
a state of abeyance or suspended business