recess vs loch

recess and loch both are nouns.

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

As nouns, loch is a hyponym of recess; that is, loch 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)
loch: a long narrow inlet of the sea in Scotland (especially when it is nearly landlocked)

Other hyponyms of recess include cove, fiord, fjord.

recess (noun)	loch (noun)
a pause from doing something (as work)	Scottish word for a lake
an enclosure that is set back or indented	a long narrow inlet of the sea in Scotland (especially when it is nearly landlocked)
an arm off of a larger body of water (often between rocky headlands)
a small concavity
a state of abeyance or suspended business