pitching dangerously to one side | nitrate-bearing rock or gravel of the sodium nitrate deposits of Chile and Peru |
a genre of popular music originating in the 1950s; a blend of black rhythm-and-blues with white country-and-western | crust or layer of hard subsoil encrusted with calcium-carbonate occurring in arid or semiarid regions |
hard bright-colored stick candy (typically flavored with peppermint) | |
a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter | |
(figurative) someone who is strong and stable and dependable | |
material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth's crust | |