Synonyms of couloirs

couloirs

noun

plural of couloir

as in canyons

a narrow opening between hillsides or mountains that can be used for passage

at one point the steep, ice-encrusted walls of the couloir are no more than 50 feet apart

Synonyms & Similar Words

• canyons
• ravines
• gorges
• valleys
• gaps
• saddles
• gulches
• cols
• passes
• kloofs
• defiles
• flumes
• cirques
• abysses
• linns
• notches
• crevices
• crevasses
• gills
• fissures
• clefts
• trenches
• gulfs
• chasms
• cañons
• glens
• basins
• hollows
• vales
• gullies
• gulleys
• combes
• gutters
• dales
• coombs
• dells
• coulees
• kettles
• coombes
• arroyos
• troughs
• cwms
• wadis
• washes
• barrancas
• floodplains
• nullahs
• draws
• barrancos
• shut-ins