Glacial

What do we mean by glacial?

Of, relating to, or produced by a glacier. adjective

Extremely slow, like the movement of a glacier. adjective

Characterized or dominated by the existence of glaciers. Used of a geologic epoch. adjective

Pleistocene. adjective

Extremely cold; icy: synonym: cold. adjective

Having the appearance of ice. adjective

Lacking warmth and friendliness. adjective

Coldly detached. adjective

Icy; consisting of ice; frozen; hence, resembling ice; figuratively, having a cold, glassy look or manner.

In geology, referring to ice; associated with the geological agency of ice.

Of or relating to a glacier or an ice-sheet.

In chem., assuming the solid state as a result of concentration: used chiefly of certain acids (as acetic, sulphuric, and phosphoric acids) which are commonly seen as liquids but solidify at low temperatures when concentrated by removal of water.

Pertaining to ice or to its action; consisting of ice; frozen; icy; esp., pertaining to glaciers. adjective

Resembling ice; having the appearance and consistency of ice; -- said of certain solid compounds. adjective

An acid of such strength or purity as to crystallize at an ordinary temperature, in an icelike form; as acetic or carbolic acid. adjective

Earth and rocks which have been transported by moving ice, land ice, or icebergs; bowlder drift. adjective

A period during which the climate of the modern temperate regions was polar, and ice covered large portions of the northern hemisphere to the mountain tops. adjective

A glacial period (colloquially known as an ice age).

Words that are spelled similarly to glacial:
glacial.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word glacial:
tills, meltwater, kame, glaciation, moraine, striations, landforms, outburst, erratic, scouring, acetic, quaternary, bedrock, pleistocene, alluvium, holocene, boulders, cirque, glacier, receded, silt, kettle, melt, deposits, valleys, till, drift, melted, erosion, epoch, deposited, sediment, ice, boulder, gravel, lobe, melting, ago, eroded, drained, floods, debris, peat, sheet, sheets, topography, retreat, lava, deposition, geology, headwaters, lake, sedimentary, maximum, ridges, volcanic, iroquois, sandstone, shale, runoff, volcano, sands, sand, cycles, watershed, drainage, warming, greenland, plateau, alpine, geological, gorge, streams, rocks, alps, peaks, clay, flowing, antarctica, slopes, steep, flows, valley, carved, limestone, advances, basin, antarctic, flood, divide, outlet, origin, vegetation, granite, stream, period, bce, mountains, terrain, climate.

Words that rhyme with glacial:
spatial, facial, palatial, racial, spacial, biracial, interracial, multiracial, transracial, nonracial, proglacial.

Adjectives that are often used to describe glacial:
late, last, pre, post, full, early, inter, calcareous, sandy, dense, recent, fourth, thick, cold, interglacial, acetic, compact, underlying, stiff, clayey, older, wiirm, fluvio, earlier, loamy, extensive, unconsolidated, rich, non, latest, penultimate, unsorted, weichselian, compacted, peak, shallow, soft, loose, thin, unsaturated, illinoian, textured, weathered, 3rd, 4th, consolidated, acid, coarse, sub, impervious, overlying, unstratified, impermeable, mid, bouldery, fertile, grained, successive, alternate, eroded, unweathered, newer, unassorted.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective glacial:
acid, period, deposits, drift, ice, erosion, periods, action, epoch, lakes, times, origin, maximum, lake, age, history, sediments, conditions, debris, advance, stages, advances, epochs, stage, geology, streams, features, phenomena, theory, moraines, material, pace, valley, valleys, retreat, clays, outwash, activity, deposit, moraine, cycles, cycle, clay, ages, climate, beds, water, boulders, gravels, episodes, soils, waters, meltwater, movement, deposition, stream, sands, phases, striae, events, landforms, erratics, troughs, processes, tills, phase, trough, maxima, rivers, gravel, formations, acetic, climates, sand, record, river, episode, drainage, environments, sequence, sediment, topography, cirques, drifts, chronology, silt, era, soil, plains, landscape, cirque, rebound, regions, boundary.

Words that sound like glacial:
glacial, glaciale, glacially, glottal, gluteal, glossal, glycyl, glial, glacier, gleeful, geisha, gazel, gayal, galal, glacious, getchell, glocal, gutshall, claywell, gudgel, englacial, glashow, glsl, glycal, gottschall, glazing, alesha, palatial, glitching, kaushal, cashel, chloral, clausal, kuschel, clausel, gas shell, glumelle, clashing, global, guzzle, glaciers, geisel, glish, glazy, gisele, globule, glitchy, glycol, glia, glazes, gosha, guttle, gissel, clamshell, goral, gisel, glassful, gettle, glossa, goyal, galatian, gessel, gsl, plagal, gesell, geishas, glaza, glava, glazen, galusha, glasow, glasheen, globale, ghazel, gousha, gasl, getal, gelation, glosa, gisle, goozle, gashful, gusle, aglossal, ergo-shell, geuel, glandule, glassily, glossily, glugea, glumal, glyptal, gougeshell, guasha, loessial, aleisha, a little, aleshia, alation, -clinal.