Hiatuses

What do we mean by hiatuses?

A gap in a series, making it incomplete.

An interruption, break or pause.

An unexpected break from work.

A gap in geological strata.

An opening in an organ.

A syllable break between two vowels, without an intervening consonant. (Compare diphthong.)

Words that are spelled similarly to hiatuses:
hiatuses, hiatus, statuses, meatuses, ictuses, situses, flatuses, rictuses, cistuses.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word hiatuses:
jokes, seasons, summer, late.

Adjectives that are often used to describe hiatuses:
many, several, major, stratigraphic, long, such, numerous, depositional, significant, certain, sea, erosional, few, little, frequent, large, widespread, brief, local, vast, wide, strange, apparent, cenozoic, regional, deep, minor, short, lengthy, fearful, dimensional, occasional, obvious, possible, due, occupational, late, nondepositional, intraformational, divine.

Words that sound like hiatuses:
hiatuses, hostesses, hiatus, highnesses, huntresses, mitoses, cactuses, lotuses, countesses, contuses, waitresses, treatises, notices, halitosis, statuses, justices, hypothesize, hypotheses, heightens, how it is, lettuces, hypothesise, hideaways, lattices, mantises, hospices, howitzers, hematosis, poeticize, hiatal, hemoptysis, latices.