badlands

badlands has 3 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 8.

Definitions

• Barren regions, especially in the western United States, where horizontal strata (Tertiary deposits) have been often eroded into fantastic forms, and much intersected by ca�ons, and where lack of wood, water, and forage increases the difficulty of traversing the country, whence the name, first given by the Canadian French, Mauvaises Terres (bad lands).
• n.. an eroded and barren region in southwestern South Dakota and northwestern Nebraska
• n.. deeply eroded barren land