clearing (n.)

• absolution
• acquittal
• acquittance
• aperture
• cavity
• chasm
• check
• clearance
• cleft
• crack
• defecation
• depletion
• desert
• discharge
• disclosure
• disembarrassment
• disengagement
• disentanglement
• dislodgment
• dismissal
• drainage
• egress
• elimination
• emptying
• evacuation
• excretion
• exculpation
• excuse
• exhaustion
• exoneration
• explanation
• extrication
• fenestra
• field
• fistula
• fontanel
• foramen
• forgiveness
• freeing
• gap
• gape
• gat
• glade
• gulf
• hayfield
• hiatus
• hole
• hollow
• inlet
• interval
• justification
• lacuna
• leak
• opening
• orifice
• outback
• outlet
• paddy
• pardon
• passageway
• patch
• plain
• plat
• plot
• pore
• prairie
• purgation
• purging
• quietus
• quittance
• rationalization
• rehabilitation
• reinstatement
• release
• remission
• removal
• restoration
• slot
• space
• split
• steppe
• stoma
• terrain
• territory
• tract
• unloading
• unsnarling
• untangling
• venting
• vindication
• voidance
• voiding
• wilderness
• yawn