cleft (n.)
- abysm
- abyss
- alienation
- aperture
- arroyo
- blaze
- branching
- breach
- break
- breakage
- burst
- canyon
- cavity
- chap
- chasm
- check
- chimney
- chink
- chip
- clearing
- cleavage
- clove
- col
- crack
- cranny
- crevasse
- crevice
- cut
- cwm
- defile
- dell
- depression
- dike
- disaffection
- disclosure
- disfavor
- disruption
- disunion
- disunity
- ditch
- divergence
- division
- draw
- estrangement
- excavation
- fault
- fenestra
- fissure
- fistula
- flaw
- flume
- fontanel
- foramen
- forking
- fracture
- furrow
- gap
- gape
- gash
- gat
- gorge
- groove
- gulch
- gulf
- gully
- hack
- hiatus
- hole
- hollow
- incision
- indentation
- inlet
- interval
- jag
- jog
- joggle
- joint
- lacuna
- leak
- moat
- nick
- nock
- notch
- nullah
- opening
- orifice
- outlet
- pass
- passage
- passageway
- pore
- ravine
- rent
- rift
- rime
- rip
- rupture
- scale
- schism
- scissure
- score
- scotch
- seam
- separation
- slash
- slice
- slit
- slot
- space
- splinter
- split
- stoma
- tear
- trench
- valley
- void
- wadi
- yawn
cleft (adj.)
- bifurcated
- blaze
- branched
- branching
- chip
- cloven
- crack
- cracked
- cut
- dehiscent
- dichotomous
- ditch
- divided
- fault
- forked
- gape
- gaping
- hack
- hole
- hollow
- joint
- lacerate
- lacerated
- leak
- mangled
- mutilated
- nock
- notch
- opening
- pass
- pore
- ragged
- rent
- rift
- rime
- rimose
- rip
- riven
- scale
- score
- scotch
- severed
- shredded
- split
- tattered
- torn
- void
