Abrazem
acid soil
acidic deposition
acidification
acidity
Acrisol
actinomycete
adhesion
adsorption
age
aggregate
aggregation
agricultural revolution
agriculture
Agrobrazem
agronomy
Agrozem
air entry potential
air permeability
airport
albic
albite
Alfisol
algae
Al-humus complex
alic property
alkaline soil
allophane
Al-rich allophane
aluminium (Al)
aluminium silicate clay
amino acid
amphibian
analcime
anatase
Andisol
Andosol
andosolization
anion exchange capacity (AEC)
anthraquic
Anthropocene
anti-allophanic effect
antimony (Sb)
apatite
Aporrectodea caliginosa
aquic conditions
Archae
Archimedes
Arenosol
argic
argillic
argon (Ar)
arid
arid climate
arid region
aridic
aridic environment
Aridisol
Aristotle
arsenate (AsO43)
arsenic (As)
artefact
arthropod acidity index (AAI)
Artifabricat
ash
aspect
aspen
automobile exhaust
back slope
bacteria
basaltic soil
base saturation
basin
bauxite
beech
beidellite
bentonite
bicarbonate
bioavailability
biocide
biocorrosive activity
biocycling
biogenic activity
biomarker
biomolecule
biota
biotic factor
biotite
birch
bird
blocky structure
boehmite
bog
bond
boreal forest
boulder clay (glacial drift)
brackish
Braun-Blanquet
bromium (Br)
bubbles formation
buffer
buffer function
bulk density
by-pass flow
13C
14C
C4-derived carbon
cable
cadmium (Cd)
caesium (134Cs, 137Cs)
calcareous
calcaric
calcic
Calcisol
calcite
calcium (Ca)
calcium carbonate (CaCO3)
calcrete (calcite cemented horizon)
callose
cambic
Cambisol
canal
Canny
canopy
capillarity
capillary action
capillary tension
capillary water
carbohydrate
carbon (C)
carbon dioxide (CO2)
carbon monoxide (CO)
carbonate (CO32)
carbonic acid (H2CO3)
carrier function
casts
cation exchange capacity (CEC)
Cato
cell
cemented horizon
chamber
channel
Chemdegrazem
chemical protection
‘chemical time bomb’
chemo-organotrophic bacteria
chernic
Chernozem
chinochlore
chlorite
chromium (Cr)
chrysotile
classification
clay
clay mineral
clay skin (or film or tonhatchen)
claypan
clearcutting
climate
climate change
climatic regime
climosequence
closed drainage
cobalt (Co)
cohesion
cold climate
cold desert
colloid
colonizer
colour
Columella
communism
compacted soil
compactibility
compaction
compost
compound attributes
concavity
co-neogenesis
conflict
coniferous
conservation tillage
consistency
contamination
Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution
Convention on Soil
convexity
copper (Cu)
co-production
corundum
crack
creep movement
Cretaceous
crusting
cryic
Cryosol
cultural component
cultural heritage
cultural, function
cyanobacteria
Darwin
dating
De Agricultura
decomposition
deficiency
degradation
deposition
depositional crust
diffusion coefficient
digital elevation model (DEM)
dioxin
displacement
dissolved organic carbon (DOC)
dissolved organic matter (DOM)
dissolved solid
divide
DNA
Dokuchaev
dolomite
drainage
dry area
dry region
dump
dune
dung
duration
duripan
dynamic pedology
earthquake
earthworm
ecosystem
edaphos
eddy correlation
effect
Eh
electrical conductivity (EC)
electrical resistance block
electrochemical technique
electrode
eluviation
emission
emission of CO2
endellite
enrichment factor (EF)
Entisol
enzyme
epipedon
epsomite
erosion
eucalypt
‘Eureka’ moment
eutrophication
evaporite mineral
expansive soil
exposure
exudate
Fabricat
faeces
Fallou
FAO Legend
faunal activity
Fe-hydroxide
feldspar
Fe-oxide
ferralic
Ferralsol
ferric
ferrihydrite
ferrolysis
ferrous
fertilization
field capacity
filter function
fir
fire
flint
flood
fluid
food chain
foot slope
forest
Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FITR)
fragipan
frigid
fulvic acid (FA)
fungi
fungicide
furan
gamma-ray absorption
garbage
gas diffusivity
gas emission
Gelisol
genome
Gibbs’ free energy
gibbsite
gilgai
glacial drift (boulder clay)
glacial till
glass
gleization
gleyic properties
global change
globalization
glomalin
goethite
golf
gopher
gradient analyses
granitic soil
granular structure
grass
grassland
gravitational potential
gravitational water
gravity
grazing
gumbotil
gypsic
Gypsisol
gypsum (CaSO4 2H2O)
habitat function
haematite
halide
halite
halloysite
halloysite-smectite
haploidization
head slope
heavy metal
Henry’s constant
herbicide
Herodotus
Hilgard
histic
historic function
Histosol
Holocene
horizon
horizonation
hortic
hot desert
human activity
human impact
human production
human-impacted soil
humankind
humans
humic acid (HA)
humic substance
humid climate
humid (udic) environment
humid region
humin
humus
humus complex
husbandry
hydraulic conductivity
hydrogen sulphide (H2S)
hydromorphic soil
hydroxide
hydroxy-interlayered smectite (HIS)
hydroxy-interlayered vermiculite (HIV)
hygroscopic water
hyperthermic
ice
illuviation
ilmenite
imogolite
Inceptisol
incongruent dissolution
independent variable
induced convection
industrial emission
industrial process
industry
infiltration
insect
insecticide
intensity
intensity factor
interfluve
ions
iridium (Ir)
iron (Fe)
iron oxide
ironstone
irragric
irrigation
isothermal diffusion
isotope
jarosite
Jenny
Jenny equation
Jenny’s approach
kandic
kaolinite
kaolin-smectite
Kozeni-Karman’s theory
Krasnozems
krotovina
Kuhn
lacustrine
land use
landfill
landscape
laterite
lateritic
lava
leaching
lead (Pb)
lenticular structure
lepidocrocite
lessivage
lichen
lignin
liquefaction
litter
Little Ice Age
livestock manure
Lixisol
low-molecular-weight organic acid (LMWOA)
Lumbricus rubellus
Lumbricus terrestris
lunar regolith
Luvisol
lysimeter
macrofauna
maghaemite
magma
magnesium (Mg)
magnetic field
magnetite
maize
mammal
manganese (Mn)
manganese oxide
mangrove
manure
maple
Marbut
Mars
marshes
mass transfer
mass wetness
matric force
matric potential
melanic epipedon
melanization
membrane diffusion technique
mercury (Hg)
mesic
mesofauna
metahalloysite
metal-organo complex
meteorite
methane (CH4)
methyl bromide (CH3 Br)
mica
Michaelis-Menten’s dependency
microaggregate
microbe
microbial activity
microbial biomass
microclimate
microfauna
micrometeorological method
micromorphology
micro-organism
microtopographic feature
microtopography
midden
mineral
mineralization
minimum tillage
mining
Miocene
moder
mollic
Mollisol
monolith
montmorillonite
Moon
moss
mottled pattern
mucilage
mulching
mull
muscovite
mycorrhizosphere
15N
natric
natrojarosite
natural convection
Naturfabricat
nematocide
neoformation
Neolithic
net primary productivity (NPP)
neutron scattering
Ni (nickel)
nickel (Ni)
nitrate (NO3)
nitrate pollution
nitric acid (HNO3)
nitrogen (N)
non-liquid, water
non-polar solvent
non-soil
non-solvent water
noosphere
nose slope
nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR)
‘nutrient pollution’
oak
ochric
olivine
opal
Operational Taxonomic Unit (OTU)
optimum water content
organic acid
organic contaminant
organic farming
organic matter
organomineral association
osmotic force
osmotic potential
oxic
oxidation
oxide
Oxisol
oxygen (O)
oxygen starvation
oxyhydroxide
paddy soil
palaeoclimate
palaeosol
palygorskite
pampas grass
parent material
particulate organic matter (POM)
P-E index
peat
pedogenic chlorite
pedolandscape
pedology
pedon
pedotransferfunction
pedoturbation
penetrability
penguin
Penman equation
periglacial
permafrost
permanent charge
permanent wilting point
permeability
persistent organic pollutant (POP)
petrocalcic
petroferric
petrogypsic
petroplinthic
pH
phenol
phosphate (PO43)
phosphorus (P)
phyllosilicate
physical comminution
physical protection
phytolith
phytosiderophore
pine
pipeline
plaggen
plaggic
plagioclase
plagioclimax
plant debris
plant-available water
plasticity
Pleistocene
plinthic
plinthite
Pliny, the elder
Pliocene
plough pan
ploughing (subsoiling)
plutonium (238Pu, 239Pu, 240Pu, 241Pu, 242Pu)
podzol
podzolic soil
podzolization
point of zero charge (PZC)
polar desert
pollution
polyacrylamide
polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB)
polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH)
polygenetic soil
polypedon
polysaccharide
pore
porosity
potassium (K)
preferential flow
primary attributes
primary mineral
primary production
processes
Proctor curve
production function
profile
protein
proto-imogolite
proton donor
psychrometer
pyrite
pyrolysis
pyrophyllite
pyroxene
Q10
quantity factor
quarries
quart
Quasizem
radioactivity
radionuclide
railway
rainfall
rainforest
rainwater
rate of decomposition
reactor function
recommendation
redox
reduction
regionalization
Regosol
relative humidity (RH)
relict soil
relief
reptile
residence time
resilience
resource function
retention time
rhizosphere
rice
ripping
roads
rodenticide
Roman road
root
Rothamsted model
rubbish
run-off
ruthenium (106Ru)
rutile
salic
salinization
salt
salt accumulation
salt-affected soil
sampling volume
sandstone
saponite
saprolite
saturated conditions
saturation
saturation index
savanna
sealing
secondary mineral
semi-arid (ustic) environment
sequence
serpentine
severity
sewage sludge
shocked quartz (‘stishovite’)
short-range order
shoulder
shrink-swell
side slope
siderophore
silica
silicate
silicic acid, ‘aqueous silica’ (H4Sio4)
silicon, silicium (Si)
silt capping
silver (Ag)
Si-rich allophane
skiing
slaking
slope
smectite
smectite-protein complex
smectitic soil
snow
snowpack (snowcover)
soda
sodic soil
sodium (Na)
soil ‘quality’
soil aggregate
soil aggregation
soil atmosphere
Soil Conservation Service
soil function
Soil Group
soil inorganic carbon (SIC)
soil moisture
soil organic carbon (SOC)
soil organic matter (SOM)
soil resilience
soil respiration
soil series
soil solution
soil structure
soil survey
Soil Survey Manual
Soil Taxonomy (ST)
soil temperature
soil:solution ratio
soilscape
soil-water potential
solar radiation
Solonchak
Solonet
solubility of gases
soluble organic matter
soluble salt
solvation
sorption reaction
spodic
Spodosol
sport
spruce
stability diagram
stability field
stabilization
stable isotope
stable isotope tracing
stable pool
state factors
static pedology
steppe
stickiness
stishovite
stones
Strahler method
strength
strontium (90Sr)
structural crust
student
sulphate (SO42
sulphide mineral
sulphur
sulphur dioxide (SO2)
sulphuric
sulphuric acid (H2SO4)
summit
sun
supramolecular association
surface area
surface diffusion
susceptibility
suspension effect
swamp
swelling
syngenesis
talc
Telford and McAdam
temperate deciduous forest
temperature
temperature coefficient
tensiometer
tephra
Terminal Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism (T-RFLP)
termitaries
terric
Tertiary
Theophrastos
thermal sliding
thermic
thermodiffusion
thermodynamic approach
thermodynamic potential
threshold value
tillage
time
time-domain reflectometry (TDR)
titanium (Ti)
titanium oxide
toe slope
topographic attributes
topography
toposequence
Toxifabricat
trace element
trace metal
translocation
transmission electron microscopy (TEM)
transport of gas
tree vegetation
tree removal
tree-line
tropical environment
tundra
tyre
udic
Ultisol
umbric
urban area
urban waste
ustic
vadose zone
vapour
vapour pressure
variable charge
Varro
vascular ‘vascular’ transport
vermiculite
Vertisol
viscosity
void ratio
volcanic ash
volume wetness
Waksman
war
waste
water (H2O)
water content
water quality
water reservoir
water table
water-holding capacity (WHC)
waterlogging
water-saturated soil
watershed
weapon
weathering
wetland
wettability
Wiegner
wind
World Reference Base for Soil Resources (WRB)
World Trade Organization (WTO)
xeric
X-ray diffraction (XRD)
zeolite
zero-tension
zinc (Zn)
zircon
zirconium (Zr)