A peninsula is a body of land surrounded by water on all sides but one, and the word has 9 letters, but no hyphen.
Strait.
The answer is a "dam."
Dogs lap water.
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lac
the java sea lake, pond
Peninsula
Ross Sea or Weddell (Sea).
A body of land extending out into water with water on three sides is called a peninsula. Peninsulas are surrounded by water on three sides and connected to a larger landmass on the fourth side.
1. head 2. body 3. base xiao!^^
Mer, meaning sea in English.