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Sand engine
The Sand engine (Dutch: Zandmotor), also called the Sand Motor, is a hook-shaped artificial sand peninsula built in 2011 off the Dutch coast to protect it from erosion.
Sand filter
A sand filter is a water treatment device that passes water through a bed of sand to trap particles and microorganisms, used in municipal and household drinking water treatment.
Sand flat
Sand flat: an unvegetated intertidal tidal flat of sand, exposed at low tide, where wave and tidal energy winnow fine silt; found at estuary entrances and inlets, with Bathyporeia-dominated fauna and wave-energy dissipating function.
Sand Hills NGL Pipeline
The Sand Hills NGL Pipeline is a natural gas liquids pipeline in Texas, built by DCP Midstream for about $1 billion and placed into service in 2013.
Sand Island Surf Shop
Sand Island Surf Shop is a Honolulu, Hawaii surf shop at 2290 Alahao Pl Suite 202 selling new and used surfboards, fins, custom orders, and shipping, named for the nearby Sand Island surf break.
Sand Land (video game)
Sand Land is a 2024 action RPG by ILCA and Bandai Namco based on Akira Toriyama's manga, released April 26, 2024 on PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X, and PC, starring Beelzebub, Thief, and Sheriff Rao with tank-focused vehicular combat; Metacritic 71.
Sand mandala
A sand mandala, known in Tibetan as dul-tson-kyil-khor, is a ritual diagram of colored sand unique to Tibetan Buddhism, built grain by grain over days or weeks and then swept into flowing water.
Sand Mountain Field
Sand Mountain Field (volcano 322040) is a monogenetic volcanic field of 23 basaltic cinder cones in the central Oregon Cascades NW of Mount Washington, erupting mainly about 2,950 years ago, with phreatomagmatic tephra and lava-dammed lakes.
Sand River Convention
The Sand River Convention was an 1852 agreement by which Britain recognized the independence of the Boer communities living north of the Vaal River.
Sand Sea (沙海)
Sand Sea (沙海) is a 2018 Chinese adventure web series, sequel to Nanpai Sanshu's Grave Robbers' Chronicles, starring Wu Lei as Li Cu and Qin Hao as Wu Xie; 52 episodes on Tencent Video from 20 July 2018, over 100 million views in five hours.
Sand seal
A sand seal is a road surface treatment in which bitumen is sprayed on the road base and covered with sand, used on lightly trafficked roads.
Sand tiger shark
The sand tiger shark (Carcharias taurus), called the gray nurse shark in Australia, is a large coastal shark known for protruding teeth and hovering motionless.
Sand War
The Sand War (Arabic: حرب الرمال; French: Guerre des Sables) was a short 1963 armed conflict between Morocco and newly independent Algeria over the Tindouf and Béchar border regions.
Sand.ai
Sand.ai is a Beijing-based artificial intelligence startup founded in January 2024 by Cao Yue, known for its Magi-1 and MAGI-2 video generation models and the VidMuse product.
Sanda (散打) (sport)
Sanda (散打), also Sanshou or Chinese kickboxing, is the full-contact fighting discipline of wushu: punches, kicks, and throws on an 8 m leitai, best of three 2-minute rounds, developed from 1979 and governed by the IWUF.
Šandabakku
Šandabakku, also spelled Sandabakku, was the title of the chief governor of Nippur, Babylonia's religious center, and the highest official under the king in Kassite Babylonia.
Sandagiin Byambatsogt
Sandagiin Byambatsogt (Сандагийн Бямбацогт), born 1974, is a Mongolian People's Party politician and Speaker of the State Great Khural since 3 April 2026, previously MP from 2008 and minister of justice, transport, defense, and Cabinet Secretariat chief.
Sandahl Bergman
Sandahl Bergman (born 1951, Kansas City) is an American dancer and actress, a Bob Fosse Broadway dancer who played Valeria in Conan the Barbarian (1982) and Queen Gedren in Red Sonja (1985), winning a 1983 Golden Globe and Saturn Award.
Sandaka
Sandaka was a wandering ascetic of the Buddha's time who led about five hundred wanderers at Kosambi and is remembered through the Sandaka Sutta (Majjhima Nikaya 76).
Sandakan
Sandakan is a city on the northeast coast of Sabah, Malaysia, on Borneo, and the state's second-largest city after Kota Kinabalu. Founded in 1879 as a colonial trading port.
Sandakan Death Marches
The Sandakan Death Marches were 1945 forced marches of Australian and British POWs about 260 km from Sandakan to Ranau, North Borneo, in which nearly all died.
Sandakan herbarium
Sandakan Herbarium (SAN), at the Forest Research Centre, Sepilok, Sabah, Malaysia, founded 1916; Sabah's largest herbarium with nearly 300,000 specimens of mainly Bornean vascular plants, CITES-registered, using BRAHMS since 1998.
Sandakkari
Sandakkari (சண்டக்காரி), or Sandakari, is a 2026 Tamil romantic comedy remake of Jeethu Joseph's My Boss, directed by R. Madhesh with Vemal and Shriya Saran; shot in 2019, released 18 September 2026 after a six-to-seven-year delay.
Sandakozhi
Sandakozhi (சண்டக்கோழி), also Sandai Kozhi, is a 2005 Tamil action film directed by N. Linguswamy, starring Vishal, Meera Jasmine, Rajkiran, and Lal; a 200-day theatrical hit dubbed in Telugu as Pandem Kodi, with a 2018 sequel Sandakozhi 2.
Sandakozhi 2 (சண்டகோழி 2)
Sandakozhi 2 (சண்டகோழி 2) is a 2018 Tamil action drama, sequel to the 2005 hit Sandakozhi, directed by N. Linguswamy, starring Vishal, Keerthy Suresh, Rajkiran, and Varalaxmi Sarathkumar, released 18 October 2018 to largely negative reviews.
Sandakshatru
Sandakshatru, also written Sandakšatru, was a king of the Cimmerians who succeeded his father Dugdammē around 640 BC and is known only from Neo-Assyrian records.
Sandal
A sandal, also called a chappli, is open footwear consisting of a sole held by straps over the instep, leaving all or most of the foot exposed.
Sandalj Hranić Kosača
Sandalj Hranić Kosača (Сандаљ Хранић Косача) was a Bosnian magnate who ruled an almost autonomous domain in Hum as Grand Duke of Bosnia from 1392 to 1435.
Sandalphon (סַנְדַּלְפוֹן)
Sandalphon (סַנְדֵּלָפוֹן) is a Jewish angel of tradition first mentioned in the Babylonian Talmud, who weaves Israel's prayers into crowns and stands behind the divine Merkabah.
Sandalwood
Sandalwood, chiefly Santalum album (Indian sandalwood), is a hemiparasitic tree whose fragrant heartwood oil, rich in santalols, is used in perfume, incense, and carving; IUCN lists it vulnerable, with Australia now a leading supplier.