encompassing mountain ranges.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Universe is usually defined as encompassing everything.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Photown News] Reference

The word Universe is usually defined as encompassing everything.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Photown News] Reference

Chuck surveyed the landing pad with a nod, his proprietary self-satisfied grin encompassing all he could see.    From Wordnik.com.  [365 tomorrows » 2006 » April : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day] Reference

Halal is a comprehensive Islamic term encompassing not only the matters of food and drink, but all other matters of daily life.    From Wordnik.com.  [And in today's News of the Weird ...] Reference

Sudoku for Kids is a new, fun, puzzle learning experience title encompassing the Sudoku experience that will captivate young minds.    From Wordnik.com.  [DS-x2 headlines] Reference

Loosely speaking, “Bizarro” is an umbrella term encompassing different kinds of weird, absurd, horrific, uncanny, and/or grotesque speculative fiction.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nick Mamatas' Journal] Reference

Both problems were addressed in safety recalls encompassing 5.4 million U.S. vehicles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion] Reference

If you don't know what Blogosphere is, its basically the collective term encompassing all blogs as a social network.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-12-01] Reference

AJAX is the newly minted acronym encompassing a fresh vision of empowered browsers: Asynchronous JavaScript and XML.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2005-07-01] Reference

Voter fraud, sometimes called electoral fraud, is a blanket term encompassing a host of election-related improprieties.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion] Reference

In the '90s, "mentor" became a catch-all term encompassing everything from casual one-time meetings to long-term connections.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dr. Sherry Banks: Mentors: Modern-Day Superheroes] Reference

His amazing voice, once self-described as encompassing six or more octaves, has since been professionally charted as somewhat narrower.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-04-09] Reference

Of course, social media is a big label encompassing many different technologies, and even the same technologies can be applied differently in various contexts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Social Media and the Networked Public Sphere] Reference

AARP VIVA will also be the new brand name encompassing AARP's Spanish-language Web, radio and TV properties, with a significant expansion across the board planned for 2010.    From Wordnik.com.  [HispanicTips] Reference

"Quaternary is a geologic term encompassing the recent Ice Age, beginning about one-point-eight million years ago, encompassing many episodes of advance and retraction in the ice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Crusader Gold]

And without the "encompassing," we probably agree more than I thought we did.    From Wordnik.com.  [Was Washington Irving gay?] Reference

Other similar issues would be severe cancers in the baby, such as encompassing the head.    From Wordnik.com.  [Apollo's Daughter :: Touchy subjects 2: Abortion] Reference

This year's open categories include "Innovative Literature," encompassing "poetry, fiction, nonfiction and genre-defying literary work.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Monday Morning Markets/Jobs/Opportunities] Reference

But it also exhibits "encompassing" powers such as will, desire, faith, and the capacity for self-sacrifice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chabad.org Weekly Magazine [ Chukat-Balak 5769 - July 3, 2009 ]] Reference

Still, we feel a deep and encompassing sympathy for them. ''.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Philosopher And The Pragmatist] Reference

The final, and all encompassing, explanation is the nature of war.    From Wordnik.com.  [Explaining Lynndie England] Reference

That has the ring of an emerging policy, encompassing security and commercial interests.    From Wordnik.com.  [Riding The Tiger] Reference

Now the LDP itself has been transformed, driven by the all-encompassing need to win elections.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Man In Charge] Reference

The guerrillas 'zone of operation has quadrupled in size, now encompassing an area about as big as Spain.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tears Of A Nation] Reference

It also serves as a final, encompassing look at the recovery effort, nearly three years after it first began.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lessons from Katrina] Reference

"Save Scrabulous" groups (encompassing close to 47,600 members) protested the shutdown and threatened boycotts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Leader Watch: How Medvedev Got More Popular Than His Boss, Putin] Reference

No one talks seriously about bringing back Marxist ideology, central planning or the all-encompassing welfare state.    From Wordnik.com.  [Comrade Putin Knows Best] Reference

The Supreme Court ruled, 7 to 2, that there existed a right to privacy encompassing the right by a woman to have an abortion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bedroom v. Courtroom] Reference

The first movie is encompassing the first three books, and everyone has high hopes for the movies, but our eye is on this one right now.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Next 'Harry Potter'?] Reference