The haboob is a mist of foul smelling red dust as fine as flour, filling the eyes, the lungs, the nose and the throat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Epinions Recent Content for Home] Reference

When he lost sight of the nearest chopper, Davis was alone in the haboob.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Desert One Debacle] Reference

Desert One was still about an hour away, so they plunged back into the haboob.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Desert One Debacle] Reference

About 200 miles into Iran they saw before them what looked like a wall of whiteness: the first haboob.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Desert One Debacle] Reference

But the haboob grew thicker and thicker, until Seiffert could no longer see the other choppers or the ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Desert One Debacle] Reference

He had noticed that the temperature inside the plane went up significantly when they passed through the first haboob.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Desert One Debacle] Reference

Six months over 100 F. was bad enough, but add high humidity and outrageous sand and thunder storms to that, with an occasional haboob storm thrown in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Air conditioners for sale at Gigante] Reference

But Air Force Colonel James H. Kyle, whose responsibility included all airborne aspects of the mission, knew that the haboob would be trouble for a helicopter.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Desert One Debacle] Reference

No contingency plans for a 'haboob' etc.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Inevitability of the Unexpected - The Austrian Economists] Reference

Looks like a haboob except it's not in Arizona, the cloud isn't brown and it isn't at ground level.    From Wordnik.com.  [digg.com: Stories / Popular] Reference

About 3 inches of rain (half what we get in a year), 60mph winds, and that nasty haboob pictured above actually picked up some debris that knocked out the satellite dish for my building.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pounding The Rock] Reference

This is a sequence of 638 long exposure (eight seconds each) digital photos. monsoon storm weather cloudsphotography lightning storm storms thunder extreme weather monsoon Arizona electricity lightning phoenix AZ thunder rain arizona desert haboob time lapse A monsoon is a seasonal prevailing wind that lasts for several months.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Four new tea clones developed in Assam] Reference

Looming ahead was the second, much larger haboob, but Seiffert didn’t know that.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Desert One Debacle] Reference

Come to PHX, we’re right now in the ‘teens…113, 114, 115 along with our evening rolling wall’o dust called a haboob.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wednesday, July 29 – The Bleat.] Reference

Eye on jordan: Happy Birthday Qwaider Planet ... al haboob: Happy Birthday Qwaider Planet ... hamede: Happy Birthday and thank you.    From Wordnik.com.  [Palestine Blogs aggregator] Reference

A sequence of 638 long exposure (eight seconds each) digital photos. monsoon storm weather cloudsphotography lightning storm storms thunder extreme weather monsoon Arizona electricity lightning phoenix AZ thunder rain arizona desert haboob time lapse A monsoon is a seasonal prevailing wind that lasts for several months.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Four new tea clones developed in Assam] Reference

It's known as a haboob.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 22, 2005] Reference

“The Iranians call it a haboob.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Desert One Debacle] Reference

This is a phenomenon known as a “haboob.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - HUGE dust storm in Iraq. Gotta be seen.] Reference

These patches were made of suspended dust haboob.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Inevitability of the Unexpected - The Austrian Economists] Reference

18 years old and i might not know that much about the world .. al haboob: I love my kids, the are just like that.    From Wordnik.com.  [Qwaider Planet] Reference

The word is "haboob.".    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 22, 2005] Reference

MYERS: A haboob, H-A-B-O-O-B.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 22, 2005] Reference

As for the rest, the fields covered are indeed numerous and include the following (for each I will cite two examples, although in all cases more are available): animals (jerboa, mehari) architecture (alcove, minaret) astronomy (almucantar, nadir) beverages (coffee, julep) birds (albatross, bulbul) chemistry (alkali, realgar) clothing (sash, tarboosh) coins (dinar, dirhem) color (azure, saffron) fish (albacore, tuna) flora (jasmine, spinach) folklore (ghoul, roc) general science (alembic, aludel) literature (almanac, ruba'i) maritime (felucca, xebec) medicine (kef, zedoary) meteorology (haboob, shamal) military (admiral, jemadar) music (rebec, timbal) sports (jereed, safari) topography (bled, djebel).    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VII No 4] Reference