An inlet's a wide body of water between trees or leading inland from a larger body of water, often leading to an enclosed body of water, such as a sound, bay, lagoon or marsh. In sea coasts an inlet usually refers to the actual connection between a bay and the ocean and's often called an "entrance" or a recession in the shore of a sea, lake or river. A certain kind of inlet created by glaciation's a fjord, typically but not always in mountainous coastlines and also in montane lakes. Complexes of… (More on Inlet)