the rocks, mountains, lithospheric plates, and other physical features of Earth, except for water

The nonliving parts of the Earth: the lithosphere, the atmosphere, the cryosphere, and the hydrosphere.

refers to the physical elements of the Earth's surface, crust and interior.

The solid earth or land as compared to the atmosphere or hydrosphere.

A broad term that loosely refers to an earth spherical shell or layer.

The "solid" portion of the earth, including water masses; the lithosphere plus the hydrosphere.

Earth's solid stuff, typically studied by geologists (p.109-113).

Considered the solid portions of the earth, including the hydrosphere and the lithosphere, as opposed to the atmosphere, which lies above it. At their conjunction is the biosphere.

Geosphere is a term denoting the solid part of Earth which is made mostly of rock and regolith. Skinner, B: "The Dynamic Earth.", page 21.