Words containing ough
4 letter words containing ough
- ough — The sound of a grunt or groan or cough.
5 letter words containing ough
- bough — A bough is a large branch of a tree.
- cough — When you cough, you force air out of your throat with a sudden, harsh noise. You often cough when you are ill, or when you are nervous or want to attract someone's attention.
- dough — flour or meal combined with water, milk, etc., in a mass for baking into bread, cake, etc.; paste of bread.
- fough — Obsolete spelling of faugh.
- hough — Emerson, 1857–1923, U.S. novelist.
6 letter words containing ough
- anough — enough
- boughs — a branch of a tree, especially one of the larger or main branches.
- bought — Bought is the past tense and past participle of buy.
- brough — broch.
- chough — a large black passerine bird, Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax, of parts of Europe, Asia, and Africa, with a long downward-curving red bill: family Corvidae (crows)
7 letter words containing ough
- abought — simple past tense and past participle of aby.
- borough — A borough is a town, or a district within a large town, which has its own council.
- boughed — having a bough or boughs (usually used in combination): golden-boughed elms.
- brought — Brought is the past tense and past participle of bring.
- choughs — Plural form of chough.
8 letter words containing ough
- although — You use although to introduce a subordinate clause which contains a statement which contrasts with the statement in the main clause.
- besought — beseech
- boughpot — a bouquet of flowers or boughs
- boughten — bought at a store and not homemade
- brougham — a four-wheeled horse-drawn closed carriage having a raised open driver's seat in front
9 letter words containing ough
- allthough — Obsolete form of although.
- bethought — simple past tense and past participle of bethink.
- boughless — (of trees) having no boughs
- burroughs — Edgar Rice. 1875–1950, US novelist, author of the Tarzan stories
- doughball — a small ball of bread dough, cooked in a stew, as an accompaniment to a meal, etc
10 letter words containing ough
- be-thought — simple past tense and past participle of bethink.
- brought-on — made or bought outside the community, as a commercially manufactured product.
- dough-hook — an attachment for an electric mixer that kneads dough
- doughbelly — stoneroller (def 1).
- doughfaced — over-persuadable
11 letter words containing ough
- dear-bought — having been purchased at great expense
- doughtiness — steadfastly courageous and resolute; valiant.
- dreadnought — a type of battleship armed with heavy-caliber guns in turrets: so called from the British battleship Dreadnought, launched in 1906, the first of its type.
- eavestrough — gutter (def 3).
- farnborough — a town in S England, in NE Hampshire: military base, with an aeronautical research centre. Pop: 57 147 (2001)
12 letter words containing ough
- aforethought — premeditated (esp in the phrase malice aforethought)
- afterthought — If you do or say something as an afterthought, you do or say it after something else as an addition, perhaps without careful thought.
- attenborough — Sir David. born 1926, British naturalist and broadcaster; noted esp for his TV series Life on Earth (1978), The Living Planet (1983), The Life of Birds (1998), The Life of Mammals (2002), and First Life (2010)
- breakthrough — A breakthrough is an important development or achievement.
- breastplough — a plough driven by the worker's breast, often used to pare turf
13 letter words containing ough
- afterthoughts — Plural form of afterthought.
- breakthroughs — a military movement or advance all the way through and beyond an enemy's front-line defense.
- click-through — the act of clicking on an advertisement or other link to go to another website, especially a retail site: The store gets lots of clickthroughs from social media.
- drive-through — the act of driving through a specified locality or place, especially driving into a place of business, completing a transaction from one's car, and driving out: a quick drive-through of Beverly Hills; The bank has outside tellers' windows to accept deposits by drive-through.
- floor-through — occupying the entire depth of a building: a floor-through apartment.
14 letter words containing ough
- button-through — (of a dress or skirt) fastened with buttons from top to hem
- follow-through — the completion of a motion, as in the stroke of a tennis racket.
- forethoughtful — full of or having forethought; provident.
- middlesborough — a city in SE Kentucky.
- opechancanough — c1545–1644, Algonquian leader, brother of Powhatan: led Jamestown massacre 1622.
15 letter words containing ough
- borough-english — (until 1925) a custom in certain English boroughs whereby the youngest son inherited land to the exclusion of his older brothers
- rough-and-ready — rough, rude, or crude, but good enough for the purpose: a rough-and-ready estimate of future expenses.
- thoughtlessness — lacking in consideration for others; inconsiderate; tactless: a thoughtless remark.
- well-brought-up — If you say that someone, especially a child, is well-brought-up, you mean that they are very polite because they have been taught good manners.
- well-thought-of — highly esteemed; of good reputation: a well-thought-of scholar; This new book is well-thought-of.
16 letter words containing ough
- rough-and-tumble — characterized by violent, random, disorderly action and struggles: a rough-and-tumble fight; He led an adventuresome, rough-and-tumble life.
- through-composed — having different music for each verse: a through-composed song. Compare strophic (def 2).
- well-thought-out — produced by or showing the results of much thought: a carefully thought-out argument.
17 letter words containing ough
- thought-provoking — If something such as a book or a film is thought-provoking, it contains interesting ideas that make people think seriously.
18 letter words containing ough
- forethoughtfulness — The condition of being forethoughtful.
- houghton-le-spring — a town in N England, in Sunderland unitary authority, Tyne and Wear: coal-mining. Pop: 36 746 (2001)
19 letter words containing ough
- noughts-and-crosses — tick-tack-toe (def 1).
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