burroughs 9 2 noun n noun • United States writer noted for his works portraying the life of drug addicts (1914-1997)
• United States inventor who patented the first practical adding machine (1855-1898)
• United States novelist and author of the Tarzan stories (1875-1950)
edgar rice burroughs 18 6 noun n noun • United States novelist and author of the Tarzan stories (1875-1950)
william burroughs 16 5 noun n noun • United States writer noted for his works portraying the life of drug addicts (1914-1997)
william s. burroughs 17 5 noun n noun • United States writer noted for his works portraying the life of drug addicts (1914-1997)
william seward burroughs 22 7 verb, noun v, n noun • United States writer noted for his works portraying the life of drug addicts (1914-1997)
• United States inventor who patented the first practical adding machine (1855-1898)
boughs 6 1 noun n noun • any of the larger branches of a tree
breakthroughs 13 2 noun n noun • a productive insight
• making an important discovery
• a penetration of a barrier such as an enemy's defense
coughs 6 1 verb v noun • a sudden noisy expulsion of air from the lungs that clears the air passages; a common symptom of upper respiratory infection or bronchitis or pneumonia or tuberculosis
verb • exhale abruptly, as when one has a chest cold or congestion
loughs 6 1 noun n noun • a long narrow (nearly landlocked) cove in Ireland
• Irish word for a lake
soughs 6 1 verb, noun v, n verb • make a murmuring sound
toughs 6 1 noun n adjective • not given to gentleness or sentimentality
• physically toughened
• resistant to cutting or chewing
noun • someone who learned to fight in the streets rather than being formally trained in the sport of boxing
• an aggressive and violent young criminal
• a cruel and brutal fellow
adjective satellite • very difficult; severely testing stamina or resolution
• substantially made or constructed
• violent and lawless
• feeling physical discomfort or pain (`tough' is occasionally used colloquially for `bad')
• unfortunate or hard to bear
• making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe
troughs 7 1 noun n noun • a narrow depression (as in the earth or between ocean waves or in the ocean bed)
• a channel along the eaves or on the roof; collects and carries away rainwater
• a concave shape with an open top
• a treasury for government funds
• a long narrow shallow receptacle
• a container (usually in a barn or stable) from which cattle or horses feed
boroughs 8 2 noun n noun • one of the administrative divisions of a large city
• an English town that forms the constituency of a member of parliament
choughs 7 1 noun n noun • a European corvine bird of small or medium size with red legs and glossy black plumage
cloughs 7 1 noun n noun • A narrow valley; a cleft in a hillside; a ravine, glen, or gorge.
• A sluice used in returning water to a channel after depositing its sediment on the flooded land.
• A cliff; a rocky precipice.
• The cleft or fork of a tree; crotch.
• A wood; weald.
• Formerly an allowance of two pounds in every three hundredweight after the tare and tret are subtracted; now used only in a general sense, of small deductions from the original weight.
doughs 6 1 noun n noun • a flour mixture stiff enough to knead or roll
• informal terms for money
enoughs 7 2 noun • an adequate quantity; a quantity that is large enough to achieve a purpose
adverb • as much as necessary
adjective satellite • sufficient for the purpose
furloughs 9 2 noun n noun • a temporary leave of absence from military duty
verb • dismiss, usually for economic reasons
• grant a leave to
hiccoughs 9 2 noun n noun • (usually plural) the state of having reflex spasms of the diaphragm accompanied by a rapid closure of the glottis producing an audible sound; sometimes a symptom of indigestion
verb • breathe spasmodically, and make a sound
ploughs 7 1 verb, noun v, n noun • a farm tool having one or more heavy blades to break the soil and cut a furrow prior to sowing
• a group of seven bright stars in the constellation Ursa Major
verb • move in a way resembling that of a plow cutting into or going through the soil
• to break and turn over earth especially with a plow
roughs 6 1 verb, noun v, n adjective • having or caused by an irregular surface
• of the margin of a leaf shape; having the edge cut or fringed or scalloped
• causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements
• not shaped by cutting or trimming
noun • the part of a golf course bordering the fairway where the grass is not cut short
adverb • with roughness or violence (`rough' is an informal variant for `roughly')
• with rough motion as over a rough surface
adjective satellite • (of persons or behavior) lacking refinement or finesse
• not quite exact or correct
• full of hardship or trials
• violently agitated and turbulent
• unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound
• ready and able to resort to force or violence
• not carefully or expertly made
• not perfected
• unpleasantly stern
• unkind or cruel or uncivil
verb • prepare in preliminary or sketchy form
sloughs 7 1 verb, noun v, n noun • a hollow filled with mud
• necrotic tissue; a mortified or gangrenous part or mass
• any outer covering that can be shed or cast off (such as the cast-off skin of a snake)
• a stagnant swamp (especially as part of a bayou)
verb • cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers
sourdoughs 10 2 noun n noun • a leaven of dough in which fermentation is active; used by pioneers for making bread
• a settler or prospector (especially in western United States or northwest Canada and Alaska)
breastploughs 13 2 noun n
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broughs 7 1
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chincoughs 10 2 noun n
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drivethroughs 13 3 noun n
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eavestroughs 12 3 noun n
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enroughs 8 2
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farboroughs 11 3 noun n
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feedthroughs 12 2 noun n
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groughs 7 1
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headboroughs 12 3
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houghs 6 1 verb v
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shoughs 7 1 noun n
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snowploughs 11 2 noun n noun • a vehicle used to push snow from roads
tharboroughs 12 3
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thirdboroughs 13 3 adjective adj
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thoroughs 9 2
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turloughs 9 2 verb, noun v, n
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underboughs 11 3 noun n
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yarboroughs 11 3 noun n
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interboroughs 13 4 noun n
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cows 4 1 noun n noun • domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age
arouse 6 2 verb v verb • call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)
• stop sleeping
• summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic
• cause to be alert and energetic
• cause to become awake or conscious
• to begin moving
• to evoke sexual feelings
browse 6 1 verb v noun • vegetation (such as young shoots, twigs, and leaves) that is suitable for animals to eat
• reading superficially or at random
• the act of feeding by continual nibbling
verb • shop around; not necessarily buying
• feed as in a meadow or pasture
• look around casually and randomly, without seeking anything in particular
• eat lightly, try different dishes
drowse 6 1 verb v noun • a light fitful sleep
verb • sleep lightly or for a short period of time
• be on the verge of sleeping
espouse 7 2 verb v verb • choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans
• take in marriage; married
• take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own
brows 5 1 verb, noun v, n noun • the part of the face above the eyes
• the arch of hair above each eye
• the peak of a hill
dhows 5 1 noun n noun • a lateen-rigged sailing vessel used by Arabs
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