| afterthought | (noun) an addition that was not included in the original plan | - |
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| (noun) thinking again about a choice previously made | Synonyms: reconsideration, rethink, second thought |
| borough | (noun) one of the administrative divisions of a large city | - |
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| (noun) an English town that forms the constituency of a member of parliament | - |
| bough | (noun) any of the larger branches of a tree | - |
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| breakthrough | (noun) a penetration of a barrier such as an enemy's defense | - |
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| (noun) making an important discovery | - |
| (noun) a productive insight | Synonyms: discovery, find |
| brougham | (noun) a sedan that has no roof over the driver's seat | - |
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| (noun) light carriage; pulled by a single horse | - |
| chough | (noun) a European corvine bird of small or medium size with red legs and glossy black plumage | - |
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| cough | (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 | Synonyms: coughing |
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| coughing | (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 | Synonyms: cough |
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| dough | (noun) a flour mixture stiff enough to knead or roll | - |
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| (noun) informal terms for money | Synonyms: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, loot, lucre, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum |
| doughboy | (noun) a rounded lump of dough that is deep-fried and served as hot bread | - |
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| (noun) an American infantryman in World War I | - |
| doughiness | (noun) The quality or state of having the characteristics of dough, especially in appearance or consistency. | - |
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| doughnut | (noun) a small ring-shaped friedcake | Synonyms: donut, sinker |
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| (noun) a toroidal shape | Synonyms: anchor ring, annulus, halo, ring |
| dreadnought | (noun) battleship that has big guns all of the same caliber | Synonyms: dreadnaught |
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| drought | (noun) a shortage of rainfall | Synonyms: drouth |
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| (noun) a prolonged shortage | Synonyms: drouth |
| enough | (noun) an adequate quantity; a quantity that is large enough to achieve a purpose | Synonyms: sufficiency |
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| forethought | (noun) judiciousness in avoiding harm or danger | Synonyms: care, caution, precaution |
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| (noun) planning or plotting in advance of acting | Synonyms: premeditation |
| furlough | (noun) a temporary leave of absence from military duty | - |
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| hiccough | (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 | Synonyms: hiccup, singultus |
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| lough | (noun) Irish word for a lake | - |
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| (noun) a long narrow (nearly landlocked) cove in Ireland | - |
| nought | (noun) a mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number | Synonyms: 0, cipher, cypher, zero |
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| plough | (noun) a farm tool having one or more heavy blades to break the soil and cut a furrow prior to sowing | Synonyms: plow |
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| ploughboy | (noun) a boy who leads the animals that draw a plow | Synonyms: plowboy |
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| ploughing | (noun) tilling the land with a plow | Synonyms: plowing |
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| ploughland | (noun) arable land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops | Synonyms: cultivated land, farmland, plowland, tillage, tilled land, tilth |
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| ploughman | (noun) a man who plows | Synonyms: plower, plowman |
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| ploughshare | (noun) a sharp steel wedge that cuts loose the top layer of soil | Synonyms: plowshare, share |
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| ploughwright | (noun) a workman who makes and repairs plows | Synonyms: plowwright |
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| rough | (noun) the part of a golf course bordering the fairway where the grass is not cut short | - |
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| roughage | (noun) coarse, indigestible plant food low in nutrients; its bulk stimulates intestinal peristalsis | Synonyms: fiber, fibre |
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| roughcast | (noun) a rough preliminary model | - |
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| (noun) a coarse plaster for the surface of external walls | - |
| roughleg | (noun) large hawk of the Northern Hemisphere that feeds chiefly on small rodents and is beneficial to farmers | Synonyms: Buteo lagopus, rough-legged hawk |
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| roughneck | (noun) a cruel and brutal fellow | Synonyms: bully, hooligan, rowdy, ruffian, tough, yob, yobbo, yobo |
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| roughness | (noun) harsh or severe speech or behavior | - |
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| (noun) a texture of a surface or edge that is not smooth but is irregular and uneven | Synonyms: raggedness |
| (noun) the quality of being harsh or rough or grating to the senses | Synonyms: harshness |
| (noun) an unpolished unrefined quality | Synonyms: crudeness |
| (noun) the formation of small pits in a surface as a consequence of corrosion | Synonyms: indentation, pitting |
| (noun) used of the sea during inclement or stormy weather | Synonyms: choppiness, rough water |
| (noun) rowdy behavior | Synonyms: disorderliness, rowdiness, rowdyism |
| roughrider | (noun) a horseman skilled at breaking wild horses to the saddle | - |
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| slough | (noun) any outer covering that can be shed or cast off (such as the cast-off skin of a snake) | - |
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| (noun) necrotic tissue; a mortified or gangrenous part or mass | Synonyms: gangrene, sphacelus |
| (noun) a stagnant swamp (especially as part of a bayou) | - |
| (noun) a hollow filled with mud | - |
| sloughing | (noun) the process whereby something is shed | Synonyms: shedding |
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| snowplough | (noun) a vehicle used to push snow from roads | Synonyms: snowplow |
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| sourdough | (noun) a settler or prospector (especially in western United States or northwest Canada and Alaska) | - |
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| (noun) a leaven of dough in which fermentation is active; used by pioneers for making bread | - |
| thoroughbred | (noun) a pedigreed animal of unmixed lineage; used especially of horses | Synonyms: pureblood, purebred |
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| (noun) a racehorse belonging to a breed that originated from a cross between Arabian stallions and English mares | - |
| (noun) a well-bred person | - |
| thoroughfare | (noun) a public road from one place to another | - |
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| thoroughness | (noun) conscientiousness in performing all aspects of a task | - |
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| (noun) property of being marked by full detail, complete in all respects. | - |
| thoroughwort | (noun) perennial herb of southeastern United States having white-rayed flower heads; formerly used as in folk medicine | Synonyms: agueweed, boneset, Eupatorium perfoliatum |
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| thought | (noun) the process of using your mind to consider something carefully | Synonyms: cerebration, intellection, mentation, thinking, thought process |
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| (noun) the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about | Synonyms: idea |
| (noun) the organized beliefs of a period or group or individual | - |
| (noun) a personal belief or judgment that is not founded on proof or certainty | Synonyms: opinion, persuasion, sentiment, view |
| thoughtfulness | (noun) a considerate and thoughtful act | Synonyms: consideration |
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| (noun) the trait of thinking carefully before acting | - |
| (noun) kind and considerate regard for others | Synonyms: considerateness, consideration |
| (noun) a calm, lengthy, intent consideration | Synonyms: contemplation, musing, reflection, reflexion, rumination |
| thoughtlessness | (noun) the trait of not thinking carefully before acting | Synonyms: unthoughtfulness |
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| (noun) the quality of failing to be considerate of others | Synonyms: inconsiderateness, inconsideration |
| throughput | (noun) output relative to input; the amount passing through a system from input to output (especially of a computer program over a period of time) | - |
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| throughway | (noun) a broad highway designed for high-speed traffic | Synonyms: expressway, freeway, motorway, pike, state highway, superhighway, thruway |
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| tough | (noun) an aggressive and violent young criminal | Synonyms: goon, hood, hoodlum, punk, strong-armer, thug, toughie |
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| (noun) a cruel and brutal fellow | Synonyms: bully, hooligan, roughneck, rowdy, ruffian, yob, yobbo, yobo |
| (noun) someone who learned to fight in the streets rather than being formally trained in the sport of boxing | Synonyms: street fighter |
| toughie | (noun) a particularly difficult or baffling question or problem | Synonyms: poser, sticker, stumper |
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| (noun) an aggressive and violent young criminal | Synonyms: goon, hood, hoodlum, punk, strong-armer, thug, tough |
| toughness | (noun) the property of being big and strong | Synonyms: huskiness, ruggedness |
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| (noun) enduring strength and energy | Synonyms: stamina, staying power |
| (noun) impressive difficulty | Synonyms: formidability |
| (noun) the elasticity and hardness of a metal object; its ability to absorb considerable energy before cracking | Synonyms: temper |
| trough | (noun) a channel along the eaves or on the roof; collects and carries away rainwater | Synonyms: gutter |
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| (noun) a container (usually in a barn or stable) from which cattle or horses feed | Synonyms: manger |
| (noun) a long narrow shallow receptacle | - |
| (noun) a narrow depression (as in the earth or between ocean waves or in the ocean bed) | - |
| (noun) a treasury for government funds | Synonyms: public treasury, till |
| (noun) a concave shape with an open top | Synonyms: bowl |
| unthoughtfulness | (noun) the trait of not thinking carefully before acting | Synonyms: thoughtlessness |
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