Drought is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DROUGHT in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a dry period
• a prolonged period of abnormally low rainfall, leading to a shortage of water
• a prolonged absence of something specified
• thirst.
• prolonged shortage of rainfall
• Dryness; want of rain or of water; especially, such dryness of the weather as affects the earth, and prevents the growth of plants; aridity.
• Thirst; want of drink.
• Scarcity; lack.
• a shortage of rainfall
• a prolonged shortage

Words related to DROUGHT

droughts13 droughty16 drouth10

Words that contain DROUGHT

droughts13 droughty16 droughtier15 droughtiest16 droughtiness17 droughtinesses19

How to use DROUGHT in a sentence

• Why upon me has come this drought? Vainly I try to search it out, Vainly, with quest severe.
• There came a season of drought, when their bananas spoiled, and all their plants died from the hot sun.
• A great drought had laid dry the bed of a river, and there they discovered this lustrous wonder.
• The tick plague had ruined him as regarded his Queensland property, and the drought had made matters nearly as bad for him in New South Wales.
• It was a very unwise act to leave full management to Creyton and Benson in the face of such a drought.
• If the drought still continues, they punish their idols by holding them under water.
• The heavy rain of the previous night, coming after a long period of drought, was probably the cause of these already-loosened stones starting upon their downward career.
• They all testified that they were paying as much attention to their grounds as they ever did, but that their provisions had been cut short by the drought.
• Nothing else was found until the summer drought had bared the swamp.
• They stand remarkably well both drought and excessive rainfall, and succeed in any common soil.
• The country is covered with open forest, with patches of cultivation everywhere, but all dried up at present and withered, partly from drought and partly from the cold of winter.
• The plant is too succulent to endure drought with impunity, and it is mere folly to toy with the water-can.
• Now there fell upon this part of Cardiganshire a season of exceeding drought.
• Our mighty mountain neighbors seldom permitted us even to fear it, and were more apt to send us a deluge than a drought.
• Enough of drought has parched the year, and scared The land with dread of famine.
• And it was this barren drought of feeling which at last served to disillusion him, whose existence he at last realized in this creature who had been his cherished idol.
• Blue, white, purple, and yellow alternately, they are charming, and if in good soil, well watered in drought, and constantly cut from, they bloom the whole summer long.
• The Saida variety is of a lower habit of growth than the Muscowi and has a longer tap root, which enables it to stand drought better than the Muscowi.
• Neither shall Eurus, wanton bold, Nor feverish drought distress us, But he that compasseth heat and cold Shall temper them both to bless us.
• I was told that they had been stunted this year by the excessive drought, but that in general they grew a foot higher.
• There were complaints, however, of a worse enemy than frost, namely, drought, which we were told was a characteristic feature of those magnificent prairies to the north.
• The river was low, and sluggish from the long drought with consequently easy passage to the opposite bank.
• It haunts me still when I stand by his bedside, when I see his poor cheeks redder than mine were when they wore their rouge, when I notice the hot drought of his parched lips.
• Though he did not discuss the matter with her, she knew that the cruel drought would become a catastrophe if it lasted much longer.
• Louis and New Orleans has varied more than one hundred and fifty miles, being sometimes longer and sometimes shorter, as the year may be one of drought or of excessive rainfall.
• Let nature have her own most perfect work, and see that the enemy, the drought, is vanquished by an abundant supply of water.
• THE TAR WOLF I Many hundreds of moons ago, there was a great drought.
• The drought kills the crops every two or three years and then we has hard times to get enough to eat.
• In drought he stops and waits a lucky day, When clouds roll up and men and women pray, And withered is the corn and grasses and grain.
• She, too, would like to have made preparation for seasons of drought, but her pride stood in the way.

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