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TROUGH

6 letters

✓ IT'S A WORD
TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 3 pts
Big 3 pts
Super Big 3 pts

TROUGH is a valid 6-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 3 in Classic, 3 in Big, and 3 in Super Big Boggle.

Word family

TROUGHS-s 5 TROUGHING-ing 11 TROUGHED-ed 11
noun
  1. A long, narrow container, open on top, for feeding or watering animals.
    • One of Harriet's chores was to slop the pigs' trough each morning and evening.
  2. Any similarly shaped container.
  3. AustraliaA rectangular container used for washing or rinsing clothes.
    • Ernest threw his paint brushes into a kind of trough he had fashioned from sheet metal that he kept in the sink.
  4. A short, narrow canal designed to hold water until it drains or evaporates.
    • There was a small trough that the sump pump emptied into; it was filled with mosquito larvae.
  5. colloquialAn undivided metal urinal (plumbing fixture)
  6. CanadaA gutter under the eaves of a building; an eaves trough.
    • The troughs were filled with leaves and needed clearing.
  7. AustraliaA channel for conveying water or other farm liquids (such as milk) from place to place by gravity; any ‘U’ or ‘V’ cross-sectioned irrigation channel.
  8. A long, narrow depression between waves or ridges; the low portion of a wave cycle.
    • The buoy bobbed between the crests and troughs of the waves moving across the bay.
    • The neurologist pointed to a troubling trough in the pattern of his brain-waves.
  9. A low turning point or a local minimum of a business cycle.
  10. A linear atmospheric depression associated with a weather front.
verb
  1. To eat in a vulgar style, as if from a trough.
    • He troughed his way through three meat pies.