Drought
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A period of below average rain fall, longer and more severe than a dry spell A longer than expected term without success, particularly in sport.
Example sentence: Every day, it seems, a new extreme weather catastrophe happens somewhere in America, and the media's all over it, profiling the ordinary folks wiped out by forest fires, droughts, floods, massive sinkholes, tornadoes.
Drouth
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A period of unusually low rainfall, longer and more severe than a dry spell.