12-letter words containing hou
- afghan hound — a tall graceful breed of hound with a long silky coat
- aforethought — premeditated (esp in the phrase malice aforethought)
- afterthought — If you do or say something as an afterthought, you do or say it after something else as an addition, perhaps without careful thought.
- at all hours — If you say that something happens at all hours of the day or night, you disapprove of it happening at the time that it does or as often as it does.
- basset hound — A basset hound is a dog with short strong legs, a long body, and long ears. It is kept as a pet or used for hunting.
- bastel house — (on the Anglo-Scottish border) a partly fortified house, usually with a vaulted ground floor.
- bell housing — A bell housing is a bell-shaped extension of an engine crankcase, that contains the flywheel and the clutch.
- boiler house — a building housing a boiler
- bottom house — the open space beneath a house built upon high pillars
- bridge house — a deckhouse including a bridge or bridges for navigation.
- cadent house — any of the four houses that precede the angles: the third, sixth, ninth, and twelfth houses, which correspond, respectively, to neighborhood and relatives, work and health, philosophy and foreign travel, and secret matters and service to others.
- chapterhouse — the building attached to a cathedral, collegiate church, or religious house in which the chapter meets
- charnelhouse — Alternative form of charnel house.
- charterhouse — a Carthusian monastery
- choux pastry — a very light pastry made with eggs, used for eclairs, etc
- coffee house — A coffee house is a kind of bar where people sit to drink coffee and talk. Coffee houses were especially popular in Britain in the 18th century.
- coffeehouses — Plural form of coffeehouse.
- corner house — a house situated on the corner of two streets
- custom house — a government office, esp at a port, where customs are collected and ships cleared for entry
- customhouses — Plural form of customhouse.
- cymotrichous — having wavy hair
- doll's house — a miniature house the scale of children's dolls.
- duplex house — a house having separate apartments for two families, especially a two-story house having a complete apartment on each floor and two separate entrances.
- eating house — a restaurant or other place where one can eat
- engine house — a building in which engines, as fire engines, railroad locomotives, etc., are housed
- export house — a company that does not manufacture goods but is instead concerned solely with the financing or handling of their export
- fair housing — the sale and rental of private housing free of discriminatory practices or policies.
- forethoughts — Plural form of forethought.
- free thought — thought unrestrained by deference to authority, tradition, or established belief, especially in matters of religion.
- ghoulishness — The quality of being ghoulish.
- guangzhouwan — a former French-leased territory (1898–1945) on the SW coast of Guangdong province, in S China. About 190 sq. mi. (490 sq. km).
- half an hour — 30 minutes
- hour by hour — each hour
- house arrest — confinement of an arrested person to his or her residence or to a public place, as a hospital, instead of in a jail: He was under house arrest until the day of his trial.
- house church — a group of Christians meeting for worship in a private house
- house doctor — a resident physician in a hospital, hotel, or other public institution.
- house hunter — a person who house-hunts
- house league — a sports league in which the members of all teams belong to the same organization, school, or company
- house lights — lights of a residential building
- house martin — a small European swallow, Delichon urbica, that builds its nest under the eaves of houses.
- house number — the unique number given to each building on a street which forms part of that building's address
- house of god — Also called house of worship, house of prayer. a building devoted to religious worship; a church, synagogue, temple, chapel, etc.
- house prices — the sums in money for which houses may be bought or sold
- house spider — any largish dark spider of the genus Tegenaria that is common in houses, such as the cardinal spider
- house wizard — (Probably from ad-agency tradetalk, "house freak") A hacker occupying a technical-specialist, R&D, or systems position at a commercial shop. A really effective house wizard can have influence out of all proportion to his/her ostensible rank and still not have to wear a suit. Used especially of Unix wizards. The term "house guru" is equivalent.
- house-broken — (of a pet) trained to avoid excreting inside the house or in improper places.
- housebreaker — a person who breaks into and enters a house with a felonious intent.
- housebuilder — One who builds houses, particularly one who does so professionally.
- housecleaner — Someone employed to clean a house.
- housedresses — Plural form of housedress.
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