10-letter words containing use
- house wren — a common American wren, Troglodytes aedon, that nests around houses.
- house-hunt — to search for a house to buy or rent
- houseboats — Plural form of houseboat.
- housebound — restricted to the house, as by bad weather or illness.
- housebreak — to train (a pet) to excrete outdoors or in a specific place.
- housebroke — Simple past form of housebreak.
- housecarls — Plural form of housecarl.
- houseclean — to subject (a house, room, etc.) to housecleaning.
- housecoats — Plural form of housecoat.
- housedress — a relatively simple and inexpensive dress suitable for housework.
- houseflies — Plural form of housefly.
- housefront — the façade of a house
- houseguest — a person staying with a household as a guest for one night or longer.
- households — Plural form of household.
- houseleeks — Plural form of houseleek.
- houselight — One of the lights in an auditorium.
- houselling — administration of the Eucharist
- housemaids — Plural form of housemaid.
- housemaker — Homemaker.
- housemates — Plural form of housemate.
- housephone — a telephone, used for making calls within a hotel or apartment house, that does not have a direct line to an exchange and whose calls are routed through the building's switchboard.
- houseplant — an ornamental plant that is grown indoors or adapts well to indoor culture.
- houseproud — Alternative form of house-proud.
- housetrain — To teach a house pet to urinate and defecate outside or in a designated location in the home.
- housewares — (North America) Domestic utensils, especially for the kitchen.
- housewifey — (informal) Resembling or characteristic of a housewife.
- housewives — Plural form of housewife.
- hull house — a settlement house in Chicago, Ill., founded in 1889 by Jane Addams.
- hypotenuse — the side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
- interfused — Simple past tense and past participle of interfuse.
- joss house — a Chinese temple for idol worship.
- juke house — a cheap roadhouse.
- just cause — a standard that must be met to justify the disciplining or dismissal of an employee
- keep house — a building in which people live; residence for human beings.
- la perouse — Jean François de Galaup [zhahn frahn-swa duh ga-loh] /ʒɑ̃ frɑ̃ˈswa də gaˈloʊ/ (Show IPA), 1741–88, French naval officer and explorer.
- leverkusen — a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, in W Germany, on the Rhine.
- lighthouse — a tower or other structure displaying or flashing a very bright light for the guidance of ships in avoiding dangerous areas, in following certain routes, etc.
- long house — a communal dwelling, especially of the Iroquois and various other North American Indian peoples, consisting of a wooden, bark-covered framework often as much as 100 feet (30.5 meters) in length.
- longhouses — Plural form of longhouse.
- lost cause — a cause that has been defeated or whose defeat is inevitable.
- louseworts — Plural form of lousewort.
- mandamuses — Plural form of mandamus.
- mast house — a deckhouse built around a mast as a platform for cargo-handling machinery, gear, and controls.
- meat house — a smokehouse.
- meniscuses — Plural form of meniscus.
- methuselah — a patriarch who lived 969 years. Gen. 5:27.
- microbuses — Plural form of microbus.
- mind mouse — (hardware) A pointing device (unlike a mouse in design, but serving the same purpose) which works via sensors in contact with the user's skin. The sensors are built into a plastic base which fits on one finger and which is similar in shape to a finger cast. The principle of operation is presumably myoelectric, not psionic, contrary to what the name implies. As of the time of writing (1996), mind mice are not accurate enough to be anything but novelties.
- misaccused — charged with a crime, wrongdoing, fault, etc.: the accused boy.
- misfocused — a central point, as of attraction, attention, or activity: The need to prevent a nuclear war became the focus of all diplomatic efforts.