9-letter words containing use
- nonplused — to render utterly perplexed; puzzle completely.
- nonpluses — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of nonplus.
- nucleuses — Plural form of nucleus.
- nut house — a mental hospital; insane asylum.
- oasthouse — Alternative spelling of oast house.
- octopuses — Plural form of octopus.
- omnibuses — Plural form of omnibus.
- oncomouse — a mouse bred for cancer treatment research
- outhouses — Plural form of outhouse.
- palmhouse — a greenhouse for growing tropical plants, esp palms
- pauseless — without pauses; ceaseless
- penthouse — an apartment or dwelling on the roof of a building, usually set back from the outer walls.
- pesthouse — a house or hospital for persons infected with pestilential disease.
- phalluses — an image of the male reproductive organ, especially that carried in procession in ancient festivals of Dionysus, or Bacchus, symbolizing the generative power in nature.
- playhouse — a theater.
- poorhouse — (formerly) an institution in which paupers were maintained at public expense.
- porthouse — a company that produces port
- posthouse — house or inn where horses were kept for postriders or for hire to travellers
- poudreuse — a small toilet table of the 18th century.
- preaccuse — to accuse (someone of something) prior to the specified wrongdoing being committed or prior to having evidence of wrongdoing
- precieuse — one of the 17th-century literary women of France who affected an extreme care in the use of language.
- profusely — spending or giving freely and in large amount, often to excess; extravagant (often followed by in): profuse praise.
- re-arouse — to arouse (someone or something) again
- real user — 1. A commercial user. One who is paying *real* money for his computer usage. 2. A non-hacker. Someone using the system for an explicit purpose (a research project, a course, etc.) other than pure exploration. See user. Hackers who are also students may also be real users. "I need this fixed so I can do a problem set. I'm not complaining out of randomness, but as a real user." See also luser.
- reclusely — in a solitary or recluse manner, as or like a recluse; reclusively
- refusenik — a Soviet citizen, usually Jewish, who was denied permission to emigrate from the Soviet Union.
- reremouse — a bat.
- reuseable — available or convenient for use: 2000 square feet of usable office space.
- road user — anyone who uses a road, such as a pedestrian, cyclist or motorist
- roadhouse — an inn, dance hall, tavern, nightclub, etc., located on a highway, usually beyond city limits.
- rousement — a stirring up of religious excitement
- row house — one of a row of houses having uniform, or nearly uniform, plans and fenestration and usually having a uniform architectural treatment, as in certain housing developments.
- row-house — one of a row of houses having uniform, or nearly uniform, plans and fenestration and usually having a uniform architectural treatment, as in certain housing developments.
- sarum use — the liturgy or modified form of the Roman rite used in Salisbury before the Reformation and revived in part by some English churches.
- sea mouse — any of several large, marine annelids of the genus Aphrodite and related genera, having a covering of long, fine, hairlike setae.
- sex abuse — rape, sexual assault, or sexual molestation.
- shithouse — a privy; outhouse.
- siffleuse — a female professional whistler
- sod house — a house built of strips of sod, laid like brickwork, and used especially by settlers on the Great Plains, when timber was scarce.
- subclause — Grammar. a syntactic construction containing a subject and predicate and forming part of a sentence or constituting a whole simple sentence.
- superfuse — to pour.
- surplused — something that remains above what is used or needed.
- surpluses — something that remains above what is used or needed.
- the house — House of Commons
- time fuse — a fuse designed to burn for a given time, esp to explode a bomb
- tollhouse — a house or booth at a tollgate, occupied by a tollkeeper.
- toolhouse — toolshed.
- townhouse — a house in the city, especially as distinguished from a house in the country owned by the same person.
- trans-use — (language) An early system on the IBM 1130.
- transfuse — to transfer or pass from one to another; transmit; instill: to transfuse a love of literature to one's students.