9-letter words that end in use
- interfuse — to intersperse, intermingle, or permeate with something.
- ionopause — the transitional zone between the ionosphere and the mesosphere.
- jailhouse — a jail or building used as a jail.
- limehouse — a dock district in the East End of London, England, once notorious for its squalor: formerly a Chinese quarter.
- lobscouse — a stew of meat, potatoes, onions, ship biscuit, etc.
- lockhouse — the house of a lock-keeper
- longhouse — 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.
- malthouse — A building in which malt is prepared and stored.
- masthouse — a place, usually in a dockyard, in which masts are stored
- menopause — the period of permanent cessation of menstruation, usually occurring between the ages of 45 and 55.
- mesopause — the boundary or transition zone between the mesosphere and the ionosphere. Compare mesosphere (def 1).
- millhouse — a building that houses milling machinery, especially of flour.
- mixed-use — Real Estate. combining commercial and residential development; zoned for commercial and residential use.
- no excuse — If you say that there is no excuse for something, you are emphasizing that it should not happen, or expressing disapproval that it has happened.
- nut house — a mental hospital; insane asylum.
- oasthouse — Alternative spelling of oast house.
- oncomouse — a mouse bred for cancer treatment research
- palmhouse — a greenhouse for growing tropical plants, esp palms
- 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.
- 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.
- re-arouse — to arouse (someone or something) again
- reremouse — a bat.
- roadhouse — an inn, dance hall, tavern, nightclub, etc., located on a highway, usually beyond city limits.
- 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.
- 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.
- treehouse — a small house, especially one for children to play in, built or placed up in the branches of a tree.
- unconfuse — to remove confusion from
- veilleuse — a sofa having a low and a high end, with a back that slopes from one end to the other.