| abstruseness | (noun) the quality of being unclear or abstruse and hard to understand | Synonyms: obscureness, obscurity, reconditeness |
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| (noun) wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound | Synonyms: abstrusity, profoundness, profundity, reconditeness |
| abuse | (noun) improper or excessive use | Synonyms: misuse |
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| (noun) cruel or inhumane treatment | Synonyms: ill-treatment, ill-usage, maltreatment |
| (noun) a rude expression intended to offend or hurt | Synonyms: contumely, insult, revilement, vilification |
| abuser | (noun) someone who abuses | Synonyms: maltreater |
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| accoucheuse | (noun) a woman skilled in aiding the delivery of babies | Synonyms: midwife |
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| accused | (noun) a defendant in a criminal proceeding | - |
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| accuser | (noun) someone who imputes guilt or blame | - |
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| alehouse | (noun) a tavern where ale is sold | - |
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| amusement | (noun) an activity that is diverting and that holds the attention | Synonyms: entertainment |
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| (noun) a feeling of delight at being entertained | - |
| applause | (noun) a demonstration of approval by clapping the hands together | Synonyms: clapping, hand clapping |
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| arouser | (noun) someone who rouses others from sleep | Synonyms: rouser, waker |
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| bakehouse | (noun) a workplace where baked goods (breads and cakes and pastries) are produced or sold | Synonyms: bakery, bakeshop |
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| barrelhouse | (noun) a cheap drinking and dancing establishment | Synonyms: honky-tonk |
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| bathhouse | (noun) a building containing public baths | Synonyms: bagnio |
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| (noun) a building containing dressing rooms for bathers | Synonyms: bathing machine |
| bawdyhouse | (noun) a building where prostitutes are available | Synonyms: bagnio, bordello, brothel, cathouse, house of ill repute, house of prostitution, sporting house, whorehouse |
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| bemusement | (noun) confusion resulting from failure to understand | Synonyms: bafflement, befuddlement, bewilderment, mystification, obfuscation, puzzlement |
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| berceuse | (noun) a quiet song intended to lull a child to sleep | Synonyms: cradlesong, lullaby |
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| birdhouse | (noun) a shelter for birds | - |
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| blockhouse | (noun) a stronghold that is reinforced for protection from enemy fire; with apertures for defensive fire | - |
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| blouse | (noun) a top worn by women | - |
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| boardinghouse | (noun) a private house that provides accommodations and meals for paying guests | Synonyms: boarding house |
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| boathouse | (noun) a shed at the edge of a river or lake; used to store boats | - |
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| booklouse | (noun) minute wingless psocopterous insects injurious to books and papers | Synonyms: book louse, deathwatch, Liposcelis divinatorius |
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| burnouse | (noun) a long hooded cloak woven of wool in one piece; worn by Arabs and Moors | Synonyms: burnoose, burnous |
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| cardhouse | (noun) an unstable construction with playing cards | Synonyms: card-house, cardcastle, house of cards |
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| carouse | (noun) revelry in drinking; a merry drinking party | Synonyms: bender, booze-up, carousal, toot |
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| carousel | (noun) a large, rotating machine with seats for children to ride on for amusement | Synonyms: carrousel, merry-go-round, roundabout, whirligig |
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| (noun) a conveyer belt that carries luggage to be claimed by air travelers | Synonyms: carrousel, luggage carousel, luggage carrousel |
| carouser | (noun) someone who enjoys riotous drinking | Synonyms: wassailer |
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| carrousel | (noun) a large, rotating machine with seats for children to ride on for amusement | Synonyms: carousel, merry-go-round, roundabout, whirligig |
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| (noun) a conveyer belt that carries luggage to be claimed by air travelers | Synonyms: carousel, luggage carousel, luggage carrousel |
| cathouse | (noun) a building where prostitutes are available | Synonyms: bagnio, bawdyhouse, bordello, brothel, house of ill repute, house of prostitution, sporting house, whorehouse |
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| cause | (noun) any entity that produces an effect or is responsible for events or results | Synonyms: causal agency, causal agent |
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| (noun) a comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy | Synonyms: case, causa, lawsuit, suit |
| (noun) a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end | Synonyms: campaign, crusade, drive, effort, movement |
| (noun) a justification for something existing or happening | Synonyms: grounds, reason |
| (noun) events that provide the generative force that is the origin of something | - |
| causerie | (noun) light informal conversation for social occasions | Synonyms: chin-wag, chin-wagging, chin wag, chin wagging, chit-chat, chit chat, chitchat, gab, gabfest, gossip, small talk, tittle-tattle |
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| causeway | (noun) a road that is raised above water or marshland or sand | - |
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| cayuse | (noun) a small native range horse | Synonyms: Indian pony |
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| ceruse | (noun) a poisonous white pigment that contains lead | Synonyms: lead carbonate, white lead |
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| chapterhouse | (noun) a house used as a residence by a chapter of a fraternity | Synonyms: frat house, fraternity house |
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| (noun) a building attached to a monastery or cathedral; used as a meeting place for the chapter | - |
| charterhouse | (noun) a Carthusian monastery | - |
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| chartreuse | (noun) a shade of green tinged with yellow | Synonyms: Paris green, pea green, yellow green, yellowish green |
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| chauffeuse | (noun) a woman chauffeur | - |
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| chophouse | (noun) a restaurant that specializes in steaks | Synonyms: steakhouse |
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| clause | (noun) (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate functioning as a part of a complex sentence | - |
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| (noun) a separate section of a legal document (as a statute or contract or will) | Synonyms: article |
| clubhouse | (noun) a building that is occupied by a social club | Synonyms: club |
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| coffeehouse | (noun) a small restaurant where drinks and snacks are sold | Synonyms: cafe, coffee bar, coffee shop |
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| coiffeuse | (noun) a woman hairdresser | - |
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| confusedness | (noun) a mental state characterized by a lack of clear and orderly thought and behavior | Synonyms: confusion, disarray, mental confusion, muddiness |
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| cookhouse | (noun) the area for food preparation on a ship | Synonyms: caboose, galley, ship's galley |
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| (noun) a detached or outdoor shelter for cooking | - |
| countinghouse | (noun) office used by the accountants of a business | - |
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| courthouse | (noun) a building that houses judicial courts | - |
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| (noun) a government building that houses the offices of a county government | - |
| cowhouse | (noun) a barn for cows | Synonyms: byre, cow barn, cowbarn, cowshed |
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| cruse | (noun) small jar; holds liquid (oil or water) | - |
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| customhouse | (noun) a government building where customs are collected and where ships are cleared to enter or leave the country | Synonyms: customshouse |
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| customshouse | (noun) a government building where customs are collected and where ships are cleared to enter or leave the country | Synonyms: customhouse |
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| danseuse | (noun) a female ballet dancer | Synonyms: ballerina |
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| diffuseness | (noun) the spatial property of being spread out over a wide area or through a large volume | - |
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| diffuser | (noun) optical device that distributes the light of a lamp evenly | Synonyms: diffusor |
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| (noun) baffle that distributes sound waves evenly | Synonyms: diffusor |
| disuse | (noun) the state of something that has been unused and neglected | Synonyms: neglect |
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| doghouse | (noun) outbuilding that serves as a shelter for a dog | Synonyms: dog house, kennel |
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| (noun) an idiomatic term for being in disfavor | - |
| dollhouse | (noun) a small model of a house used as a toy by children | Synonyms: doll's house |
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| (noun) a house so small that it is likened to a child's plaything | Synonyms: doll's house |
| dormouse | (noun) small furry-tailed squirrel-like Old World rodent that becomes torpid in cold weather | - |
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| dosshouse | (noun) a cheap lodging house | Synonyms: flophouse |
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| drusen | (noun) (plural) an eye disease resulting from small accumulations of hyaline bodies underneath the retina | - |
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| excuse | (noun) a poor example | Synonyms: apology |
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| (noun) a defense of some offensive behavior or some failure to keep a promise etc. | Synonyms: alibi, exculpation, self-justification |
| (noun) a note explaining an absence | - |
| excuser | (noun) a person who pardons or forgives or excuses a fault or offense | Synonyms: forgiver, pardoner |
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| farmhouse | (noun) house for a farmer and family | - |
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| fieldmouse | (noun) any nocturnal Old World mouse of the genus Apodemus inhabiting woods and fields and gardens | Synonyms: field mouse |
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| firehouse | (noun) a station housing fire apparatus and firemen | Synonyms: fire station |
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| flophouse | (noun) a cheap lodging house | Synonyms: dosshouse |
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| fuse | (noun) any igniter that is used to initiate the burning of a propellant | Synonyms: fusee, fuze, fuzee, primer, priming |
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| (noun) an electrical device that can interrupt the flow of electrical current when it is overloaded | Synonyms: electrical fuse, safety fuse |
| fusee | (noun) any igniter that is used to initiate the burning of a propellant | Synonyms: fuse, fuze, fuzee, primer, priming |
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| (noun) a friction match with a large head that will stay alight in the wind | Synonyms: fuzee |
| (noun) a colored flare used as a warning signal by trucks and trains | Synonyms: fuzee |
| (noun) a spirally grooved spindle in a clock that counteracts the diminishing power of the uncoiling mainspring | Synonyms: fusee drive |
| fuselage | (noun) the central body of an airplane that is designed to accommodate the crew and passengers (or cargo) | - |
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| gatehouse | (noun) a house built at a gateway; usually the gatekeeper's residence | - |
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| glasshouse | (noun) a building with glass walls and roof; for the cultivation and exhibition of plants under controlled conditions | Synonyms: greenhouse |
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| greenhouse | (noun) a building with glass walls and roof; for the cultivation and exhibition of plants under controlled conditions | Synonyms: glasshouse |
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| grouse | (noun) popular game bird having a plump body and feathered legs and feet | - |
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| (noun) flesh of any of various grouse of the family Tetraonidae; usually roasted; flesh too dry to broil | - |
| grouseberry | (noun) shrub of northwestern North America bearing red berries | Synonyms: grouse-berry, grouse whortleberry, Vaccinium scoparium |
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| guardhouse | (noun) a military facility that serves as the headquarters for military police and in which military prisoners can be detained | - |
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| guesthouse | (noun) a house separate from the main house; for housing guests | - |
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| hausen | (noun) valuable source of caviar and isinglass; found in Black and Caspian seas | Synonyms: Acipenser huso, beluga, white sturgeon |
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| heliopause | (noun) the boundary marking the edge of the sun's influence; the boundary (roughly 100 AU from the sun) between the interplanetary medium and the interstellar medium; where the solar wind from the sun and the radiation from other stars meet | - |
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| henhouse | (noun) a farm building for housing poultry | Synonyms: chicken coop, coop, hencoop |
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| hothouse | (noun) a greenhouse in which plants are arranged in a pleasing manner | Synonyms: conservatory, indoor garden |
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| house | (noun) play in which children take the roles of father or mother or children and pretend to interact like adults | - |
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| (noun) a dwelling that serves as living quarters for one or more families | - |
| (noun) a building in which something is sheltered or located | - |
| (noun) a building where theatrical performances or motion-picture shows can be presented | Synonyms: theater, theatre |
| (noun) aristocratic family line | - |
| (noun) the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments | Synonyms: business firm, firm |
| (noun) an official assembly having legislative powers | - |
| (noun) the audience gathered together in a theatre or cinema | - |
| (noun) the members of a religious community living together | - |
| (noun) a social unit living together | Synonyms: family, home, household, menage |
| (noun) the management of a gambling house or casino | - |
| (noun) (astrology) one of 12 equal areas into which the zodiac is divided | Synonyms: mansion, planetary house, sign, sign of the zodiac, star sign |
| houseboat | (noun) a barge that is designed and equipped for use as a dwelling | - |
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| housebreaker | (noun) a burglar who unlawfully breaks into and enters another person's house | Synonyms: cat burglar |
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| (noun) a wrecker of houses | Synonyms: housewrecker |
| housebreaking | (noun) trespassing for an unlawful purpose; illegal entrance into premises with criminal intent | Synonyms: break-in, breaking and entering |
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| housebuilder | (noun) someone who builds houses as a business | Synonyms: home-builder, homebuilder, house-builder |
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| housecleaning | (noun) the act of cleaning the rooms and furnishings of a house | - |
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| (noun) (figurative) the act of reforming by the removal of unwanted personnel or practices or conditions | - |
| housecoat | (noun) a loose dressing gown for women | Synonyms: neglige, negligee, peignoir, wrapper |
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| housecraft | (noun) skill in domestic management | - |
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| housedog | (noun) a dog trained to guard a house | - |
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| housefather | (noun) a man in charge of children in an institution | - |
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| housefly | (noun) common fly that frequents human habitations and spreads many diseases | Synonyms: house fly, Musca domestica |
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| houseful | (noun) as many as a house will accommodate | - |
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| houseguest | (noun) a guest entertained in your house | Synonyms: house guest |
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| household | (noun) a social unit living together | Synonyms: family, home, house, menage |
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| householder | (noun) someone who owns a home | Synonyms: homeowner |
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| househusband | (noun) a husband who keeps house while his wife earns the family income | Synonyms: house husband |
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| housekeeper | (noun) a servant who is employed to perform domestic task in a household | - |
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| housekeeping | (noun) the work of cleaning and running a house | Synonyms: housework |
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| houselights | (noun) lights that illuminate the audience's part of a theater or other auditorium | - |
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| housemaid | (noun) a female domestic | Synonyms: amah, maid, maidservant |
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