alehouse | (noun) a tavern where ale is sold | - |
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arouse | (verb) cause to be alert and energetic | Synonyms: brace, energise, energize, perk up, stimulate |
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(verb) cause to become awake or conscious | Synonyms: awaken, rouse, wake, wake up, waken |
(verb) stop sleeping | Synonyms: awake, awaken, come alive, wake, wake up, waken |
(verb) summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic | Synonyms: bring up, call down, call forth, conjure, conjure up, evoke, invoke, put forward, raise, stir |
(verb) call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses) | Synonyms: elicit, enkindle, evoke, fire, kindle, provoke, raise |
(verb) to evoke sexual feelings | Synonyms: excite, sex, turn on, wind up |
(verb) to begin moving | Synonyms: stir |
aroused | (adjective) (of persons) excessively affected by emotion | Synonyms: emotional, excited, worked up |
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(adjective) aroused to action | - |
(adjective) emotionally aroused | Synonyms: stimulated, stirred, stirred up |
(adjective) keenly excited (especially sexually) or indicating excitement | Synonyms: ablaze, aflame |
(adjective) feeling great sexual desire | Synonyms: horny, randy, ruttish, steamy, turned on |
(adjective) brought to a state of great tension | Synonyms: wound up |
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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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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bouse | (verb) haul with a tackle | Synonyms: bowse |
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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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calloused | (adjective) having calluses; having skin made tough and thick through wear | Synonyms: callous, thickened |
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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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(verb) engage in boisterous, drunken merrymaking | Synonyms: riot, roister |
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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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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chophouse | (noun) a restaurant that specializes in steaks | Synonyms: steakhouse |
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chouse | (verb) defeat someone through trickery or deceit | Synonyms: cheat, chicane, jockey, screw, shaft |
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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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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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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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delouse | (verb) free of lice | - |
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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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douse | (verb) cover with liquid; pour liquid onto | Synonyms: dowse, drench, soak, sop, souse |
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(verb) slacken | Synonyms: dowse |
(verb) lower quickly | - |
(verb) immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate | Synonyms: dip, dunk, plunge, souse |
(verb) dip into a liquid | Synonyms: dip, duck |
(verb) wet thoroughly | Synonyms: dowse |
(verb) put out, as of a candle or a light | Synonyms: put out |
espouse | (verb) take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own | Synonyms: adopt, embrace, sweep up |
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(verb) choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans | Synonyms: adopt, follow |
(verb) take in marriage; married | Synonyms: conjoin, get hitched with, get married, hook up with, marry, wed |
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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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 | (adjective) of or relating to or caused by the greenhouse effect | - |
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(noun) a building with glass walls and roof; for the cultivation and exhibition of plants under controlled conditions | Synonyms: glasshouse |
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 | - |
(verb) complain | Synonyms: beef, bellyache, bitch, crab, gripe, holler, squawk |
(verb) hunt grouse | - |
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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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 |
(verb) provide someone with accomodation | Synonyms: domiciliate, put up |
(verb) contain or cover | - |
houseboat | (noun) a barge that is designed and equipped for use as a dwelling | - |
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housebound | (adjective) confined usually by illness | Synonyms: homebound, shut-in |
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housebreak | (verb) train (a pet) to live cleanly in a house | Synonyms: house-train |
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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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housebroken | (adjective) (of pets) trained to urinate and defecate outside or in a special place | Synonyms: house-trained |
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housebuilder | (noun) someone who builds houses as a business | Synonyms: home-builder, homebuilder, house-builder |
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houseclean | (verb) clean and tidy up the house | Synonyms: clean, clean house |
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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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housekeep | (verb) maintain a household; take care of all business related to a household | - |
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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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houseman | (noun) an advanced student or graduate in medicine gaining supervised practical experience | Synonyms: intern, interne, medical intern |
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housemaster | (noun) teacher in charge of a school boardinghouse | - |
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housemate | (noun) someone who resides in the same house with you | - |
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housemother | (noun) a woman employed as a chaperon in a residence for young people | - |
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housepaint | (noun) paint used to cover the exterior woodwork of a house | Synonyms: house paint |
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houseplant | (noun) any of a variety of plants grown indoors for decorative purposes | - |
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houseroom | (noun) space for accommodation in a house | - |
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housetop | (noun) the roof of a house | - |
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housewarming | (noun) a party of people assembled to celebrate moving into a new home | - |
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housewife | (noun) a wife who manages a household while her husband earns the family income | Synonyms: homemaker, lady of the house, woman of the house |
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housewifely | (adjective) related or suited to a housewife | - |
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housewifery | (noun) the work of a housewife | - |
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housework | (noun) the work of cleaning and running a house | Synonyms: housekeeping |
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housewrecker | (noun) a wrecker of houses | Synonyms: housebreaker |
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icehouse | (noun) a house for storing ice | - |
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jailhouse | (noun) a correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence) | Synonyms: clink, gaol, jail, pokey, poky, slammer |
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lamphouse | (noun) housing that holds a lamp (as in a movie projector) | Synonyms: lamp house, lamp housing |
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lighthouse | (noun) a tower with a light that gives warning of shoals to passing ships | Synonyms: beacon, beacon light, pharos |
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lobscouse | (noun) a stew of meat and vegetables and hardtack that is eaten by sailors | Synonyms: lobscuse, scouse |
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louse | (noun) wingless usually flattened bloodsucking insect parasitic on warm-blooded animals | Synonyms: sucking louse |
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(noun) any of several small insects especially aphids that feed by sucking the juices from plants | Synonyms: plant louse |
(noun) wingless insect with mouth parts adapted for biting; mostly parasitic on birds | Synonyms: bird louse, biting louse |
(noun) a person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect | Synonyms: dirt ball, insect, worm |