| madhouse | (noun) pejorative terms for an insane asylum | Synonyms: Bedlam, booby hatch, crazy house, cuckoo's nest, funny farm, funny house, loony bin, nut house, nuthouse, sanatorium, snake pit |
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| meetinghouse | (noun) a building for religious assembly (especially Nonconformists, e.g., Quakers) | Synonyms: conventicle |
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| mouse | (noun) any of numerous small rodents typically resembling diminutive rats having pointed snouts and small ears on elongated bodies with slender usually hairless tails | - |
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| (noun) a hand-operated electronic device that controls the coordinates of a cursor on your computer screen as you move it around on a pad; on the bottom of the device is a ball that rolls on the surface of the pad | Synonyms: computer mouse |
| (noun) person who is quiet or timid | - |
| (noun) a swollen bruise caused by a blow to the eye | Synonyms: black eye, shiner |
| (verb) manipulate the mouse of a computer | - |
| (verb) to go stealthily or furtively | Synonyms: creep, pussyfoot, sneak |
| mouselike | (adjective) of something having a drab pale brown color resembling a mouse | Synonyms: mouse-colored, mousey, mousy |
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| mousepad | (noun) a small portable pad that provides traction for the ball of a computer mouse | Synonyms: mouse mat |
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| mouser | (noun) a cat proficient at mousing | - |
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| mousetrap | (noun) (American football) a play in which a defensive player is allowed to cross the line of scrimmage and then blocked off as the runner goes through the place the lineman vacated | Synonyms: trap play |
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| (noun) a trap for catching mice | - |
| mousey | (adjective) infested with mice | Synonyms: mousy |
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| (adjective) of something having a drab pale brown color resembling a mouse | Synonyms: mouse-colored, mouselike, mousy |
| (adjective) quiet and timid and ineffectual | Synonyms: mousy |
| nuthouse | (noun) pejorative terms for an insane asylum | Synonyms: Bedlam, booby hatch, crazy house, cuckoo's nest, funny farm, funny house, loony bin, madhouse, nut house, sanatorium, snake pit |
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| ousel | (noun) common black European thrush | Synonyms: blackbird, European blackbird, merl, merle, ouzel, Turdus merula |
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| outhouse | (noun) a small outbuilding with a bench having holes through which a user can defecate | Synonyms: earth-closet, jakes, privy |
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| packinghouse | (noun) a plant where livestock are slaughtered and processed and packed as meat products | Synonyms: packing plant |
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| (noun) a building where foodstuffs are processed and packed | - |
| penthouse | (noun) an apartment located on the top floors of a building | - |
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| pesthouse | (noun) hospital for persons with infectious diseases (especially leprosy) | Synonyms: lazar house, lazaret, lazarette, lazaretto |
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| pilothouse | (noun) an enclosed compartment from which a vessel can be navigated | Synonyms: wheelhouse |
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| pithouse | (noun) a shelter for humans or domesticated animals and livestock based on a hole or depression dug into the ground; can be fully recessed into the earth, with a flat roof covered by ground, semi-recessed, with a constructed wood or sod roof standing out, or dug into a hillside. | Synonyms: dug-out, dugout, pit-house |
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| playhouse | (noun) plaything consisting of a small model of a house that children can play inside of | Synonyms: wendy house |
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| poorhouse | (noun) an establishment maintained at public expense in order to provide housing for the poor and homeless | - |
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| porterhouse | (noun) large steak from the thick end of the short loin containing a T-shaped bone and large piece of tenderloin | Synonyms: porterhouse steak |
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| posthouse | (noun) an inn for exchanging post horses and accommodating riders | Synonyms: post house |
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| pothouse | (noun) tavern consisting of a building with a bar and public rooms; often provides light meals | Synonyms: gin mill, pub, public house, saloon, taphouse |
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| powerhouse | (noun) an electrical generating station | Synonyms: power plant, power station |
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| (noun) a team considered to be the best of its class | - |
| (noun) a highly energetic and indefatigable person | Synonyms: ball of fire, fireball, human dynamo |
| rehouse | (verb) put up in a new or different housing | - |
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| roadhouse | (noun) an inn (usually outside city limits on a main road) providing meals and liquor and dancing and (sometimes) gambling | - |
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| roughhouse | (verb) engage in rough or disorderly play | - |
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| roundhouse | (noun) a hook delivered with an exaggerated swing | - |
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| (noun) workplace consisting of a circular building for repairing locomotives | - |
| rouse | (verb) cause to become awake or conscious | Synonyms: arouse, awaken, wake, wake up, waken |
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| (verb) cause to be agitated, excited, or roused | Synonyms: agitate, charge, charge up, commove, excite, turn on |
| (verb) force or drive out | Synonyms: drive out, force out, rout out |
| (verb) become active | Synonyms: bestir |
| rouser | (noun) someone who rouses others from sleep | Synonyms: arouser, waker |
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| sandgrouse | (noun) pigeon-like bird of arid regions of the Old World having long pointed wings and tail and precocial downy young | Synonyms: sand grouse |
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| schoolhouse | (noun) a building where young people receive education | Synonyms: school |
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| scouse | (noun) a stew of meat and vegetables and hardtack that is eaten by sailors | Synonyms: lobscouse, lobscuse |
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| shrewmouse | (noun) small mouselike mammal with a long snout; related to moles | Synonyms: shrew |
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| slaughterhouse | (noun) a building where animals are butchered | Synonyms: abattoir, butchery, shambles |
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| smokehouse | (noun) a small house where smoke is used to cure meat or fish | Synonyms: meat house |
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| souse | (noun) the act of making something completely wet | Synonyms: drenching, soaking, sousing |
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| (noun) pork trimmings chopped and pickled and jelled | - |
| (noun) a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually | Synonyms: alcoholic, alky, boozer, dipsomaniac, lush, soaker |
| (verb) cook in a marinade | - |
| (verb) cover with liquid; pour liquid onto | Synonyms: douse, dowse, drench, soak, sop |
| (verb) become drunk or drink excessively | Synonyms: hit it up, inebriate, soak |
| (verb) immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate | Synonyms: dip, douse, dunk, plunge |
| soused | (adjective) very drunk | Synonyms: besotted, blind drunk, blotto, cockeyed, crocked, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tight, wet |
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| spouse | (noun) a person's partner in marriage | Synonyms: better half, married person, mate, partner |
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| steakhouse | (noun) a restaurant that specializes in steaks | Synonyms: chophouse |
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| storehouse | (noun) a depository for goods | Synonyms: depot, entrepot, storage, store |
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| summerhouse | (noun) a small roofed building affording shade and rest | Synonyms: gazebo |
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| taphouse | (noun) tavern consisting of a building with a bar and public rooms; often provides light meals | Synonyms: gin mill, pothouse, pub, public house, saloon |
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| teahouse | (noun) a restaurant where tea and light meals are available | Synonyms: tea parlor, tea parlour, tearoom, teashop |
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| titmouse | (noun) small insectivorous birds | Synonyms: tit |
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| tollhouse | (noun) a booth at a tollgate where the toll collector collects tolls | Synonyms: tolbooth, tollbooth |
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| toolhouse | (noun) a shed for storing tools | Synonyms: toolshed |
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| trouser | (noun) a garment (or part of a garment) designed for or relating to trousers | - |
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| trousered | (adjective) dressed in trousers | Synonyms: breeched, pantalooned |
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| trousering | (noun) any fabric used to make trousers | Synonyms: panting |
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| trousers | (noun) (usually in the plural) a garment extending from the waist to the knee or ankle, covering each leg separately | Synonyms: pair of trousers, pant |
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| warehouse | (noun) a storehouse for goods and merchandise | Synonyms: storage warehouse |
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| (verb) store in a warehouse | - |
| warehouseman | (noun) a workman who manages or works in a warehouse | Synonyms: warehouser |
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| warehouser | (noun) a workman who manages or works in a warehouse | Synonyms: warehouseman |
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| washhouse | (noun) a building or outbuilding where laundry is done | - |
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| wheelhouse | (noun) an enclosed compartment from which a vessel can be navigated | Synonyms: pilothouse |
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| (noun) one's area of interest or expertise | - |
| whorehouse | (noun) a building where prostitutes are available | Synonyms: bagnio, bawdyhouse, bordello, brothel, cathouse, house of ill repute, house of prostitution, sporting house |
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| woodlouse | (noun) any of various small terrestrial isopods having a flat elliptical segmented body; found in damp habitats | Synonyms: slater, wood louse |
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| workhouse | (noun) a county jail that holds prisoners for periods up to 18 months | - |
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| (noun) a poorhouse where able-bodied poor are compelled to labor | - |