Phrase Hound found 373 phrases and 314 compound words that contain houses. The most common are listed below. Open houses in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 373
- guest housesplural of guest house: A small house near a main house, for lodging visitors.
- open housesplural of open house: A house habitually kept open to callers.
- Houses of ParliamentThe House of Commons and the House of Lords within the Palace of Westminster.
- houses of worshipplural of house of worship: A religious edifice; a mosque, church, synagogue, temple, or similar place where believers go to practice their faith.
- publishing housesplural of publishing house: A company that produces books, magazines, brochures and other texts in print or electronic form.
- Cross HousesA village in Berrington parish, Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SJ5407).
- Five HousesA place name:
- houses of cardsplural of house of cards: A structure made by stacking playing cards in a pyramidal fashion.
- houses of prayerplural of house of prayer: A religious edifice; a mosque, church, synagogue, temple, or similar place where believers go to practice their faith.
- safe as housesVery secure.
- houses of callplural of house of call: A place, usually a public house, where journeymen connected with a particular trade assembled when out of work, ready for the call of employers.
- houses of Godplural of house of God: Heaven.
- auction housesplural of auction house: A company that runs auctions.
- beach housesplural of beach house: A house on the beach.
- big housesplural of big house: Prison, jail.
- chapter housesplural of chapter house: A building attached to a cathedral, church, or monastery and used as a meeting place.
- coffee housesplural of coffee house: An establishment where coffee is served to clients; a café.
- council housesplural of council house: A house built and operated by a county council or a town council, usually of relatively low price and lived in by the working class and welfare recipients.
- country housesplural of country house: A house serving as a weekend and holiday residence, used as a retreat from city life; traditionally and archetypically in the country, and especially of wealthy owners.
- custom housesplural of custom house: An official building, in a port, where customs are collected and shipping is cleared for entry and exit
- drug housesplural of drug house: A residence used in the illegal drug trade.
- engine housesplural of engine house: A building housing one or more engines.
- fashion housesplural of fashion house: a company employed in fashion design; a couturier
- fire housesplural of fire house: Fire station.
- fun housesplural of fun house: A brothel.
Compound words 314
- warehousesplural of warehouse: A facility for storing large amounts of merchandise or products.
- greenhousesplural of greenhouse: A building used to grow plants, particularly one with large glass windows or plastic sheeting to trap heat from sunlight even in intemperate seasons or climates.
- townhousesplural of townhouse: A row house or terraced house.
- lighthousesplural of lighthouse: A tower or other structure exhibiting a light or lights to warn or guide sailors.
- guesthousesplural of guesthouse: A small house near a main house, for lodging visitors.
- farmhousesplural of farmhouse: A house (usually the main house) on a farm; thus:
- birdhousesplural of birdhouse: A small house or nest box for birds.
- courthousesplural of courthouse: A public building housing courts of law.
- dollhousesplural of dollhouse: A miniature house used by children as a toy for recreating domestic settings.
- playhousesplural of playhouse: A venue for performing plays.