Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
almonry | the place where an almoner resides, or where alms are distributed. |
almshouse | a privately supported house offering accommodation to the aged or needy. |
apartment appartement | a set of rooms in a house for an individual or a family. |
apartmental | relating to an APARTMENT. |
aularian | relating to a hall in a university; (noun) a member of a hall (as opposed to a college). |
backsplit | (Canadian) a house with floors raised half a storey at the rear, having an upper and lower main floor, and an upper and lower basement. |
banda | in Africa, a thatched hut. |
barrack | a building or group of buildings used to accommodate military personnel; (verb) to shout at derisively or sarcastically. |
basti busti | in India, a flimsy hut > BASTIS, BUSTIS. Also BUSTEE. |
bastide | a French country-house. |
bedsit | a basic form of rented accommodation. |
bedsitter | a furnished room without a bed. Also BEDSIT. |
bhavan bhawan | in India, a large house or building. Also BHAVAN. |
biding | residence, habitation. |
biggin bigging | a building. |
boardinghouse | a private house in which accommodation and meals are provided for paying guests. |
bothan | a booth, a hut. |
bothie bothy | a hut, cabin. |
bungaloid | of or like a bungalow. |
bungalow | a lightly-built house, properly one with a veranda and one storey. |
bunkhouse | a place where cowboys etc. sleep. |
bustee | a flimsy hut, a squatter colony. [Hindi basti]. |
busti | see BASTI. |
cabana | a small tent-like cabin. |
cabin | (verb) to live in a cabin. |
camboose | a cabin built as living-quarters for a gang of lumbermen. |
casa | a house, a mansion. |
casern caserne | a barrack or billet for soldiers. |
casita | a small house. |
chalet | a type of wooden house of Swiss origin, typically low, with wide projecting eaves. |
chateau | a castle > CHATEAUS or CHATEAUX. |
chickee | a stilt house of the Seminole Indians. |
condo | short for CONDOMINIUM, a set of flats, group of cottages, etc. rented or bought by a group of people; a unit of property so held > CONDOS or CONDOES. |
condominium | a set of flats, group of cottages, etc., rented or bought by a group of people; a unit of property so held. |
cottage | a small simple house, esp. in a rural area. |
cottaged | covered with cottages. |
cottagey | like a cottage. |
dacha datcha | a Russian country house. |
doghole | a place fit only for dogs; a vile, mean habitation or apartment. |
domicil | a dwelling-place, abode. Also DOMICILE. |
domicile | a dwelling-place, abode; (verb) to be resident in. Also DOMICIL. |
finca | a Spanish villa > FINCAS. |
flatette | a small flat. |
flatlet | a small flat. |
forecourt | a court in front of a building. |
fourplex | a QUADPLEX, a building having four units. |
gatehouse | a building over or at a gate. |
ger | a Mongolian felt tent, aka YURT. |
guardhouse | a building occupied by people keeping guard. |
guesthouse | a private home or boarding house offering accommodation, esp. to travellers. |
gunyah | an Australian aborigine's hut. |
haram hareem harem harim | a women's quarters in a Muslim house; a set of wives and concubines. |
hibernacle | that which serves for protection or shelter in winter; winter quarters; as, the hibernacle of an animal or a plant. |
hibernaculum | the winter quarters of a hibernating animal > HIBERNACULA. |
highrise | a tall building. |
hogan | 1. (Am. Ind.) a log hut, usu. covered with earth, built by the Navajo tribe; 2. (Dutch) strong liquor (also HOGEN). |
hovel | to shelter in a hovel > HOVELED/HOVELLED. |
humpy | (Aborig.) a bush dwelling of simple construction. [Aborigine yumbi]; (adj.) full of humps > HUMPIER, HUMPIEST. |
hut | to quarter (troops) in a hut. |
hutlike | like a hut. |
hutment | accommodation or lodging in huts; a hutted encampment. |
igloo iglu | a snow house. [Inupiaq iglu, house]. |
insula | (Roman antiquity) a block of buildings, an apartment house > INSULAE. |
isba | a Russian log hut. |
istana | in Malaysia, a royal palace. |
jacal | a hut built of erect stakes filled in with wattle and mud, common in Mexico and the south-western US; an adobe house > JACALS or JACALES. [Mex. Sp. f. Nahuatl xacalli contr. of xamitl calli adobe house]. |
kibitka | a tent used by the Kirghiz Tartars. |
lanai | a verandah or roofed patio. |
libken | a place to sleep. |
lockhouse | a lock-keeper's house. |
loge | a small enclosure or box in a theatre or opera house. |
longhouse | a long communal house e.g. in S.E. Asia. |
maisonette | a part of a residential building which is occupied separately, usu. on more than one floor. |
mamateek | a type of WIGWAM. |
manor | the manor house of a lord and the lands attached to it. |
manse | an ecclesiastical residence; a house allocated to or occupied by a minister, esp. in the Church of Scotland. |
mansion | a manor-house, a large and stately residence. |
mansionary mansonry | residence, buildings. |
marquee | a large tent with open sides for outdoor entertainment; roof over entrance. |
mas | a house or farm in the south of France > MASES. |
motherhouse | the convent in which the superior of a religious community resides. |
oilcamp | a living area for workers at an oil well. |
orphanage | a place where orphans are housed. |
outhouse | a small house or building at a little distance from the main house; an outbuilding. |
palace | the home of a royal personage, bishop etc. |
palafitte | a prehistoric hut or settlement built on stakes driven into the bed of a lake, esp. in Switzerland or northern Italy; a lake village. [Fr. f. It. palafitta a fence of stakes, f. palo stake + fitto fixed.] |
palais | a palace. |
parsonage | the home of a parson. |
pastorium | the residence of a PASTOR > PASTORIUMS. |
penthouse | a flat or maisonette built onto the top floor or roof of a block of flats; (verb) to cover or shelter as in a penthouse. |
playhouse | a child's miniature house for playing in. |
pondok pondokkie | in South Africa, a small hut, a shack. |
poorhouse | a place of residence for people too poor to support themselves. |
praetorium | the court or palace of the governor of a Roman province; transf. an official building, esp. the court or palace of an ancient king > PRAETORIUMS. |
pueblo | a communistic building erected by certain Indian tribes of Arizona and New Mexico > PUEBLOS. |
quadplex | a building having four units. |
quinta | a country house in Spain or Portugal. |
rancho | a rude hut, as of posts, covered with branches or thatch, where herdsmen or farm laborers may live or lodge at night > RANCHOS. |
reclusory | the habitation of a recluse; a hermitage. |
rectory | a minister's or priest's house. |
resiance | residence; abode. |
residency | the official residence of a representative of the Governor-General or Viceroy (or formerly of the East India Company) at the court of an Indian State. |
riad | a traditional Moroccan house or palace with an interior garden. |
rondavel | in S. Africa, a round hut with a grass roof. [Afrik. rondawel]. |
schloss | a castle, palace, manor-house. |
seraglio serail | a harem; a palace of a sultan. |
serai | a palace; a seraglio; also, in the East, a place for the accommodation of travelers; a caravanserai, or rest house. |
shack | a roughly built cabin or hut, esp. of logs, metal sheeting, etc. N.B. not valid as a verb, because always appears in expression SHACK UP. |
shamiana shamianah shamiyanah | in India, a large tent or awning. |
shealing sheiling shieling | a rough hut near summer pasture used as shelter by shepherds. |
shed | to house in a shed. |
skeo skio | a hut, a shed. |
skilling skillion | an outhouse or lean-to, esp. one with a sloping roof. |
skyhome | a sub-penthouse flat in a tall building. |
soddy | (noun) a house built of sod; (adj.) consisting of sod; covered with sod > SODDIER, SODDIEST. |
soddie | a house built of sod. |
souterrain | an underground chamber; an earth-house. |
storehouse | a place where food and other stores are kept. |
subterrane subterrene | an underground cave or dwelling. |
succah sukkah | a hut or shelter roofed with branches, used by Jews as a temporary living accommodation during Sukkoth, the Festival of the Tabernacles > SUCCAHS or SUCCOTH; SUKKAHS or SUKKOTH. |
summerhouse | an outdoor structure for use during the summer. |
teepee tepee tipi | a Native American tent. [Sioux tipi, dwelling]. |
tenement | a block of flats. |
tenemented | possessing TENEMENTS. |
toft | a homestead; a hillock. |
topek tupek tupik | an Inuit animal-skin tent. [Inupiaq tupiq]. |
townhome | a home in town. |
townhouse | a terraced house in an urban area, esp. a fashionable one, often having the main living room on the first floor with an integral garage on the ground floor. |
treehouse | a house built in a tree. |
twigloo | a makeshift shelter. [Coined from twig and igloo]. |
vicarage | the habitation of a vicar. |
villa | a country house or farmhouse with subsidiary buildings; a detached house of some size > VILLAS or VILLAE. |
weem | a subterranean dwelling. [Gaelic uaim, cave]. |
whare | a Maori house. |
wharenui wharepuni | a tall carved building used as a guesthouse > WHARENUIS, WHAREPUNIS. |
wickiup wickyup wikiup | a N. American Indian hut constructed with an oval frame and covered with grass or mats. |
wigwam | a domed tent-like American Indian dwelling. |
wilja wiltja | an Australian Aboriginal shelter or hut. |
woning wonning | a state of dwelling; a dwelling-place. WONNING is OSPD but only as the participle of WON, hence WONNINGS is #. |
wurley wurlie | a nest; an aboriginal hut > WURLEYS, WURLIES. |
xenodochium | a building for the reception of strangers, e.g. a guest-house in a monastery > XENODOCHIUMS. |
yourt yurt | a felt tent used by Mongolians. The pl. of YURT is YURTS or YURTA; of YOURT is YOURTS. |
zanana zenana | in the Indian subcontinent, the part of a house in which high-caste women are or were secluded. |