Air engine
() An engine driven by heated or by compressed air. |
Engine
(n.) (Pronounced, in this sense, ////.) Natural capacity |
Engine
(n.) Anything used to effect a purpose |
Engine
(n.) Any instrument by which any effect is produced |
Engine
(n.) A compound machine by which any physical power is applied to produce a given physical effect. |
Engine
(v. t.) To assault with an engine. |
Engine
(v. t.) To equip with an engine |
Engine
(v. t.) (Pronounced, in this sense, /////.) To rack |
Engine-sized
(a.) Sized by a machine, and not while in the pulp |
House
(n.) A structure intended or used as a habitation or shelter for animals of any kind |
House
(n.) Household affairs |
House
(n.) Those who dwell in the same house |
House
(n.) A family of ancestors, descendants, and kindred |
House
(n.) One of the estates of a kingdom or other government assembled in parliament or legislature |
House
(n.) A firm, or commercial establishment. |
House
(n.) A public house |
House
(n.) A twelfth part of the heavens, as divided by six circles intersecting at the north and south points of the horizon, used by astrologers in noting the positions of the heavenly bodies, and casting horoscopes or nativities. The houses were regarded as fixed in respect to the horizon, and numbered from the one at the eastern horizon, called the ascendant, first house, or house of life, downward, or in the direction of the earth's revolution, the stars and planets passing through them in the reverse order every twenty-four hours. |
House
(n.) A square on a chessboard, regarded as the proper place of a piece. |
House
(n.) An audience |
House
(n.) The body, as the habitation of the soul. |
House
(n.) The grave. |
House
(v. t.) To take or put into a house |
House
(v. t.) To drive to a shelter. |
House
(v. t.) To admit to residence |
House
(v. t.) To deposit and cover, as in the grave. |
House
(v. t.) To stow in a safe place |
House
(v. i.) To take shelter or lodging |
House
(v. i.) To have a position in one of the houses. See House, n., 8. |
Lombard-house
(n.) Alt. of Lombar-house |
Lombar-house
(n.) A bank or a pawnbroker's shop. |
Lombar-house
(n.) A public institution for lending money to the poor at a moderate interest, upon articles deposited and pledged |
Moot-house
(n.) A hall for public meetings |
Railway
(n.) A road or way consisting of one or more parallel series of iron or steel rails, patterned and adjusted to be tracks for the wheels of vehicles, and suitably supported on a bed or substructure. |
Railway
(n.) The road, track, etc., with all the lands, buildings, rolling stock, franchises, etc., pertaining to them and constituting one property |
Shed
(n.) A slight or temporary structure built to shade or shelter something |
Shed
(imp. & p. p.) of Shed |
Shed
(v. t.) To separate |
Shed
(v. t.) To part with |
Shed
(v. t.) To let fall |
Shed
(v. t.) To cause to flow off without penetrating |
Shed
(v. t.) To sprinkle |
Shed
(v. t.) To divide, as the warp threads, so as to form a shed, or passageway, for the shuttle. |
Shed
(v. i.) To fall in drops |
Shed
(v. i.) To let fall the parts, as seeds or fruit |
Shed
(n.) A parting |
Shed
(n.) The act of shedding or spilling |
Shed
(n.) That which parts, divides, or sheds |
Shed
(n.) The passageway between the threads of the warp through which the shuttle is thrown, having a sloping top and bottom made by raising and lowering the alternate threads. |
Steam engine
() An engine moved by steam. |
Sugar-house
(n.) A building in which sugar is made or refined |
Underground Railroad
Underground Railway | secret aid to escaping slaves that was provided by abolitionists in the years before the American Civil War |
| house | play in which children take the roles of father or mother or children and pretend to interact like adults, the children were playing house |
| painting house painting | the occupation of a house painter, house painting was the only craft he knew |
| house arrest | confinement to your own home |
Monmouth Court House
Battle of Monmouth Court House
Battle of Monmouth | a pitched battle in New Jersey during the American Revolution () that ended with the withdrawal of British forces |
house finch
linnet Carpodacus mexicanus | small finch originally of the western United States and Mexico |
English sparrow
house sparrow
Passer domesticus | small hardy brown-and-grey bird native to Europe |
house wren
Troglodytes aedon | common American wren that nests around houses |
house martin
Delichon urbica | common small European martin that builds nests under the eaves of houses |
milk snake
house snake
milk adder
checkered adder
Lampropeltis triangulum | nonvenomous tan and brown king snake with an arrow-shaped occipital spot, southeastern ones have red stripes like coral snakes |
house centipede
Scutigera coleoptrata | long-legged centipede common in damp places as e.g. cellars |
domestic cat
house cat
Felis domesticus
Felis catus | any domesticated member of the genus Felis |
housefly
house fly
Musca domestica | common fly that frequents human habitations and spreads many diseases |
European house cricket
Acheta domestica | lives in human dwellings, naturalized in parts of America |
house mouse
Mus musculus | brownish-grey Old World mouse now a common household pest worldwide |
| aircraft engine | the engine that powers and aircraft |
airdock
hangar
repair shed | a large structure at an airport where aircraft can be stored and maintained |
apartment building
apartment house | a building that is divided into apartments |
apiary
bee house | a shed containing a number of beehives |
| automobile engine | the engine that propels an automobile |
auxiliary engine
donkey engine | (nautical) a small engine (as one used on board ships to operate a windlass) |
| beach house | a house built on or near a beach |
c Bedlam
booby hatch
crazy house
cuckoo's nest
funny farm
funny house
loony bin
madhouse
nut house
nuthouse
sanatorium snake pit | pejorative terms for an insane asylum |
boarding house
boardinghouse | a private house that provides accommodations and meals for paying guests |
brokerage house
brokerage | place where a broker conducts his business |
building supply store
building supply house | a store where builders can purchase materials for building houses and related structures |
cable railway
funicular
funicular railway | a railway up the side of a mountain pulled by a moving cable and having counterbalancing ascending and descending cars |
car railcar
railway car
railroad car | a wheeled vehicle adapted to the rails of railroad, three cars had jumped the rails |
chapterhouse
fraternity house
frat house | a house used as a residence by a chapter of a fraternity |
charnel house
charnel | a vault or building where corpses or bones are deposited |
cinema
movie theater
movie theatre
movie house
picture palace | a theater where films are shown |
coach house
carriage house
remise | a small building for housing coaches and carriages and other vehicles |
| coal house | a shed for storing coal |
cog railway
rack railway | railway for steep mountains, a cogwheel on the locomotive engages cogs on a center rail to provide traction |
conference center
conference house | a center where conferences can be conducted |
| cooling system engine cooling system | equipment in a motor vehicle that cools the engine |
| country house | a house (usually large and impressive) on an estate in the country |
death house
death row | the cellblock in a prison where those condemned to death await execution |
| deck-house | a superstructure on the upper deck of a ship |
detached house
single dwelling | a house that stands alone |
detention home
detention house
house of detention
detention camp | an institution where juvenile offenders can be held temporarily (usually under the supervision of a juvenile court) |
diesel
diesel engine
diesel motor | an internalombustion engine that burns heavy oil |
discount house
discount store
discounter
wholesale house | a sales outlet offering goods at a discounted price |
dollhouse
doll's house | a small model of a house used as a toy by children |
| dollhouse doll's house | a house so small that it is likened to a child's plaything |
duplex house
duplex semidetached house | a house with two units sharing a common wall |
dwelling
home
domicile
abode
habitation
dwelling house | housing that someone is living in, he built a modest dwelling near the pond, they raise money to provide homes for the homeless |
elevated railway
elevated railroad
elevated
el
overhead railway | a railway that is powered by electricity and that runs on a track that is raised above the street level |
| engine | motor that converts thermal energy to mechanical work |
| engine | an instrument or machine that is used in warfare, such as a battering ram, catapult, artillery piece, etc., medieval engines of war |