Council
(n.) An assembly of men summoned or convened for consultation, deliberation, or advice |
Council
(n.) A body of man elected or appointed to constitute an advisory or a legislative assembly |
Council
(n.) Act of deliberating |
Flat
(superl.) Having an even and horizontal surface, or nearly so, without prominences or depressions |
Flat
(superl.) Lying at full length, or spread out, upon the ground |
Flat
(superl.) Wanting relief |
Flat
(superl.) Tasteless |
Flat
(superl.) Unanimated |
Flat
(superl.) Lacking liveliness of commercial exchange and dealings |
Flat
(superl.) Clear |
Flat
(superl.) Below the true pitch |
Flat
(superl.) Not sharp or shrill |
Flat
(superl.) Sonant |
Flat
(adv.) In a flat manner |
Flat
(adv.) Without allowance for accrued interest. |
Flat
(n.) A level surface, without elevation, relief, or prominences |
Flat
(n.) A level tract lying at little depth below the surface of water, or alternately covered and left bare by the tide |
Flat
(n.) Something broad and flat in form |
Flat
(n.) A flat-bottomed boat, without keel, and of small draught. |
Flat
(n.) A straw hat, broad-brimmed and low-crowned. |
Flat
(n.) A car without a roof, the body of which is a platform without sides |
Flat
(n.) A platform on wheel, upon which emblematic designs, etc., are carried in processions. |
Flat
(n.) The flat part, or side, of anything |
Flat
(n.) A floor, loft, or story in a building |
Flat
(n.) A horizontal vein or ore deposit auxiliary to a main vein |
Flat
(n.) A dull fellow |
Flat
(n.) A character [/] before a note, indicating a tone which is a half step or semitone lower. |
Flat
(n.) A homaloid space or extension. |
Flat
(v. t.) To make flat |
Flat
(v. t.) To render dull, insipid, or spiritless |
Flat
(v. t.) To depress in tone, as a musical note |
Flat
(v. i.) To become flat, or flattened |
Flat
(v. i.) To fall form the pitch. |
Flat-bottomed
(a.) Having an even lower surface or bottom |
Flat-cap
(n.) A kind of low-crowned cap formerly worn by all classes in England, and continued in London after disuse elsewhere |
Flat foot
() A foot in which the arch of the instep is flattened so that the entire sole of the foot rests upon the ground |
Flat-footed
(a.) Having a flat foot, with little or no arch of the instep. |
Flat-footed
(a.) Firm-footed |
Flat-headed
(a.) Having a head with a flattened top |
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. |
whole
unit | an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity, how big is that part compared to the whole?, the team is a unit |
| housing start | the act of starting to construct a house |
| 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 |
| Secretary of Housing and Urban Development | the position of the head of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the position of Secretary of Housing and Urban Development was created in |
| 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 |
apartment
flat | a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house |
apartment building
apartment house | a building that is divided into apartments |
apiary
bee house | a shed containing a number of beehives |
| 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 |
B-flat clarinet
licorice stick | the ordinary clarinet with a middle range |
boarding house
boardinghouse | a private house that provides accommodations and meals for paying guests |
boardroom
council chamber | a room where a committee meets (such as the board of directors of a company) |
booster booster rocket
booster unit
takeoff booster
takeoff rocket | the first stage of a multistage rocket |
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 |
Bunker Buster
Guided Bomb Unit-
GBU- | a , pound laser-guided bomb that can be programmed to penetrate to a given depth before exploding, used to penetrate hardened underground facilities |
caparison
trapping housing | stable gear consisting of a decorated covering for a horse, especially (formerly) for a warhorse |
central processing unit
CPU
C.P.U.
central processor
processor
mainframe | (computer science) the part of a computer (a microprocessor chip) that does most of the data processing, the CPU and the memory form the central part of a computer to which the peripherals are attached |
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 |
cloth cap
flat cap | a flat woolen cap with a stiff peak |
coach house
carriage house
remise | a small building for housing coaches and carriages and other vehicles |
| coal house | a shed for storing coal |
| cold-water flat | an apartment without modern conveniences |
conference center
conference house | a center where conferences can be conducted |
conference table
council table
council board | the table that conferees sit around as they hold a meeting |
| coulisse wing flat | a flat situated in the wings |
| 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) |
discount house
discount store
discounter
wholesale house | a sales outlet offering goods at a discounted price |
| distributor housing | the housing that supports the distributor cam |
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 |