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Henhouses
Henhouse Hen"house`, n.; pl. Henhouses. A house or shelter for fowls.
Lighthouses
Lighthouse Light"house` (-hous`), n.; pl.Lighthouses (-houz`[e^]z). A tower or other building with a powerful light at top, erected at the entrance of a port, or at some important point on a coast, to serve as a guide to mariners at night; a pharos.
Summerhouses
Summerhouse Sum"mer*house`, n.; pl. Summerhouses. A rustic house or apartment in a garden or park, to be used as a pleasure resort in summer. --Shak.
Tollhouses
Tollhouse Toll"house`, n.; pl. Tollhouses. A house occupied by a receiver of tolls.
Warehouses
Warehouse Ware"house`, n.; pl. Warehouses. A storehouse for wares, or goods. --Addison.
Watchhouses
Watchhouse Watch"house`, n.; pl. Watchhouses. 1. A house in which a watch or guard is placed. 2. A place where persons under temporary arrest by the police of a city are kept; a police station; a lockup.
Weigh-houses
Weigh-house Weigh"-house`, n.; pl. Weigh-houses. A building at or within which goods, and the like, are weighed.
Workhouses
Workhouse Work"house`, n.; pl. Workhouses. [AS. weorch?s.] 1. A house where any manufacture is carried on; a workshop. 2. A house in which idle and vicious persons are confined to labor. 3. A house where the town poor are maintained at public expense, and provided with labor; a poorhouse.

Meaning of HOUSES from wikipedia

- conditioning systems. Houses use a range of different roofing systems to keep precipitation such as rain from getting into the dwelling space. Houses generally have...
- of houses whose positions depend on time and location rather than on date. In Hindu astrological tradition these are known as Bhāvas. The houses of the...
- it was first presented in London. "Walker Brothers Cowboy" "The Shining Houses" "Images" "Thanks for the Ride" "The Office" "An Ounce of Cure" "The Time...
- listing below comprises some of the more prominent houses of Champagne. Most of the major houses are members of the organisation Union de Maisons de...
- the Case Study Houses. Cambridge: MIT Press. ISBN 978-0262692137. Smith, Elizabeth and Peter Goessel (12 January 2002). Case Study Houses: The Complete...
- Land and Houses Public Company Limited (also known as Land and Houses) is a large real-estate based company in Thailand. It was established in 1983 by...
- to be as full a list as possible of country houses, castles, palaces, other stately homes, and manor houses in the United Kingdom and the Channel Islands;...
- in these country houses, having functional antecedents in manor houses. With large numbers of indoor and outdoor staff, country houses were important as...
- that distinguished them from private houses to make them stand out from the competition. Many existing public houses were also redeveloped at this time...
- London, England. It is commonly called the Houses of Parliament after the House of Commons and the House of Lords, the two legislative chambers which...