Words containing hous

Adelphous means: Having coalescent or clustered filaments; -- said of stamens; as, adelphous stamens. Usually in composition; as, monadelphous.

Alehouse means: A house where ale is retailed; hence, a tippling house.

Almshouse means: A house appropriated for the use of the poor; a poorhouse.

Amorphous means: Having no determinate form; of irregular; shapeless.

Amorphous means: Without crystallization in the ultimate texture of a solid substance; uncrystallized.

Amorphous means: Of no particular kind or character; anomalous.

Anacanthous means: Spineless, as certain fishes.

Ananthous means: Destitute of flowers; flowerless.

Anthropomorphous means: Having the figure of, or resemblance to, a man; as, an anthropomorphous plant.

Antipathous means: Having a natural contrariety; adverse; antipathetic.

Zythum means: A kind of ancient malt beverage; a liquor made from malt and wheat.

Zythepsary means: A brewery.

Zythem means: See Zythum.

Zymotic means: Designating, or pertaining to, a certain class of diseases. See Zymotic disease, below.

Zymotic means: Of, pertaining to, or caused by, fermentation.

Zymosis means: A zymotic disease.

Zymosis means: A fermentation; hence, an analogous process by which an infectious disease is believed to be developed.

Zymose means: Invertin.

Zymophyte means: A bacteroid ferment.

Zymosimeter means: An instrument for ascertaining the degree of fermentation occasioned by the mixture of different liquids, and the degree of heat which they acquire in fermentation.