housing

housing is a 7-letter English word with 14 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: of House. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 13 · 14 senses

Definitions

1. present participle. of House
2. noun. The act of putting or receiving under shelter; the state of dwelling in a habitation.
3. noun. That which shelters or covers; houses, taken collectively.
4. noun. The space taken out of one solid, to admit the insertion of part of another, as the end of one timber in the side of another.
5. noun. A niche for a statue.
6. noun. A frame or support for holding something in place, as journal boxes, etc.
7. noun. That portion of a mast or bowsprit which is beneath the deck or within the vessel.
8. noun. A covering or protection, as an awning over the deck of a ship when laid up.
9. noun. A houseline. See Houseline.
10. noun. A cover or cloth for a horse's saddle, as an ornamental or military appendage; a saddlecloth; a horse cloth; in plural, trappings.
11. noun. An appendage to the hames or collar of a harness.
12. noun. stable gear consisting of a decorated covering for a horse, especially (formerly) for a warhorse

    Synonyms: caparison, trapping

13. noun. structures collectively in which people are housed

    Synonyms: lodging

14. noun. a protective cover designed to contain or support a mechanical component

Synonyms

caparison, trapping, lodging

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in housing:

hugonis

Common word forms

house, housings

Words from these letters

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