Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
| almonry | the place where an almoner resides, or where alms are distributed. |
| almshouse | a privately supported house offering accommodation to the aged or needy. |
| apartment appartement | a set of rooms in a house for an individual or a family. |
| apartmental | relating to an APARTMENT. |
| aularian | relating to a hall in a university; (noun) a member of a hall (as opposed to a college). |
| backsplit | (Canadian) a house with floors raised half a storey at the rear, having an upper and lower main floor, and an upper and lower basement. |
| banda | in Africa, a thatched hut. |
| barrack | a building or group of buildings used to accommodate military personnel; (verb) to shout at derisively or sarcastically. |
| basti busti | in India, a flimsy hut > BASTIS, BUSTIS. Also BUSTEE. |
| bastide | a French country-house. |
| bedsit | a basic form of rented accommodation. |
| bedsitter | a furnished room without a bed. Also BEDSIT. |
| bhavan bhawan | in India, a large house or building. Also BHAVAN. |
| biding | residence, habitation. |
| biggin bigging | a building. |
| boardinghouse | a private house in which accommodation and meals are provided for paying guests. |
| bothan | a booth, a hut. |
| bothie bothy | a hut, cabin. |
| bungaloid | of or like a bungalow. |
| bungalow | a lightly-built house, properly one with a veranda and one storey. |
| bunkhouse | a place where cowboys etc. sleep. |
| bustee | a flimsy hut, a squatter colony. [Hindi basti]. |
| busti | see BASTI. |
| cabana | a small tent-like cabin. |
| cabin | (verb) to live in a cabin. |
| camboose | a cabin built as living-quarters for a gang of lumbermen. |
| casa | a house, a mansion. |
| casern caserne | a barrack or billet for soldiers. |
| casita | a small house. |
| chalet | a type of wooden house of Swiss origin, typically low, with wide projecting eaves. |
| chateau | a castle > CHATEAUS or CHATEAUX. |
| chickee | a stilt house of the Seminole Indians. |
| condo | short for CONDOMINIUM, a set of flats, group of cottages, etc. rented or bought by a group of people; a unit of property so held > CONDOS or CONDOES. |
| condominium | a set of flats, group of cottages, etc., rented or bought by a group of people; a unit of property so held. |
| cottage | a small simple house, esp. in a rural area. |
| cottaged | covered with cottages. |
| cottagey | like a cottage. |
| dacha datcha | a Russian country house. |
| doghole | a place fit only for dogs; a vile, mean habitation or apartment. |
| domicil | a dwelling-place, abode. Also DOMICILE. |
| domicile | a dwelling-place, abode; (verb) to be resident in. Also DOMICIL. |
| finca | a Spanish villa > FINCAS. |
| flatette | a small flat. |
| flatlet | a small flat. |
| forecourt | a court in front of a building. |
| fourplex | a QUADPLEX, a building having four units. |
| gatehouse | a building over or at a gate. |
| ger | a Mongolian felt tent, aka YURT. |
| guardhouse | a building occupied by people keeping guard. |
| guesthouse | a private home or boarding house offering accommodation, esp. to travellers. |
| gunyah | an Australian aborigine's hut. |
| haram hareem harem harim | a women's quarters in a Muslim house; a set of wives and concubines. |
| hibernacle | that which serves for protection or shelter in winter; winter quarters; as, the hibernacle of an animal or a plant. |
| hibernaculum | the winter quarters of a hibernating animal > HIBERNACULA. |
| highrise | a tall building. |
| hogan | 1. (Am. Ind.) a log hut, usu. covered with earth, built by the Navajo tribe; 2. (Dutch) strong liquor (also HOGEN). |
| hovel | to shelter in a hovel > HOVELED/HOVELLED. |
| humpy | (Aborig.) a bush dwelling of simple construction. [Aborigine yumbi]; (adj.) full of humps > HUMPIER, HUMPIEST. |
| hut | to quarter (troops) in a hut. |
| hutlike | like a hut. |
| hutment | accommodation or lodging in huts; a hutted encampment. |
| igloo iglu | a snow house. [Inupiaq iglu, house]. |
| insula | (Roman antiquity) a block of buildings, an apartment house > INSULAE. |
| isba | a Russian log hut. |
| istana | in Malaysia, a royal palace. |
| jacal | a hut built of erect stakes filled in with wattle and mud, common in Mexico and the south-western US; an adobe house > JACALS or JACALES. [Mex. Sp. f. Nahuatl xacalli contr. of xamitl calli adobe house]. |
| kibitka | a tent used by the Kirghiz Tartars. |
| lanai | a verandah or roofed patio. |
| libken | a place to sleep. |
| lockhouse | a lock-keeper's house. |
| loge | a small enclosure or box in a theatre or opera house. |
| longhouse | a long communal house e.g. in S.E. Asia. |
| maisonette | a part of a residential building which is occupied separately, usu. on more than one floor. |
| mamateek | a type of WIGWAM. |
| manor | the manor house of a lord and the lands attached to it. |
| manse | an ecclesiastical residence; a house allocated to or occupied by a minister, esp. in the Church of Scotland. |
| mansion | a manor-house, a large and stately residence. |
| mansionary mansonry | residence, buildings. |
| marquee | a large tent with open sides for outdoor entertainment; roof over entrance. |
| mas | a house or farm in the south of France > MASES. |
| motherhouse | the convent in which the superior of a religious community resides. |
| oilcamp | a living area for workers at an oil well. |
| orphanage | a place where orphans are housed. |
| outhouse | a small house or building at a little distance from the main house; an outbuilding. |
| palace | the home of a royal personage, bishop etc. |
| palafitte | a prehistoric hut or settlement built on stakes driven into the bed of a lake, esp. in Switzerland or northern Italy; a lake village. [Fr. f. It. palafitta a fence of stakes, f. palo stake + fitto fixed.] |
| palais | a palace. |
| parsonage | the home of a parson. |
| pastorium | the residence of a PASTOR > PASTORIUMS. |
| penthouse | a flat or maisonette built onto the top floor or roof of a block of flats; (verb) to cover or shelter as in a penthouse. |
| playhouse | a child's miniature house for playing in. |
| pondok pondokkie | in South Africa, a small hut, a shack. |
| poorhouse | a place of residence for people too poor to support themselves. |
| praetorium | the court or palace of the governor of a Roman province; transf. an official building, esp. the court or palace of an ancient king > PRAETORIUMS. |
| pueblo | a communistic building erected by certain Indian tribes of Arizona and New Mexico > PUEBLOS. |
| quadplex | a building having four units. |
| quinta | a country house in Spain or Portugal. |
| rancho | a rude hut, as of posts, covered with branches or thatch, where herdsmen or farm laborers may live or lodge at night > RANCHOS. |
| reclusory | the habitation of a recluse; a hermitage. |
| rectory | a minister's or priest's house. |
| resiance | residence; abode. |
| residency | the official residence of a representative of the Governor-General or Viceroy (or formerly of the East India Company) at the court of an Indian State. |
| riad | a traditional Moroccan house or palace with an interior garden. |
| rondavel | in S. Africa, a round hut with a grass roof. [Afrik. rondawel]. |
| schloss | a castle, palace, manor-house. |
| seraglio serail | a harem; a palace of a sultan. |
| serai | a palace; a seraglio; also, in the East, a place for the accommodation of travelers; a caravanserai, or rest house. |
| shack | a roughly built cabin or hut, esp. of logs, metal sheeting, etc. N.B. not valid as a verb, because always appears in expression SHACK UP. |
| shamiana shamianah shamiyanah | in India, a large tent or awning. |
| shealing sheiling shieling | a rough hut near summer pasture used as shelter by shepherds. |
| shed | to house in a shed. |
| skeo skio | a hut, a shed. |
| skilling skillion | an outhouse or lean-to, esp. one with a sloping roof. |
| skyhome | a sub-penthouse flat in a tall building. |
| soddy | (noun) a house built of sod; (adj.) consisting of sod; covered with sod > SODDIER, SODDIEST. |
| soddie | a house built of sod. |
| souterrain | an underground chamber; an earth-house. |
| storehouse | a place where food and other stores are kept. |
| subterrane subterrene | an underground cave or dwelling. |
| succah sukkah | a hut or shelter roofed with branches, used by Jews as a temporary living accommodation during Sukkoth, the Festival of the Tabernacles > SUCCAHS or SUCCOTH; SUKKAHS or SUKKOTH. |
| summerhouse | an outdoor structure for use during the summer. |
| teepee tepee tipi | a Native American tent. [Sioux tipi, dwelling]. |
| tenement | a block of flats. |
| tenemented | possessing TENEMENTS. |
| toft | a homestead; a hillock. |
| topek tupek tupik | an Inuit animal-skin tent. [Inupiaq tupiq]. |
| townhome | a home in town. |
| townhouse | a terraced house in an urban area, esp. a fashionable one, often having the main living room on the first floor with an integral garage on the ground floor. |
| treehouse | a house built in a tree. |
| twigloo | a makeshift shelter. [Coined from twig and igloo]. |
| vicarage | the habitation of a vicar. |
| villa | a country house or farmhouse with subsidiary buildings; a detached house of some size > VILLAS or VILLAE. |
| weem | a subterranean dwelling. [Gaelic uaim, cave]. |
| whare | a Maori house. |
| wharenui wharepuni | a tall carved building used as a guesthouse > WHARENUIS, WHAREPUNIS. |
| wickiup wickyup wikiup | a N. American Indian hut constructed with an oval frame and covered with grass or mats. |
| wigwam | a domed tent-like American Indian dwelling. |
| wilja wiltja | an Australian Aboriginal shelter or hut. |
| woning wonning | a state of dwelling; a dwelling-place. WONNING is OSPD but only as the participle of WON, hence WONNINGS is #. |
| wurley wurlie | a nest; an aboriginal hut > WURLEYS, WURLIES. |
| xenodochium | a building for the reception of strangers, e.g. a guest-house in a monastery > XENODOCHIUMS. |
| yourt yurt | a felt tent used by Mongolians. The pl. of YURT is YURTS or YURTA; of YOURT is YOURTS. |
| zanana zenana | in the Indian subcontinent, the part of a house in which high-caste women are or were secluded. |