Definitions for hothouse

hothouse hot·house

Spelling: [hot-hous]
IPA: /ˈhɒtˌhaʊs/

Hothouse is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 139 anagrams from letters in hothouse (ehhoostu).

Definitions for hothouse

noun

  1. an artificially heated greenhouse for the cultivation of tender plants.

adjective

  1. of, relating to, or noting a plant grown in a hothouse, or so fragile as to be capable of being grown only in a hothouse.
  2. overprotected, artificial, or unnaturally delicate.

Origin of hothouse

First recorded in 1505-15; hot + house

Examples for hothouse

All the stock of hothouse and stove plants at Hartwell Priory.

If Saudi Arabia is a hothouse flower, then Americans have helped build the greenhouse.

She always looked like a hothouse flower, and now she is simply frail.

No; it is still the spirits' home—a hothouse for sickly plants.

It is as hot as fire here, and the park has that steamy smell that a hothouse has.

Outside the hothouse of that environment, he is making sense—though his is a message that many conservatives may not want to hear.

It is with the Hindu mind as if a seed were placed in a hothouse.

As in a hothouse, a marvellous vegetation flourished in the carcass.

Just imagine, hothouse strawberries at one and sixpence a basket!

hothouse by Boris Kachka A romp through the history of venerable publisher Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.

Word Value for hothouse
Scrable

14

Words with friends

13

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