Pesthouse

Definition: Pesthouse

1. Hospital for persons with infectious diseases (especially leprosy).

Date "pesthouse" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1677. (references)

Synonyms: lazar house (n), lazaret (n), lazarette (n), lazaretto (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Remedy	Hospital, infirmary; pesthouse, lazarhouse; lazaretto; lock hospital; maison de sante; ambulance.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Language		Translations for "pesthouse"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		spital infektiv (isolation hospital). (various references)

Pig Latin		esthousepay
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "pesthouse": pesthouses. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-e-h-o-p-s-s-t-u"
	-1 letter: heptoses.
	-2 letters: espouse, ethoses, heptose, outsees, poetess, poshest, toupees, upshots.
	-3 letters: eposes, estops, houses, opuses, ouphes, outsee, pestos, posset, ptoses, pushes, setose, setous, setups, sheets, shotes, shouts, shutes, souths, spouse, spouts, steeps, stopes, stoups, stupes, theses, topees, tophes, tophus, toshes, tossup, toupee, touses, tushes, tusseh, upsets, upshot, uptoss.
	-4 letters: estop, ethos, hests, hopes, hoses.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-h-o-p-s-s-t-u"
	+1 letter: penthouses, pesthouses.
	+2 letters: hypotenuses.
	+3 letters: houseparents, hypothenuses, porterhouses, reupholsters, upholsterers, upholsteries.
	+4 letters: emphysematous, executorships, heterosporous, housepainters, urethroscopes.
	+5 letters: exophthalmuses, superphosphate.
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