house fire
noun
1A fire which burns down or damages a house.
2A fire lit in a house, usually in a grate or fireplace, for warmth, cooking, etc.
Origin
Late 16th century; earliest use found in Edmund Spenser (?1552–1599), poet and administrator in Ireland.
- the upper crust
- the Upper House
- the Urals
- theurgic
- theurgical
- theurgist
- theurgy
- the very idea!
- the very same
- the villain of the piece
- the Virgin Birth
- the Virgin Queen
- the Visitation
- thew
- the Wain
- the Wall
- the Wallabies
- the watches of the night
- the water of life
- the way of the Cross
- the way of the world
- the weaker sex
- the weakest link
- the Web
- thewed