Home › Words › P › pumphousepumphouse/ˈpʌmpˌhaʊs/pumphouse means A building containing pumping equipment; thus.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, pumphouse ranks #1,799 of 42,752 for Qualifying.pumphouse is pronounced /ˈpʌmpˌhaʊs/.EtymologyFrom pump + house.nounA building containing pumping equipment; thuse.g.“On many farms the early milkhouse and pumphouse were one. Most farmers during the latter part of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries with a herd of milk cows had a milkhouse.” — 1972, Amos Long, The Pennsylvania German family farm:A building containing pumping equipment; thus:; A building containing pumping equipment to fill a canal.A building containing pumping equipment; thus:; A building containing pumping equipment to provide the water supply on a farm (from a well, spring, creek, or pond).Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.boilerhouse 64% match — A building containing a boiler. vs pumphouse →powerhouse 63% match — A power station; the building housing a power station vs pumphouse →hydropump 63% match — A hydraulic pump. vs pumphouse →windpump 62% match — A structure somewhat like a windmill for pumping water, either for drainage or for irrigation vs pumphouse →pumping 57% match — The act by which something is pumped. vs pumphouse →pumper 57% match — One who pumps something. vs pumphouse →pumpjack 56% match — The ground-based drive for a submerged pump in an oil borehole. vs pumphouse →pumpless 55% match — Without a pump. vs pumphouse →