10 letters · 19 points in Scrabble
noun a building where prostitutes are available
originFrom Middle English horehous, equivalent to whore + house. Cognate with Dutch hoerenhuis (“whorehouse”), German Hurenhaus (“whorehouse”), Danish horehus (“whorehouse”), Swedish horhus (“whorehouse”), Icelandic hóruhús (“whorehouse; brothel”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0