Household & Kitchen for Hangman 🏠

Clues for every answer

A one-line clue for every answer, easy to hard. They're the same clues the game's 💡 Hint shows, so you can read them out when you run your own game.

Spoon

Piece of cutlery with a shallow bowl at the end of a handle; it is also used to measure and stir.

Fork

Piece of cutlery whose head branches into narrow prongs, used to spear food or lift it to the mouth.

Plate

Broad, mainly flat dish for serving and eating food; most are round, and the edges are usually raised.

Bowl

Typically round dish with a curved inside, especially good for holding liquids and loose food.

Pan

Wide, flat container used around the house, especially for cooking food in.

Sink

Bowl-shaped plumbing fitting with a tap and a drain, for washing hands and dishes.

Door

Movable barrier, usually on hinges, that lets you in and out of a room, building or vehicle.

Chair

Seat typically made for one person, with one or more legs, a flat seat and a back rest.

Table

Furniture with a raised flat top, usually on four legs, used for working, eating or putting things on.

Sofa

Cushioned seat for several people, commonly with padded armrests; also called a settee or couch.

Lamp

Piece of furniture holding one or more electric light sockets; one often sits on a bedside table.

Mug

Type of cup with a handle, usually for hot drinks, and usually holding more than a teacup.

Cup

Small container for holding drinks, normally lifted to the mouth; they often have a handle.

Bed

Piece of furniture for sleeping and resting on; most modern ones have a soft mattress on a frame.

Rug

Partial covering for a floor; in the UK it can also mean a blanket, usually a thick one.

Bin

Container for rubbish, usually metal or plastic; in America it is often called a trash can.

Tap

Valve that lets water into a sink or bath; in the US the most common word for it is faucet.

Oven

Heated hollow chamber, often used for cooking, usually baking; ones for pottery may be called kilns.

Clock

Device that measures and displays time; it is one of the oldest human inventions.

Shelf

Flat, raised surface, often fixed to a wall with brackets, for storing or displaying things.

Kettle

Device for boiling water, commonly with a lid, spout and handle; modern electric ones switch off at the boil.

Saucepan

One of the basic cooking pots: round, fairly deep, with a single long handle sticking out.

Cupboard

Furniture that encloses crockery or groceries stored at home; it began as an open-shelved side table.

Fridge

Short everyday name for the cold, insulated kitchen appliance; the chill slows bacteria that spoil food.

Toaster

Small electric appliance that browns sliced bread; an early one, the Eclipse, was made in Essex in 1893.

Blender

Appliance whose spinning blade mixes, crushes or purées food; British English sometimes calls it a liquidiser.

Drawer

Box-shaped container inside furniture such as a desk, pulled out horizontally to reach its contents.

Curtain

Piece of cloth often hung inside a window to block light, for instance at night or for privacy.

Mirror

Object that reflects an image, also called a looking glass; modern ones often have a thin metal coat on glass.

Cushion

Soft bag usually stuffed with wool, feathers or polyester, used to sit on or to soften a chair.

Whisk

Utensil, most often a long handle with wire loops at the end, commonly used to whip egg whites or cream.

Colander

Kitchen utensil full of holes for draining pasta or rinsing vegetables; a sieve's mesh is much finer.

Teapot

Vessel, usually with a lid, handle and spout, for steeping leaves in boiling or near-boiling water and pouring.

Doormat

Usually tough, rectangular piece by a house entrance for wiping your shoes; it may show a greeting.

Ironing Board

Surface for pressing creases out of clothes; a portable folding one was patented in Canada in 1875.

Dustpan

Cleaning tool like a flat scoop, commonly used with a broom or brush to collect what you sweep.

Bookcase

Piece of furniture with horizontal shelves for printed materials; it may have glass doors to keep out dust.

Freezer

Cold appliance, or a section of a fridge, keeping food below the temperature at which water turns to ice.

Ladle

Large, deep spoon often used to serve soup or stew; its long handle ends in a deep bowl.

Grater

Kitchen tool that shreds foods like cheese and vegetables into fine pieces; box-shaped ones are most common.

Refrigerator

Full name of the kitchen appliance kept a few degrees above freezing; the first electric home ones came in 1913.

Dishwasher

Machine that cleans plates and cutlery with sprays of hot water; Josephine Cochrane co-invented one in 1886.

Microwave

Oven that heats food quickly with radiation; Percy Spencer is generally credited with the first commercial one.

Wardrobe

Standing furniture for storing clothes; modern ones have hanging space, sliding shelves and drawers.

Chandelier

Decorative light hung from the ceiling, typically with branching arms; they were first made to hold candles.

Spatula

Broad, flat, flexible blade used to mix, spread and lift things, including food.

Casserole

Large, deep pan or dish for cooking in the oven; the food cooked in it has the same name.

Thermostat

Device that senses temperature and keeps it near a chosen setting, as in central heating.

Radiator

Heat exchanger for warming a room; hot-water ones are hollow metal containers filled from a boiler or other heater.

Mattress

Large, usually rectangular pad for sleeping on, filled with things like foam, cotton or metal springs.

Tureen

Serving dish for soup or stew, often a broad, deep oval with handles and a low domed lid.

Sieve

Tool with a fine mesh, used in cooking to break up lumps in flour or to strain bits out of a liquid.

Tumble Dryer

Household appliance that removes moisture from washed clothes, often by turning them in a drum of heated air.

Extractor Fan

Fan, for example inside a hood above the cooker, that removes grease, smoke, fumes and steam from the air.

Pestle And Mortar

Two simple tools, a bowl plus a blunt club-shaped pounder, used in cooking to crush spices.

Airing Cupboard

Built-in storage space with a water heater or hot water tank, with shelves around it to keep clothes dry.

Washing Machine

Home appliance that uses electricity, water and detergent to clean clothes; the first automatic one came in 1937.

Potato Masher

Utensil whose head is most often zig-zag wire or a holed plate, for crushing soft food in dishes like apple sauce.

Extension Lead

Length of flexible power cable with a plug at one end and one or more sockets at the other.

Corkscrew

Tool for pulling stoppers out of bottles; the traditional kind is a pointed metal spiral on a handle.