noun. A place where animals are butchered.

noun. A scene of massacre or carnage.

noun. A house or place where animals are butchered for the market; an abattoir; hence, figuratively, the scene of a massacre; the scene of any great destruction of human life.

noun. A house where beasts are butchered for the market.

noun. A place where animals are slaughtered.

noun. The scene of a massacre.

noun. a building where animals are butchered

"DAVIES (voice-over): The assault is entering a new, highly sensitive stage, but as it does so, Iraqi forces fighting alongside the Marines say in a newly captured building they found what they call a slaughterhouse used for holding hostages."

slaughter-house cases  

slaughter  slaughterer  slaughterous  

building  edifice  

ayuntamiento  bath-house  breakfast-hour  brewery  brewhouse  

abattoir  butchery  shambles