house spider noun 11forms 1 noun11 •Any spider or kind of spider that dwells in human residences. •yellow sac spider, Cheiracanthium inclusum, a common house spider worldwide. •black house spider, Badumna insignis, an Australian spider also found in New Zealand; •brown house spider, Steatoda grossa, a spider with cosmopolitan distribution; •American house spider, Parasteatoda tepidariorum, a cobweb spider; •daddy long-legs spiders, of the Pholcidae family; •domestic house spider, Tegenaria domestica; •giant house spider, Eratigena atrica, syn. Tegenaria gigantea; •hobo spider, Tegenaria agrestis, aggressive house spider; •southern house spider, Kukulcania hibernalis; •tiny house spider, Oonops domesticus formshouse spiders