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"hospitable" is also used as a crossword clue. If that's what you saw, the answer is often welcoming (9 letters).
Definitions
favorable to life and growth
Word origin
Borrowed from Middle French hospitable, formed from the root of Latin hospitare with the suffix -able. Displaced native Old English cumlīþe (literally “guest-gentle”).
Used in a sentence
“hospitable family”
“"And you come, brother," said Mr. Wegg, in a hospitable glow, "you come like I don't know what—exactly like it—I shouldn't know you from it—shedding a halo all around you."”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Welcoming”10 letters
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