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"householder" is also used as a crossword clue. If that's what you saw, the answer is often homeowner (9 letters).
Definitions
someone who owns a home
Word origin
From Middle English housholdere, equivalent to household + -er. The Buddhist sense is a semantic loan from Pali gahapati (literally “house-master”).
Used in a sentence
“towns in which almost every householder was an English Protestant”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Homeowner”11 letters
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