house centipede vs centipede

house centipede and centipede both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
house centipede	Yes	No	No	No
centipede	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, centipede is a hypernym of house centipede; that is, centipede is a word with a broader meaning than house centipede:

house centipede: long-legged centipede common in damp places as e.g. cellars
centipede: chiefly nocturnal predacious arthropod having a flattened body of 15 to 173 segments each with a pair of legs, the foremost pair being modified as prehensors

house centipede (noun)	centipede (noun)
long-legged centipede common in damp places as e.g. cellars	chiefly nocturnal predacious arthropod having a flattened body of 15 to 173 segments each with a pair of legs, the foremost pair being modified as prehensors