houseclean vs clean up

houseclean and clean up both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
houseclean	No	No	Yes	No
clean up	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, clean up is a hypernym of houseclean; that is, clean up is a word with a broader meaning than houseclean:

Other hypernyms of houseclean include neaten, square away, straighten, straighten out, tidy, tidy up.

houseclean (verb)	clean up (verb)
clean and tidy up the house	make oneself clean, presentable or neat
	put (things or places) in order
	finish attending to
	make a big profit; often in a short period of time