packinghouse vs works

packinghouse and works both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
packinghouse	Yes	No	No	No
works	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, works is a hypernym of packinghouse; that is, works is a word with a broader meaning than packinghouse:

packinghouse: a plant where livestock are slaughtered and processed and packed as meat products
works: buildings for carrying on industrial labor

Other hypernyms of packinghouse include industrial plant, plant.

packinghouse (noun)	works (noun)
a plant where livestock are slaughtered and processed and packed as meat products	performance of moral or religious acts
a building where foodstuffs are processed and packed	the internal mechanism of a device
	buildings for carrying on industrial labor
	everything available; usually preceded by `the'