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8-letter words that end in sh

  • kelpfish — any of several blennies that are common among kelp. Compare kelp greenling.
  • keysmash — a random string of letters and symbols typed out on a keyboard or touchscreen, used to signal intense emotion in written communication: The photo of the actor was accompanied by a heartfelt keysmash.
  • kingfish — any of several marine food fishes of the drum family, especially of the genus Menticirrhus, found off the E coast of the U.S.
  • knackish — cunning or artful
  • kourbash — to whip with a kurbash.
  • ladyfish — a game fish, Elops saurus, of warm seas, closely related to but smaller than the tarpon.
  • landwash — the foreshore, especially that part between high and low tidemarks.
  • languish — to be or become weak or feeble; droop; fade.
  • lightish — rather light in weight.
  • limewash — A mixture of slaked lime in water.
  • lionfish — a brightly striped scorpionfish of the genus Pterois, especially P. volitans, of the Indo-Pacific region, having long, flamboyant, venomous spiny fins.
  • littlish — rather small
  • liverish — resembling liver, especially in color.
  • lumpfish — any of several thick-bodied, sluggish fishes of the family Cyclopteridae, found in northern seas, having the pelvic fins modified and united into a sucking disk, especially Cyclopterus lumpus, of the North Atlantic.
  • lungfish — any of various slender, air-breathing fishes of the order (or subclass) Dipnoi, of rivers and lakes in Africa, South America, and Australia, having a lunglike air bladder as well as gills and growing to a length of 3 to 6 feet (0.9 to 1.8 meters).
  • macleish — Archibald, 1892–1982, U.S. poet and dramatist.
  • mcintosh — a variety of red apple that ripens in early autumn.
  • milkfish — a herringlike fish, Chanos chanos, of warm ocean waters in southeastern Asia.
  • minidish — A minidish is a small satellite dish that can receive signals from communications satellites for media such as television programmes and the Internet.
  • mishmash — a confused mess; hodgepodge; jumble.
  • mishmosh — a confused mess; hodgepodge; jumble.
  • monkfish — angler (def 3).
  • moonfish — Also called horsefish, horsehead. any of several silvery marine fishes of the genus Selene, having a very compressed body and inhabiting shallow coastal waters.
  • musquash — Chiefly British. the fur of the muskrat.
  • mut dash — a dash equal in length to one side of an em quad; em dash.
  • nannyish — Like a nanny; tending to coddle.
  • ninnyish — Silly; foolish.
  • nohowish — lacking distinctiveness
  • novelish — (esp of a name or a person) characteristic of a novel; having qualities like those of a character or scene in a novel; fanciful; romantic
  • nucflash — a report of highest precedence notifying the president, secretary of defense, or their deputies of an accidental or unauthorized nuclear-weapon launch or of a nuclear attack.
  • numbfish — an electric ray, so called from its power of numbing its prey by means of electric shocks.
  • nut dash — a dash equal in length to the width of an en quad; en dash.
  • octopush — the game of underwater hockey, in which two teams attempt to push a weighted object along the floor of a swimming pool
  • orangish — resembling or suggesting an orange, as in taste, appearance, or color: decorated with orangy-pink flowers.
  • outblush — to blush more than or to exceed in rosy colour
  • outflash — a brief, sudden burst of bright light: a flash of lightning.
  • outflush — a burst of emotion
  • overfish — to fish (an area) excessively; to exhaust the supply of usable fish in (certain waters): Scientists are concerned that fishing boats may overfish our coastal waters.
  • overlush — excessively lush
  • overrash — too rash
  • overwash — the act of washing over something
  • pearlash — commercial potassium carbonate.
  • pie dish — a shallow dish that you cook pies in
  • pipefish — any elongated, marine and sometimes freshwater fish species of the family Syngnathidae, having a tubular snout and covered with bony plates.
  • pixieish — a fairy or sprite, especially a mischievous one.
  • plainish — rather ordinary-looking
  • plumpish — somewhat plump; tending to plumpness.
  • pokerish — resembling a poker in stiffness
  • polglish — informal Polish containing a high proportion of words of English origin
  • porkfish — a black and gold grunt, Anisotremus virginicus, of West Indian waters.
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