8-letter words containing s, h, e, f
- houseful — as many as a house will accommodate: a houseful of weekend guests.
- ice fish — any percoid fish of the family Chaenichthyidae, of Antarctic seas, having a semitransparent scaleless body
- kelpfish — any of several blennies that are common among kelp. Compare kelp greenling.
- mischief — conduct or activity that playfully causes petty annoyance.
- offshore — off or away from the shore: They pushed the boat offshore.
- on-shelf — On-shelf goods are available now and displayed for sale.
- 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.
- pipefish — any elongated, marine and sometimes freshwater fish species of the family Syngnathidae, having a tubular snout and covered with bony plates.
- redshift — a shift toward longer wavelengths of the spectral lines emitted by a celestial object that is caused by the object moving away from the earth.
- reeffish — any of several damselfishes, as Chromis insolatus, that live among reefs.
- refinish — to give a new surface to (wood, furniture, etc.).
- rosefish — redfish (def 1).
- sea fish — a fish that lives in salt water
- selfheal — a plant, Prunella vulgaris, of the mint family, having pinnate leaves and tubular violet-blue flowers, formerly believed to have healing properties.
- selfhood — the state of being an individual person; individuality.
- shameful — causing shame: shameful behavior.
- she-wolf — a female wolf.
- sheefish — inconnu (def 2).
- shelfful — an amount adequate to fill a shelf: They buy canned goods by the shelfful.
- shellful — the amount held in a shell; the amount needed to fill a shell; a small amount
- sherriff — Robert Cedric, 1896–1975, English playwright and novelist.
- shinleaf — a North American plant, Pyrola elliptica, having leaves used formerly for shinplasters.
- shuffler — a person who shuffles.
- softhead — a half-witted or silly person
- subchief — a chief below the main chief
- the fens — a flat low-lying area of E England, west and south of the Wash: consisted of marshes until reclaimed in the 17th to 19th centuries
- the self — that which is essential to an individual, esp the mind or soul in Cartesian metaphysics; the ego
- themself — Themself is sometimes used instead of 'themselves' when it clearly refers to a singular subject. Some people consider this use to be incorrect.
- tilefish — a large, brilliantly colored food fish, Lopholatilus chamaeleonticeps, of deep waters of the Atlantic Ocean.
- treefish — a rockfish, Sebastes serriceps, of waters off southern California, marked with black bands.
- unfished — not used for fishing
- weakfish — any food fish of the genus Cynoscion, as C. regalis, inhabiting waters along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the U.S.
- wet fish — fresh fish as opposed to frozen or cooked fish