8-letter words containing s, h, i
- blandish — to seek to persuade or influence by mild flattery; coax
- bleakish — quite pale
- blimpish — highly conservative and nationalistic
- blockish — lacking vivacity or imagination; stupid
- blokeish — denoting or exhibiting the characteristics believed typical of an ordinary man
- blondish — (of hair, skin, etc.) light-colored: the child's soft blond curls.
- blowfish — puffer (sense 2)
- bluefish — a predatory bluish marine percoid food and game fish, Pomatomus saltatrix, related to the horse mackerel: family Pomatomidae
- bluntish — somewhat blunt
- blushing — to redden, as from embarrassment or shame: He blushed when they called him a conquering hero.
- boarfish — any of various spiny-finned marine teleost fishes of the genera Capros, Antigonia, etc, related to the dories, having a deep compressed body, a long snout, and large eyes
- boethius — Anicius Manlius Severinus (əˈnɪsɪəs ˈmænlɪəs ˌsɛvəˈraɪnəs). ?480–?524 ad, Roman philosopher and statesman, noted particularly for his work De Consolatione Philosophiae. He was accused of treason and executed by Theodoric
- bonefish — a silvery marine clupeoid game fish, Albula vulpes, occurring in warm shallow waters: family Albulidae
- boobyish — stupid or silly
- brackish — Brackish water is slightly salty and unpleasant.
- brahmins — Hinduism. Brahman1 (def 1).
- brainish — impulsive or impetuous
- brandish — If you brandish something, especially a weapon, you hold it in a threatening way.
- brassish — like brass; brassy
- briskish — fairly brisk
- britches — breeches (sense 2)
- broadish — fairly broad
- broguish — having or tending to a brogue
- brownish — Something that is brownish is slightly brown in colour.
- brushier — covered or overgrown with brush or brushwood.
- buddhism — Buddhism is a religion which teaches that the way to end suffering is by overcoming your desires.
- buddhist — A Buddhist is a person whose religion is Buddhism.
- bullshit — If you say that something is bullshit, you are saying that it is nonsense or completely untrue.
- burrfish — any of several porcupinefishes of the genus Chilomycterus, covered with short, immovable spines.
- bush pig — any of a genus (Potamochoerus) of wild African pigs that live in forested regions
- bush tit — any of several North American titmice of the genus Psaltriparus, which construct long, pendent nests.
- bushfire — an uncontrolled fire in the bush; a scrub or forest fire
- bushlike — resembling a bush
- bushline — an airline that flies over sparsely inhabited territory to serve isolated settlements.
- buzkashi — a game played in Afghanistan, in which opposing teams of horsemen strive for possession of the headless carcass of a goat
- by sight — by appearance; by recognizing but not through being acquainted
- caiaphas — the high priest at the beginning of John the Baptist's preaching and during the trial of Jesus (Luke 3:2; Matthew 26)
- caliches — Plural form of caliche.
- calipash — the greenish glutinous edible part of the turtle found next to the upper shell, considered a delicacy
- camelish — similar to a camel
- cashiers — Plural form of cashier.
- castilho — Antonio Feliciano de [ahn-taw-n-yoo fuh-lees-yah-noo] /ɑ̃ˈtɔˈn yu fə lisˈyɑ nu/ (Show IPA), 1800–75, Portuguese poet.
- cathexis — concentration of psychic energy on a single goal
- cathisma — a short hymn used as a response
- cavefish — any of various small freshwater cyprinodont fishes of the genera Amblyopsis, Chologaster, etc, living in subterranean and other waters in S North America
- ceilidhs — Plural form of ceilidh.
- cellfish — using a mobile phone in a way that disregards the wishes of other people
- chabasie — Dated form of chabazite.
- chagrins — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of chagrin.
- chainsaw — a motor-driven saw, usually portable, in which the cutting teeth form links in a continuous chain