8-letter words containing fis
- fishwife — a woman who sells fish.
- fishworm — an earthworm.
- fisnomie — an archaic spelling of physiognomy
- fissions — Plural form of fission.
- fissiped — any member of the suborder Fissipedia, carnivorous mammals that have separate toes, as bears, badgers, dogs, cats, and raccoons.
- fissural — Pertaining to a fissure or fissures.
- fissured — Simple past tense and past participle of fissure.
- fissures — Plural form of fissure.
- fistbump — A fist bump.
- fistiana — the sport or world of boxing: one of fistiana's most colorful characters.
- fistmele — (archery) A traditional unit of distance equal to the width of a clenched fist with the thumb extended (approx. 6\u00bd inches or 16\u00bd centimetres).
- fistnote — a printed note, as in a piece of text, distinguished by the figure of a fist with a pointing index finger.
- fistulae — Pathology. a narrow passage or duct formed by disease or injury, as one leading from an abscess to a free surface, or from one cavity to another.
- fistulas — Plural form of fistula.
- flagfish — Also called American flagfish. a killifish, Jordanella floridae, inhabiting swamps and streams of Florida, having a blue-brown back and whitish sides with red stripes, often kept in aquariums.
- flatfish — any fish of the order Heterosomata (Pleuronectiformes), including the halibut, sole, flounder, etc., having a greatly compressed body and swimming on one side, with both eyes on the upper side in the adult.
- fly-fish — to fish with artificial flies as bait.
- foolfish — filefish (def 1).
- frogfish — any tropical marine fish of the family Antennariidae, having a wide, froglike mouth and broad, limblike pectoral fins.
- goatfish — any tropical and subtropical marine fish of the family Mullidae, having a pair of long barbels below the mouth.
- goldfish — a small, usually yellow or orange fish, Carassius auratus, of the carp family, native to China, bred in many varieties and often kept in fishbowls and pools.
- grayfish — a name used in marketing for any of several American sharks, especially the dogfishes of the genus Squalus.
- gruffish — Somewhat gruff.
- headfish — ocean sunfish.
- ice fish — any percoid fish of the family Chaenichthyidae, of Antarctic seas, having a semitransparent scaleless body
- jackfish — any of several pikes, especially the northern pike.
- kelpfish — any of several blennies that are common among kelp. Compare kelp greenling.
- 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.
- ladyfish — a game fish, Elops saurus, of warm seas, closely related to but smaller than the tarpon.
- lionfish — a brightly striped scorpionfish of the genus Pterois, especially P. volitans, of the Indo-Pacific region, having long, flamboyant, venomous spiny fins.
- 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).
- lutefisk — dried cod tenderized by soaking in lye, which is rinsed out before cooking.
- milkfish — a herringlike fish, Chanos chanos, of warm ocean waters in southeastern Asia.
- 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.
- numbfish — an electric ray, so called from its power of numbing its prey by means of electric shocks.
- oafishly — In an oafish manner.
- 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.
- pacifism — opposition to war or violence of any kind.
- pacifist — a person who believes in pacifism or is opposed to war or to violence of any kind.
- pipefish — any elongated, marine and sometimes freshwater fish species of the family Syngnathidae, having a tubular snout and covered with bony plates.
- porkfish — a black and gold grunt, Anisotremus virginicus, of West Indian waters.
- prowfish — a fish, Zaprora silenus, of the North Pacific.
- puckfist — a puffball fungus
- reeffish — any of several damselfishes, as Chromis insolatus, that live among reefs.
- rockfish — any of various fishes found about rocks.
- rosefish — redfish (def 1).
- rufisque — a city in W Senegal, E of Dakar.
- sailfish — any of several large scombroid game fishes of the genus Istiophorus, such as I. albicans (Atlantic sailfish), of warm and tropical seas: family Istiophoridae. They have an elongated upper jaw and a long sail-like dorsal fin