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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
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